How to Out-Mean-Girl the Mean Girls With One Super Nice Girl Trick

Mean Girls early script (via Daily Script).

Nothing quite prepares you for being an adult like high school. Popular kids look through you as if you’re invisible. Sadistic, barely-out-of-high-school teachers offer you up like Piggy in Lord of the Flies — or just a gently nudged, mob-mentality-appeasement distraction. And mean girls? Well, mean girls rule the school.

As for myself, I was never quite a popular girl — nor was I total outcast.

I know it’s probably hard to imagine that I wasn’t the most popular girl in school based on this super-confident shoulder move thing I’m doing — combined with all that hot black sweatshirt action. But alas, I was not.

I fell into what I would call the “Amnesty International” crowd. The kids who bought the Nirvana album before anyone else and would go to a cool party maybe once or twice a year but usually weren’t invited so would get drunk on Strawberry Boone’s in the canyon with friends instead. It was a shapeshifter status kind of life. So I would have a few friends in other groups who would act like my closest confidante one minute (say, when we were alone together cramming for a calculus test, and I was helping them study) but then who would completely ignore me if, say, the class president or the “I’m the cool teacher” teacher or that one dude with the motorcycle who hadn’t died yet came strolling along in the courtyard.