High school: Did you cringe when you hear people refer to high school as the best years of your life?

When I graduated years ago in 1986, an old woman teacher arranging our graduation practice said, as we were walking down the aisles, "Stand tall! These are the best years of your life, look back at them fondly!"

I felt like someone stabbed me when she said that. I remember thinking, "The best years of my life? This is it?!?!? This is as good as it's ever going to get?!? These past 4 years sucked! I couldn't stand them, and I can't stand half the people I go to school with!"

Now looking back 27 years, I know for a fact she was dead wrong, and might even suggest she knew she was lying to all of us.