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First meme

Mar 9, 2008 The Story of My Life

From Susan!

1. Who was your first prom date? I went to prom at my best friend’s Catholic High School. We double-dated and the guy I went with was just a friend. His name was Pete but he went by Chris so we called him Chris-Pete. I don’t remember his last name or else I’d have google-stalked him by now.

2. Do you still talk to your first love? No, no, no, no and no. Last time we emailed was … hmmm, I’m not sure but it was pre-Madison. When he came into town he wanted to meet for coffee and I said, “What would we have to talk about?” That’s the last time I heard from him.

3. What was your first alcoholic drink? Like not a sip? Like not wine at passover? Like a drink? Either peach schnapps or a white russian.

4. What was your first job? Besides babysitting, I’m guessing. My first tax-paying job was as a waitress at Elby’s. We were supposed to wear hairnets but c’mon. No way. I was a terrible waitress because I was too shy to come back and say, “Is everything ok here?”

5. What was your first car? 1982 Datsun 310. It was a stick shift, which took me awhile to master. I remember once having to stop on a hill and I started sliding backwards into the BMW behind me. I panicked and my companion (Pete Igel) climbed over me to stop the car, god love him.

6. Who was the first person to text you today? I have never been texted seeing as how I rarely have hold of the cell phone. That’s Brett’s thing.

7. Who is the first person you thought of this morning? Madison because she woke me up by saying, “I wish Pennie could come over today.”

8. Who was your first grade teacher? Mrs. Turner. She put me in my own reading group and I’d read the book and then do the workbook. I made it through three or four textbooks that year. Then she’d send me to do those SRA cards. Remember those? I loved them.

9. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane? I do believe it was moving from Richmond to Sacramento, which puts me at about five. No wait, I guess I probably flew from Novato to Boston first.

10. Who was your first best friend, and are you still friends with him/her? Pamela, who lived next door in Boston. She had black hair and blue-blue eyes and freckles. She was an only child so I thought she was the luckiest girl in the world. We were both three and I moved out of Boston when I was about four.

11. What was your first sport played? The only official sport I ever played was tennis but I never did learn how to serve correctly.

12. Where was your first sleepover? In Boston I spent the night at Elizabeth’s house. She was younger than I was and I remember that her mom was a neat freak. When it was time for bed her mom put her in the crib (Elizabeth was three but still in a crib) and then strapped her to the mattress. I remember the straps had buckles. Then she wound up a music box and left us. I remember Elizabeth turning her head and smiling at me. I got hysterical and her mom came back and took me to the phone to call my dad to take me home.

13. Who was the first person you talked to today? Madison. I said, “I think it’s too snowy for Pennie to come over today but we can call her later.”

14. Whose wedding were you in the first time? Like Susan, I have to say my own. It was only the second wedding I’d ever attended and it wasn’t much of a wedding seeing as how we just did a justice of the peace shindig.

15. What was the first thing you did this morning? Finished re-reading Persuasion.

16. What was the first concert you ever went to? David Gilmour in ninth grade. I was a huge Pink Floyd fan back then. (I saw Roger Waters, too, later on.)

17. What was your first tattoo or piercing? My mom talked me into getting my ears pierced when I was about eleven. Those holes are still useable. I got my left ear second and third pierced when I was about 18 but I let those close up. I’m so not into the body mod thing.

18. What was the first foreign country you went to? I’ve never been! Not even Canada! Not even my dad’s timeshare in Mexico!

19. What was your first run-in with the law? When I was eighteen I went to a little drug store with my friend Spike (not her real name, obviously) and she stole a box of hairdye for me. And then she got arrested. At her community service she stole magnets off the break room refrigerator so you can see that she didn’t learn her lesson. (I was terrified though. I learned her lesson for her.)

20. When was your first detention? Like Susan, I never had detention.

21. What was the first state you lived in? I was born in California.

22. Who was the first person to break your heart? My dad but it’s all ok now. Then that first love that I don’t talk to.

23. Who was your first roommate? The aforementioned Spike and our other roommate Wendie.

24. Where did you go on your first limo ride? I’ve never been in a limo. When I was in my friend’s wedding she rented a party bus. I am so not a party bus girl. Dawn in a party bus is an oxymoron.

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