{"id":8032,"date":"2012-03-04T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2012\/03\/04\/nerd-therapy-session-crushed\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T18:13:24","slug":"nerd-therapy-session-crushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/nerd-therapy-session-crushed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Therapy Session: Crushed"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nerd<\/a><\/div>\n


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\nThis week’s guest submission (keep ’em coming folks!) comes to us from Kirk AKA “Donkey Hoatie” on the Mego Museum message boards<\/a>.<\/span>
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\nIt’s a tale I think we all can relate to and that is your first crush on somebody and how it rarely goes well.<\/span>
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The other night, my wife and I were talking and she mentioned that her teaching partner, our daughter’s current teacher, had noticed that she was spending more time around the teacher\u2019s desk than usual. Apparently, there\u2019s a boy who sits in her cluster of desks that\u2019s been bugging the shit out of her. So, a couple times a day, my daughter goes to the teacher and tells her about how much said boy is getting all up in her business.<\/span><\/p>\n

I told my wife that it was most likely that the boy just had a crush on the our girl and school was almost over, so it\u2019s pretty much a non-issue. Well, we asked herabout it and I told her that the boy is probably bugging her so much because he likes her, to which she responded, \u201cYeah, he asked me today to give him a smoochy-boochy, but I wouldn\u2019t. And he gave me a note that said, \u2018I Love You.\u2019\u201d<\/span>
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\nSo, there you go, the Donkey isn\u2019t a total idiot.<\/span>
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\nMy daughter and I talked about her issue some more on the way to school today and I told her that even though the boy likes her and she doesn\u2019t like him back, she should still be nice to him. She said she would and I said that was the right thing to do because, he may be annoying, but it\u2019s no reason to treat someone badly. She nodded her head and demanded that I turn Radio Disney back on. So I did.<\/span>
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\nI guess what I told her is true, but what I really wanted to tell her was the real truth. Never getting a chance with your first crush really hurts. Odds are, it will haunt you throughout your life. I remember being a 2nd grade boy and getting my first crush.<\/span>
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\nLook, I wasn\u2019t always the smooth Donkey you happen to know right now. For the better part of a decade, I was crippled with anxiety and shyness any time a girl walked into a room. From about the age of 7 until around 15 or so, I don\u2019t think I ever strung more than a sentence or two together in front of a girl. And most of that was because I didn\u2019t get the girl.<\/span>
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\nThe first time I saw her I was smitten. All I could think was, \u201cShe is the most beautiful thing I\u2019ve ever seen in my life.\u201d I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about her and her long hair and blue-gray eyes. The song, Most Beautiful Girl, would come on the radio and once he\u2019d start singing, \u201cHey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world?\u201d I\u2019d think to myself, \u201cYes. Yes I did.\u201d Then, I\u2019d wonder what I could do to make her mine.<\/span>
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\nI\u2019d close my eyes and picture us together, married, living happily ever after. I\u2019d write her notes about how much I loved her, how often I thought about her, and ask her to send me something back if she felt the same.<\/span>
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\nShe never did. It\u2019s like I was invisible.<\/span>
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\nI concocted a plan to become a rock star, sure that would be the way to her heart. I imagined myself on stage, guitar in hand, crooning to her as she leaned in at me and smiled. Throngs of admiring girls would be worshipping me, but I\u2019d only have eyes for her. I\u2019d lean in and lasso her in with my eyes and my songs. Unfortunately, we didn\u2019t have a guitar kicking around at home. All we had was a piano. So, I took lessons, hoping that it would at least lead to a glamorous musical career with the keytar.<\/span>
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\nIt didn\u2019t.<\/span>
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\nMy notes wouldn\u2019t change her mind. My songs wouldn\u2019t either. Every plan I came up with was foiled. And, after nearly two years of incessant grade-school wooing, I had to face the harsh truth: it was time to give up.<\/span>
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\nBut, just because I gave up didn\u2019t mean that the hurt went away. After all, that\u2019s why they call it a crush. I\u2019d see her with other guys, smiling and laughing, and wonder why it couldn\u2019t be me with her. I\u2019d wonder what she saw in them, when it was so abundantly clear that we were meant to be together. I was her prince, she just didn\u2019t know it. I\u2019d take a bullet for her, but she just deflected all my advances. That\u2019s the kind of pain that comes with your first crush. In fact, every time I\u2019d hear her name, I\u2019d die a little inside. When I see her now, the pain is there, just as raw and open as it was back in the 70s.<\/span>
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\nYup. Lynda Carter, I just don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever get over you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many thanks to Kirk for the great submission! If you have a bit of nerd shame you’d like to face <\/span>please send it on down<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nAs a side note, that above puzzle (image borrowed from the awesome Wonder Woman Online<\/a>) is a treasured childhood item of my friend Sean, who has mentioned on more than one occasion “I really loved that puzzle but at six years old,  I just didn’t know why.”<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s guest submission (keep ’em coming folks!) comes to us from Kirk AKA “Donkey Hoatie” on the Mego Museum message boards. It’s a tale I think we all can relate to and that is your first crush on somebody and how it rarely goes well. The other night, my wife and I were talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[437,438,421],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-misery","tag-nerd-therapy","tag-wonder-woman"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/podcastmarker.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"rssradio":{"key":"rssradio","url":"","label":"RSSRadio","class":"rssradio","icon":"rssradio.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/pod-stallions\/ps","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/feed\/podcast\/default-podcast","embedCode":"

Nerd Therapy Session: Crushed<\/a><\/blockquote>