EVERYONE has distinct memories from their childhood, whether it be where they played outside as a child or their favourite Disney film to watch with mum and dad on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
But if you grew up in Glasgow during the noughties era, it's likely you experienced at least one of these only-in-Glasgow moments during your high school days.
Jane Norman bags were EVERYTHING
If you didn't have a Jane Norman school bag accompanied with a Jane Norman carrier bag to hold your PE kit, it was basically a scandal.
Fish and chips Fridays couldn't be missed
Monday to Thursday the dining hall was pretty much deserted, apart from packed-lunch wielding first years, but on Friday everyone was in line for fish and chip day. How every school in Glasgow had the exact same lunch on a Friday we never knew.
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Bleep tests are the devil
Seriously, who invented this? There was a total of three, maybe four, kids in every class and all this cruel, cruel exercise made anyone realise was how much we all hated those kids.
MSN was life
Before emojis, there were song lyrics. No matter what was going on in that teenage-angst life, you could release your feelings via song in the PM section and asking for someone you fancied's addy was as serious as asking for their hand in marriage.
Empties
Ah the empty, hands down everyone's favourite way to spend a weekend – it beats the park, right? Today, it might be called a gaff, or a house, or whatever but the premise is the same. And the nights were the best.
School trips brought the gang together
Hannah might have hated Claire for ruining her best Quiz skirt she borrowed and Jamie might have been raging at big Tam for copying his tram lines but when it came to trip time, other schools were the enemy. You could make fun of your fellow school pupils but how DARE they?
Three words: Dream. Matte. Mousse
Boys, likely, won't remember this but, for girls, there was no other make-up of choice. We loved that it could cover our pesky teenage acne, we hated that we had no idea how to blend it with our necks. Oops.
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The dreaded ceilidh
No matter where you grew up you likely had an awkward school dance moment but did yours involve the torture of the Gay Gordon's and Dashing White Sargeant with the partner your teacher forced you to take? If not, you can't understand the pain.
Dogging it felt like robbing a bank.
Sorry mum but we all did it and we never felt cooler.
That teacher that was always rumoured to be a police officer
We really don't understand why but every school had one of these (hey, Mr Hughes) and it was almost never true, was it?
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