Graduation time of the year. So?
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Jordana of Curmudgeonry (although from a sample, she doesn’t seem to know much about being a curmudgeon. Besides, she’s too young to be a good one. 🙂 poses a few questions for folks stuck in the “Gee, it’s graduation time” grind, being invited to shell out for kids they only vaguely recall from some distant memory of having a passing aquaintance with a former neighbor’s uncles’s cousin’s friend long years in the past…
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Here goes:
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(1) Who was the most memorable (good or bad) graduation speaker at a ceremony you’ve attended — not necessarily your own?
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Aw, gee… That’s a toughie, cos all of them were of nearly equal inconsequence. OK, the speaker at my college graduation is pretty memorable, although I only recall one word he said. Seriously. A former poly sci prof, pretty decent guy who fell into bad company and was governor when he spoke. Later, fell into even worse company and became a U.S. Senator. Used to be a pretty nice guy… Maybe now that he’s been a decade or so out of office he will have made a partial recovery.
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(2) Approximately how many graduation ceremonies have you been in as a graduate and how many others have you gone to?
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Three of my own—and none of this b.s. about “eighth grade graduation” (what a weenie idea). A ceremony for release from “prison for kids” (high school graduation) was bad enough. Nine, as I recall, of other folks’ graduations. We’re skipping my daughter’s graduation from grad school this year, because, well,  she is. Wish I’d skipped mine. *yawn*
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(3) After finishing high school and/or college what did you do for the summer?
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Worked. What else? *sheesh!* Wasn’t school enough of a waste of time, already?
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Bonus Question:
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What was your favorite graduation gift?
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Money.