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02/25/09 02:20 PM #63     Paul Dung Tran I miss Tampa. Can somebody beam me up there? I like where I live but tired of CA..... :)

02/27/09 12:07 AM #64     Judy Woloson (Anderson) Oh, I had forgotten how senora Y would run across the hall and get the other teacher to sing the birthday song!!! That is so great that you remember so much of it. My spanish homeroom, with a teacher that cared, Senora Y and Bob Price who pushed us in the band are my fondest memories, besides the many hrs in the gym with our girl's basketball team...Lynn Maybury you need to come back for reunion! I know it is a long way but ... maybe Nancy will come from Oldmar, if you can come from Boston? Miss you girls! It shocks me to see how many in our class are deceased and I wanna see some of the kind people that I haven't seen in 30 yrs, if you can make it, GREAT!

02/28/09 11:30 PM #65     Troy West Carol, actually, i think none of us had any problem getting in 42nd street station..we just worried about it alot, i bet you could use someone elses ID of anonther race and get in... i was like you, i graduated at 17 also...but, thanks to my mother, who washed my wallet and and thus my drivers licence...i had the best fake id...back then they were laminated...it peeled wide open...a pencil and an iron...and well lets say it was tougher getting up for church on Sundays...looking back, years later when i had children, i thought i would be one up on them....i think they are better at it than we were...and technology.

03/01/09 12:25 AM #66     Paul Dung Tran Are there any Walmarts in Tampa? Is Elvis still living in Tampa still? I haven't been to Tampa since 1991

03/01/09 05:06 PM #67     David May Paul, There are two Wally Worlds both on Death Mabry. As for the Big E no sitings in the Carrollwood area.

03/01/09 08:18 PM #68     Paul Dung Tran Hallelujah thanks David. How are you by the way?

03/14/09 10:25 PM #69     AnnMarie Mirialakis Teresa Tanos brought up a great memory in her profile....Who else remembers t-peeing houses? What a blast that was. Does anyone else remember this? Whose house did you t-pee? (It's been 30 years, the statute of limitations has passed! You can come clean now.) And who were your cohorts?

03/14/09 11:34 PM #70     Anthony (Tony) Scarpo Well AnneMarie, I can tell you this much...Drew Cockrell's father used to work for a paper company while we were in school and he always had hundreds of rolls of TP in his garage. That being said, we never had a problem with the ammo and Drew was always up for the run. Our favorite house used to be Laura Rhodes, but anyone would do, including yours....

03/15/09 11:20 AM #71     AnnMarie Mirialakis I did get hit once. I believe it was Cindy Price and company. But the usual suspects (Kathy, Trudy and I) had our revenge! We weren't so fortunate as to have a TP supplier, so I remember going around to fast food restaurants filching TP for our cause.

03/16/09 07:32 AM #72     Trudy Harris (Weissmann) Sadly, in today's PC green world the tp runs would probably be viewed as environmental terrorism.

03/16/09 04:42 PM #73     Trudy Harris (Weissmann) Hey Ann Marie, we also did a neighbor of MaryJane's when she lived in Carrollwood. I think the target person was one year ahead of us. Her family was well known for cleaning up any tp mess before the light of day broke on the caper so we did her house on consecutive nights just to prove a point. Which was that obviously we had too much unsupervised time on our hands.

03/16/09 06:18 PM #74     Paul Dung Tran I dig the pre-reunion pictures that Allison posted in Facebook.

03/17/09 03:46 PM #75     Anthony Cabrera As I promised Ann Marie, I would offer up a t-peeing story. It is a little complicated because it also deals with destroying mailboxes but I believe the statute of limitations has run on that one as well (notably for Neal Chambliss, Ron Alvarez and Kelly Thomas). It was a cold raining evening in November of our junior year. I was dropped off at Kelly Thomas house around 10 p.m. as a number of us were taking advantage of Kelly folks being out of town. When I arrived, a very drunk Ron and a somewhat drunk Kelly decided we needed to go to the store for some food. As we were driving along, I kept noticing a number of police cars in the surrounding neighborhoods with the officers appearing to be interviewing homeowners. Ron and Kelly were a little evasive about their thoughts on the police situation. On our way back from the store, I noticed one homeowner point to our car. Shortly thereafter, we were being chased by about 10 squad cars. Unfortunately, the only licensed driver in the car, Ron, was incapable of driving as he was laying down in the back seat. Ron nonetheless heroically joined Kelly and me sitting up front and started to fight with Kelly over the gas pedal. As the car made its way into someone's front yard ultimately being stopped not by Ron or Kelly but by a very large oak tree, I was then greeted by a fairly serious gun pointing officer. An already long story short, both Ron and Kelly informed the officers (numerous) that I was not involved in what I then learned was the baseball bat manipulation of a number of mailboxes (likely 100 but only 7 acknowledged). Neal (who was actually back at the house but was given up by Kelly) subsequently joined the 3 am drive around with Tampa's finest identifying the mailboxes which were subsequently replaced. Now here is the t-peeing part of the story. The night before the event, my house was victimized (come to think of it likely by Ann Marie or Tony). When the police called my dad to report that I had been in an accident but I was okay and to come and pick me up, my dad confused the directions given, went to a different intersection and saw I was not there. Thinking that it was just a continuation of the t-peeing stunt of the night before, he went back home and went to sleep leaving me there on the side of the road with a bunch of police officers who, after two hours of waiting, actually starting feeling sorry for me as the kid whose parents did not think enough to come pick me up. The morale of the story . . . t-peeing was great but oh the unintended consequences. While I never figured out who actually did it . . . I will be closely monitoring the message forum on this issue . . . my statute of limitations has no end point.

03/17/09 10:38 PM #76     AnnMarie Mirialakis Anthony, That was a great story! Thanks for telling it and spicing up the Message Forum. I think people will have more fun if we open up and dish some dirt. It was 30 years ago--it's okay if we were crazy and implusive and irreverent. There would be no point in looking back if we weren't!

03/18/09 09:32 AM #77     Trudy Harris (Weissmann) Anthony, it was not Ann Marie as I would have been on her crew and I'm sure we never did your house. We probably were very tempted, though. Fortunately for you Kathy's grandmother lived around the corner from your house. Our code clearly dictated that no close neighbors of any us be involved. Loose lips... That is a great story.

03/18/09 01:00 PM #78     Anthony Cabrera Thanks Trudy. I truly never doubted Ann Marie's crew and the "code" is just great (wish I would have applied such a code when Carl and me were dragging folks trash cans around Carrolwood . . . oops another disclosure). While I may never know the ones who were responsible (although I am now sure it was either Tony or he was involved in some way), I have moved on. I did speak with my now 83 year old dad last night and he remembered the night. He still gets a good laugh over it. Take care.

03/19/09 09:41 AM #79     Trudy Harris (Weissmann) That's one of the best parts of this reunion process. The recovery of memories and how they send ripples through our relationships today. But now I'm curious. Garbage cans?

03/19/09 06:55 PM #80     Anthony Cabrera Actually pretty simple. We would pick a victim on garbage night. Two people would hang out on either side windows of the backseat and pull the trash cans by their handles slinging the garbage down the street (certain not something an adult could or would appreciate). I remember one time a vigilant neighbor decided to chase us down but finally backked off after we covered the front of his car with garbage. Not even our parents could be proud of this one.

03/20/09 10:46 AM #81     Anthony (Tony) Scarpo Anthony, TMI...your old neighbors might try to get even all these years later.

03/22/09 06:37 PM #82     Cynthia Hitchman (Chavis) Hi All In reading all these OMG Flashbacks, I can't help but remember those times my kids were in HS and Rob and I would say: Don't do anything we wouldn't do... or, BEHAVE, or, Been there Done That so don't think you are trying to pull the wool over our eyes !!! or you can't help but get a gut wrenching feeling in your stomach when they tell you they are spending the night with so and so, so don't worry, there parents will be home........yea right !!!! the minute they walk out the door or someone would pick them up, you sometimes would just have to laugh knowning darn good and well what they were going to do, or HOPE they wouldn't do......haaaaa Thanks guys for the memories......I have alot,but got to keep my 30 yr promise to some of my friends and keep a tight lip on some of those "we did what" memories...haaaa

03/23/09 08:29 PM #83     Grant Brown That's so true Cindy, the problem with my kids was that they never did half the planning that we did. I know that we always had contingency plans for if we got caught. I remember sitting around with whomever I was conspiring with and brainstorming about what to do if this happened and what to do if that happened. Of course looking back, brainstorming may not have been the proper term. But anyway, I think that is what kept us from getting killed with some of the stupid things that we did. My kids never even considered the possibility of getting caught. So we found out the hard way a few times. Luckily neither of them got themselves killed, but there certainly were some harry moments.

03/23/09 11:18 PM #84     Trudy Harris (Weissmann) You are so right, Grant! It was all in the method... there had to be a plan dictating the who, what, when and how (the why was irrelevant). More than half of the fun was in the planning! I know we even outlined on paper (and, yes, even gave codenames to) some of the capers we eventually pulled off. I read your words with trepidation since my kids are little still. Now things are so highly supervised that I am banking on some of this desire to defy the odds (and the authorities) dying out.

03/24/09 03:31 PM #85     Julie Sherman (McKenna) Coming in late to the Mrs. Yanes discussion...My brother and I still try to call each other on the first of every month to be the first to say "rabbit, rabbit." Anyone remember that?! Mrs. Yanes said if you say "rabbit, rabbit" as the very first thing to every person you speak with you will have good luck for the rest of the month. My PARENTS even used to do it to each other and us!! Recently, I was driving my 12-year-old daughter and her friend somewhere (probably the MALL!), and it was her friend's birthday. I started singing the "today is the birthday, I wonder for whom," song and sang it all the way through. I told them where it came from and the details about how Mrs. Yanes would sneak around the room like she was looking for someone and how we would all scream out "my goodness it's you." when she got to the birthday boy/girl. Anyway, I asked the girls in an overly enthusiastic voice if then wanted me to sing it again. They both screamed "NOOOOOOOO!" Then, I started thinking about how really corny that was, and that we were 16, 17 and 18 years old. But, if she forgot your birthday, you would be really hurt!

03/24/09 04:51 PM #86     Anthony Cabrera Cindy, with three young kids, I have already started laying the groundwork for the "I have forgotten more than you could possibly know about getting into trouble" discussions (actually working well with my daughter Lillian). So far, looks like the middle guy Michael will hopefully be every much the saint he is named after. The youngest has a chance should he go the way of the force (Michael) versus the dark side (Lillian). As for sharing of stories, there are still many which cannot be revealed on the website so we will just have to attend the Reunion. Thanks Grant and Trudy for reminding me that we actually planned much of what we did in our day. No doubt the reason why we were so successful (most of the time but there was that one time I was throwing oranges off the roof of the house at moving cars not realizing that since all the spent organges were lying in from of my house, the source was pretty obvious). On the Mrs Yanes matter (by the way Mrs Barnes says that Mrs. yanes is doing well), I remember the song well as while a bit hokey it just was not the same when she would forget your birthday. Take care.

03/24/09 10:21 PM #87     Trudy Harris (Weissmann) Oh, Anthony. I am impressed (30 years later). One day your kids will think you were a GOD! Don't bury your street cred too deeply.

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