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I don't know about all of you, but I do the most -- and probably my clearest -- thinking in the car, and with about a 45-minute commute, I do a lot of it. But I got to thinking about someone from my past the other day, and it struck me as a little odd. She was the first girl I ever liked.

I was an 8-year-old third-grader in 1991, and I found myself paying more attention than usual to this girl across the classroom. She was a cutie with dark, brown hair and a light, white face, and, believe it or not, her name was Kelly. I remember going home after playing basketball with my friends in the winter and flipping on Saved By The Bell and thinking how cool it would be for me to date Kelly -- just like Zack Morris.

There really wasn't anything special about Kelly, looking back on things. Nothing sticks out, at least, except for her hair and her face. I don't even remember talking to her that much. I know I had trouble getting at least one sentence out during a lunch period, though. I was playing basketball with a bunch of kids, and I let them know I liked her for some reason. They pressured me to go and talk to her. I don't know exactly what was said, but when I finished, I immediately regretted it and didn't want to tell my friends because it was so bad.

Kelly and I went to school together for the next two years. Then I moved on to the middle school, and her family moved away. I had pretty much forgotten about her until my sophomore or junior year of high school, when my best friend said, "You'll never guess who's in my English class: Kelly." We graduated together, but I don't think I ever said another word to her.

It's been about 17 years since I've spoken to her -- intelligibly or not -- but I can still see her face. I don't know if she's thought about me, though I highly doubt it. I'm sure she never found out I had a thing for her, and even if she did, she was probably too young to feel anything for me. I mean, I was probably too young to feel anything for her -- but if Zack Morris was doing it, why shouldn't I?

I don't know. I thought it was pretty strange. Do any of you think about the first boy or girl you liked?
 
I thought this thread would be about something else entirely.
 
That was the plan. I think about that one, too, though. But no one wants to hear about that, I'm sure.
 
mike311gd said:
I don't know about all of you, but I do the most -- and probably my clearest -- thinking in the car, and with about a 45-minute commute, I do a lot of it. But I got to thinking about someone from my past the other day, and it struck me as a little odd. She was the first girl I ever liked.

I was an 8-year-old third-grader in 1991, and I found myself paying more attention than usual to this girl across the classroom. She was a cutie with dark, brown hair and a light, white face, and, believe it or not, her name was Kelly. I remember going home after playing basketball with my friends in the winter and flipping on Saved By The Bell and thinking how cool it would be for me to date Kelly -- just like Zack Morris.

There really wasn't anything special about Kelly, looking back on things. Nothing sticks out, at least, except for her hair and her face. I don't even remember talking to her that much. I know I had trouble getting at least one sentence out during a lunch period, though. I was playing basketball with a bunch of kids, and I let them know I liked her for some reason. They pressured me to go and talk to her. I don't know exactly what was said, but when I finished, I immediately regretted it and didn't want to tell my friends because it was so bad.

Kelly and I went to school together for the next two years. Then I moved on to the middle school, and her family moved away. I had pretty much forgotten about her until my sophomore or junior year of high school, when my best friend said, "You'll never guess who's in my English class: Kelly." We graduated together, but I don't think I ever said another word to her.

It's been about 17 years since I've spoken to her -- intelligibly or not -- but I can still see her face. I don't know if she's thought about me, though I highly doubt it. I'm sure she never found out I had a thing for her, and even if she did, she was probably too young to feel anything for me. I mean, I was probably too young to feel anything for her -- but if Zack Morris was doing it, why shouldn't I?

I don't know. I thought it was pretty strange. Do any of you think about the first boy or girl you liked?
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Yes.
 
The first boy I liked was Eric with glasses in the third grade.

First girl, well, shockingly enough it wasn't Angelina Jolie. It was a field hockey player in college.

I may delete this in the morning.
 
sportschick said:
The first boy I liked was Eric with glasses in the third grade.

First girl, well, shockingly enough it wasn't Angelina Jolie. It was a field hockey player in college.

I may delete this in the morning.
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Have fun with that. :P
 
I could be asked nicely to delete my post. Or bribed by removal of anti-Cubs talk from sigs, you filthy Reds fan. :D

EDIT: You kept the balls after they were removed? Ew.
 
Somehow, inexplicably, I never went through the "girls are gross and have cooties" phase and developed my first crush as a 5-year-old kindergartner. Her name was Sarah. She was in my class every year all the way through elementary school, but moved to the other side of town after third grade and went to a different middle school.

We were in the same school again by seventh grade, but it was never the same after that.

My crush on Sarah never wavered throughout elementary school, at least not until the end of third grade, when I realized I have an interminable, deep-rooted love and appreciation for bitchy blondes. Her name was Ashley, she was from Virginia and she had curly hair. She moved away after third grade and I never saw her again.
 
Diabeetus said:
friend of a friend said:
sportschick said:
Diabeetus said:
Stan keeping his balls was a shocking twist to this thread.
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He's waiting for the right girl. . .
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. . . to show his porn collection
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Ceiling cat is watching.
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Like Stan cares. That boy is into some scary, kinky, tubgirl level porn.
 
It's not my first, who I ranted about in a random thread once upon a time (*cough*Amy*cough*), but this will do ...

I was driving to my cousin's high school graduation after work a few years ago. It was a three-hour drive and I didn't leave until 2 a.m., so I knew I was going to amp myself up for driving (at least until I got to a city with a Sheetz, which was a ways away). So as I'm barrelling through the ruralest part of the Carolinas, I start thinking about the girls I've worked with, and who was the hottest. I rank them in a top 10, since everything in life needs to be quantified), and come to the conclusion that this one woman I worked with ONCE was the hottest -- not just because she was attractive, but she was a really cool person and we had some mutual friends I wouldn't have guessed, and I figured she'd be a superstar in short order.

Got to my destination, went to the graduation, then found out from my grandparents (who live where she worked) that she was killed in an accident like two weeks prior).

Now I think about early 90's songs and donut variety proposals when I drive long distances.
 
I have a really weird story behind my first crush.

There was this girl named Michelle who rode the bus with me and was in my 2nd-grade class. Quiet girl, nice enough, but we didn't seem to have that much in common beyond homeroom and the bus.

One night, I had a dream about her. Nothing too outrageous--I was seven, for crying out loud--but I dreamed I liked her. the next day, I plopped down behind her in the bus and started talking to her. I must have impressed her because before I knew it the whole class knew we liked each other and our parents were setting up play dates. Mom would drive me down to her house, about a mile from ours, and chat with her mom while we chased each other around her bedroom (and while her sister and my sister, who were also the same age, played with dolls or some ****). I was bound and determined to kiss her, but kept chickening out.

A few days later, she was over my house and we were in the backyard in a little fort tucked behind some pine trees. I told her I wanted to kiss her and she said OK kiss me. So I closed my eyes and gave her the quickest peck on the lips ever (goddamnit! foreshadowing!). Then my mom came in the back yard and said it was time to take her home.

On the way home, my snarky little sister, who apparently was hiding in the garden while Michelle and I were swapping spit, told my mom I'd kissed Michelle. My mom started yelling at me about how I was too young to kiss girls and how this wasn't right and it had to stop right away. And it did: Sometime soon thereafter, Michelle said she didn't like me anymore. I think I drowned my sorrows with shots of Kool-Aid and endless playings of "Endless Love."

She ended up being the first kiss for my best friend Scott, too. Good *******, thats another great bit of foreshadowing too: Years and years later, the girl I lusted after during my senior year in HS took the virtue of my best friend...another kid named Scott.

So yeah. Dan Hartman wrote "I Can Dream About You" about me and Michelle from 2nd grade.
 
The first girl i liked was Detra. We were always great friends and i was too chicken**** to ask her out. She's now married and has a kid.
 
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