Kids Do the Darndest Things I Mean FFS People I Am Really Running Out of Titles After 19 Years of This

Growing up I don't really remember a lot of peer pressure in school among my friends, maybe I was oblivious to it but I never felt there was a lot of angst about Keeping Up with the Joneses like in all the John Hughes movies. Partly I guess because none of it ever seemed possible, I knew I wasn't going to get the fanciest whatever shirt and if any of my friends did they didn't really seem to care if I didn't so it was never a thing.

But one day in Mrs. Thompson's 6th grade social studies class she asked how many of us in the room were Catholic. Based on having gone to church every Sunday since the dawn of time in my hometown I should've known I was the only one in the room, but as my arm was about to shoot up I heard Joe Pollard behind me boom "ain't nobody in here no Catholic!" in as indignant a voice as any 6th-grader could have about such a deep subject and I instinctively jerked my hand back down beside me in what I perceived should be shame. I can't rememebr what happened next, I'm sure Mrs. Thompson said "Wait Greg aren't you Catholic?" and I'm sure I said yes and nobody cared at all and we got on with our lives just fine.

I'm reminded of that because in this scene from Welcome to Wrexham I see this little girl in the middle who obviously raised her hand only after seeing her classmates response, not wanting to be on the outside of such a thing looking in. I don't really have much to say other than I felt a connection to her and just hope I can put out a little vibe out there in the world and let her know that whether or not she'd raised her hand at that moment she was probably going to be perfectly fine with all her friends, and I hope she's not bummed out when she sees this episode, presumably with her friends again.