So, you know how 16 is an awkward age for pretty much anyone? Well, i had a pretty embarrassing experience trying to impress a girl that i just remembered.
When I turned 14 (in 1982), I attended EFY and loved it...i went back when i was 15 and again, had an excellent time. Well, when I turned 16 i decided to go to “Singing Entertainer” which was also at BYU, but was a week long “workshop” with BYU’s Young Ambassadors. Yeah, i spent my summers during my 16th and 17th years singing show tunes at BYU, what’s it too ya? :-)
So, i LOVED this as well and one of the reasons i probably liked it more than EFY had everything to do with the fact that there were only about 100 kids (EFY had several hundred, if not 1,000’s – I'm guessing about that number and could be way off, but hey, i was 14 – a crowed of 20 looked like a multitude to me back then)…
So, only 100 kids…oh, did i mention 95 of them were girls? And the other 4 boys had NO CHANCE…seriously, who would want the other 4 – they sang show tunes during their summers…
Yeah, so i loved Singing Entertainer. We practiced dancing, sang songs and hung out together. Well, there was this one girl…sigh…ok, i can’t for the life of me remember her name, but she sang a solo during the week (that ended in a concert for our families) – it was “I got no strings” from Pinocchio and i thought she sounded really really good (plus, she was hekka cute – how’s that for Utah slang)…
Well, i tried to spark up something with her and it seemed to be going OK, but i couldn’t tell if she liked me or not…until one night. We were hanging out with a few of the other kids, you know – singing around a piano (what’s it too ya???) and we all decided to go across campus and get a drink from the dorms…we went outside and she jumped on my back so i could give her a piggyback across the parking lot…i started forward, excited she was showing me this kind of attention because that meant I WAS IN BABY…and then i stepped off the curb…
At which point i pitched forward, dumping her on the asphalt, causing her to skin her hands pretty bad. Well, lets just say she wasn’t too happy with me and her attentions were directed elsewhere for the remainder of the week.
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