Pretty much at the start of high school there was this guy who was kinda friends with my friends but for whatever reason we just did NOT like each other at all. Anyway, at the time I was obsessed with VH1s …Of Love reality shows, I’m talking rock of love, flavour of love, charm school, I love money the whole lot. After about a year of me and this guy not liking each other, we get put in the same group for sport and he comes up to me and says that he saw that I had some of the cast from those shows as friends on MySpace (yes MySpace) and I was like “wait… you watch them too”. Long story short, we’ve been best friends for almost 20 years.
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He was in eighth grade; I was in sixth grade. We were in our middle school performance of Into the Woods Jr. together (I played Jack—yes I brought the house down with my rendition of Giants in the Sky—and he played the Baker). He called me Smurf because I got blue paint on my face when we were painting sets.
He was like five feet tall with a mushroom haircut and loved Bob Dylan and would sit out in front of the car drop off area in the mornings with a little handmade poster protesting the Iraq war which I was also precociously passionate about. Once we were at a sight reading competition off campus (I played viola and he was a cellist) and he pulled a foil wrapped burrito out of his pants pocket and ate it and then folded it into a plane. He was my second biggest customer for choir fundraising candybars (my biggest customer was myself I actually ended up eating basically the whole case).
Also a boy named Nick who was assigned as my stand partner in orchestra his first day as a transfer student. I accidentally jabbed him in the eye with my bow shortly after meeting him and apologized profusely, to which he said, ‘it’s okay. That’s my blind eye‘ (not a joke he had cataracts in childhood). we then grew to hate each other with every passing day and would bicker and argue constantly about our ideological opinions on random things. I got called into the principals office for bullying him after I threw paper balls at him but I assured them the conflict was mutual. He had long curly hair and carried a Che Guevara bag and was always scowling just like me 🫶 I eventually realized that I didn’t hate him; I had a crush on him and saw him as an intellectual equal. Middle school is so hard…
Pretty much every other crush I had after that was a sick depraved degenerate but I was infatuated nonetheless. in one particular case the obsession was mutual and went on for years and even across the sea and I ended up in a demented love triangle, breaking up two best friends, and ultimately being cyber stalked... Not really iconic mostly just toxic lol 💔
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She was an art school undergrad, and I was a townie bum playing in a band. I liked her, but was sorta her supervisor at the store, and a couple years older, so I didn’t pursue her. Then she asked me to model for a class project for her at a state fair, and we had an amazing time. That was just over 10 years ago, and somehow, I like her more every day.
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I first became friends with my soon-to-be current bf because he liked my def leppard shirt. He asked if I liked classic rock, and I said yes, I've been listening to it my whole life (I was raised on classical music and whatever was on pop radio at the time). Of course he played along, but eventually admitted to knowing the whole time I was lying, and now we have a wonderful almost 6-year relationship in the books. Thanks to both of our passions for music (and my desire to learn and get closer to him), are some of the biggest rock fans you'll ever meet. Our love language is sharing new music with each other and now this is just a funny story we tell people :)
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