Dating
I was talking to a friend of mine recently and we got into a conversation about high school and our dating lives back then. I told him I did not date in high school because I was too afraid of being rejected. I had several crushes on girls that I would’ve liked to date but instead of asking them, I didn’t take any action because if I didn’t ask them, I couldn’t be rejected and suffer the consequent bad feelings about it. I thought because I was fat, the girls were not attracted to me. And there was no way I was going to take a chance on finding out this was true. I did go to the senior prom with a girl (who shall remain nameless to protect her identity) who had not been asked by anyone else to go and so our mutual friends “fixed” us up together for that night. Because of my eagerness to impress her, I brought her a corsage, a box of candy AND a bottle of perfume when I picked her up in my '66 Chevy Impala SS. Talk about overkill. I think it just made her uncomfortable. This set th