31 Days, 31 Memories - Day 25

[bironic]

Well, heck, how do you follow those two up?

25. Middle School

I had a desperate crush on J. for several years running. It started hard in the seventh grade. The summer afterwards, our family took a trip to Bermuda. In one tourist trap souvenir shop, I found a t-shirt J. owned -- his family had gone to the island too, or his parents had gone and brought him back the shirt -- not especially exciting, just white with a bright green/orange/blue box with dancing figures and the bold word BERMUDA. I asked my parents to buy it and didn’t tell anyone why I liked it. I wore it to school in the Fall and pretended to be surprised when J. said he had the same shirt, wanting him to think we thought in the same way. I even lied about it in my journal and wrote that I’d coincidentally picked out the shirt he owned.

I don’t think it was a coincidence that my journal-writing trailed off after that entry.

Comments

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

Sounds a lot like some of my crushes - I did very similar things, only I didn't have a journal and I can't recall any examples right now.

A memory - somewhere between the age of 13-15:
My family was on vacation in Ireland one year, driving around the country. My sister and I had brought some money with us for shopping and such and we always liked to bring back something from places we went.
One of our first days in Dublin I came across a knitted sweater in a shop with high-quality products made from Irish wool. It was turquoise with an emboidered ship on it and I instantly fell in love.
I ended up saving all my money, not buying anything else on our 10 day long trip around the country, just so I could go back and buy that shirt on our last day when we were back in Dublin.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That's sweet. And impressive that you had that kind of self-restraint/discipline at 13-15. I hope the sweater lasted you a long time.

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And it did :-) I had it for years and I think it's still hidde in a box somewhere because it meant a good deal to me. Also, it is the sort of thing that I, now, can't decide whether is horribly ugly or actually pretty *G* So I guess I also keep it for that oddity.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Maybe that will be our next interactive project: Explain a few things we have locked in our boxes of never-throw-aways.

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

That would be a good idea!