School lunch

Does anyone remember the days when we had a public school lunch sitting in front of us for fifty cents? If I remember correctly, breakfast was only 25 cents!!! What is lunch now... $5, that's ridiculous. Public school lunches give you way more food than our lunch gives us, which is about $5 everyday. The public school lunch consists of white or chocolate milk, a sandwich, fruits and however many napkins you want. You pay with a blue coupon that your parents bought monthly for about $5. There were times when I forgot my blue coupon and those were the days I dreaded the most of all my elementary school days. I didn't have enough money to buy lunch that day so I tried sneaking off in the cafeteria and planned to sit silently until lunch was over. All I had to avoid was the strict, mean cafeteria whose main purpose in life was to make little kid's lives miserable. I looked around, avoiding her as much as I could that day. I finally let up a little and got caught up in a conversation with my friends on the lunch table. Before I knew it, a cold hand nugged at my sholder. "Where's your lunch?" she asked in her deep raspy voice. "I ate already," I repied back. "Don't lie to me. Get lunch and sit on the other table," she replied back. The other "table"... wow... the cursed words you never wanted to hear throughout your elementary school life. The "table" consisted of the rejects, smelly, dirty kids who never brought their lunch coupons. I hated sitting on that table. I always found ways to run away to recess. They could never control me, I was a wild kid. I loved school lunch back then...