Middle School.

Words that come to mind when I think of Middle School:

AWKWARD, ABERCROMBIE AND ACNE CREAM.

Most people I know, including myself, were not fond of this three year period of being a human being. You become weird, your friends become weirder, your friends start to smell weird and look unusual. If you looked considerably pleasant or appealing at this age, then consider yourself a blessed child of God. Middle school was a battlefield, or a fashion battlefield. Lets just say if you were a doormat with frizzy hair and a corpulent body, well then your life pretty much sucked. But if you were a Middle School betch or betch in the making, you were pretty comparable to warriors or barbarians, to say the least. In order to be considered "in with the crowd" you had own certain wardrobe essentials to make it through the halls of that combat zone we remember as "Middle School".

Nonnegiotable wardrobe must haves:
1. Abercrombie & Fitch. This store offered an array of ripped clothes at a ripped off price. But that didn't matter,  we would bring down our parents lives if they didnt take us there. A typical scene that would take place at that store: you want to buy a lime green hoodie with fringes and rips at whopping price of $75. Your mom starts barking at you as to why one would buy such an item and she starts kvetching about the loud music and that over sprayed perfume. Kicking and screaming. You've won. Because we were little prepubescent brutal savages.
2. Puma sneakers.
3. Juicy sweatsuits. Most jacked up priced velour pajamas...and for what?
All for that legendary "J". End reuslt: you have holes in your sweatpants where one should never ever see holes. 

Lesson learned: home school your children for Middle School.