One day, near the end of seventh grade, someone said something funny. So, I opened up my assignment notebook and wrote it down. From then on, I have written down whenever anyone said anything funny. My assignment book at the end of seventh grade had two hilarious pages full of quotes.
I started keeping quotes at the beginning of eighth grade. Little did I know how large a project it would become. By the end of the year, my quotes book (as my assignment book came to be known) had eighteen pages of quotes. Not to mention, it had categories within it of Responses to the Imperative "Say Something Funny," Rules for Life, and On School Lunches. My friend Lauren Haynes and I typed up all the quotes and she created a book of them that we sold at the end of the year for $1.50. We passed the tradition on to six rising eighth graders so that the quotes could continue when we went to high school.
This year, the quotes have their own special notebook, not just a few pages in my assignment book. They are coming slowly, though. Not many people seem to be saying stupid stuff in high school, or at least this one. Still, quotes are a wonderful thing and everyone should keep them.