Ever go back to your high school yearbook and see if the “Most Likely to Succeed” actually succeeded, or if the people with the “Best Hair” still, um, have hair?  No?  Good.  Because who cares.

But what about the more personal things, like specific calls to action left by your friends?  Did you follow through on those?  Let’s see what I was supposed to do.

Freshman year

We are off to a bad start.  I can almost surely say I did not pay Jamie that dollar.  Though if I don’t remember what the bet was about, it goes away, right?

Okay, here we go.  I remember doing this one!  My friend was in my gym class and this girl had gym at the same time with a different teacher.  I told my friend very soon after she wrote this.  No idea if anything happened from there.

I’m sensing a theme here.  But we’re back in the category of things I most likely did not do.  To be fair though, girls in my grade were prettttty big fans of my brother and I got asked this exact thing all the time.

Now there’s an instruction!  Let’s say I went two out of three here.  Shout out to Matchbox 20.

I know you’re thinking this is a statement of fact and not an instruction.  That’s true.  But later on in the note she does mention my HUGE contribution all year long related to her daily requests to put in a good word with her crush, who happened to be a good friend of my older brother:

Sophomore year

This is probably my biggest success.  Not only did we make more videos, but they were hilarious.

Oh boy.   This message later notes that the first thing this girl remembers me saying to her was, “Walk much?” after she tripped while walking past me on the bus.  It also, as you can see, requests that I make her a tape of me singing for her to take as she moved away.  That came from asking me once on a bus ride if I sang, to which I replied that I only did to myself while in a baseball outfield.  I did not make a tape…

If you know Spanish, you can safely guess this is another thing I did not do.

Junior year 

If you talk about 7-Eleven and Taco Bell enough, people on the bus will eventually join in the fun, and everyone is happy.  Wait.  Except…

Oh no.  I didn’t get to everyone.  WHEREVER YOU ARE LET’S GET SLURPEES.

For several reasons, I cannot fully publicly explain why this one made me laugh so much, but obviously you can appreciate some of its ridiculousness.  Here is one case where I can proudly say I did not do this thing!

Well…after getting cut the first three years, that next year I did not try out for the baseball team again, so another failure.  I did sell a lot of shoes though.

Senior year 

Thank you!  You’re very kind.  Would anyone care to guess what happened here?  Anyone?  That’s right, a thing I am pretty sure I did not do.  This is going very poorly.  Maybe we need a quick breather before pushing to the finish.

I’m absolutely calling this a success.  I kept a fleece jacket in my locker specifically to take to that class in case nap time presented itself (after all my work was done, mom).  This girl sat behind me so she’s definitely a trustworthy witness.

Oh boy, we’ve reached the biggest failure yet.  I’M TRYING.  Wait, does my fake Russian girlfriend count?  No?  Fine.  Anything else?

I do own a Carrie Underwood album, so that’s a victory!  Great job ending on a winning note, Chris.  HAGS.