May Morning Breakfast Celebration
By Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78882)
East Tawas, Michigan
May 1, 2023 2:29pm CST
At the Tawas Area High School, there was a yearly celebration that most of the seniors participated in.
Yes, it was strictly the seniors, it wasn't open to the underclassmen.
April 30th, the senior class would get together in a private place and then stay up all night, at a party gathering. The next morning, some would contribute food items, to prepare a May 1st breakfast before going to school.
No, I didn't go to this wild party, but a lot of my classmates did show up. Instead, my friend Debby stayed overnight at my house and we didn't go to sleep.
At about six o'clock in the morning, Debby and I started frying up some bacon. When Mom and Dad finally work up, they joined us for crisp bacon, eggs and pancakes.
Both Debby and I caught the school bus and attended classes. It was very hard to stay awake all day, after not getting any sleep
Photo: Mine from a few days ago
Photo: Mine from a few days ago14 people like this
13 responses
@RebeccasFarm (89741)
• Arvada, Colorado
1 May 23
Hmmm, there is no way we would have been allowed to stay up all night, not in our house, senior or not
But that is such a nice memory Kharla..with the smell of the bacon and your parents too and your best friend.
Glad you stayed at your house too.
Happy May Day.
But that is such a nice memory Kharla..with the smell of the bacon and your parents too and your best friend.
Glad you stayed at your house too.
Happy May Day.2 people like this
@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 May 23
Debby and I were very careful, not to make noise that might wake my parents up!
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Good girls then@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 May 23
@RebeccasFarm Debby and I were quiet girls, we didn't party down or make any racket.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 May 23
Now, if I stay up until 10:00P, I feel like a zombie!
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 May 23
@CarolDM I always wake up early in the morning, unless I've been sick.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
1 May 23
@kobesbuddy I know what you mean.
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@AmbiePam (91973)
• United States
2 May 23
@kobesbuddy They probably only trusted the seniors.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
2 May 23
Only the seniors would do this, making it an annual invent for teens.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
3 May 23
@AmbiePam It was a senior holiday, celebrated one month before the class graduated.
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@celticeagle (166051)
• Boise, Idaho
1 May 23
What a nice affair for the seniors.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
2 May 23
Most of the seniors in my class loved to party!
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@RasmaSandra (79396)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 May 23
When I went to grade school all the classes gathered outside the school in the schoolyard and went around the May Pole dances
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@RasmaSandra (79396)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 May 23
@kobesbuddy it was we all enjoyed it every May
@RasmaSandra (79396)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 May 23
@kobesbuddy it was we all enjoyed it every May
@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
4 May 23
Yes, I've heard of dancing around the May Pole. That must have been a lot of fun:)
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
3 May 23
We had a huge rock out in the front yard of our school. Each year, the seniors were allowed to paint it different colors.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
4 May 23
@kobesbuddy That was a neat custom.Gives the seniors something to think about.
@Tina30219 (81840)
• Onaway, Michigan
1 May 23
I don’t think I had anything like this when I graduated it would have been fun
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
3 May 23
I was only allowed to do this one time. After that, I had a scheduled bedtime each night.
@Tampa_girl7 (50097)
• United States
2 May 23
Staying up all night is a thing of the past for me these days.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
3 May 23
I could never do that, at this time! As a young person, staying up late was something I liked doing.
@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
3 May 23
I could never go without sleep, after having two children and as I a got older. I always had a bedtime!
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@Chellezhere (5671)
• United States
1 May 23
Those were the days, for sure. We were so young and carefree.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
2 May 23
As a senior, we figured we were all grown up!
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@Chellezhere (5671)
• United States
2 May 23
@kobesbuddy And now that we are seniors again (but in a different context of the word), we know we were wrong. No one ever actually grows up. We all grow old.
@LindaOHio (176794)
• United States
2 May 23
I remember the special day/night we had for those that didn't get invited to the prom. The school rented out an entire entertainment complex that had bowling, mini golf, a dance hall and a pool. We stayed there all night and went home the next morning. We had a class of 1,000 and quite a few showed up for the special night. I'm surprised that they didn't schedule the all-night party on a Friday night!
@Scrapper88 (5983)
• United States
1 May 23
Sounds like the seniors had a good time.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 May 23
The ones who partied had a hard time eating breakfast! But, some seniors only had a little bit of booze, they enjoyed the morning breakfast:) I'm sure some of them didn't party at all, just like Debby and me.
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