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Thursday, September 28 Scary High
More then two decades have passed since I was in Rumson Fair Haven High School.. There were no personal computers, email, cell phones, CD players, IPODS or digital cameras when I walked the halls of RFH. The bullies were still there, the preppies and the jocks and the burnouts and those who skated the middle ground like myself who smoked with the burnouts in Piping Rock Park, had a best friend who was a preppie and spent my weekends organizing un-official beer parking lot parties after the football games. I never fit in, in high school but fitting out was far more fun. There were fights in high school, drugs busts, the loss of two peers in a drunk driving accident, drop-outs and runaways, all kinds of drama and most of it done by my pals or even myself. But I don’t remember worrying about guns or school, shootings, not like today, not like now. Not like in Bailey yesterday where a gunman kidnapped 6 girls finally killing one and himself. I can imagine the terror of those kids as he began his count down; who can go who had to stay. The victim; a smiling innocent, a young girl named Emily Keyes, pretty blonde, athletic. She probably would have had a nice long life with lots of kids. The scariest thing to me was the first thing I felt when I saw the news..”OH ONLY ONE DEAD!” Only one dead?! Yes because of Columbine’s massacre and other horrors, in today’s world losing one seems not as bad. Columbine is close to the Bailey school, one could even commute between the two. Now the two have something else in common besides proximity. They have horror. Back in the old days, being a teen was scary. You didn’t know where you were going, where you fit in, what was cool, what was cool for you, but today..well today..scary’s been redefined.
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