School Day Memory: Kisses and Skunks
Posted in Once I Was a Kansas Girl and tagged with Boys, Fear, School on August 29, 2008Time for another addition of School Day Memory. If you’re a stalker, you probably realize that I’m posting this one day early as today is Friday, not Saturday. The reason: tomorrow is a holiday, a holiday whose colors are crimson and cream. Have no clue what I’m talking about? I guess you’ll have to wait until tomorrow!
For today’s School Day Memory, I’m going to go way back to kindergarten and first grade. I don’t remember very much, but I do know that I was a bit of a player back then. Apparently, one of the boys, David, in my kindergarten class kissed me right in front of the teacher. When my mom asked me why I let him kiss me, I told her, “I wanted him too.” Nice.
But I don’t remember that, so that can’t really qualify as a School Day Memory. What I do remember is I had a good friend who moved to Boston kindergarten year. Not knowing my geography very well, I thought he was moving to a neighboring park, Boston Park instead of Boston, Massachusetts. I couldn’t understand why that was too far away for him to still go to our school.
Another memory from those years (I don’t remember which, but it was one of them, I only went to that school for 2 years) was having an animal dude of some sort come and visit us with several animals. When I saw the skunk I was so terrified that I had to be taken from the gym screaming, but happily watched his presentation from behind the glass of the principal’s office. I do remember being forced to go out and pet a snake, but I didn’t like that very much, either, but apparently a large snake is less terrifying than a little animal who’s one weapon (his stinker) has been removed. I know I’ve mentioned my fear of creatures without a human face before (be it animal or costumed human), and this was just one manifestation of it.
Alright now. Enough random memories. Have a wonderful holiday weekend!
August 29th, 2008 at 10:28 am
LOL!!! Thanks for the morning laugh. Both of them.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Wow. Quite the memories. :)
August 29th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
fun memeories…made me sit and think for a minutes about my school days and what a crazy time elemntary school was…
thanks for stopping by my place yesterday, it was great to see you!
August 29th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I love the school day memories! I was a bit of a player back in Kindergarten too! Have a great weekend!!
August 29th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I’m still weighing out the skunk vs. large snake thing.
Hmmmm.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
You make me laugh! So funny. A cute little skunk… but you pet a snake?
Fun to look back – eh?