{"id":134,"date":"2005-09-02T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/give-us-a-kiss\/134\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:50:03","slug":"give-us-a-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/give-us-a-kiss\/134\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Us a Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been really embarrassed about something for many years.  I don&#8217;t like to talk about it that much so not very many people know about it.  I need to move past it so I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to share this embarrassing moment with you today so that one of two things will happen.  Either I will realize that it&#8217;s not uncommon and move on with my life or I will realize that I am a freak and promptly find a psychiatrist who will help me learn from this experience and then move on.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about my first real kiss.  It was awful!  I had no idea what I was doing and I made it a really gross experience for me and the boy involved.  I must confess that I was at least 16 years old before I got my first kiss, not extremely young but it could be worse.  I had kissed guy friends in the past but it was the kind of kiss you give to your grandma (if you kiss your grandma on the lips, which I never did) when you are saying goodbye.  Mostly we thought we were being funny and just joking around.<\/p>\n<p>I know you want to hear every last detail about it and I&#8217;m more than happy to share them with you.  Go back to 1987 (Yikes!) I&#8217;m a sophomore in high school and I&#8217;m dating this guy named&#8230; uh&#8230;  Brence (names have been changed to protect the sloppy kissers) and we are having a good time on what is somewhere between our 2nd and 3rd date.  I don&#8217;t remember what we did that night but as he pulls up into my driveway I can feel the tension begin to build.  Is he going to kiss me?  Do I want him to?  Am I going to do it right?<\/p>\n<p>Brence leans over, I pucker up just like I&#8217;m going to kiss my grandma and suddenly I feel like I&#8217;m drowning in the biggest, wettest, sloppiest lips ever known to man (or woman).  Alarm bells are going off in my head, my brain is yelling &#8220;You&#8217;re not doing this right!&#8221; and &#8220;This is really disgusting!&#8221;  I quickly end the kiss with what I&#8217;m sure is a crazy, smacking, pucker thing and I say something like &#8220;Thanks for the nice evening&#8221; and I run into the house.  I&#8217;m sure he was quite relieved that he didn&#8217;t have to walk me to the door after that fiasco.  I didn&#8217;t mention that kiss to anyone but he must have because a few days later a girl in my ward came up to me and asked with a big smirk on her face, &#8220;When John kissed you the other night was that your first kiss?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to say that my kissing life didn&#8217;t get much better for a little bit.  The next kissing experience I had was pretty embarrassing too.  When the guy went to kiss me he leaned into his right and I leaned to my left which was awkward so he pulled back.  Then he leaned to his left and I leaned to my right which was just as bad.  He leaned back and said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about it Kristen, it&#8217;s ok.&#8221;  He then left and that was our last date.  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