The school cafeteria is hell.

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Theres over 2000 kids at my school so I gotta hurry to pick a table with nobody on it that hasn't already been fouled by dirty slobs.

Even then, I still gotta bear the mixed smells of deli meat, tomato sauce, fish and all the other nasty stuff. All the people talking loudly, ignoring the fact that I'm between them even though there plenty of space on other tables.

Theres also the morons spitting everywhere and, I don't know how, putting sauce and dirt everywhere. And the 7th graders laughing at me with their squeaky voices that makes me want to break their bones!

^^ I know, right? Plus, it's disgusting when people leave their trash lying around. Seriously, kids need to learn how to be responsible. And it's so loud, what with people talking, blaring music, and pure insanity. Why can't normal people just sit back and enjoy quietness?

When I was at school I just avoided the cafeteria and took my food outside, no matter if it was raining or snowing. I also found them hell.

It's my break, and I don't mind it as much as I used to. But I DO mind the idiots who leave garbage around for the custodians to pick up...after lunch ends! They won't have mommy and daddy to clean up after them when they go off to college.
You can't blare music at my school. Cell phones are banned, and that includes lunch.

i haven't eaten in there (during lunch*) since the last rainy day in elementary school. thank f***, one could make an aspie repellent in converting those hellholes to aerosol form.

in HS freshman year a table outside i'd frequent sued to leave their garbage EVERYWHERE, EVERYWHERE. it was on the ground. i was so relieved when custodians threatened to "ban" them (or something?) from the table if they didn't start to clean up like civilized humans.

in 8th grade i would eat either in the corner in a hallway by myself or in the stairwell leading to the boiler room. it was pretty stereotypically lonesome but still would have that over the cafeteria.



*i had breakfast in there almost every morning when we had early track practice in HS. it was not crowded and rather quiet with only the few other track guys, it was tolerable.

You were on the track team? What events did you participate in?

I've been interested in track since the 1970s. When you had Bob Seagram at Pole Vault, Frank Shorter at long-distance running, and (in the 1980s) Carl Lewis at short-distance running. I used to hear the name Steve Prefontaine--but he might have become more famous since he died tragically in a car accident.

i have a thing for a certain someone who also tragically died in a car accident.

but yes, i did the 200 and 400m dash, junior and senior years. i wasn't enjoying myself too much during my first few weeks practice but i think i would have regretted it greatly if i did quit and never continued (but then i wouldn't have graduated...)
it was fun in the end. met quite a few people and getting up at 6 to bike to morning practice was a needed change of pace from having to get dragged and yelled out of couch at 7:30...

I used to eat in the cafeteria in Grade 9, but I quickly had enough and to this day I still eat lunch in the student resource room.

sooooo sorry to ask but

what's the student resource room?

No need to be sorry! The student resource room is a room for students who need extra help with homework, but there's an extra room attached to it for the staff who work there, and they're perfectly fine with me eating lunch with them.

oh! we had a few rooms like that in my HS, i often went there instead of my normal special ed class last year (which was wy to tiny and hot, that called it the gopher hole).

didn't eat there but with the books, spaciousness and fans i the summer, it would have been just a fine idea...yeah...

Our cafeteria is smaller and more refined than a public school one, but it's still noisy and smelly. In good weather we can eat outside if we want, which is better.

I always sat in the hall across a person I somewhat knew and her friends and barely spoke, and that time I blew up, her friend group helped calm me down and understood.
Also, try to join clubs that run during lunch times.

man, i sure don't miss cafeterias!

joining lunchtime clubs is not a bad idea.

I hated eating in my high school's cafeteria, too. Between the multiple fights that broke out in there occasionally and the nasty brats in the courtyard throwing food against the wall, I always felt in an awkward position entering that place and would often seek out other areas around campus to eat.

The worst thing about the cafeteria when I was young was when you only had a half-hour to eat, and the line-up was usually so long it went out into the hallway. Some days we had "double lunch", which was great because it gave us a whole hour, or late lunch, which was awful because I was usually starving by the time we were let out and if you bought the cafeteria food usually all that was left was french fries and gravy. No subs or slices of pizza or day-old Tim Horton's doughnuts, not even some cheese thrown into the fries and gravy for poutine.

They also used to make you wait in line even if all you wanted to buy was, like, a little carton of milk, but I think they changed that later. Anyway, the junior high school I went to wasn't all that big, although the elementary school I went to was so small there was no cafeteria and we had to always bring our lunch and eat it in the classroom, so it was a big change for me.