Ran with Elizabeth again today. I didn't know she was coming so I was still in bed when they got there...We talked about kids and first kisses and weird stuff. I have this great first kiss story that I love to tell people. It's much better in person but the story basically goes like this. My brother and his best friend took me into his room and locked the door. They shoved clothes under the door and told the other kids that were banging on the door to go away because we were doing a surprise play for them. Then Michael(my brother) told me that Brad like me a lot and wanted to kiss me like they do on "Love Boat" They were 11 and I was 8. I was still at the age where I closed my eyes when people kissed on Love Boat...I didn't know anything about kissing!!! Being young and a pushover..I agreed. I closed my eyes, held my breath and tighted my lips. Brad kissed me for awhile(I just remember it felt like a long time to hold my breath) and that was that. THEN......my brother...probably realizing the trouble HE'd be in if my parents found out said, "Okay Sarah, now if you don't want me to tell Mom and Dad that you kissed Brad you better do everything I say." I was too young to realize the weeks of slave labor this blackmail was getting me into. To make it worse, for the next few weeks as I swept and did the dishes for him...whenever I complained he would add a new threat. He would say, "Not only am I going to tell Mom that you kissed Brad ....BUT...I will also tell her that you left the freezer door open!!" In our house leaving the freezer door open and ruining all the food inside was equal to whatever death sentence my mother felt like incurring that day...it didn't look good for me. So then one day I guess I had stepped out of line somewhere because my mom started screaming, "SAAAAARAAAAH!!" Oh boy...I was in trouble. I ran to my brother's room where she and my two sisters were helping clean the boy's room. My mom blurted out, "Sarah, Michael just told me that you left the freezer door open." In confusion and tears I said, "No...no...I didn't leave the freezer door open...I kissed Brad" My sisters stared in shock.. ....and my mom headed for Michael who I'm sure by now was half way down the street. Disclaimer: My brother turned out to be a very nice man..math professor, loving husband and father and I have completely forgiven him. I don't know what my mom did to him but she had a talk with me about never being afraid to tell her if I liked or kissed a boy(she had had some adventures of her own in her day and wanted to be in on mine too. :)
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