High School Graduations in the South
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
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We filmed this on Monday. Red Lobster shut down Wednesday. Video debuted Friday. Life comes at you fast, but Chapter 11 bankruptcy comes faster.
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Death of a Lobster 🦞🦞🦞.
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Guess you gotta go to the Olive Garden now
"Hold your applause until the end" Meanwhile, the Johnson clan, which has 11 cousins graduating this year, 40 of 'em in the stands, with custom t-shirts, they brought an air-horn, and they'll be damned what that announcer says.
Or the familia Martinez
@@DaR-Ceeyep, and I wound up sitting between them and la familia Martinez ☹️🤬
At my graduation, they told everyone to clap once for each name. Then at the end everyone could clap as much as they want.
Nunquam Non Paratus
Love that air horn.
“nobody’s gonna tell me I can’t cheer for my baby” is the realest statement made here 😂
With air horns 😊
And cow bells
Don't forget the beach balls.
I was LOUD and PROUD for both of my Children 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
No kidding. Not gonna happen.
"This would be a perfect time to go to Walmart" SO TRUE
Most of the cashiers are graduating! 😂
Between this and during the Iron Bowl...
Nah, this is the South. It’s all Dollar Generals down here!
@@paulamartin6724 I keep seeing new buildings go up and then it ends up being a Dollar General lol. There are a couple new Dollar Trees near me also though, so at least they don't have a monopoly.
@brendandever8532 Fun fact dollar general owns dollar tree. So they are effectively the same store
If they'd open the concession stand, they'd make a killin' 🤣😂
My school only opens the concession stand for the drinks and they normally are sold out before it even starts
Son's graduation at a stadium - allowed water bottles if they were EMPTY. Then drinking fountains were turned off, and bottled water was $4.85. For 400 students in the South.
That would probably account for about 10% of the marching band's budget.
Pro tip for the grads deciding which party to attend afterward. The country kid party is way better than the cool kid party. The cool kids just smoke weed and listen to Pink Floyd, but the country kids have a whole pig barbecue, kegs on the front porch, and they take all the furniture out of the living room to make a dance floor.
all the furniture is ALREADY out in the front yard......
Our country kids' dad set up a 10-acre pasture for us to party in off a county road so the troopers wouldnotgetinvolved. And on top of that, they had Deputy Sherrifs there at the exit to make sure no drunk kids drove when leaving. We made all the noise in the world and no one heard us. It was awsome.
Yea you’re a bit off by a few decades everyone just drinks smokes and listens to mumble rap country kid or not that’s what my classmates did
Sorry but the first one sounds way better, just chillin out, reflecting on this turning point in your life with a little mood enhancement and some good music...I guess they're the "cool" kids for a reason.
Definitely.
Absolutely no one holds their applause until after all names are called. Asking for that is issuing a challenge for people to get louder and louder every time a name is called.😂
@ ccbill Excatly! No lies were told 1000
I never remember hearing that rule before. Everybody clapped after every name who wanted to when I graduated.
During daylight, there will be fewer mosquitoes. It might be warmer, but at least you won't need a transfusion after the ceremony.
The way I sweat skeeter would need to wear scuba gear to bite me.
Just an IV.
In East Tennessee, we have daytime mosquitoes too. Relentless.
@@BeeHus2256 Sure. But mosquitoes get worse at night.
@@octaviusmorlock True. But that’s better than being eaten alive by mosquitoes.
Cicadas have entered the mix for the Southern Outdoor events. We dont need music now!
I live in Gadsden , Al and still have not seen or heard the first one .
@@eaglerider1826 they are abloom in TN right now. Hwy with windows up you can still hear them
We have them so bad that outdoors sounds like an invasion of alien spaceships from a 1950's B sci-fi movie.
yep---the famed Cicadas- they return every 12 years annually....!!
How can y'all hear a dang thing over the spring peepers?
You can tell which girls played softball. 😂
"I told you we should have home schooled." LOL!!
Former homeschoolers: “no you shouldn’t we are weirder than Florida man”
FACTS (this is coming from a once homeschool child until middle school)
I was homeschooled all the way through. 3 seniors (myself and 2 others) when I graduated. I think I came out just fine. 😊
@@heidihandschin3488 Same here, me and my brothers have come out really well.
@@heidihandschin3488 There's your sign.
Our local high school had the same guy who announced at the football games to read the names. At least a solid 45 minutes to an hour of reading name after name without a break. Gotta love 6A.
My graduation in southern Louisiana in 1989 took 1.5 hours. I only know because I have the video.
45 to an hour.....they must have been sprinting.
Graduated in 86 outside of Dallas and I'm pretty sure it was a 2 hour ceremony using both sides of the stage to cross....around 1200 seniors
@@tosweet68 it might have been longer? This was several years ago. The guy didn't pause between names except to breathe. It was name name name name name. Probably had 3-4 people at any time in some manner of name being called to walking off stage.
Not kidding at the end, the announcer also received applause.
I went to one of the largest high schools in my state, we didn’t have anywhere to hold us all for graduation so they had to start holding the ceremonies in a stadium in another state. My ceremony took over 4hrs
I can imagine how many Nyuens (however you spell that Vietnamese name) the announcer read, lol.
The clapping part hits home. My dad decided the moment of silence was the best time to cheer my name. It had a chain reaction and they had to interrupt the moment of silence to ask the crowd to quiet down lol.
Graduated way back in 1977 BC (Before Computers). In a way, it's comforting to see that there are some things in this world that never change.
Before Computers.
That's hilarious. The good ol' days.
Honestly, the BC killed me 😂🤣 nice one
Me too
"Before Computers" lmfaooo... omg. I am absolutely adopting that version of BC from now on.
I graduated in Texas in the 80's, our class was 434 kids. The football field ( very large ) was packed, and so was the bleachers. Every one of these was spot on.
Our high school had a thing were everyone was invited to spend the night at the school to keep kids from getting drunk and getting killed driving. All but 2 or 3 stayed overnight. We had to stay till 8 am. All of the stuff was opened and free. Swimming pools, basket ball court, all you can eat pizza. ( I might have eaten 2 pizzas myself ) The snack machines were set to free and so were the arcade games. I did everything and ended up crashing in the hallway around 6 am. I hated living in TX ( we moved there my senior year from a tiny school in Alabama ) but the beech and surfing kept me sane. No way my little HS back home could have done what the TX school did. As much as I hated TX, that graduating night will never be forgotten. ( mainly because I didn't get wasted and do dumb shit )
This 100% described my cousin's graduation down south of Houston 16 years ago. As somebody that was not used to the heat and humidity I downed about a gallon of water in like 10 minutes and still felt dehydrated.
It would be a good time to go to Wal-Mart considering they only have 2 out of 12 registers open, counting the self-serv.
It’s getting to be where there is no good time to go to Walmart.
@@CCoburn3 Used to around where I live, 3am or so was a good time to go to Walmart. It was basically empty, the couple of employees there were always too tired to want to make small talk, and they'd just finished stocking stuff so everything wasn't sold out.
Unfortunately since Covid, nothing around where I live is open past midnight anymore, not even the McDonalds.
@@Gamer3427 I'm saying that Walmart isn't really a good place to go anymore. High prices, low selection of inferior Chinese-made junk -- and then you get to stand in a long line to be an unpaid employee of Walmart so you can scan your purchases. After that, you are stopped at the door and accused of being a thief. Unfortunately, they have put most of the other businesses in town out of business.
@@CCoburn3 Yea, there's really not exactly other options around where I live aside from places that are even higher priced for only a part of the same selection. Kroger is about the only place that's even halfway comparable near me, and their prices only match Walmart's if you buy in bulk of the right items that happen to be on sale.
In the end though I don't think it's a problem with Walmart itself, but just an issue with the economy in general. Walmart may have driven a lot of the business out, but they're still generally much cheaper than what business has stayed in, when those more expensive places don't offer anything Walmart doesn't have.
It's just a case of there not being a good time to go shopping at all, because the prices of everything everywhere keeps going up, while the pay rate for any job has stayed the same for years. The federal minimum wage for example hasn't been increased in 15 years, despite the prices of stuff having skyrocketed the past two or three years alone.
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"The As will have already graduated college when we're done." 😆
I felt that one to my core! Our kids were in the “B” so we had to wait. Luckily, the graduating classes were small. Uni is worse, they don’t go by alpha order and there are far too many! Thankfully those are held indoors.
"I thought this school was classified as 2-A." What a great line! 🤣
What is a 2A school?
Ah, I thought he said "two-way" and was confused.
@@thejohnbeckFor athletics, schools are placed in divisions based on each school's enrollment. It starts at 1a and goes up to 7a, so 2a would be a relatively small school.
@@CantankerousDave I still am confused.. I thought he meant 2A like the second amendment.
@@freelancewerewolf aaaah, athletics, got it. I was thinking it was an academic or zoning designation.
That thank you card line has me feeling personally attacked
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You didn’t mention how every Georgia graduation happens in the Atlanta motor speedway
yep, thats where mine is graduating from!
Nah, a big chunk of the northern suburbs graduate at Gwinnett Arena.
One of ours had graduation in the rain at the Atl Motor Speedway. There were plenty of puddles, mud, and slippery ramps.
@@rcschmidt668 yeah, I live near. It’s been raining a lot. Hopefully it will stop so the graduations can still happen
That's where we'll (and all of Henry County) will be next week.
Next year's video: How to survive a graduation ceremony.
1. Bring an umbrella regardless.
2. Depends
3. Brings snacks like you're going to the movie theater.
4. Dress appropriately. It's a graduation ceremony, not a wedding. Leave the wespons at home.
Overalls and a tie. That got me. Well done :)
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Uncle Jessie from Dukes Of Hazzard .
I onced picked up 600 chairs after a graduation on a open school stadium in the middle of May in the Louisiana humidity. I about passed out 3 times.. thank goodness I had chairs to sit in that I hadn't picked up yet
At the time I graduated Round Rock ISD in Texas rented out the local ice hockey ring. The ice had been melted away, they had placed down flooring and then turned the floor cooling on. It was glorious.
What a fabulous idea! Cousin lives in Round Rock.
This is genius
The arena in Allen hosts our graduation and several surrounding schools as well. Nice and cool in there.
Back when my cousin graduated, her class fought to have it outside in their football stadium. We lived in Texas at the time and I asked her if she was stupid. Well they got to graduate in their football stadium and the class bitched about how awful it was (even though they fought for it because the admin originally said "no")
True graduation story from the teacher's point of view. My first year teaching high school and our superintendent was a nice man from India who grew up in the British school system. So he made very teacher wear a cap and gown to graduation and sit up in the choir loft of the church auditorium where the graduation was held. Now throw in a guest speaker who was a missionary who "Preached the Gospel Eternally" that night. So not only are we hot, but in full view of the parents so you cannot move or scratch anything and my friend kept falling asleep next to me. Next year, they brought in the President of the local bible college, who I think was aware of what happened last year because he gave a 5 minute speech to the roaring applause of every one in the building.
I’m from Nashville TN. Third generation to grow up not so proud there. Im 66 yrs old and I’m now living in NM with my Chicago born husband. For good or bad, your humor nails the South. Thanks for the laughs and shared sweaty memories of graduation there.
Daddy said "I came to your high school graduation but I ain't sittin thru all them names for college."
Y'all better think of another place to go for dinner afterwards by next year, 'cause Red Lobster looks like it won't be around that much longer.
The local Red Lobster closed when they were in the ceremony.
@@jeremygilby1455 LOL!!!
Will there be any restaurants left? Friday's Red Lobster, Huddle House....gone. All the Ihops are no longer 24hrs and I know of a Denny's is carry out only due to "lack of staff". Oh the jobless don't want to work at Denny's. But that's another topic.
@@victoriousmuscle8632 all the IHOPs around me are still open 24 hrs. And it's not that people don't want to work; it's that people don't want to work sh*t for sh*t wages. Why wait tables at a Denny's and put up with a-holes 8-10 hours a day for $2.13/hr + tips, when you can go up the road and work in an office for $40k/yr (roughly $19.23/hr) and not have to deal with all the "Karens" and "Chads" and their sh**ty kids.
@@victoriousmuscle8632 --Waffle House will outlast the gator population in south Louisiana....
I appreciate you being truly funny and entertaining without disparaging anyone. I grew up in the south but at 18, I pretty much ran to San Francisco and never looked back. My time there was NOT a good memory but it’s good to see that people seem to be a lot more open and accepting and willing to laugh at themselves
Small towns FTW. Graduation started at 5p, 3 valedictorian speeches, a salutatorian speech, encouraging words from principal, diplomas, and done by 5:37p.
This is spot on. I live in the mountains of NC, where it's not quite the furnace as other southern places are, but the last graduation that was held at our high school stadium was about 27 years ago. It was so hot that the cement bleachers literally cooked the skin of our backsides. Every graduation since has been held a few towns over at the University's indoor convention center.
My daughter graduated from a downtown Nashville high school in 2017, and graduation was always at Bridgestone Arena where the Preds play. The students would walk there from the school (it was only two blocks), and it was pretty cool. Well, that was the one year the Preds just kept winning, making it all the way to the Stanley Cup finals, so graduation couldn't be held there. Luckily, the school was able to change to the downtown convention center, and the students were still able to walk there. But that ended all graduations at Bridgestone (now they go to Municipal Auditorium, which is fine but not nearly as cool as Bridgestone Arena).
You forgot about the inevitable termite swarm. Also, if it rains here, we move graduation to a literal livestock judging barn.
I can't! Best laugh I had all day! 🤣🤣🤣
They ran out of overflow trailers, so I had math classes in the vegetable judging barn at the fairgrounds next door 😂
@@hannahrobbins1017 Dayum! That statement made me feel less country 🤣
RIP Red Lobster 🦞
It was a good run 😅😅😅
The "joy" in seeing the girl walk for diploma and knowing
that she is still alive "cause we still haven't got a thank you note." Tooooo funny and sooooo true these days. If nothing else graduate people, text & say 'thank you'!❤
The fertilizer on the field is no joke. Before our field got replaced with astrorurf, Buildings and Grounds was putting manure on the field in May and graduation was at night in June--in Houston. Manure, humidity, mosquitoes, and air horns. And since I was the band director, Pomp and Circumstance repeated a gazillion times.
I’m in PA and this could describe all the graduations I attended. But you forgot to mention watching the weather forcast to see if they moved the ceremony inside at the last minute and only Parents could attend.
After suffering through long and boring graduations for previous classes, I didn't want to waste anyone's time with my graduation speech. My speech was 45 seconds.
You were doing the Lord's work right there.
So true! I graduated secondary school in Arizona US! I said I was not going, they’re going to mail the bloody diplomas anyway. My egg donour made me go. It was BRUTAL! I drove separately and once my name was announced, I walked up got the empty cardboard holder and walked straight to my car! Went home, threw my already packed bags in the car and never looked back. I didn’t even attend my own Uni graduation. Our youngest just graduated from Uni on Saturday and it was held inside and very chilly, YAY! Hubby and I took one look at the programme and groaned together. Our daughter was texting us that she’s not clapping anymore and taking a nap until someone nudged her to get up! 🤣 It was fabulous, she really did take a nap! Wish I could post a pic of it. She’s a smart lass!
My Georgia high school rented a college basketball arena in Tennessee for graduation. That was a lot better than doing in on the football field!
I mean getting kicked out could be bad if they banned you from coming back to see HS football games...at least in Texas
It was chilly on my graduation night in May of 2008. If parents or family we're loud, the graduate had their diploma held for 3 weeks and couldn't go to project graduation.
Tbh tht is kind of ridiculous as the kid can't control other people
@@andrewbogard2411yeah, but once the word got out and somebody got nabbed, I'll bet the families got the message for the following years.
That's downright rude and just plain wrong. They can't control others and they've worked hard for that diploma. So when could they get it? When the people came in and apologized?
Oh wait , I reread it. 3 weeks. Still wrong
I thought it was ridiculous and they also made sure you are wearing what they recommended under your graduation gown. If you're not, they wouldn't let you walk. Like one guy had white socks and not black, they made him get black socks or he couldn't walk.
This makes me a bit jealous, here in the UK when you finish school you pick up the certificates and then you are out the door looking for a job.
"We're going to get pictures and then we're going to go to the sit-down Pizza Hut" - fixed it for you. 😅
At least they didn’t play Good Riddance by Green Day and forget that there was an F bomb at the beginning like at my cousin’s graduation 😂
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... you think they forgot? LOL, you really underestimate the President of the Student Council who was graduating and wouldn't have to worry about the consequences.
@@etherealceleste I was talking more of the principle or whoever approved it lol. It was fairly new at the time so mabye they hadn’t heard the song yet or the student body president made sure to start it a few seconds in when getting it approved or played the clean version then that version at graduation. I don’t know but it was hilarious! 😂 especially because it was fairly new and I don’t know how many of the adults had heard it yet and if they did it was the radio version
Green Day being played anywhere is Cringe.
@@JimNedCreek I guess I’m cringe then 😂 I’m fine with that
Being kicked out of a graduation for cheering for your child sounds like a Win-Win to me
“This is the perfect time to go to Walmart”😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
There is never a perfect time to go to Walmart 😀
@@ralphmtsu 6am at mine is a perfect time! I pretty much have the place to myself 😂
Graduating next Friday Lord willing! Great video Matt!
Congratulations 🎉
Bringing an umbrella now to my oldest son's outdoor graduation next month, and we're in the Midwest!
2008- my son's graduation was held on the football field. We had to sit through it being attacked by swarms of termites. I've never seen so many termites. They were in our hair, going down our shirts, all over. It was miserable. We'll never forget it. 😆
We had the same thing happen at my son's graduation. It was so gross. This year the same school now has their graduation in the next parish to use the university's auditorium.
That sounds like a horror movie! 😂
This is EXACTLY how graduations are!! I’ve suffered through four of them!
Class of '94 Sparkman here. They told us NOT to throw our caps because it was disrespectful. If we did, they would take our diplomas away. 20 of us including me threw our caps and no, they didn't take our diplomas. :D
Pinellas County Florida here. Graduation was at the Ray's stadium (indoors with AC), we applauded every student, and some concessions were open
Matt you are shrinking before our eyes. Please keep going! You look and sound great!
Shoot, at my ceremony, the Grads themselves were complaining, as our school colors were Navy/Gray/White... and guess which one of those colors our Caps and Gowns were... Navy.
Some context... previous graduating classes directly before mine at my high school were small enough to where they were able to be done in the auditorium, just ticketed.And wearing Navy is perfectly fine for an indoor graduation.
However, apparently my town bred like rabbits when my graduating class was born, resulting in a larger than usual graduation class, meaning that the grads ourselves would've taking up over half of the auditorium, thus they had to use the football field.
I've heard that after our graduation, even with classes after being way smaller, they still use the Football field b/c they didn't want to administer the Tickets for Graduation anymore.
As a retired high school teacher who sponsored seniors for 10 of those years, NAILED IT. And thar most definitely includes the cow patty fund-raiser reference. Rains the first 3 weeks of May then goes to bright, sunny, 99.99999 degrees with all the humidity you can eat. The mosquitoes love it. And there we are in full church clothes wearing a black robe on top of it catching all those late afternoon intense sun rays.... the only person more miserable than the sun boiled/roasted students and faculty is the counselor fluttering around like the One Act Play director worried one of us are going to sabotage "her" show lol.
With my child's grad coming up, this has me laughing in tears of fears!
“I thought this school classified as a 2A” 🤣🤣🤣 My school was a 2A when I went and I thought the same thing as I’m in a black cap and gown, in May, at noon, on the football field. Little over 100 seniors that year, and we were the smallest class in the school that year!
Mine was 2A as well. We had 152 graduates. I remember because I barely graduated in the top 10% of my class because of those 2 extra graduates. The counselor also told me I was the only lower income graduate in the top 10%. Everyone else came from wealthy households.
My graduation was the first one in a long time to not have all manner of severe weather and thunderstorms going on during it, and so I was used to it occurring in the auditorium. Y'know, the place with padded seats and air conditioning and no mosquitoes. My year comes up, we get clear weather, and our class gets to vote on where to have it, and for some reason, it's an overwhelming majority for the gotdamn football field. Dunno what the hell was wrong with my peers.
My high school's graduation was held in a local college football stadium. Unfortunately for my family, the steepness of the concrete bleachers was at an abnormal angle, and by the time I actually started looking for my family after graduating, half of them had gone home because "their knees hurt" 😭😭
I was fortunate to have graduated indoors, as my school district leased a nearby college coliseum for the day, which enabled all four high schools in the county to use it for their graduations.
Same for my daughter. And I'm very thankful- 1200 kids in her graduating class!!!
Graduated from a 5A with a last name beginning with 'B'. Foul.
try W
B?! Bros the definition of spoonfed 😂😂 you complaing you and to wait a WHOLE letter?!
No matter what your last name starts with, if you graduate from a big school, you’re there for a very, very, very long time. I should know. We were the largest graduating class in the state of Texas. I think it took them an hour and a half to finally get to the Rs, where I was.
Whew. Long days for you!
Oh wow! MY Highschool graduation ( way back in 1982) had less than 100 people.
My college graduation was in the north and it was still 90+ degree weather with a speaker who went on for 45 minutes (instead of the 10 minutes she was given). We were cursing her out by the end. A few people passed out.
Also, they told us no applauding early. My family blasted air horns
Luckily my graduation (clemson) was indoors. However having a politician rant for 30 minutes literally put me to sleep. Thankfully 2 seats over was a guy I grew up with who kept punching me in the leg to wake me up.
“I’m just gonna pee my pants” 😭
All the Red Lobsters are closing!!! Where will we go after graduation now!!
Edit: Not only did a bot steal my comment, they also got more likes them me. I truly have made it.
Waffle House
Uhhhhh Applebee's, Chili's or Golden corral ???
@@Wyndamn I heard Chili's is falling as well.
Every time I ate at Red Lobster I got food poisoning, actually every time. And I've never gotten food poisoning from any other restaurant.
@etherealceleste My dad does too.
00:44 - 00:48 “Tell me the downside here?”
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“Open the concession stand today making a killing” 0:53 SPOT ON!! This very conversation occurred at our local high school graduation today in our section of parents!! Hilarious! 😂 😂
Overalls with a tie is just vibes. Pawpaw vibes. Lol 😂
My son bless his heart stuck his naked behind out the bus window downtown 20yrs ago 1 week before graduation he had to apologize to the bus driver the student body and formally write an apology to the teachers and principal or be held back. Glad those days are gone for good. I have never been so embarrassed by my son who knew better.
@MattMitchell-YT thanks I think!
I'll bet "all-you-can eat shrimp" did Red Lobster in. Add that to "all you can bring" families showing up for that very menu item put the nail in the coffin.
778 graduates in South Texas in the football field. LOL So hot and humid. So long.
We had about 680 in my class. At least y’all didn’t have to hold your ceremony in a arena in another state like we did lol
@@tracefuqua3651 Talk about insult to injury! lol
Red Lobster is bankrupt from "endless shrimp" so another one bites the dust.
Another shrimp bites the dust or another lobster bites the dust 🤔🤔🤔.
And I thought it was screwing with the Calamari a decade ago. Our family used to go once every 1-2 weeks spending $100 or so each time but once they made that change we never went back.
You can have the same experience opening a couple boxes of frozen popcorn shrimp..cheaper as well.
Now see, we were lucky enough to be able to use the mega church down the street for our graduation. While I had problems with the whole separation of church and state, that all got blown away by the air conditioning.
Love this and SO TRUE! You guys are the best.
Everyone needs to go to a high school graduation in south Bama! Priceless!
My graduation last year was royally screwed up by the administration. We had a walkthrough on Tuesday with a general idea of what we were supposed to do. However, by Saturday the layout had changed, and we were not briefed on the new layout. At that Tuesday walkthrough, we were told not to bring drinks or snacks as they would be provided. What they didn't say is that they would only be provided for spectators, and graduates would not get such luxuries. Finally, we were told that there would be a parade through town. However, very basic details were provided about the start and end points that were not overly accurate. At each end, people were basically doing their own thing, and the entire ordeal was chaos. Overall, my HS failed every single graduate with the joke they put on. By the way, they wouldn't even hand us our diploma until several days later when we turned in gowns.
Oh look at them high heels, I don’t think she’s gonna make it across the football field- oh no yep, she’s down.😂👏
I was litterally on your channel a few second ago and then while still on your channel a notification pops up you’ve uploaded a video
Oh my! Matt, you never, ever disappoint. My M-I-L, bless her soul, was having heat stroke or the vapors waiting to into the Sun Dome for her granddaughter’s day. You two have lots & lots in common. 😂😂
I love it. We're getting ready to go to my niece's high school graduation tonight. My sister didn't warn me their school holds the ceremony on the football field (they do at least open the concession stand) when we went to her oldest son's graduation 5 years ago. It was so hot and I'd had a bone morrow biopsy the day before so my hip was sore and that cement bleacher was not helping. We knew what to expect when my youngest nephew graduated so it wasn't as rough, except the long walk and air horns. It's rained pretty much every day the past 2 weeks, including last night and this morning. So instead of the sun and heat, it'll be humid and possibly raining. We've packed a bag with water, waterproof blankets to sit on and we will remember ear plugs. Third times a charm.... right?
My son graduated last June. It was on the football field, but it's June in Wisconsin so of course it was 50 degrees, pouring rain and gusty wind. Inside out umbrellas, hats flying all over the place, everyone is soaked and they still had a million speeches.
OMG! The Thank You Card!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
When you completely gloss over the line "Roll down these stairs" until he just goes for it.
You didn’t add when a rainstorm runs through town during graduation and everyone gets soaking wet! We literally were sitting in the stands hearing the loud sounds of the pouring rain moving towards us before it got to us. Trapped like rats. At least we were all soaking wet together so it was a joint miserable event 😂
@MattMitchell_YT why thank you very much! Small Town Southern Life Experiences are like none other 😂❤️
Having just been through this in '21, '22 and '23, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate with 100% humidity.
This is complete truth. Even college graduations happen in the middle of the day. Truly need a shower before the lunch gathering.
R.I.P. Red Lobster. You died at the hands of private equity firms.
Thank goodness, my graduation was inside a convention center! The best part of graduation is that your kiddo graduated and when it's over.
Our local homeschool group has a beautiful graduation ceremony every year with about 15-20 families participating.
Speaker, (emotional) slide show of each grad with recorded words by the parents/student, parents presenting the diploma to the grad, usually one special performance, and they are done in under an hour.👨🎓👩🎓😊
Did I mention it is always done inside, generally at a church ....with plenty of A/C!!💙
Homeschooling for the win-win...especially in the South!❤
My eldest sib's class began on the field and had an ultralight flyin high in the air above them. The ceremony was soon relocated to the theatre when the rain commenced to commence. Azle High Texas '79
What's an ultralight?
I'm a high school teacher in Tennessee, and this is so relatable.
Thankfully, our football field is next to the mountain, so when it gets late enough, we're in the shadow of the mountain, and it cools down dramatically.
My city used to have our graduations inside an enclosed arena in Little Rock, but the graduating year after mine got the whole district banned from it because they tore up the place and there were a few fights 😭😭
A couple of days ago, I was at a 5th grade graduation that went on so long I starting calling it a hostage situation.
Just attended one- this is hysterical!
Nothing beats an outdoor graduation in the Deserets of West Texas. Triple Digits, Dirt in The Air, School Colors being Black. Go MOJO !
P.S. it honestly beat the indoor Coliseum whos A/C was always on the fritz at Graduation time.
The same in Arizona.
Yeah that open stadium don't work, I stayed home and set up the food for family afterwards 🙂
Some of the bigger schools in the suburbs figured this out - they got together and rented the NRG stadium (football field for the Houston Texans). One in the morning, one midday, one in the evening, all in air-conditioned stadium.
My high school graduation was in June in the stadium out back. They sat us in order of GPA, and there were 681 students. And yes, the speaker was our Congressman. It kept sprinkling during the ceremony, and the bottom dropped out about 15 minutes afterwards.