

Working the morning shift, Brad is done in by the restaurant's 100% Guaranteed Breakfast and an irate businessman who Brad loses his cool with. He takes a step down in prestige to the fryer at Jack In The Box. assistant manager Dennis Taylor conspires to force Brad from his lofty position. Stacy takes notice of Damone.īrad suffers a setback when Carl's Jr. She finds The Rat sweet and funny, but his timidity stalls any romance. Stacy has recently given up having her phone calls returned by The Vet after having sex with him in a baseball dugout. Adopting a bare minimum of the rules, by Christmas break, The Rat works up the nerve to ask his dream girl for her phone number, which Stacy Hamilton easily provides him. Too awkward to introduce himself, Mark is schooled by his buddy on projecting a winning nonchalance Damone dubs The Attitude. The Rat confides to Mike Damone that he's in love with a girl working in the A.S.B. Some had Seventeen magazine in their lockers she had The Hite Report. While the other girls were just abandoning their tricycles, Linda was underlining and memorizing all the sex scenes from Shogun. They're having sex to use it as something. To say, 'I had sex with you, you owe me something.' Well, that's terrible.

"A lot of girls use sex," she had told Stacy Hamilton long ago. Linda's view of sex was, basically, that everyone had blown it way out of proportion. Her mother was a nurse at University Hospital, and somehow Linda knew all the facts of life before any other kid her age in Ridgemont.
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She knew how to dress, and she knew how to walk.Įven as far back as grade school, other girls came to Linda Barrett for counseling. She was chronically exuberant, usually in a relentlessly good mood. She left an indelible mark on most students who came into contact with her. Somehow all roads at Ridgemont High led to Linda Barrett. Looking to explore his options as a senior and maybe even meet a girl willing to have sex, Brad considers breaking up.

Brad devotes himself to Carl's Jr., staffing the restaurant with his buddies and even getting his girlfriend Lisa a job at the drive-thru intercom. When a veterinarian in his early twenties struts into the diner and asks Stacy for her phone number, she seems on her way to womanhood. Working as a hostess at Swenson's Ice Cream Parlor in the prestigious Town Center Mall, Stacy has picked up some sex secrets from the twelfth-grade waitresses in the kitchen and pledges to herself that she will not enter high school a virgin. The joker in the deck is Jeff Spicoli, a surfer who's been stoned since the third grade and walks to the beat of his own drum. The Rat's best friend is Mike Damone, a transfer student who schools Mark in romance using a surefire technique he calls The Attitude. Mark Ratner is one of these, a painfully shy junior who falls in love with Stacy. Stacy's best friend Linda Barrett is a highly regarded sex expert engaged to a slightly older man, having sworn off dating high school boys. Her brother Brad is a senior who resides at the top of the fast food chain, a well-respected fry cook at Carl's Jr. Stacy Hamilton is a sophomore making the awkward push from child to adult as she enters high school. The assignment: gather material for a novel about the kids of the day. Published in 1981, this is the work of first time novelist/last time novelist Cameron Crowe, who at the age of 22-with seven years journalism experience contributing articles to Creem and Rolling Stone-moved back home with his parents in San Diego and received permission from Clairemont High School to enroll as a student.
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Published in 1981, this is the work of first time novelist/last time novelist Cameron Crowe, who at the age of 22-with seven years journalism experience contributing articles to Creem and Rolling Stone-moved back home with his parents in San Diego and received permission from Clairemont High Sch As a budding collector of rare books and a super fan of the movie it's based on, acquiring and reading a copy of Fast Times at Ridgemont High ranks as one of the highlights of my life as a bibliophile. As a budding collector of rare books and a super fan of the movie it's based on, acquiring and reading a copy of Fast Times at Ridgemont High ranks as one of the highlights of my life as a bibliophile.
