First Kiss
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:47 am
Do you remember your first kiss? I was listening to my rock music yesterday, and Kid Rock came on singing First Kiss, and it brought it all back.
I was 14, and going to a schoolfriend’s birthday party on the other side of town in a church hall and there was going to be music and dancing!( All the other birthday parties Id been to previously just involved jelly and icecream in someones home and games like “pass the parcel” –this one was so different.) I was excited because I was wearing my new Can Can petticoat under a flared skirt and my very first kitten heels. I was asked to dance several times (a new dizzying experience!) and – AND – Steven Scholes walked me to the bus-stop later where I experienced my very first real kiss. Unfortunately it cant have been that lifechanging for him because I didn’t hear from him again . Until …..
2 years later I was 16. Our headmistress had allowed the Lower 6th to organise a Halloween Hop in the School Hall. Only “suitable” members of the opposite sex would be allowed in , which meant we couldn’t invite any boys ourselves, but she extended the invitation to the Lower and Upper 6th at the Boys Grammar School. By now the Can Can petticoat and kitten heels had been ditched for something much more slinky, and killer heels. Walking to the loo early in the evening I met a boy coming the other way – he stopped in his tracks and said admiringly “Wow – You’ve changed!!” I walked straight past him with my head in the air (but a big smile on my face.........)
So what music reminds you of life-changing events in your youth?
I was 14, and going to a schoolfriend’s birthday party on the other side of town in a church hall and there was going to be music and dancing!( All the other birthday parties Id been to previously just involved jelly and icecream in someones home and games like “pass the parcel” –this one was so different.) I was excited because I was wearing my new Can Can petticoat under a flared skirt and my very first kitten heels. I was asked to dance several times (a new dizzying experience!) and – AND – Steven Scholes walked me to the bus-stop later where I experienced my very first real kiss. Unfortunately it cant have been that lifechanging for him because I didn’t hear from him again . Until …..
2 years later I was 16. Our headmistress had allowed the Lower 6th to organise a Halloween Hop in the School Hall. Only “suitable” members of the opposite sex would be allowed in , which meant we couldn’t invite any boys ourselves, but she extended the invitation to the Lower and Upper 6th at the Boys Grammar School. By now the Can Can petticoat and kitten heels had been ditched for something much more slinky, and killer heels. Walking to the loo early in the evening I met a boy coming the other way – he stopped in his tracks and said admiringly “Wow – You’ve changed!!” I walked straight past him with my head in the air (but a big smile on my face.........)
So what music reminds you of life-changing events in your youth?