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    21 Pictures About High School In The Midwest That Are Too Real

    Senior pictures next to a hay bale.

    1. You had to be prepared for every kind of weather at all times...

    2. ... because you could go to school in a parka and boots and leave in flip flops and shorts.

    3. Your senior pictures probably involved bales of hay.

    4. There were multiple giant-ass trucks like this in your school parking lot.

    5. And sometimes there was a straight-up TRACTOR there.

    6. You TP'd a few houses to prove you were a ~total badass~.

    7. You had at least one friend who had some, uh, friends hanging up on the wall.

    8. And honestly, hunting was so common that sometimes it just went too damn far.

    9. You definitely posed next to some corn at some point during your four years.

    10. You're an expert at the tornado drill crouch.

    11. And you still freak out a little when you see a car missing a headlight.

    12. You knew doing your hair before school was a waste of time since the wind was gonna fuck it up anyways.

    13. A legitimate excuse for being late was "farm equipment blocking the road."

    14. Or, you know, a farm ANIMAL blocking the road.

    15. Snow days were a blessing because you got a day off, but a curse because you had to make up those days in the summer.

    16. You had a lot of classmates who wore shorts when it was 35 degrees outside because it "felt warm."

    17. You NEVER left home without an ice-scraper in your car.

    18. And after September you got used to preparing your car for the worst in the school parking lot.

    19. You knew a lot of people who rolled up to prom like this.

    20. You got used to seeing these blue jackets and black skirts around the halls.

    21. And your favorite after-school snack was the one and only Polar Pop.