The Pep Rally Incident

At the urging of a few of my friends, I have begun compiling some of the funny, embarrassing and/or just plain weird stories of my life. Due to my lacking grammar skills and my inability to convert telling a funny story out loud to writing a funny story on paper these stories would never be published (No, Kenna I will not even try) I will however post random funny stories on this blog where there are no editors nor can I see anyone's reaction while they are reading the aforementioned tales. This way my pride is not injured, and I can believe that anyone reading this is getting the best laugh of their life (even if they almost fell asleep from boredom instead.)
So - on to the story behind the title.
When I was a freshman in highschool, I somehow ended up on the varsity basketball squad. (Notice I did not say I "made" the team. Quite frankly, I believe the coaches just kept me around because I was a big gal) Either way, the team made the regional playoffs that year and the school decided to throw a pep rally for us before the tournament. At some point before the 'rally we were talking about all of the football pep rallies and how the guys would run out to the middle and create a huge dog pile on one another. Foolishly, I believed this discussion to be a plan of action. So the end of pep rally comes and the band is playing our school song. I felt that this was our cue (and remembering that I'm a big gal - I figured I'd get on the bottom to prevent injuries to my team mates) and I took off in a dead sprint to the middle of the court. I then dove (very intently) onto the ground waiting for my comrades to join. I wait.. perhaps they didn't get the cue. Perhaps they have all tripped over each other on their way. I then begin to hear outrageous laughter and it hits me. I am alone. None of the other girls came. None of them ever even intended on coming. At that point I realize the gross humiliation that I am currently enduring and begin to peel myself up off of the ground. The whole school witnessed it... Me - the big awkward freshman who shouldn't have been on the varsity squad to begin with - committing the worst act of "uncool" ever. I slinked back to my teammates (who were also laughing at me ..very hard) and watched all hopes of ever being "one of the cool girls" in high school slip out of my fingers. I had to nurse my very wounded pride for a long, long time following that tragic moment in my life. Even now I have to shake my head at myself whenever I think about it. What. A. Loser.