Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 15, 2013

“Don’t Count Your Chickens Before You Graduate”or“What’s Up? Not Us”

Well, it seems that our three ladies have been in a “Senior Parade”, and feeling “on top of the world”… the bubble of bliss was full of sweet air, and all of the comforts they could think of wanting, or needing… and then, out of nowhere, a voice thunderously rains down upon their “parade of triumph”… they look above, and see that their ceiling is actually just another floor above them… their bubble has burst, and the “air of reality” stirs with September’s chill, and like the “wind of change” sweeping, it swirls in around them…

A grad pack for $1,750.00? That’s new to me, because I never heard about that back in my senior year of the prehistoric late 1980’s (‘87-’88).

$1,750? did the letterer move a decimal? What’s a Grad Pack, anyway?

Tiffany’s probably just getting the discounted GED Pak…

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So what happened to Quill spending his senior year in the states?

Yeah, thought about that, too… some have their eyes on Paris, if they could… or at least Alcapulco or Vegas, these days… but to paraphrase Debbie Allen in the original “Fame”, You want trips? Well, trips cost"….

grad pack for class of 1972: class ring (frosh year purchase) 37.50cap/gown : 5.00tassel: 2.25yearbook picture package: 30.00yearbook w/ engraved name: 20.00senior trip to Disneyland: 25.00tux rental for prom: 15.00prom ticket: 12.50orchid for date: 6.75 class photo: 7.50I think i’m missing a couple of things…

oh…and “senior ditch day”- priceless!

And you know what’s funny? These days, it seems that they think you’re supposed to have those elaborate things, and all… and then all of a sudden, they started expecting the graduation gifts on top of it all!….

Maybe the $1,750 is just a case of hyperbole, for the dramatic emphasis of the irony of their dialogue….- It’s either that, or a "stray ‘0’ " wandered into the writing….

Our class rings were ugly, my mom took me to the mall and I got a little jade ring that I would actually wear. It was $30.00 less than the class ring!

The comma was a hitchhiker, and the 0 was a drifter…

Yah, even if you’re the Grand Exalted Dictator of Everything …… Boss of it All, Master of Totality …… you still have to listen to the missus …

Stanford is no joke when it comes to what they can offer…and to pick up creds early, or stock up on potential extra creds? Bonus! I agree that that iwas a golden opportunity… and the international flavor seems to also round it out well!

Grand Exalted Dictators of everything tend not to have a missus. They have concubines instead.

On topic…

In 1998, I don’t…actually remember what I paid for. My parents did it for me, and I never went to prom. Any of them. Or winter formals. Or anything else. I, admittedly, was a smarter Gunther without a Rosa.

How quickly their Senioritis was cured!Got the high school class ring; skipped most of that stuff in college (but attended graduation); in grad school I even skipped the graduation ceremony. I surely would not spend $1750 for a high school “grad pak,” whatever it includes!

I doubt College graduation costs that much either. Then again, I didn’t do much but walk down the aisle and get my Bachelor’s.

Ah Ladies. You’re LEARNING Your FIRST “Life-Lesson”:

“You’re NEVER in COMPLETE Control. You’re Merely led to THINK, You are.”

And Be SURE to come back next week when You’ll LEARN that You Have NO Rights. Only TEMPORARY Privileges….,

What a CROCK.

My daughters “grad pack” is $250 this year. Haven’t heard anything about a ring. Don’t think they are into that here.Sorry to hear about peoples’ bad experiences in HS. I had some too.

Never understood the ‘senior’ thing, it wasn’t a thing in my high school. A senior is stilll a student, I didn’t enjoy any special treatment or any sort of sense of seniority over the others. Of course, I spent very little attention to anything when I was a student.

my grandsons are sophomores’ this year and I was looking at the yearbook from last year, which cost close to $50 each was HUGE, about 3 inches thick, mine was a little one, about a half inch thick, but we didn’t have as many kids in our whole high school as they have in their sophomore class

After being chastised by the daughters x3 who read Luann for my comment. I had to remind them that $350 – 600 for a class ring, 125 for grad gown pak, that is just rented and a year book, ahh don’t get me started. it will be interesting when they have to pay for it.

gad, I hope kids aren’t saying yes to grad packs. Fees for tests? In high school? Weird!

In ‘52, a b/w yearbook, a rented robe/cap/tassel, a cheap ring and an invitation from the president to do a lot of running , pushups and rifle-fire, and as a reward, a tour of the mideast…That’s about all I remember.

Yes there is always someone above you,Untimely God.As far as this comic the someone above got there not my any smarts they have but by the people they are related to or know.

The way I understand it, these days, the most important thing is to still be alive to get the diploma.^No doubt! And another issue prevalent these days….

So, will Luann run into Quilt in the gym?

I graduated in ’62. I still wear my class ring and I got a ’60 Ford Falcon for a graduation gift. :-)

Delta, you are so right— even when you’re president, someone is above you (the citizens).*These guys are going to a good school— as did you and I. I spoke with one man desperate for info about getting his senior son into college— oh no, his son hadn’t seen the guidance counselor. The guidance counselor is only for kids who are in trouble. In his son’s school, no info about college or financial aid was distributed or discussed.*So no grumbling from me because the unnecessary amenities are costly or because the counselor doesn’t talk about boyfriends!

Isn’t Luann around 27 to 41 by now?How long was she in 8th grade?She will be doing menopause before college.

There’s always somebody above usWe answer to each other one way or another

@TORAD_07

Way, way back, I recall stories of “college level” hazing of freshman in HS, which would certainly not fly in today’s “anti-bullying” climate. Thankfully, I never saw any of that.

JPuzzleWhiz Sadly, it is still happening, though not necessarily at the freshman level.-They told us such things were done at Auburn before The GI Bill sent a bunch of Freshmen who had faced live machine gun fire in WWII. The last thing the upperclassmen remembered was telling a Freshman to wear a Beanie.-The next thing he remembered was awakening in a garbage can.-Hazing came to a screeching halt.LIFE IS GOOD

activist1234 said, 29 minutes ago

@firedome

“Firedome – thanks for itemizing senior year expenses. That is so helpful. Now can anyone adjust it for inflation?”-

Multiply by 5.588 to adjust 1972 costs to 2013 levels per bureau of labor statistics:-http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

@MikeyJ;

“You went to the Middle East in 1952? Don’t you mean the “Far East” (Korea)?”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Did I stutter? Hayir, dostum. Türkiye’de iki yil.

There is always a bigger fish.

“Who can afford college these days?” Only if you hock your soul for the next thirty years… ;(

I graduated in 1990. The graduation pack included cap and gown and some other stuff, and announcements. I got the cheap pack ($250) with only 100 announcements and a couple boxes of those card things. The packages went up to about $900, with obscene numbers of fancy announcements. They were an investment. The more cards you sent out, the more gifts you could expect back. Besides the pretty things people sent me, I got about $3000 in cash.

“College and university came later when I could afford it…” Yes, I did the same with a little help from a student loan…which has doubled since I graduated and that was in 2002… ;)

“Had I been the Father of either of those girls…” I Wholeheartedly agree! ;(

When I was graduated from St. Pete High in 1953, they didn’t have limo’s, as I recall. I never got invited to a prom, anyhow. Survived somehow.

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Aren’t class rings ordered in the Junior year and delivered in time for spring formal. That’s how it was for me in the 70’s and for my son in 2008. That would mean the graduation pack does not include a ring.

Yeah, that would be short, if it was Cali, Lol!…

What happened to “FREE” education?

I actually really loved my senior year of high school – even though I went to a really academically demanding school. I don’t know, I just really enjoyed that year.