Fifteen years ago yesterday

On a Friday afternoon, my friend K and I were were heading home after school. K was spending the night at my place. It was a beautiful spring day. We were walking along the driveway and talking about our friends who were having crummy luck with guys and were sad about that. We thought they deserved some nice guys.

Then we had an epiphany. We deserved some nice guys too. Just because we didn't spend a lot of time mooning after guys and talking about them and being boy crazy, didn't mean we couldn't have some too. So we related our crushes to each and giggled. Then we went home and (as my suger nazi mom wasn't home) made a batch of brownies and ate them all.

We were both from pretty healthy families. There was lots of brown rice and organic veggies at dinner. I never drank as a teenager, but a couple hits of sugar combined with teenage hormones was close enough to crack to my delicate, vegetable laden body.

So hyped up on sugar and giggling like maniacs we looked up our crushes phone numbers in the phone book. Then, this being high school, we looked up the numbers of the best friends of the crushes. Then (please remember this was high school), we each called the friend of our friends crush to find out if they would be receptive to being asked out on a date. And of course we were both on the line. One of us was on the phone upstairs making frantic hand gestures downstairs and mouthing words.

Eventually, we both had the go ahead to call our crush. I called Mr Bob and asked if he would like to go see Hamlet the next night with me. He said yes. K called her date and also invited him to Hamlet. Then we called Coco and invited her and her slurpy boyfriend.

The next night (15 years ago today) we met at the movies. I don't remember who paid, though there was a good chance we got in free, as our friends worked the till. We said 3 words to each other while Coco and her BF slurped away at each other behind us. We got out of the movies, where my friend's dad was waiting to pick us up (We had arranged for him to come a little bit late, but the movie was longer then expected).

The next day Mr Bob kissed me in the middle of the drama room during rehersal and we were officially going out.