Color you cynical – ever since Junior High. “Glass is half empty – glass is half full – what glass?” – you sneer a lot. You annoy your parents. You’re one of those people who don’t see the point. Don’t see the point of getting up in the morning – don’t see the point of school – don’t see the point of the Evening news. Your English teacher calls you a Square Peg in a Round Hole. That’s you: terminal side eye.
So when it comes time for the Senior dance, and everybody is coming in costume as a TV personality or comic book hero, you come as Heartburn.
You get grins, you get stares, you get perplexed looks. You wander into the crowd.
There’s a tap on your shoulder – you turn around. You come face to face with Pepto Bismol.
“Let’s dance”. Your terminal cool just hit a speed bump. She’s new in school. Just transferred from Hollywood High. Rolls her eyes and comments under her breath. You’ve seen her around. She dresses all black – head buried in a book most of the time – eats yogurt for lunch and snorts in lieu of laughing. You both do side-eye. You each finish the others sentences. You’re glue on paper for the rest of the night. And probably the rest of the decade.
It’s scary – it’s amazing. What are the odds? You’ve met your soulmate.
A pot for every kettle – a fish for every bicycle. Love is grand and odd, all at the same time.
And while you’re pondering the great moments of your deep-distant past, here’s a little Real Don Steele and Billy Pearl from K100 from January 18, 1974.
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