Your funny or memorable puppy love/crushes from elementary/middle school

[islandbass]

You can tell we are in the heart of winter for a topic like this. 
 

In the fist fight thread I mentioned my fight involved me using judo. I took it up very young in the first grade and I had a very good sensei. He was a military guy and we lived on a military base. So there she was… The most beautiful girl in the class. Piercing round eyes, straight long hair and a killer smile. I felt “funny” and became speechless whenever I saw her. Also, my heart rate seemed to increase but didn’t know why.  

 

One day she came to class with crutches. She had broken her leg. And she had the class sign her cast.

 

Fast forward a couple of weeks. By this time I had been taking judo for a few months and not only getting pretty good, but also loving it. 
 

Well, what to do you know. Halfway through the class, the door opens and my jaw dropped onto the mat. In comes Vanessa who still looked great, even with crutches, lol.

 

I wave to her and she acknowledges me with a smile. 
 

I started thinking how cool it would be if she started judo, and then I could teach her everything I know. That would be great!  Keep in mind the innocence of kids this age. 
 

I asked her if the was going to learn judo and and if so how would she do it with a broken leg? She replied that she wasn’t. I was somewhat relieved because I didn’t know if I could train her since she had a broken leg.

 

Of course, my logical brain analyzed the facts. Vanessa is here. She is not here to become a student. So why is she here?

 

And that is exactly what I asked her. She just smiled and said, “My dad is the teacher.”

 

I was shocked and amazed. Wow. Maybe she’d be teaching me something. Oh well. She’s still cute though. 
 

While I was quick to learn judo and it did come naturally, I am slow to learn other things. Those weird feelings and heart palpitations I was experiencing translates to a serious crush, lol. 
 

That’s as far as it went.  I end this with a smile coming across my face as I reminisce. This was the mid-70s. And while I never liked the look of bell bottoms, what a different time where kids played outside until they got called home for supper. And nowadays, both kids and adults are stuck to their phones everywhere they go, even when driving! 
 

-ib

 

 

[N Florida Mike]

I remember my first crush, which happened in first grade too. Her name was Kandy . I can see her face as I write this. I can’t remember much except that I felt strange, like you did. She had dark brown hair , pretty smile , and was kind of shy. She would smile at me  and we would talk with each other. She seemed to feel something for me too. She wasn’t in many of my classes after that until middle school. It was a Christian school and one of the things they ( tried ) to teach us was etiquette. I was nervous with girls in general by then, as bad as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs lol.

This one time they were trying to teach us how to hold a chair for a girl and then push it in when she sat down.

Guess who my girl was ? ?

It was her … Kandy. I was glad and scared at the same time, hoping somehow I would impress her, or that she would smile that smile at me.

When it was our turn, she scowled, sat down quickly and pulled the chair in herself, before I could react… Everyone laughed… I was crushed…not even a smile…?

 

 

[A-Jay]

It was summer.

We were both so young.

The loved seemed so big & so real.

And then she pee'd on the kitchen floor.

A-Jay

[Woody B]

My Elementary school crush was a Preachers Daughter.   She was quite, and kinda shy.  I'm not either.  We'd eat lunch together,  I'd carry her books ect.  The next Summer her Dad moved to another Church so she was gone.  My little heart was broken, but I quickly decided there were more "fish in the sea".