one girl who didn't like me
there were girls who didn't like me, of course. but there's one in particular...
we grew up in the same neighborhood, a few blocks apart. went to the same gradeschool. I always thought she was cute. and, for her part, I didn't exist.
I remember one time in 5th grade she broke her wrist and had her arm in a cast. she couldn't play at recess with the other kids, so I went over there where she was standing and tried to make some conversation to keep her company. she didn't care. wouldn't talk. okay I left her alone.
she sure had a cute ski-jump nose and a pretty smile.
in high school I would see her at the lunch table gossiping with her friends. she was quite a socialite. although I was very social, I was very serious and straightforward; she was the complete opposite taking nothing seriously. I would not be welcome at the table with her and her friends. there was a black and white picture of her at the gossip table in the high scool yearbook. can't find it but it was a good picture.
one time, around when we graduated, in the summer, me and my friends had gone over to that part of the neighborhood to see her little sister. she was gone so they left, but me and her stayed yakking under the streetlight for a while. she was wearing short shorts and, well, she was definitely becoming a woman.
I was starting to think we would have made a good couple if she weren't so different. who knows? maybe she was thinking, for a moment at least, we would have made a good couple if I weren't so different.
I would see her around occasionally with her boyfriends, always a year or three older. ah well, I was with my friends drinking beer and chasing girls, I was doing my thing and she was doing her thing. looked like our paths would cross no more and that was the end of it.
until one time I was at a bar. saw her there. she came up and told me that the high school reunion is next week, but she always hung around with older guys/gals so she really didn't know any of these people she went to high school with, so she was wondering if I would go there with her? I said sure. we agreed to meet there and I guess we had a date.
now, I had graduated from college so I thought it appropriate to wear a shirt and tie. everybody else, irregardless of what they did, did not feel any need to dress up. and while they all formed into the same little cliques they had in high school, neither she nor I were in any of them so we sat at our own table sipping beers and yakking.
like I said, I was very social. eventually I had to go around, with her in tow, talking to different people seeing how they were doing and what they were up to, cliques be damned. she didn't say hardly anything, just smiled. at one point I was talking to this preppy chick and said something. she started laughing like it was funny. me and the preppy chick were like ?? that wasn't funny?? anyways we kept on talking. when we were done I turned and she was no longer by my side. or anywhere else. she had left.
never saw her again.
well, now that I have all this time with nothing to do but recover from surgery, I thought I would look her up on the internet. see what she's doing and what she's up to.
I found her, unfortunately.
she died two years ago at the age of 48. it doesn't say what happened. she had a daughter, who had already died before her at the age of 30.
that's it I guess. hope she had a good life while it lasted.
we grew up in the same neighborhood, a few blocks apart. went to the same gradeschool. I always thought she was cute. and, for her part, I didn't exist.
I remember one time in 5th grade she broke her wrist and had her arm in a cast. she couldn't play at recess with the other kids, so I went over there where she was standing and tried to make some conversation to keep her company. she didn't care. wouldn't talk. okay I left her alone.
she sure had a cute ski-jump nose and a pretty smile.
in high school I would see her at the lunch table gossiping with her friends. she was quite a socialite. although I was very social, I was very serious and straightforward; she was the complete opposite taking nothing seriously. I would not be welcome at the table with her and her friends. there was a black and white picture of her at the gossip table in the high scool yearbook. can't find it but it was a good picture.
one time, around when we graduated, in the summer, me and my friends had gone over to that part of the neighborhood to see her little sister. she was gone so they left, but me and her stayed yakking under the streetlight for a while. she was wearing short shorts and, well, she was definitely becoming a woman.
I was starting to think we would have made a good couple if she weren't so different. who knows? maybe she was thinking, for a moment at least, we would have made a good couple if I weren't so different.
I would see her around occasionally with her boyfriends, always a year or three older. ah well, I was with my friends drinking beer and chasing girls, I was doing my thing and she was doing her thing. looked like our paths would cross no more and that was the end of it.
until one time I was at a bar. saw her there. she came up and told me that the high school reunion is next week, but she always hung around with older guys/gals so she really didn't know any of these people she went to high school with, so she was wondering if I would go there with her? I said sure. we agreed to meet there and I guess we had a date.
now, I had graduated from college so I thought it appropriate to wear a shirt and tie. everybody else, irregardless of what they did, did not feel any need to dress up. and while they all formed into the same little cliques they had in high school, neither she nor I were in any of them so we sat at our own table sipping beers and yakking.
like I said, I was very social. eventually I had to go around, with her in tow, talking to different people seeing how they were doing and what they were up to, cliques be damned. she didn't say hardly anything, just smiled. at one point I was talking to this preppy chick and said something. she started laughing like it was funny. me and the preppy chick were like ?? that wasn't funny?? anyways we kept on talking. when we were done I turned and she was no longer by my side. or anywhere else. she had left.
never saw her again.
well, now that I have all this time with nothing to do but recover from surgery, I thought I would look her up on the internet. see what she's doing and what she's up to.
I found her, unfortunately.
she died two years ago at the age of 48. it doesn't say what happened. she had a daughter, who had already died before her at the age of 30.
that's it I guess. hope she had a good life while it lasted.
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The missed opportunities in our lives.... 
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You said it!!!remingtonoaks wrote:The missed opportunities in our lives....
In my younger years {25 or so}, I was into hotrods and drove a 1974 SS454 el
camino.
I met a good looking girl that we hung out together. Well it came the time to met her parents.
We drove out to a VERY expensive area in my loud SS car.
Turned into a drive way and I stopped in front of a very nice house.
"No, she said, Keep going, that's just the servant"s house".
Her father was the head of Long Island Jewish Hospital. Very big bucks!!!
But Alas. I didn't "love " her. I would have been the only male heir to their money.0 -
babun wrote:
You said it!!!remingtonoaks wrote:The missed opportunities in our lives....
In my younger years {25 or so}, I was into hotrods and drove a 1974 SS454 el
camino.
I met a good looking girl that we hung out together. Well it came the time to met her parents.
We drove out to a VERY expensive area in my loud SS car.
Turned into a drive way and I stopped in front of a very nice house.
"No, she said, Keep going, that's just the servant"s house".
Her father was the head of Long Island Jewish Hospital. Very big bucks!!!
But Alas. I didn't "love " her. I would have been the only male heir to their money.
74 El Camino huh... that was a Brand new car back when I went to high school.
I'm glad you didn't say "OLD" muscle cars0 -
works out the other way also .
yes I have seen girls that turned out nice after high school like the ugly duckling story and some I went out with and think what if
however I had a couple old GF's who I had not seen or heard from for 40 -45 + years but have bumped into common friends thru out the years who say have you seen ---- lately well no, never tried to find her well she is the size of a house now :shock: :shock: :shock:0 -
I was pretty good in sports so i was popular in school and dated all but 3 girls that i wanted to date.
There was 1 girl that tried countless times and i mean countless times to go out with me and i paid her no mind.
Sadly my mom made me drive her to school everyday with my friends. I ran into her about 8 years ago and she is a knockout now.
She loves throwing in my face about how hard she tried to get me. She was a late bloomer but she bloomed. LOL0 -
yep lots of thatDitch-Runner wrote:have you seen ---- lately well no, never tried to find her well she is the size of a house now :shock: :shock: :shock:0
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