Fast Times
At 14, I went to a cousin’s Bar Mitzvah and sat at the table with the other awkward teens. Being the chatty kid that I was, I began talking to some of the other kids at the table. Hours later my Aunt informs me that one of the other teens, B.B., at the table thinks I am cute and wants to know if I would go on a date with him. As I had never been on a date before, I asked my parents, who at this point were talking with BB’s parents and they agree it’s okay because he seems like a “nice young Jewish man.”
After a few short phone calls with B.B. he agreed to pick me up at my house. I got all dolled up and nervously stepped into his car. Within minutes he lit a cigarette and asked if I want one too.
“No thanks,” I said.
He proceeded to ask me if I “smoke anything” and went down the list of possibly every illegal drug, telling me he had done them all. I was already dumb founded, but continued to go to the restaurant. As he ate his food with a spoon he began telling me about his acting career and how he won an Academy Award last year, clearly trying to impress me with his “Hollywood lifestyle.” Dinner was over and although I was ready to go home, he was enjoying his time and began laying the compliments on thick.
Being 14, and naive, he was able to easily convince me to go for a walk…in a park…in the dark. We walked around the park and he led me to a bench near the front of the new carousel.
We sat down and he asked me, “Do you want to do it sitting up or lying down?”
I was confused as to what he wanted to do and asked him for clarification.
“It..sex. Should we move to the back of the carousel so no one can see us?” he asked.
I told him we weren’t having sex and he got upset. “Then what are we going to do? You’re so uptight.”
Not knowing what to do and realizing that I was in a park at night with a horny guy I feigned illness and told him my stomach hurt and I needed to go home now. He dropped me off and although I never heard from him, I did have the joy of seeing him at various family events. I later found out he told his parents that I was a “fast girl” and he didn’t want to see me anymore because I was “too aggressive.”
