“Be there or be square”…remember that? If you were in high school in the sixties (egad!) you will. It implies that if you do not attend, you’re not one of whatever group is getting together. I remember it as gatherings at the local lake and everyone sitting around talking, of course about world changing events😳or the latest drive in movie or just swimming or tanning. What do you remember about it?
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This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts: November 27. 2025
The Bag Lady 
It’s odd that using the word ‘square’ now, in the context of ‘being square’ defines you as actually being square, but I’m not sure how to describe that condition in modern parlance. I’m also not sure what ‘well rounded’ might mean now, but it sounds terribly boring, so it probably means what square used to mean. We could solve this puzzle by triangulating the two coolest people in the room (you and I) with the ‘squarest’ one (that guy over there with the beige cardigan). Standing side by side, as two misdiagnosed ‘squares’ we would actually form a rectangle – a geometric object that, as yet, has not been hijacked into the lexicon as a descriptor of human character. So let’s be a rectangle, together, before someone else makes it unfashionable.
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Yea! I can put my image to use😬
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