As a teenager, how would you like to wake up before school?

With my homework done.

Never happened.

Mom getting me up. We usually had oatmeal.

I was always an early riser, usually before any alarm. so I didn’t need the smell of food to wake me.

Usually I had cereal (raisin bran or cheerios) before leaving for school. We didn’t have school buses where I lived, so it was a half-mile walk to elementary and roughly 1 mile to the junior high.

When we were young, our mom fixed us breakfast, although it was normally cold cereal and we were perfectly fine with that. But I hated the winter months because then she had us eat oatmeal and I couldn’t stand the stuff. This is long before they had the oatmeal packets with the yummy flavors. But I know that once we got to high school and had to get up much earlier, we got our own breakfast. We were certainly old enough to do so and there was no reason for my mom to have to get up that early. I don’t know what all I had, although I do remember one time when I was running late, I snagged some oatmeal raisin cookies that my mom had made for Christmas and figured, well, it’s oatmeal! This was after Christmas by the way so I was in no way digging into the Christmas goodies. Plus, my mom used to make hundreds of cookies because she gave a lot away.

As a teenager, my mom woke me up and we usually has cereal.

Until I was almost 11, my mother woke me up and I usually had cereal or eggo waffles for breakfast before walking the three blocks to my school.

After my mother started working days, both her and my father had already left for work when I woke up to my Star Wars alarm clock. Still ate the same stuff for breakfast though.

This, of course, continued into middle school and high school. The distance was longer, but I still walked to school. In college, I started taking the bus and train into the city and would grab something to go at Dunkin Donuts, usually.