Chameleon makes more sense…
Take the What High School
Stereotype Are You? quiz.
We were lucky to have an electronic calculator when I was in high school. Remember the ones that ran on 9v batteries? Yeah–the TI-30. Cost me $30. When you make $4 a night at your part-time job, that’s not a trivial cost. (But I did get into all the movies in town for free.)
As for me, I fit with everyone and no one, hence my chameleon designation. At school, I could pretty much hang with anyone. For a social life? Not so much.
(Quiz linked through Monica, who’s on hiatus…really.)
LOL!! I got geek, too. I remember the $100 calculators that only did basic arithmetic. I didn’t own one. But I’ll never forget adding up pages of returns by hand in my first job because the new computerized cash registers didn’t do it and hand-held calculators didn’t yet exist. It took a minimum of an hour to close out a register because everything had to be done by hand. NCR hadn’t begun to explore what a computer could do in these first ever computerized models.
I was definitely a geek in high school. I was much happier in college where I discovered lots of other geeks.
Yeah, I remember those calculators. I think I still have one somewhere. It was a big deal when I got one of those.
Texas Instruments calculators, now that brings back memories. I was more of a loner than a geek, but there are those who would argue with me. I pretty much just wanted out of high school.
I got “Geek”, too. That’s actually pretty accurate, except I was deep in the closet in high school. I was too busy being bad to be geeky. Had to keep the Preacher’s Kid myth alive, ya know.
I lusted after one of the $50 HP calculators when I went to college. Couldn’t afford it, so I got a slide rule instead. Still have it.