By Griffin Gau
One day my girlfriend, Dani, approached me with a crazy idea, “Let’s get on the Homecoming Court.” So Dani Thompson, Tyler Rouse, and I got all the Mini-Schoolers to vote for us, and we got nominated. At first I thought being on Homecoming Court would simply be a good way to “stick it to the man.” It turned out to be a whole lot more.
I thought being on Homecoming Royalty was just attending the pep fest and the Homecoming game, itself. We also had to volunteer at a nursing home, attend a Royalty Tea Party with our parents, do the pep fest, ride in amphibious cars in a parade in Excelsior, and go onto the football field at halftime with our parents.
Another thing we hadn‘t anticipated was having to coexist with the exact same people we were trying to rage against, preppy mainstream kids. It’s a strange thing that once you’ve got a little, like Minnetonka Royalty, suddenly you’re good enough to talk to (at least until you’re back in school).
So, all in all, I came out of this experience with a new suit, a mediocre key chain, and new friends.