Oh fun! Hi, and welcome, cliomusing.

I have to admit--I'm really happy right now!

Just wanted to see that posted again.

Although..back in the day...ahem. I Have Stories.

Heh. I lost my virginity in a '73 Mercury Marquis Brougham. (The front passenger seat could recline to almost horizontal.)

Someone tell cliomusing that we have a fanfic thread.

Me? Lost it in a 1976 AMC Hornet (in 1990!!) with a wonky horn wire that randomly went off and a hole in the floor board. In a graveyard, at night, after drinking McCormick vodka with a water chaser, smoking Marlboro Lights in a soft pack because hard packs didn't exist yet, listening to The Cure.

I cracked the windshield with my foot, and had to tell my dad that kids were throwing rocks at my car. He was too tall to stretch out across the seat, so we opened a car door and I fell in medias res onto a snow-covered grave.

Heh. And THAT, my friends, is how I was initiated into the tender joys of sex.

SO CLICHE!!!

Erin, that is an awesome story! In a weird way....

Luckily the Mercury had plenty of room for me. We also employed a '79 Fairmont wagon for sex (putting the back seat down made enough room).

I've never actually had sex (like, official, PIV sex) in a car. Which sort of surprises me, come to think of it.

Welcome, cliomusing!

If you leave a pair of pants on the floor, for instance, he has to approach it with caution, work his way toward it, and sniff it thoroughly before deciding it's (probably) not a threat.

I had a dog who slipped on a wood floor as a puppy and refused to step on one for the rest of her 13 years.

I'm now looking at Tommy's fondness for Ford products in a whole new light.

x-posty Natter/Bitches because it’s too cool not to share

In small world news, I just experienced a rare and cool overlap between my Buffista life and my school life. My students create their own vocab books based on unfamiliar words they encounter in their normal lives (literature from my class, historical documents, or just chance encounters with new words outside of school). I make them identify the part of speech, define the word, and then quote and cite the original sentence where they found the word before writing a new sentence to show they can use it themselves. One of my seniors dutifully cited the source for all 20 of her new words...a fanfic FAY wrote for JILLI!!!!! I about fell off the couch when I saw “FayJay” cited at the end. I now have 20 sentences from Fay’s story peeping cheerfully out from my student's list, and I’m tickled pink. Seriously, how cool is that? And no, I didn’t point her that way--I’ve never even mentioned that I have friends who write fanfic. SO RANDOM AND COOL.

I didn't have sex in an actual bed until I was 24! Granted, I didn't HAVE any sex from 20-24, and then it was a professor's bed. (House-sitting; never slept with a prof.)

Yeah, tommyrot, the actual sexxorin' was, to be expected, not really awesome in retrospect, but the actual circumstances are hilariously great!

Ginger, I have friends whose dog was seriously afraid of wooden floors. Lino was ok, but crossing the living room to get to the bedroom where the dog bed was was like watching a hydrophobe approach the sea.