What did you do during highschool lunch?

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Sitting with a bunch of people I didn't like, and waited patiently for the bell to ring.

I had most fun in school in Year 7. It was the only school year I didn't feel like a loser, I actually had friends and didn't get bullied.

(Note: I've always had friends but they have been fickle. They used to turn around and gang up on me, or other kids would be dicks. Year seven neither of those happened)

I'd eat lunch and read a book.

I used to sit around watch people I know play sports without joining in and socialising, I hated it though and was always looking at my watch waiting for the bell.

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I'd go to the local shops and buy food because I couldn't get my head around how to order food at the school canteen. Meat and 2 veg confused me, I wanted more than 2 vegetables.

Every day during my High school lunch period I walked a certain route that I timed with the Lunch, would leave when lunch began and return 5-7 minutes ahead of time to grab whichever books I needed that day, and head to class.

Bearsalad(John.)

I basically ate lunch with other music geeks, sometimes outside the band/orchestra room, or some other area outside. The only people I knew of who ate inside the cafeteria were those who got the lunches from there as it was pretty small. Even if it was raining, we still ate outside, but under covered areas because the school wouldn't let anyone eat inside the halls, but you could use the bathrooms or go to your locker at that time. People could go to the library, but only after eating as they also didn't allow food inside. In high school, there were plenty of things sold on campus so we didn't really bring lunch, and there were plenty of vending machines, including one next to the band room. If you wanted to go off campus, your parents had to sign something so you would get a lunch pass sticker for your ID, but most people decided to stay on campus.

I ate my lunch

I usually didnt eat lunch as at the time I had a fear of eating around people. I very much disliked sociallizing at the time too...I'd go to a quiet place in the library and do my homework. If I had none to do, I'd work on my special interests.

I was a drama geek. I either hung out in the band room or the drama room. Mostly, I sat back and watched my group of 'friends' interact with each other.

Fortunately, at my school, the campus was open so I could leave and go to a fast food restaurant, but I had to hurry because I only had an hour and the lines at the drive thrus were unbelievably long with all those high school students trying to get lunch at the same time. My school did have two lunch periods, but also over 2000 kids were enrolled, so, as you can imagine, it was pretty hectic.
Unfortunately, I would, more often than not, go straight home after lunch instead of returning to school. Sometimes, I would go home instead of going to a fast food restaurant. I would tell myself I wasn't going to stay, only chill at home for a few minutes. When I got there and turned on the tv, I didn't want to go back to school and had a hard time motivating myself to return. This added up to many unexcused absences my junior year.

This was the majority of my experience,
although strangely I don't have many memories of lunchtime during high school. I especially don't remember eating anything. I think I ate breakfast, skipped lunch and then had a large dinner. I knew a few other kids who were in band, and I sat with them without contributing a whole lot, socially. Mostly just observed.
This was also just before the era of widespread internet availability. So early on, I sat outside on the patio and read books. Otherwise, I probably would have been in the library on the computers.

Looking back now... those were strange days indeed.

At the first high school I attended we were allowed to go outside, so I went and sat at a picnic table in front of the school. Only two or three others ever went out there for lunch, and there were a couple of picnic tables, so I was mostly left alone.

My family moved my sophomore year, and at my new school students weren't allowed to leave the cafeteria during lunch. Rather than sit at one of the long, crowded cafeteria tables, I chose to sit in one of the hallways attached to the cafeteria. There were one or two other students who also sat in the hall, but we never interacted beyond a nod when we saw each other. I usually just spent my lunch period reading or thinking.

I sat with a group of friends who didn't really want me with them. I could tell. Sometimes I wondered around on my own, which I found very lonely and depressing. Other times I went into a room ran by the special ed assistants, where you can do your homework, read, or go on the computers. Sometimes other girls from my class went in there, but after year 8 they didn't go in there any more, and I found myself just going in there every lunchtime, and I got talking to other children in there (mostly other special needs children went in there, who seemed 10 times more nicer than most of the NT kids). Sadly I was the only one out of my whole class who had special needs, so by year 9 I ended up making friends with children from other classes or year-groups. The only problem was with this special room I hung out in a lot is that they didn't allow you to eat your lunch, so I had to eat my lunch elsewhere. Sometimes I sat with other girls from my class, sometimes I sat with another special needs child, or sometimes I ended up sitting on my own (which I thoroughly hated). Sometimes I even sat with or even hung out with one of my cousins (since I had a few cousins at the same school), but not all the time, since they had their own friends and hung out near their form-rooms, ect.

Here's the good part - in year 10 we were all arranged around into sets for each of our lessons - and that's when I made a little group of friends whom I didn't really know before, so I found a crowd to hang out with at lunchtimes, and I didn't feel lonely any more. It felt great!
But the bad news was by the end of year 11, there was a lot of fall-outs, ones what I didn't cause yet I got the blame for, and it wasn't very healthy, especially when all of your end-of-school, exams were coming up. But never mind - life grew better after I left school. People got more mature, friends became more understanding, and so here I am now (except I'm struggling with finding employment....OK I'm going slightly off-topic now).

I have always just sat with a few acquaintances. I don't have close friends, but I am polite enough that there are usually a few people that don't mind me being there, especially because I am quiet and don't bother anyone. I don't eat lunch, however, and would surely prefer to go to the library instead, but it's exclusive. Sadly, I am not being facetious. In our school district, it is seriously difficult to be allowed into the library, and only a small portion of people who have a teacher's pass are let in if they are lucky. On occasion, my back in junior high a friend and I shared the same lunch period and would sneak in when the librarian wasn't looking, but that was rare.

I would go to the library and read the latest news magazines like Time,the Nation,Newsweek(before it sucked), the New Republic,Scientific American(even though I suck at science) and Entertainment Weekly. I would also surf the web for weird stuff and used to like to surf wikipedia back when it was new. But then the librarians, why were control freaks, started demanding students have a hall pass, just because a few bad students talked constantly and in the library. Than I was forced to hangout in the cafeteria. I mostly sat alone, although I did find a group of as*hole to sit with occasionally.