I have neither gone back to, nor do I have any desire to go back to, Tallmadge High School. Can’t see that changing any time soon.

Like Nick, I went back once or twice the year after graduating, said hi to some teachers. I found that a few of my old teachers were unexpectedly cold to me but didn’t know why.

Eventually, one of them explained it. One or more English classes used to show the Zefferilli film version of Romeo and Juliet, despite the fact that it includes some brief nudity. Evidently, someone had edited the school’s copy of the videotape so that it switched over to some all-out, hardcore porn at that point in the film.

Some friends and I were known as troublemakers of the prankster variety, and it was widely assumed by teachers and students alike that we had edited the videotape as some kind of a parting F-U to the school. In fact, I have no idea who did it, and the whole things wasn’t really our style anyway.

So then I had to go back around to all the teachers and plead my innocence, asserting that if I had done it, at least I wouldn’t deny it. I had never denied anything else, even under threat of being suspended. The English teachers were glad to know we weren’t the culprits, but at least one pervy science teacher was disappointed that it wasn’t us. He thought it was hilarious. I guess it was.

So that was my visit back to high school. No real plans to go back at this point.

Completely missed that while I typed it.

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He did look rather hefty in this start to me too.