Reprising a poll question I first posed over 4 years ago and in a different medium, because I'm looking for some light online discussion to brighten up this dreary monday morning at work:
For all you people who are picking the first choice, allow me to play devil's advocate a bit: Your first kiss is better than your best sporting event memory? For those of you who don't like sports, fine. But for those of you who do, did you just manage to avoid the horrible first kiss experiences that I occasionally hear stories about? We're not comparing best vs. best here, and I thought that that would give the sports response a leg up.
I guess "wasn't all that great" is subjective. I mean that's in terms of comparison with other guys I've hooked up with since. But at the time it was all very exciting, if unexpected. Actually, now that I think of it, it was a good memory. Because up until then I was thoroughly convinced that I was too ugly for a guy to want to hook up with me, since everyone else in NFTY was hooking up, and somehow it never happened for me. Now of course, I realize it was because 1.I have standards [I could have found one of those guys who was a man-whore {like a NFTY equivalent of your typical frat boy} and hooked up with him theoretically] and 2.The cute and little thing still applied back then, and I actually was sweet and innocent. And I was too nice, so the guys respected me more than I respected myself at the time. And this guy hadn't met me before, so I didn't have enough time to be considered "sweet and innocent." I don't think he knows that he was my first kiss, and I only saw him at 1 event afterwards, and then never again.
So it wasn't horrible, and although he was a bad kisser, I didn't really know that at the time, so it was all good.
I guess I lucked out because I was already 16 by then, and I feel like those horror stories are more likely to happen in middle school or something.
I have to say, I noticed the lopsidedness of your question. And I'll admit, I wasn't necessarily thinking of my first kiss. But, while I've enjoyed going to some sporting events, I felt like I've had many more amazing kisses.
Besides, I'm not even sure what my first kiss was. Does playing "kiss tag" when I was in elementary school count? What about dares to kiss my "boyfriend" when I was in middle school?
I guess my first real kiss happened at the Philadelphia Folk Festival - but since there were two guys I kissed that fest, and one (the first) ended up stalking me (for a couple years, actually), I prefer to just remember the second. His kiss was very nice.
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So it wasn't horrible, and although he was a bad kisser, I didn't really know that at the time, so it was all good.
I guess I lucked out because I was already 16 by then, and I feel like those horror stories are more likely to happen in middle school or something.
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Besides, I'm not even sure what my first kiss was. Does playing "kiss tag" when I was in elementary school count? What about dares to kiss my "boyfriend" when I was in middle school?
I guess my first real kiss happened at the Philadelphia Folk Festival - but since there were two guys I kissed that fest, and one (the first) ended up stalking me (for a couple years, actually), I prefer to just remember the second. His kiss was very nice.