My Disney grad nite was actually the last time I went to Disneyland. The last time I went to the original Disneyland that is. I have been to the one in Orlando twice since then and that was because I was in Orlando on business and our company gave us tickets to get into the park both times. I suppose I never went back to Disneyland here in Orange County because I simply did not want to remember that night.

Don’t get me wrong, Disney grad nite is a fine way to celebrate high school graduation. But when there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other schools with the same plan, the park can become let us say as crowded as the Moscow subway at five p. M. On a Tuesday in December.

The only ride I went on was the Snow White ride in the kids zone. It was the only ride without a line ten miles long. We were only in the park from ten at night until eight the next morning. I did not want to miss my ride home waiting in line at the Matterhorn.

I also had planned my evening at the park with what seemed like a good idea at the time but later proved to be not so good a plan. I had started dating this one girl from my class who I had not met in all my four years at high school and yet we went to the same high school. We met actually when we both attended a college orientation event at the college president’s home.

I am embarrassed to mention that not only did it take four years for us to meet, but it also took me four years of high school to get a date. I almost went through high school dateless. So spending time with a girl on grad night was my plan. Although by that time we were not heading to the more serious stage. It was fizzling out, but I wanted to fan the flame before that grad nite was over.

And even though what little relationship I had with her was coming to an end by the time grad night was rolling around I thought having a date for grad night would be what made up graduation night memories. Well, I do have the memory that is for sure. We both had friends we also wanted to spend time with during grad night.

I hung out with my buddies in the hub of Disney land watching the waves of people wander around the park. I kept looking at my watch. The magic moment in the magic kingdom had arrived. It was time to go meet my grad nite date. I made my way across the park which was not easy with thousands of people I had to make my way through.

We met in frontier land and walked around for about an hour. We found a place to sit and drink a coke. We did not have really any more to talk about than I had with my friends earlier. Whatever we had once, which was not much, was gone. We decided for each of us to find our friends and call our grad night together a night. I did not see her again until we got to college where she started dating a college junior before the first week of the semester ended. But I will never forget my Disney grad nite; that Mr. Toads Wild Ride was killer…

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