May 27, 1996- Stacy and I drove off into the mountatins of North Carolina to the lake where Dirty Dancing was filmed, in order to reenact our favorite scene:

    The BIG MOMENT: Baby meets Johnny for the first time...

    Johnny: (snarling) "What's SHE doing here?"

    Baby: "I carried a watermelon." (under breath) "I carried a watermelon?"

Haven't we all had moments like that? My best Insert-Foot-in-Mouth Moment was a comment I made to Tim* the Drum Major-Deli worker. My ex-friend totally had the hots for him, so we scaped together some change and made a visit to the local Mars Grocery store to purchase 5 slices of cheddar from him. Being poor high school freshman, that's all the cheese we could afford. After he handed us our big purchase I said, "You cut the cheese very well."

For the watermelon story, click on the pictures to the left.

* No names have been changed to protect the insane. You gotta love free speech!

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