Rant & Rave
If I ever do start moving with the flow, the other students start walking really slow.
But my real challenge is getting to the lunch tickets. I'm 4-feet-11 so everyone is taller than me. They push and shove until I feel like I'm sinking into the ground, and my only chance to get my ticket is to wait until everyone else gets theirs.
But every now and then there are little gaps that pop up between people. I think that I must look like a fool running for it. Sometimes I make it and sometimes I get squashed through.
When I finally get my lunch ticket, my problem is getting out of the crowd I worked so hard to get through. Now I have to move against the crowd, which is more difficult than getting to the front. I have to squeeze and push my way through again. At least this way people do kind of get out of my way because they want room to get their tickets too.
BY the time I make it out, I wonder what I'll eat. The main lunch line is too much of a challenge to tackle. I wouldn't even try it. So of course I get what's easiest, which means I end up with the same thing every day, a chicken sandwich with fruit and hard overcooked fries. All the students know that Castle's fries are the sickest, either hard and overcooked or soggy and mushy.
The chicken sandwich is like, the freshman meal. I guess it's because you have to form a single line, so it's not that crowded. Once in a while I get a salad because a lot of times there's no line. I only get the main lunch when my sister is with me. When we're together, she always gets my lunch ticket. That's one good thing about having a sister at the same school.
But when I'm alone it's like a little battle for me. This is one of the disadvantages of being short.
There was only one time that being short paid off in getting other students to let me go first in line. I was standing in the main lunch line, wearing long, black overalls. My friends said that I looked like a 12-year-old girl.
I was standing with my sister when these two tall girls cut in front of me. Then this other girl told them to let the little girl go first.
That was kind of funny, but I know tomorrow's lunch line will bring yet another challenge.