[Elspode]

Oh, don't get me wrong. I wanted to get the hell out of school when I was there. It was only after about 20 years of "The Real World" (tm) that I realized what a sweet deal high school actually was.

I also just realized that I never answered the original topic question. Would you have liked me in high school? Yeah. Everyone did. I ran with the jocks and the freaks, the geeks and brainiacs, the cool kids and the school outcasts. I did (and still do) get along very well with everyone, everywhere. I seem to have the sort of demeanor that makes me approachable. A long time friend of mine (dating back to high school, actually...someone whom I have spent a lot of time both back then and ever since) once commented, after seeing me asked for the current time one day on Kansas City's Plaza, that people had *always* done things like this with me. Strangers talking to me unbidden, that sort of thing.

I'm a real lucky guy in this way.