I'll never forget my first kiss. We were both 18-years-old, almost 19-years-old. A little late for my first kiss, but it wasn't her first kiss. There's nothing like the first kiss. I even remember her name, Kathy. For the life of me, I don't remember her last name, though.
I remember that once I kissed her, I was in love, puppy love. I never felt anything like it. It was a powerful feeling. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. All I could think about was Kathy.
I wrote her name everywhere, a thousand times a day. I doodled her name on all my papers and books, Kathy, Kathy, Kathy, Kathy.
As if it happened yesterday, I remember my first kiss, even though it happened a lifetime ago. Never having kissed anyone before, except for my Mom, my aunts, and my grandmother, I didn't know how to kiss. All I knew was that I wanted to kiss this girl because she was pretty and she had big tits. Did I mention that she had big tits? She had big tits.
I remember when she kissed me, she stuck her tongue in my mouth. Eww. Gross. That was new. That was foreign. That was French.
I didn't know what to do. At first I was grossed out when she stuck her tongue in my mouth. Yet, as soon as her experienced tongue touched my virginal tongue, I felt an excitement that I hadn't felt since my Dad bought me a Lionel train for Christmas, when I was barely old enough to know what a Lionel train was, never mind to even want one.
I was slow to mature sexually. Most guys have their first kiss years before their 18th birthday, but not me. Too busy playing sports, baseball, basketball, and boxing. I never realized that all my sporting interests began with a B, until now, baseball, basketball, and boxing. Weird. I was never into football or hockey, maybe had they been called bootball and bockey, I may have shown an interest in them. I did play bocce, though, that was fun and I was a bowler, too, now that I think of it. Maybe if golf was named, bolf, I'd be a bolfer, too.
Anyway, there was this girl that I tried picking up with my friends. I was just out of high school and home for the summer, before going away to college. Going on 19, by the time I was in college in September, I had celebrated my 18th birthday. Kathy was the same age, almost 19-years-old. I was only a month or two older than she was.
I don't know if it was because my friends were more aggressive than I had been in trying to get her phone number, or the fact that I hung back and allowed them to make fools of themselves, or maybe I just more appealed to her, but she lingered closer to me. Smiling and making eye contact, and making some light and pleasant conversation, she showed more interest in me than in them.
I was a good looking boy back then. Everyone said that I looked like Ricky Nelson. Eventually my friends tired of being rejected by her and found another victim to chase after, which is what we did most of our free time, picking up girls. Actually, with all of us being so immaturely obnoxious, we annoyed them, until they gave us their phone numbers, which in most cases turned out to be phony phone numbers.
Kathy and I walked and talked for miles and a couple of hours. Then, when I volunteered to walk her home, she gave me her phone number. Fearing rejection, I remember it took me a monumental amount of courage but I asked her out.
She said she babysat for her neighbors on the weekends and I figured, instead of saying that she had to wash her hair, it was just an excuse not to go out with me. She said that her neighbors went out every Saturday night. She said she babysat for them because she needed the money for school. She was heading off to college in September.
I remember now, back then, we didn't go out much on Sundays. Back then, nothing was open. Everything was closed, bars, stores, shops, restaurants. It was dead. Even the movies and bowling alleys were closed on Sundays. About the only thing open was church. It was a time that everyone stayed home, ate Sunday supper together, and visited with family and/or the neighbors. A time before cable TV and DVD's, we watched movies on one of the three channels we had on our black and white television.