Word: abp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Life at Harvard would not be complete without the occasional trip to Au Bon Pain, located at the center of the Square. And "ABP," as savvy Harvard students quickly learn to call the Square's only fast-food joint, produces a summer menu that does not disappoint...
...ABP: Acronym for the fast-food bakery Au Bon Pain, where croissants, chess enthusiasts and tourists abound just beyond the Yard's wrought-iron gates...
...ABP, my mother's lips tautening, she told me that it was back. Reality had struck again, abruptly invading my college utopia. And Pop couldn't even bring himself to tell me in person--he had thought I was so happy at Harvard. "And we've known this for a few months," she was continuing. "We just wanted you to start school happy." I felt disgusting. I was the selfish daughter who hadn't even contemplated a return to this sickness--I was just reveling in the petty glories of being a careless freshman girl. I was worried about boys...
...There was another forced meeting at ABP a few months later, this one following weeks of fighting about my bad management of money and my rapidly growing credit debt. I had to meet Pop at ABP, and I started to drip tears and turn red and crouch in the iron chair, complaining about my life, all the while knowing that across from me, my father was just trying to stay alive. I cried and complained and told him this boy, my boyfriend, was mad at me and I couldn't do chem and wasn't having fun and couldn...
...give him a verdict. Until then he just has to wait. And I wait too. Sometimes still pondering what might happen, sometimes just trying to get my own things done. Sometimes the overwhelming feeling of selfishness sickens me, and more than often, I think about other stuff, like when ABP was just a meeting place for a night out with friends...