Embarrassing High School Experiences

Okay I referred to something that happened to me back in High School a few hours ago in a comment on our “Kissing Dating Goodbye” post. I’ll tell the story because embarrassing myself is one of my spiritual gifts. Here’s the story.

I used to go to my friends youth group. One year I got invited to join them on a ski trip up in the Poconos. On this trip was a new girl. I wasn’t dating anyone at the time and we had a good conversation on the bus ride back to the church. We got back and then, if I remember correctly, had youth group. This girls friend came up to me after youth group and told me that her friend wanted to “hook up” with me and did I want to “hook up” with her? Here’s where I become a dork. I though hook up meant “go on a date” not make out. I said sure, let’s hook up. I was thinking we’d go to Friendlies after youth group with the other 40 youth group kids. My suave plan was to sit next to her and probably pay for her ice cream.

To give you a picture of how non-studly I was you should know that for me getting up the courage to hold a girls hand usually took a month or two. Kissing was what happened before I had a serious talk with her dad about my career prospects.

So the friend goes back to the girl and says, “yes he wants to hook up”. She motions me over and we casually walk back into some woods behind the gym. This was “that spot” apparently for other youth group kids but again, I didn’t know.  I was thinking “cool woods.”  We were chatting and I realized later she was waiting for me to make my move. My move was to climb one of the trees and hang up-side down from one of the branches by my knees. Then I saw a friend of mine pass by with a frisbee so I called them back there to join the two of us and have a catch

Later on her friend asked me why I hadn’t hooked up with her. It was here that I realized she meant something entirely different from what I was thinking. The tree climbing incident and her attitude took on a whole new meaning at that point. I wasn’t too bothered though because I wouldn’t have been into someone who was that ready to hook up.