Roy Moore and me

Mined from the notebooks, November 12, 2017. Posted November 16.

When I was a senior in high school, two freshman girls had obvious crushes on me. (Yes, Uncle Merlin. Palaver, palaver.) Both let me know through friends that if I asked them out, they would say yes. Going out meant going out for ice cream or a soda (our equivalent of going out for coffee) and maybe a movie. That was never going to happen. All we senior guys knew freshman girls were off limits. And I was only seventeen.

When I first met Mrs M in college and decided I would ask her out, I thought she was nineteen. When I found out she was only seventeen, I almost ran screaming into the night. We didn't go out until she'd turned eighteen.

We went out for pizza and a movie. Two movies, actually. A double feature. Casablanca and Play It Again, Sam.

The anniversary of our first date is coming up. Thirty-eight years! December 1, 1979. That's right, the same year thirty-two year old assistant district attorney Roy Moore was pushing himself on a fourteen year old, college kid me thought a seventeen year old was too young to ask out for pizza and a movie.

Comments

[Brian]

"That was never going to happen. All we senior guys knew freshman girls were off limits. And I was only seventeen."

I was thinking the same thing. In high school, even a year or two makes a big difference in terms of who you should be "dating." Also, when you graduated you were supposed to actually leave high school and not continue to attend high school dances and parties or otherwise troll for high school dates.

What I find truly bizarre, however, is the phone call for which a girl was taken out of class in order to be asked out on a date by a thirty-two year old district attorney. Just WTF could have been going through the alleged mind of the person at the school who answered the phone that day? I'm virtually certain that, at my high school, the response would have been that we don't take a student out of class for a phone call and, if the DA's office wants to speak to a student without a warrant for her arrest, her parents will have to be notified in advance.

[Net Denizen]

You realize this disqualifies you from becoming a republican Senator, right? You're only supposed to give lip service to "family values", you're not actually supposed to have them!