Unsurprisingly, a lot of friends on Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook started sharing stories of crushes on Donny.
My days of crushes were earlier -- and my major crush was Paul McCartney, the "Cute" Beatle. I knew he was meant for me. Why else did he have the EXACT same bangs I'd cut a few months before ever hearing of him? It was definitely a SIGN! (Hmm. Looking at them together, am I the only one who sees a remarkable resemblance between Donny and Paul?)There's probably nothing more memorable than those early crushes. Something I was recently reminded of when I received an email from an old 8th grade crush. Looking back on it, the only two things he had going for him were Bambi brown eyes and dark hair that flopped over his forehead.
Oh, and every other girl in junior high had a mad crazy crush on him, which also gave him a value-added factor. (Thirteen-year-old girls are so shallow!) Many fathers hated him because he also happened to be the afternoon paper boy and their papers were always hours late arriving because all along his route we'd come out to the paper box to flirt with him.
So, fast forward many years. At first, when I saw his address on the email, I felt this little twinge, of Wow, he finally noticed me! (Yeah, shallow thirteen-year-old made a flash, unwelcome appearance. ) Then I began reading.
First he accused me of becoming a hillbilly, having read on my website that I'd moved from Oregon to Tennessee. Not exactly an auspicious beginning.
THEN, after insulting me, he actually had the nerve to ask for a free autographed book for his wife!
Duh. Like that's going to happen any time soon.
So much for teenage crushes and I am now so glad he never asked me out because what a waste of time that would've been!
But even though my first crush turned out to be a jerk (one of the more polite descriptions that comes to mind), I do think a possible outpouring of phone and text votes for the cute boy singer who made so many innocent hearts go pittypat could well prove the enduring power of a girl's first unrequited crush.
Stay tuned.
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I hear you on the first crushes. I look back at some of my first crushes and literally thank God nothing came of those!!
My first two big celebrity crushes were Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid) and Donnie Wahlberg (New Kids on the Block). I guess that gives away my age huh? LOL
Your first crush insulted you, then asked for a book?! Classy!
I wonder if boys get crushes? My sweetie admits to one in the 1st grade (I've seen her picture and she was darling), but has never mentioned any others. Which is probably wise. LOL
I have this feeling my first crush never got past that 8th grade mentality. I was so tempted to scan his picture out of the year book. But anyone which such a decided lack of class just might decide to sue. And wow, he sure wouldn't be worth the nuisance!
Oh I look back on my first real big crush and want to dig a hole and disappear. I was a freshman in high school and he was a junior (I had many little crushes along the way) I use to walk to class a certain way so I could pass him in the hall way when the word got out and it did that I had a crush on him he was I guess nice about it he would say hi to me and I thought that was great, but he never really noticed me and trust me I did everything I just wanted him to ask me out just once. Never happened and looking back I would say I could of been accused of stalking lol I grew up in a small town in Oregon Scappoose everyone knows everyone facebook and myspace has made it easy to reconnect with people and I have talked with him and he is on my friend list I'm grateful that he was nice to methrough the years he could of been a jerk since he knew I liked him. After I met my husband I knew I found my real crush and he liked me back :)
Michele, I grew up in an small Oregon town, too. K.Falls. You were lucky your crush was nice to you. Mine wasn't rude or anything. He just sorta acted like a god. Enjoying the attention, obviously, but above us all, so mostly he'd be silent while we all gushed on. (Or maybe he was just dumb and really didn't have anything to say.) LOL
My sweetie was my true high school crush. He proposed to me at Depoe Bay, which is pretty much where my Shelter Bay books are going to be set. It's a blend of Depoe Bay, Newport, with Cannon Beach's sea stacks thrown in.
I got out a picture of that day to eventually blog and put on my website, and suddenly realized today that it wasn't just my bangs that were like Cute Paul's. I pretty much -- yikes! -- had his entire mop head hair thing going. It looks sorta like a bowling ball. With bangs. LOL
Fabian was my first tweenage crush. Honestly my parents feared for my sanity at times. I plastered my bedroom walls with his photo cut from numerous movie magazines. Considering I have photos of a couple actors on my office walls, I probably haven't changed much. LOL
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