20 Funny Responses To The Online Question, What Screams “I Peaked At High School”?

Certain impressions from certain people often leave a lasting impact. Especially when it’s a 30-something who is still obsessed with their school days. Often going on about their high school or college days in a loud and obnoxious manner, these types easily stand out.

One Redditor got on the platform to inquire what are the identifiable qualities of someone who peaked in high school. The resulting answers were unexpectedly hilarious and we’ve shared a few of the funniest in the gallery below.

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#1 Putting “school of hard knocks” on your social media profile page.

#2 I was a three-time All-State swimmer in high school. I tell people about it all the time. So the answer is me, I scream that I peaked in high school.

#3 I remember a pep rally senior year when a kind of friend of mine blew up a condom as a balloon and started singing terribly into it. It was embarrassing and I was going to engage them to stop. Another friend of mine stopped me and said “let him. This is as good as it gets for him.” And f**k he was right.

#4 Constantly reminding us how much opportunity you had in high school .. like dude can I just have my Arby’s and go?

#5 Telling struggling young people, “These are the best years of your life. Enjoy them.”

Edit: Also, fighting with the same people you went to high school with over stupid s**t in your 30s.

#6 Bullying as an adult

#7 Todd “I went to 8 consecutive proms at the same high school.”

He was so athletic that as a Freshman he dated a junior and went to prom. Same with Sophomore year. Junior and Senior years he dated underclass girls. After prom he became a custodian. For the next 4 years he Matthew McConaughey’d his way through students.

When he knocked one up, he celebrated with his friends on a golf course and attempted to drive from that drunk and got in a wreck. There is a memorial golf scholarship in his name.

#8 “I could have made it to state”

#9 When my dad is angry at a decision made by an MLB baseball manager, he will say something like “this is never what we would have done when I played”. Dad never played beyond early high school.

#10 Never leaving the town you grew up in, and the highlight of your week is the Friday night football game at your old HS where you tell everyone that will listen about your game winning TD that happened 20+ years ago.

#11 Bragging about your HS hookups when you’re in your 30s.

#12 Going to the highschool football games in your 30s and still try and have conversations with staff or students thinking your words of wisdom will help the team.

#13 “I’m an alpha” coupled with “can I borrow 20 bucks?”

#14 Posting (& reposting) your cheerleading pictures on FB, in your 50s

#15 “If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.” Has nothing to do with peaking in high school directly, but damned if every girl who peaked in high school doesn’t say that s**t.

#16 I know someone who reposts their posts from highschool multiple times a year and has only a couple recent pictures

#17 40 years old, drives a Chevy pickup truck with a “Don’t tread on me” sticker on the back, backward hat, and sunglasses, along with a monster energy drink in the left hand and punching a hole in the wall with the right hand

#18 Spam messaging people from HS in you’re 30’s to scam them with an MLM you bought into.

#19 Wearing your Varsity jacket in your 30s, 40s, etc.

#20 Those adults that actively try to hang out with high schoolers and try to act cool with them. Could be pedophiles, could be highschool peakers. Or both, happens pretty often.

Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.