First Love is the Deepest!!

Most people remember there first early ramblings into school..those first friends made that were sometimes for life...the first time you had to sit down for more than 20 minutes...all those cool games to play ....kiss and torture...burn the biscuit,,,,,hide and seek!!! Remember the first little crush you might have had?? I will always remember those first pangs of unrequited love....
Picture the early 80's....eveyone with the kinda long hair that is coming back in vogue now.....long collars.....shoes with heels sent from England in parcels (another story) ......flary trousers.....gob stoppers.....hanging around the playground with your buddies trying to be cool for the first time in your life.......and in walks Mary Hennesy into my as yet unfulfilled life!! Mary had long dark straight hair down her back, dark eyes and was about 2 foot taller than me......
This was the real thing .....we played chasing at the beginning...this developed into a kinda manly nonchalant horseplay.....if only I could get to kiss those rosy red lips of Mary!!! "Give us a kiss, Mary"...."Fuck off, will ye, leave me alone!!!" Mary was a year ahead of us...... me and the other guys were hopelessly in love......"God, she's lovely, if only I could get her to kiss me!?"
All this talk may be impressing you with how mature and developed I was for my age....5 years old....but this was the early 80's .....before E.T. , before those big blockbuster movies with all the education doled out to youngsters of today....Us pioneers didn't have that luxury.....all we had was Charlie Chan Detective movies on a Saturday morning and if you were lucky a repeat of some James Cagney gangster movie!! The only kissing I ever saw for the first few years of my life was Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart giving that famous smackeroony in "The Maltese Falcon".......
Mary was my Lauren Bacall...maybe I fancied myself as a budding Bogey....how bad I hear you say......anyway in my minds eye she was like a film star from the 30's or 40's transported to the 80's....and my chief goal in my 1st class year was to try to smack one onto Mary's red rosy lips!!!
Time was short bacause after 1st class I would be moving on to another school and I knew this, so a plan was devised....me and my lovestruck gang!!! Time wasn't the only thing that was short however.....in my younger years I was physically challenged when it came to even reaching up to Mary....God we tried everything.....the chinese torture method of breaking your victim down with constant request for a Kiss worked to no avail!!! Clearly, Mary was highly trained in the art of deflection....another approach was needed......so it was decided to use the Decathlon method of high jump combined with a kind of long jump Kiss......you must remember that these memories are flaky but I like to think that my buddies and I made the score after all our efforts....our last mission together....brothers in arms!!!!!
A year later I think I saw Mary....tried to act all casual but my heart did miss a beat...you never forget your first love!! But I had long moved on at this stage....I was practically an adult...I was now in 2nd class...a real man now!!!
I hope your journey into your classroom this morning will jog some memories of your past scholastic life!!! Don't forget that this is a unique opportunity for you to be able to not only gain valuable work experience in the SNA field but also just to sit and listen to those children in the class with their whole way of life just there for you to observe....
Hopefully these observations will bring back those unique memories that we all have of our early school life!!!
Doreen"And hopefully they won't smell the drink off you from last night!!" BCB