Student Story: Grossing out the ladies, part two

By Garrett Jacobson

Sean Gross, the ladies’ man, has returned to the Flint Hills Publications Workshop to carry on his legacy for one final year.

“It’s not exactly something that you can try to do,” said Gross, a senior. “Either you’ve got it or you don’t. It’s been a little different this year, because now I just feel the girls staring at me rather than approaching me. I try not to be a ‘tool’ about it though.”

Being a ladies’ man at camp doesn’t take much. Gross knows what it takes after picking up the camp nickname before his sophomore year when his status with the ladies was featured in a story.

“It has nothing to do with the way you talk or the way you dress,” he said. “It also has a lot to do with the fact that it’s a bunch of new guys that they don’t see every day at school.”

There may be nothing to it, but the quality is still unable to be explained.

“I have no idea what it is,” Gross said. “I guess I’m just one of those guys.”

He may have seen his better days when he was given the title as a sophomore, but he’s still got it. A few girls around camp may agree.

“He’s usually with a few friends, and there always happen to be a few girls around him,” Katie Gilbaugh said. “He’s just a really nice guy. He’s very entertaining and outgoing, and girls tend to really like that about him.”

“I don’t know him very well, but he seems really outgoing and somewhat flirty,” Erika Reals said.

Not everyone is happy about this ladies’ man. That goes back to the beginning.

“My favorite girl that followed me would have to be a girl named Claire Williams,” he said. “I think she was my favorite because she wouldn’t actually admit to it the first time that this article was written. She even told me that I look like a sad puppy dog.”

Whether his fans would admit to it or not, Gross wouldn’t change a thing.

“I think going through this again is hysterical,” he said of the second story featuring his reputation. “If somebody else were in my position and didn’t want to do it, I’d be mad at them because this really is an awesome story.”

Garrett Jacobson is a sophomore at Wichita Southeast High School and a student in the advanced writing class at the Flint Hills Publications Workshop.