What did you write in your friends' school yearbooks?
@StephanieAnnC (4274)
United States
June 7, 2010 5:23pm CST
It's nearing the end of the year and the children at my work received their yearbooks today. A lot of them ran up to me and said 'Miss Stephanie. Sign my yearbook!' Do you remember signing yearbooks when you were in school? What did you usually write? Did you have a certain signature? Did you just right 'Have a great summer,' or did you write lengthy notes to your friends.
I mostly wrote similar things for the kids. 'I hope you have a good summer filled with lots of ice-cream, fun, memories and swimming! I hope to see you next year in after care. Good luck next year!' When I was younger though, I used to have a quote I used to write. I forgot exactly what it was, but it was pretty cheesy. I used to sign my name in cursive as well because I didn't have a particular signature.
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@ladyg26 (58)
• United States
7 Jun 10
well i usually write have a great summer and be good and dont get into any trouble.lol!or like i loved having as a friend this year and hope we stay friends for a long time.accomplish your goals and never give up.and i would have like my own cute signature.
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@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
8 Jun 10
Hi lady g: I remember that when my friends ask me to sign their school yearbook I felt shy because I would love to write something good to express how much I appreciate them and how good was to be with them but you know, it's difficult to find the words in these situations. Now, I really miss those days even if they have some negative points. Thanks for your answer. Have a nice day.
ALVARO
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@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
8 Jun 10
I agree. It is hard to find the words to express how you feel and what you want to say. It almost feels like your friends are pressuring you o write something special even though they really aren't. I wish I could have said more in my friends' yearbooks then what I actually did write.
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@Jennlk84 (4205)
• United States
7 Jun 10
Wow - not something I've thought about in a long time! It has been years since I've had to sign a year book! From what I remember I always switched up what I said. I was pretty sincere when signing yearbooks - so I didn't sign the same thing in everyone's year book like some other people did. I remember some of my classmates thinking that one day they would be famous so they'd write something in there about that...kinda funny when you think about it!
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@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
8 Jun 10
I agree. I did the same thing. I used to be very honest with my responses unless someone I wasn't fond of asked me to sign. Then I felt bad being honest and wrote something generic. I usually add things to the generic 'Have a great summer.' I like signing yearbooks. Today, one boy was like 'Wow, Miss Stephanie! You wrote a lot!" I only wrote three sentences. I guess that's a lot because I didn't just sign my name.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Jun 10
hi stephanieAnnC well it was just after the start of the second
world war and most of the boys in our graduating class had
been drafted and were gone. so we allwrote such smaltzy stuff
in one others yearbooks mostly about the war and what we were
going to do after graduation .my that was a long time back 1944 to
be exact.We were all sorta scared as someof our classmates had already
been wounded or killed. It was like all of a sudden we had to grow
up almost over night sortof.


@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
8 Jun 10
Wow! I kind of wish kids nowadays had to grow up that fast. I feel like the television shows and such are prolonging immaturity. I mean,, there was this show on television called Making Fiends. Not friends, making FIENDS/ It was terrible.
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
8 Jun 10
Hmm, I remember when I was in high school, I signed for my friends as "Happy summer vacation, see you next year!" As matter of fact, I am not a yearbook person. I don't know what exactly to write, nor I like to buy a yearbook for myself. So, I don't have much memory of my high school year.
@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
8 Jun 10
It's hard for me to figure out what I want to other people's yearbooks too! I bought one though, just because I thought it'd be nice to have a memory I could keep forever.
@dreamsharmin (2281)
• China
8 Jun 10
The end of my school day we have celebrate the day. We called it reg day.
That day we all in our class were a t-shirt and where we comment and signature. I keep the t-shirt and well never through it.
I have also wrote others t-shirt. Some where i wrote missing you always, remember me, don't forget me, cool girl etc. But didn't write lengthy as other will write there.
And also my signature.
@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
8 Jun 10
That's pretty neat! We used to have field day where each elementary school in the district would compete against the others in field events, like running and tug of war. We signed our colored shirts then.
@CTHanum (8233)
• Malaysia
12 Jun 10
hello again!
this is the nice topic.hmm..i used to write the same sentence to my friends in their school yearbooks in autograph page. something like,' good luck in your future', 'friends forever','im gonna miss you', giving them my address and phone numbers and etc.oh,yeah about the signature.i always give them the same one along with my smiley symbol.im still doing the same signature till now.what a very nice memory..haha..:)
@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
12 Jun 10
Oddly enough, I don't think I ever wrote my address or phone number in a yearbook. Then again, my friends weren't leaving. But even for my senior year in high school, I don't think I wrote my number or address in anyone's yearbook. Yet, I usually wrote 'Keep in touch!' How funny that I wrote that but didn't include my contact information. I guess I assumed most of my best friends already knew how to contact me. I think I just signed my name. I didn't have much of a signature. I think I used to write funny things in my fellow elementary schoolers yearbooks, but I don't remember what it was! LOL 

@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
8 Jun 10
Hi Stephanie Ann C: I remembered that when I finished my school, in my last year I wrote that I feel proud of everything I have made these last year and that even if I have committed some mistakes I felt blessed of being here and of the things I've done and that this was a precious experience. Thanks for asking me this question. Have a nice day.
ALVARO
@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
8 Jun 10
That's some really positive thinking! But my question refers to what you WROTE IN OTHER people's yearbooks. Did you have anything in particular that you wrote in other people's yearbooks?
@hardworkinggurl (37062)
• United States
7 Jun 10
I think as kids in school we are eager to get the most signatures and quotes into our yearbooks, not realizing that perhaps one day it will be looked back and either chuckle or wonder what the heck we were thinking about at the time.
Funny you should bring up yearbooks, funny thing happened to me the other day. I have chatted with a great many of people on the net since I have ventured out into the internet money making projects. There is this particular bad habit I have to assume a great many of them are males. Perhaps because of the nicknames we give ourselves. I have been mistaken for a male also as many of those times I have been really general in responses and not giving personal infomtion. Well it turns out that since March of this year I have been chatting and throwing money ideas to this one particular person and I was right to assume he was male. Turns out after 3 months of at least 4-5 weekly chatting, that this is an old high school friend of mine and he read the year book entry I wrote him. Too funny I said something like to, let's keep him nameless, a really nice guy I just met, but feel I know for a long time. ahahaha... talk about cheesy. Well I can't rember who he is but funny thing after general money making discussion and this particular day he and I realize we were in the same homeroom for 4 years. I says to him how the heck you are doing. Now that is really funny..
@StephanieAnnC (4274)
• United States
8 Jun 10
Wow! What a crazy story! People should be careful what they write in yearbooks! I ventured through mine awhile ago. I was like 'Wow. I didn't know she signed my yearbook' or 'Really? He wrote that?' It was nice reminiscing.
That's so awesome t hat he remembered you. Apparently the world is smaller than we think.
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