Thank you Sacha Black for opening this up.
Scared I was on my first day at school, my two sisters were here somewhere, i thought they would be with me, how wrong could I be.
I love my dress, emerald green tiny checks with white sash and buttons, last night I crept out my bed put it on and twizzled. I am grown up I go to school and have a new dress; well nearly new handed down but no marks.
Now I’m here it isn’t so good after all, everyone else has the same dress… except the boys. My sisters are gone and I need a pee, I huddle down next to a caged heater at the back of the room and push my thumb between my lips. A long thin lady with tight black curls and glasses bent down, took my arm and pulled me to the front without a word. The lady sat me in a wooden chair infront of the teachers desk. There was a lot of noise, scraping chairs banging lids and a slam of the door.
The lady was Mrs. Chilbury she is teacher for class one infants, I still need the toilet and i know it’s near so I stood up while she told the class about registration and milk. Mrs. Chilbury looked at me held my arm above my head pointing, while she told everone this is how you ask for something.
Just then she looked down as a dark puddle spread across the floorboards; her eyes got big and her head jerked back looking for someone. Miss Jones appeared from nowhere and ushered me and a boy who hopped from foot to foot while standing by the door; to a lobby.
The lobby was rows of benches and clothes hooks with names on and toilets leading off each side. Off Miss Jones took kenny; leaving me now shivvering in the lobby.
When she returned she took him back to class then cleaned me; I like miss Jones.
Quite used as I was to wearing someone elses hand me downs i didn’t worry. Back in class we were lined up for assembly, kenny smiled at me, others laughed and pulled my pigtails and called me baby.
At playtime I was very tired so sat with my back to the concrete steps, huddled in my blazer dropped my head and sucked my thumb.
Sometime later I was woken by Kenny who had sat next to me, he had the bluest of blue eyes and the whitest hair. Kenny held my hand, smiled and walked me to the classroom. This is what school was about, making friends i have sisters so hadn’t had a boy friend before.
When Miss Jones shook the clanging bell everyone stood for dinnertime. The first class was allowed to go out with the bigger children after dinner, so I was upset when my sisters didn’t want me to be with them. Kenny was playing catch with a boy, I watched them until he came over and let me join in. We sat together at story time and we both sucked our thumbs as we listened. In the lobby with our coats on I began to worry that I wouldn’t see Kenny again; after all I had quite enough and wouldn’t be coming back myslef.
We were the only ones left in infants lobby when he took out his thumb. We smiled and our faces touched, our lips pouting stretched forward and kissed. Wiping my mouth I said “yuk! That was wet and fizzy” Kenny looked sad “What did you do that for” stamping my little foot.
“Cos I want to marry you when your legs get big like my mum’s” said Kenny through a spitty corner of his thumb filled mouth.
I did return to school, although I made some fuss the following morning, Kenny and I never took up kissing again nor did he marry me; but sometimes I wish we had.
The basis of this story is true, the names have been altered to not cause embarrassment but all the actions took place. Can you remember your first kiss?
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Lynnwood Elementary – her name was Nina, circa 1970. I was six.
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I hope she tasted nice. 😇
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You know what they say about kids? Love ’em but I couldn’t eat a whole one!
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Now, this is cute as well as funny. Hmm! Let me go and think about mine 🙂
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Great i look forward to reading it. 😇 thank yo for reading.
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My pleasure 🙂
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A Christmas disco, under mistletoe, when I was about 13. The guy was a friend of my brother’s and he’s now one of the bigwigs in the education department where I work. And I see him at church. It was the equivalent of having our heads bumped together by some rotten sod that thought it would be fun. I sometimes wonder if he remembers it, considering it was rubbish and I was his pal’s wee sister. The only reason I do is because it was the first time a boy’s lips had even got in the vicinity – as far as I remember. No school yard kisses that I recollect.
I fairly enjoyed a few more that night if memory serves! But none particularly memorable.
Now and again, in schools, when the guy’s name comes up, I go, ‘He was the first guy I ever kissed.’ Then just let it hang there. 😉
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Thank you for sharing a nice story, how cruel fate is to force you to look him in the eye so often. I love the casual announcement hanging mid air gathering others imaginations.
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I usually spill the facts soon after. 🙂 He’s a lovely guy so it wasn’t wasted! Bad as it was. 🙂
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So sweet. 🙂 Much younger than my first kiss. 😉 Memories can be so wonderful.
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I don’t get another taste until fifteen, i liked it a bit more that time.
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So cute! You know, I’m not sure I can remember mine, must not have made much of an impression!
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Love! I do remember! His name was Eddie and he kissed me every time he got close to me. After awhile I told him I was tired of being kissed, but he persisted until my mom got involved. I think we were 6 or 7. I remember his face, but nothing else.
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Poor Eddie he so loved you… brilliant! Thanks for dragging your memory out and sharing it. X
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I don’t know that he loved me, but he sure enjoyed kissing me. I wonder what became of him?
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In his little way he did I am sure, now I have opened the wonder drawer … those things are hard to close. 😇
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Indeed. I might have to ask old school mates for their memories of him, but he moved away in first grade.
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He is probably best left as dissapointment can be painful… He could be traumatized *titters*
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Oh I’m sure!
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Great post! I remember a terribly embarrassing kiss when I was about 13. Absolutely cringe-,making!
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We girls frightened more boys than they did us I’m sure, wiping kisses off and telling them they were yuk! Hahaha!
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Great story. I do have a post on my Word Press page also called First Kiss, http://www.salpa58.wordpress.com I hope you enjoy reading it. :o)
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Ohh i can’t find it 😯😕😯
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Now I have found it, where it was never lost. Lovely memory and funny that parents always thought everything would be fine as long as it was daylight.
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ha, fab entry, bless you not being allowed to go to the loo, teachers can be so thoughtless. Thanks for joining in 😀
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My damp experience still haunts me but making the kiss central to the first day altered the memory slightly. In a good way. 😇
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