Return of Memoryfest - Day 22/31
Jan. 21st, 2007 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bironic22. Middle School
Our family was watching French Kiss—typical fare, since my dad loved Meg Ryan and both of my parents liked romantic comedies—and when the scene came on where Meg Ryan's character, Kate, describes the unsatisfactory night she lost her virginity in her boyfriend's basement during Jeopardy, my dad turned to me and said, "If you ever do that, I'll kill you."
Our family was watching French Kiss—typical fare, since my dad loved Meg Ryan and both of my parents liked romantic comedies—and when the scene came on where Meg Ryan's character, Kate, describes the unsatisfactory night she lost her virginity in her boyfriend's basement during Jeopardy, my dad turned to me and said, "If you ever do that, I'll kill you."
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Date: Jan. 22nd, 2007 04:11 pm (UTC)I actually posted a memory today; in fact, it's a two-fer: Two grade-school memories (http://elynittria.livejournal.com/24003.html#cutid1).
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 02:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 02:55 am (UTC)lol couldn't help it
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:37 am (UTC)*facepalm* Even Jeopardy isn't as enjoyable or challenging as it used to be.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:41 am (UTC)I'm a total game show geek, though. I keep my TV on all the time just for background noise, even when I'm not actually in the room. I'd be embarrassed to admit how many hours a day it's tuned in to the Game Show Network.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:48 am (UTC)Wheel of Fortune was easy and luck-based, but (so?) my mom and I used to play at who could guess the puzzle first, sometimes with no letters at all. Made sense, since she was the one who taught me how to play Scrabble. (As in, word games.) Hangman too; that's closer to Wheel of Fortune.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 04:18 am (UTC)Iiiiiit's Match Game PM! We went through a Match Game-watching phase when the Game Show Network got added to the basic cable package and they used to show it in marathons. Charles Nelson Reilly = love.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 04:24 am (UTC)Charles and Brett CRACK ME UP. They're out of their freakin' minds.
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Date: Jan. 22nd, 2007 04:46 pm (UTC)But instead I'll tell you of the only piece of advice my mum ever gave me about sex. I was going to visit my boyfriend Jakob for a weekend when I was fifteen. (NB to non-Danes - 15 is legal age here!) My mum's hug when I left was a bit different than usual and then she stared at me and said "Be careful!" That was it *G* Thanks goodness for sex education and for me being both able to seek information and to buy condoms without dying ;-)
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 07:17 pm (UTC)I did find out later and I think that part of that was that she both got used to the thought of her daughter(s) being sexually active and she changed. Her views are over-all more liberal now than they were then.
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Date: Jan. 22nd, 2007 04:58 pm (UTC)It was called The Stork Didn't Bring You ... and that's about I remember about it. I do recall being singularly uninterested -- maybe it was too early for me.
Heh.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 02:04 am (UTC)As far as I can recall, my mother's sole contribution to my sex education was the casual comment, as she was driving me to band practice, that women masturbate too.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 02:09 am (UTC)The "sex ed" my mom got from her mother was just horrifying, but our parents did a wonderful job. I think we were very lucky in that sense.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:31 am (UTC)One day I was watching "Frankenstein" with Kenneth Branagh and then my mom comes in just as this crazy sex scene comes on out of nowhere and she's like "What are you watching?!" And I'm like, jeez, it's literary, ok? It wasn't like this a second ago! lol
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:41 am (UTC)LOL, scenes from my life.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 02:01 am (UTC)My dad -- as I imagine many dads do -- tends to assess each male-type person I introduce him to, whether boyfriend or potential boyfriend or purely platonic friend. I'm amused by how his voice deepens when he talks to them, how he makes a big point of shaking their hands and asking about their Life Plans.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 02:49 am (UTC)Ah, fathers and daughters. K now has a baby girl of his own and I can't wait to hear how he deals with potential suitors.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:38 am (UTC)Since then, the only male friends I've introduced him to have been established boyfriends. It's easier for him, bless his pointed little head.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 02:51 am (UTC)My parents' idea of discouraging me from having sex was to disallow my boyfriend(s) and me any alone time. Never underestimate the determination of a teenager, though. When I decided I was ready, dammit, I was ready. The only time my boyfriend Pat and I were allowed to be alone was when we were at church. So. At sixteen I lost my virginity in the basement bathroom of a Catholic church in Philadelphia.
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:16 am (UTC)Never underestimate the determination of a teenager, though. When I decided I was ready, dammit, I was ready.
And thus the species perpetuates itself. :) If children weren't
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 03:08 am (UTC)He arrived, and the first thing he said when we opened the front door was, "So where's this new kitten?" (My Dad loves all animals.)
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Date: Jan. 23rd, 2007 08:53 pm (UTC)Also, as a divorce lawyer, he was cynical about True Love. ;-)
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Date: Jan. 24th, 2007 01:17 am (UTC)I can't stop staring at it. Frankly, I'm a little bit disturbed. It's just a basic layout, right?
*keeps staring*
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Date: Jan. 24th, 2007 02:12 am (UTC)Anyway, thanks again, and feel free to stare at your leisure.
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Date: Jan. 27th, 2007 06:03 pm (UTC)When I was around seven or eight, my mother and I were loading the trunk of the car, and I asked her (I don't remember what put the idea in my head to begin with; I didn't have a crush at the time, so it might have been a magazine) how old I would have to be before she let me start dating. She shrugged and said, "Oh, maybe sixteen?" And I had a strangely specific image of myself at sixteen - blonde, for some reason, with a black velvet dress and a string of pearls, flirting with a man in a suit over a candlelit dinner table. "Sixteen!" I exclaimed. "But I'll be getting married by then!"