This article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle posits that each city can be likened to a type of kid at any given high school. LA is the cheerleader with the nose job; Chicago is the keg-tapping linebacker; San Francisco is the misunderstood artiste with multi-colored hair.
Of course, Sacramento is not mentioned, but I opine that we are the kid whom everybody knows, but isn’t the one to get asked to the prom right away (if at all) — the kid who’s friends with the cool kids, but there’s not enough room at the cafeteria table, so he/she sits on the edge with one buttcheek hanging off the end of the bench.
*Free drink for the first person to identify the source of this title, if/when we ever have a SacRag happy hour
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You are spot on, RunnerGirl. We could extend this list to cities in and around Sacramento. First dibs on Elk Grove!
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Breakfast Club.
That sounds about right for Sacto. The city wears all the right clothes, listens to all the right music, but is still on the periphery of the popular crowd.
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I’ll take The Breakfast Club for $200…
But more importantly what extracurricular activities would Sacramento choose if she were a student? I’m saying something like secretary of the student body government and choir.
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Or maybe the kid who gets people hanging out at his house because of its proximity to other stuff, like the creek, or a pretty girl’s house, or skiing and shopping.
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Oh, sure, The Breakfast Club. But what was the source of the name “Breakfast Club”?
According to wikiwikipedia…
“The film’s name came from the son of one of [movie director] Hughes’ friends. When asked what detention was called at the local high school (New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois), the son told him it was known as ‘The Breakfast Club’.”
I don’t know who the specific sources of the son were, though.
How about Sacramento as the “hipster-doofus” – the person trying to be cool but never quite getting it right.
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Citrus Heights: The kid who is always late to school because there are so many effen lights from his house to the freeway and because he was out drinking with his older brother who goes to the local junior college and still hangs out with the high school kids because they think he is cool and drives an eclipse?
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Davis: the kid who lives… in Davis?
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“We could extend this list to cities in and around Sacramento.”
North Highlands: The 19-year-old 5th year senior?
Mather: The ROTC guy who wears his uniform to the homecoming dance?
Wilton: Future Farmers of America/4-H kids?
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El Dorado Hills: The kid who moved here from a a major metropolitan area because of daddy’s job and can’t stop talking about how life was so much better in the Bay Area (even if it was Martinez.)
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