Setting things straight

Okay, so I obsessed about this ALL NIGHT. And the more I think about it, the more I am SURE that I never kissed Ryan Brown. (For the backstory, see here.)

I have only kissed eight people in my entire life. Eight. Now, that may seem like a lot to some people (like my mother-in-law, who thinks I'm a scarlet woman-- nevermind that another of her daughter-in-laws has a list numbering in the 20's. But she never gets comments from the MIL!). To most of the world, however, eight is a very sweet and innocent number.

I'd like it known that two of those eight kisses were taken from me, not neccessarily given in return. Funny thing that both of those were from my best-friend-at-the-time's love interest... but I was too sweet and spineless in both cases to say, "Hey you, get your damn hands off of [me]". (1000 points to the first person to recognize the movie quote!) On a side note, I certainly hope that my daughter grows up to be very kind-hearted; but at the same time I never want that to interfere with her ability to stand up for herself. How does one instill a wonderful sense of compassion in their child, but a sense of compassion that won't leave them feeling victimized?

At any rate, the point is that eight is not a large number. It would be difficult to forget anyone. I REALLY liked Ryan Brown. I find it hard to believe that as much as I liked him, I would forget about kissing him. The other problem I have is that it supposedly took place in a classroom. Granted, a dark classroom where we were watching a movie, but at 14 I would have been WAY too embarrassed to have kissed someone where so many people could have witnessed it. If I am recalling right, I seem to remember in the fuzzy recesses of my poor memory, that Ryan was making kissing noises at me; but never actually did the deed.

Okay, so I am probably making too big a deal of this; but I would hate Richard to go through life thinking that I was a tramp for kissing his best friend, while he was sitting next to us, knowing full well that he wished it were him. And as Kitt said about it, Ryan Brown was definitely the type of person to go around telling people that something happened just to get high-fives.


On a related note, it seems that girls often have WAY longer lists of people they've kissed than most guys do. Is this just my experience, or does everyone agree? And I'm also curious about everyone else's stats. Leave me a comment and tell me how many people you've kissed.