Bluz on First

My sister sent me one of those Facebook lists where you’re supposed to answer a bunch of questions about the first time you did various things.  I like doing these, so I completed it, but instead of putting it up on Facebook, I decided I could get a cheap post out of it.

Note: I’m writing this on Saturday, but am aiming to post it on Monday.

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?  First and only prom date was Julie, who was a sophomore in my Newspaper class when I was a senior.  I couldn’t scare up anyone from my own class.

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?  Not since a high school reunion, 11 years ago.  Restraining order…

3. What was your 1st alcoholic drink?  Wine at family dinners, beer with Dad after yard work.

4. What was your FIRST job?  Stock clerk/bag boy at Sautter’s grocery store, Whitehouse OH.  And I tell you; plastic bags have destroyed the art of bagging groceries.

5. What was your FIRST car? 1976 Honda Civic, 5-speed, baby-shit brown.  We later had it painted red, to match my mom’s huge Oldsmobile.  I could have parked mine on the hood.

6. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?  Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Penguins.  I know that’s sad but there’s a game tonight and Sid the Kid is due to bust out.

7. Who was the FIRST person to email you today?  MoveOn.org, emailing me troubles facing the next Supreme Court nominee.  Like I didn’t have enough on my plate today, worrying about the Penguins game tonight.

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?  Sister Mary Isaac, one of the Church’s most trusted henchmen.

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?   See #18.  I didn’t think that was my first plane trip but I can’t remember any specifically before that.

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?  Anthony Darkowski from a couple doors down when we lived in Pittsburgh.  We didn’t really keep up after we moved because, well, I was 6 and not allowed to use the phone.

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over?  Just down the street with our friends Tim and Steve McNally, usually while all of our parents were downstairs getting liquored up.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?  I was about to say “no one” but then Pinky called.

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?  I was ring bearer for my Aunt and Uncle and I was damned cute doing it.  Hit all my marks, too.

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?  Peed, put in my contact lenses and a load of wash.   Or maybe I put in a load of contact lenses and peed in the wash.  I was pretty wobbly.

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?  Toledo Speedway Jam, 1979: Blue Oyster Cult, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Eddie Money.  Miserable experience.

16. FIRST tattoo?  None yet.  But I plan on getting one in a special place.  It will say “Miss” most of the time.  Then when things get exciting, it will say “Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical – Hattiesburg Campus.”  (Sorry, that’s an old joke.)

17. First piercing?  Stepping on a nail in 3 ^rd grade.

18. First foreign country you've been to?  France and England, on a spring break trip in 8 ^th grade with my school.  (I had a crush on my homeroom teacher, who taught French and was leading the trip.  When she asked if anyone wanted to go to Paris and London with her, I put my hand up.  I’d have gone to Zimbabwe with her.)

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing?  Some fairytale movie at a drive-in, with people running around in big animal costumes.  I know there was a wolf involved so it may have included the Three Pigs.  First grown-up movie that I remember was when my Grandpa took us to see a John Wayne movie, “Big Jake”.  I remember being horrified at all the people getting killed when they hadn’t even done anything wrong.  The Duke fixed’em though.

20. When was your FIRST detention?  Never had one.  But I got a whack once for goofing off.  (Back when teachers kept paddles on their desks and administered whacks to troublemakers and malcontents.)

21. What was the first state you lived in?  Bewilderment.  Pennsylvania

22. Who was your FIRST roommate?  Not counting my brother during our childhood years, my girlfriend Ellen and our mutual friend Kim, the year after I graduated college.  We had a nasty little Three’s Company setup there except I didn’t have to pretend to be gay.  (Note to self: the year in that place is a post topic by itself.)

23. FIRST kiss?  One of the neighborhood girls, Tricia or Janelle, playing spin-the-bottle in our blanket-fort beside the house.  I don’t remember which one was first.

24. What was the FIRST professional sports event you went to?  Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field when I was in 3 ^rd grade.  I’d never seen so much green in my life.  It started a life-long love for going to ballgames.

25. When did you get your FIRST computer?  1999 and there wasn’t a day that went by when I didn’t feel like it was preposterous that I owned one.  (Item #3 on this post.)  Now I couldn’t imagine life without one.