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12-30-2013, 10:02 PM
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Small town in Maine where anyone who's parents buy them a nice car are hated by those who don't have cars. Oh yeah I know a girl who's car got keyed because someone was jealous. She's popular, smart, athletic, and her parents got her a BRAND new Toyota Corolla S and it got keyed ALL down the sides. Yeah. But it's more if you drive luxury cars. Like some kids had a wicked nice diesel f250 on a 6 inch lift that nobody messed with. Also, if you're well-liked it helps. I have a friend who's parents traded in a Hummer H3 and bought a 2011 Mercedes C300 Supercharged for their daughter, who then went to college with a 2012 or 13 Toyota and the son (a junior now) got the Merc. But his hasn't been messed with yet. Our school is strange though. We get made fun of a lot because when the building was put up in 1973, the idea was that kids could learn 2 subjects at once by overhearing other classes, so there are "fake" walls everywhere haha. Some fake walls are nice. The kind that go to the ceiling. Others are approximately 2-3 inches thick and if you aren't too short (I'm like 5'5 and can stand on my toes) you can look in on classes over the walls. These classrooms are modular and teachers sometimes decide to put the door-opening (no doors though) on a completely different side of the room. Actually our science department doesn't even use cubicle walls. It's just separated by lab desks, so you can wave to a friend a couple classrooms away. There's actually a video on YouTube called Sam and Brandon Welcome you to Mt. Ararat, in which they start in the parking lot. They also demonstrate knocking over a wall by leaning on it haha
12-30-2013, 11:14 PM
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SAME! It's like a half circle from the outside! Do you guys have math classes in doublewide mobile homes too? Haha they're the best, since they have windows, and heat, and ac. Since the school was designed to be open, the heaters and ac tend to trap hot and cold air in small sections...And one time the ceiling was leaking and we pushed on the tile and water just DUMPED down haha. WOW 300 people K-12?! We're almost considered a class B school because we're pretty small-800 students, 9-12 grade...Used to be more like 1,200
12-30-2013, 11:24 PM
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SAME! It's like a half circle from the outside! Do you guys have math classes in doublewide mobile homes too? Haha they're the best, since they have windows, and heat, and ac. Since the school was designed to be open, the heaters and ac tend to trap hot and cold air in small sections...And one time the ceiling was leaking and we pushed on the tile and water just DUMPED down haha. WOW 300 people K-12?! We're almost considered a class B school because we're pretty small-800 students, 9-12 grade...Used to be more like 1,200
12-31-2013, 09:28 AM
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Ouch...Sorry to hear that....Hope you recover quickly! That's awesome about your school hiring though! I don't think ours could afford that. We can hardly afford new pencil sharpeners and the doorknob on the band room has literally come off in my hand before haha. Yeah a few classrooms are like cinder block, but most aren't...About the drop ceilings, it was a drop ceiling tile that dumped water everywhere...But yeah we actually unfortunately have been losing teachers because we can't afford to pay them. Some of our desks are literally the originals from 1973, with the chairs attached and holes drilled through them by pencils...Bottom line:We can't afford to pay students $10 per hour...I'd work there in summer if it did. On the other hand, the state bought us some nice new MacBook Airs, and each student in most districts (except our rival highschool opted not to get them haha) gets to take them home every day except for summer vacation, and every student gets one from 7th grade to 12th grade. I feel pretty lucky for that.
12-31-2013, 10:33 AM
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Yea im lucky that I got chosen for the jobvthe only hire two ppl every summer and they ask the previous workera if the want the job before interviewing new people so ill get to fo it again this summer. We also got a grant for a bunch of new lap tops and ipads and stuff like that.
01-08-2014, 07:47 PM
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Looks great! Is that with the new leaf springs or still the old ones? I'm so stuck haha. My leaf springs need replacing really badly, but I keep going back and forth in my head between thinking, maybe a 2 inch lift, or a 3, or bigger. I guess the big thing holding me back about a bigger lift is the fact that I'd need new tires...Do you have a side shot? And current tire size? Thanks! And hey! I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but your Hellas are mounted right where mine are! But mine are the Black Magics...
01-08-2014, 08:03 PM
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Looks great! Is that with the new leaf springs or still the old ones? I'm so stuck haha. My leaf springs need replacing really badly, but I keep going back and forth in my head between thinking, maybe a 2 inch lift, or a 3, or bigger. I guess the big thing holding me back about a bigger lift is the fact that I'd need new tires...Do you have a side shot? And current tire size? Thanks! And hey! I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but your Hellas are mounted right where mine are! But mine are the Black Magics...
01-08-2014, 09:41 PM
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WOW! 7 Inches of tire clearance seems like a ton! My springs are so saggy, I can't really stand on my back tire because the top of my foot hits the fender flare...On 225/75/R16
01-08-2014, 09:49 PM
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Mine were about that bad before I got them fixed now there nice and dont ride to bad too
01-09-2014, 12:46 AM
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Unless you plan to trim the fenders... You might want to stick with 30's. I have a 1.75' BB, and my 30's scrub bad when its flexed out. thats WITH the sway bars hooked up. Just food for thought.
01-09-2014, 06:08 AM
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Well my 2 ib bb turned into more of a 3 in lift and im getting different rims so that shhould help too
