re: Let's talk about crushes

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I’ve never trusted sister frickers and I’m not starting today.

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That makes two of us.

I don't want to talk about it. 18 years later and I'm still bummed about it

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They say a little piece of your heart is lost forever to every person you love

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Yup. After a few failures you quit going into relationships with the same optimism you did when younger. I always kind of envy the folks who fell in love in high school and had it all work out.

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That makes two of us.

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Oh, so you have a brother, that’s cool. He frick your sister too?

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Cindy Mancini

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Donald, Cindy's mom says hi!

It was either my fourth grade teacher or Kim Novak, not sure which was first, but I’m pretty sure they both thought about me equally.

My first crush was a girl in my youth group at church when we were both in middle school. She was short, blonde, sweet, and had a really thick southern accent that made me melt when she said my name. She was a little ditzy in personality, but not actually unintelligent (she was fairly good at math).

My freshman year of hs, she sat next to me on the bus most mornings and we would talk about whatever, but I was always too nervous to ask her out.

At the end of freshman year, whe helped me throw a party at my house which, at first, not many people showed up to. So, she went with me to my bedroom, sat next to me on the bed, and…helped get a bunch of people to show up.

The party ended up being a blast that really helped my popularity into next year (something I did not capitalize on), but when I didn’t make a move on her at the party, she moved on and got with another guy there.

We grew apart after that. She ended up getting into drugs and pregnant before high school ended, so bullet dodged. However, the image of her in a bright blue bikini getting out of my parents’ pool is forever etched in my adolescent brain.

Girl in 6th grade. Was in the beginning band with her (she played flute; I played tuba.) We got to be friends, but I was too shy to tell her how I felt. In 7th grade, we had 5 classes together, and became really tired of each other. Later, mutual friends accused us of hating each other, but I don't think that was ever true. We're friends on Facebook.

My first crush is 2 yrs older than me. She was my cousin’s best friend since we were all in grade school. She is still married to the only person she dated in high school. I’m a few times divorced. Over the years we see each other at funerals and I know without a doubt if one day she is widowed, we will be together. When I was a junior in high school, her boyfriend was a volunteer football coach and one day at practice I just randomly told him I was going to marry her. He just looked at me and said, hmm. I also had to write an English paper about “the perfect mate.” I wrote it about her and the teacher said I was the only student that wrote about an actual person. As I was going out the door, teacher told me she hoped it worked out.

Saucy little Hispanic chick in junior high. It was in lilly-white Denham Springs back in the 90s and she was just exotic as frick.