"Going old school"

Sometimes I wonder if the generation of teens who are in high school now have as much fun as we did when we were in school. Maybe they have more, who knows? They are certainly much better "armed", technology-wise, than we were in the seventies. Kid's today have cell-phones, which can do just about anything from sending messages to each other, or looking up answers to questions via inter-net, to launching a strategic missile attack on seedy sections of Siberia. I'm guessing that these kids could actually "text" answers to test questions back and forth to each other. This alone is a huge advantage over my personal method of "passing tests", which was to try to sit next to Lori Rorabaugh and frequently compare the answers she had chosen with mine. I also had a brilliant "back-up" plan in place for the "off"-chance that I couldn't get a seat next to Lori, as most girls would have rather had an escapee from a leper colony sitting next to them than me. My back-up plan was merely to look at almost anybody's test papers, because I could be reasonably assured that whoever it was I was sitting next to had put in much more time studying and paying attention in class than I had, even though some of these classmates were a little on the "uppity" side, and seemed to convey the message that they didn't really want to share the efforts of their hard work with anyone else by "slumping" over their test so low that you would have had to literally pull them off of it to get a good look at their answers, which generally wasn't allowed during many of the more serious tests. In our usual "non-test" seating arrangements, I generally sat at the back of the classroom with my buddy, Darrel Shellito, where we could only be described as "models" of discipline, and generally hung on every word our particular teacher said. Whoops! My fault! I was thinking of two other kid's obviously. What I meant to say, is that Darrel and I generally sat at the back of the class, where we had friendly competitions for the title of "class clown", while the other student's were busy reviewing chapters and mixing numbers together and such. Due to the strict friendship policies that we maintained, Darrel and I would never sit by each other during a test, thereby curtailing any opportunity to cheat off of each other, especially during a "surprise" test, as they all were to us, even if the rest of the class had known about it for two weeks. I don't really know if school would have been any more or less fun for us, had we had cell phones, just as I'm not sure if Lori Rorabaugh would have texted me the correct answers to test questions. I am sure that she would have sent me many text messages of a different content, though, such as "please sit somewhere else", or "do your own work, you beer-swilling heathen"! I guess a cell phone would have been a handy little device for keeping up with my friends when I was in "isolation", or had just taken a day off from school, as I really never bought in to the custom of going to school on a daily basis, like some of the snottier kids did.