Another thread about cluelessness

[crazycanuck]

I was just reading a thread on a music board i frequent & they're discussing things that went way over your head way back when. I didn't want to steal Shootingstar's post..

I have a few...

In Jr High, we had a rather frightening/great math teacher but we loved him because he gave us twizzlers & was amazingly sarcastic. I always wondered why he drank so much coffee or wandered out to get coffee. I learnt many moons later (after high school) that he was an alcoholic..

I didn't know that our language arts teacher was gay?

I thought I was the only abnormal teen in Jr High/High school..then found out that everyone else's family was in the same boat or even worse.

Music..some of my favourite songs went way over my head...

"The Relfex" is about drug addiction? "Come Undone" is about suicide
"All you zombies" is about the cold war..
"She Bop"
"Magic Carpet Ride"... basically anything from the 60's..
"Hold me now" "
"Tell me more"from Grease..I didn't pay attention to the lyrics when I was younger but now know..


Any more clueless memories?

[Pax]

Layla -

I didn't know I was gay in high school...it just never even occurred to me. Can you say obtuse?

[Aggie_Ama]

My grandfather never talked about high school, it never occured to me it was because he didn't get to go. I learned when I hurt his feelings by badgering him about which high school he went to.

I didn't know what I was smelling at the middle school bus stop!

There is a lot of songs over time I have learned the true meaning of.

I didn't realize my Calculus teacher was gay. He referred to his partner "bob" (or some male name), I thought they had a side business. A couple years later then wandered hand in hand into my work.

I was totally clueless that someone in my husband's family was a meth addict and often high. I just thought they were quirky.

I am usually quite dense though, I am used to it.

[alpinerabbit]

Before I spoke decent English, I had no clue what exactly Frank Zappa's song "Bobby Brown" was about. I just liked the song.

also, I thought "Rocky Horror Picture Show" was pretty innocuous fun. Yeah I got that it was about "initiation", but had no idea it might offend people.

At least twice I was clueless about someone having a crush on me. But that evens out with my having eternal crushes on several guys.

[mimitabby]

I started out clueless, but life taught me to grow up fast.

when i was in 8th grade, the kids had a field day with me because i did not know the slang words that most kids knew. I knew the long proper words, (thanks mom) but had no idea that pricks were body parts, etc.



as a sophomore, a teacher asked us if anyone in our families had a drinking problem. I was living with a detested drunk stepfather at the time and I raised my hand. NO ONE ELSE DID. Humiliated and infuriated, i turned to my class and said, "you mean NONE of you have a family member that drinks too much?" no one would look at me.

I knew my trigometry teacher was gay when I was a senior. I despised the way he flirted with innocent boys. I had the same disgust for the handsome young chemistry teacher who acted like he was buddies to the "in crowd" in our classroom. Imagine my disappointment when i went back to my highschool 30 years later and he was the only teacher left that was there when I was.

[redrhodie]

When I was about to leave my old job, I found out one of my coworkers had dated our boss before either of us had started working there. I had no idea! It made some of the company dynamics a lot more clear!

[indigoiis]

When I first got into raising alpacas, our mentors kept talking about "spit tests" to determine pregnancy. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about - do the animals spit on a progesterone card? Do we collect spit and then run a test on it?

I found out after I conjectured, in front of a lot of other farmers, the above theory. Everyone laughed. Then we went out to witness a "real" spit test. All it is is bringing in a male alpaca to the paddock, and if a female spits at him, she's 95% of the time preggers.

Boy was my face red.

[Pax]

When I first got into raising alpacas, our mentors kept talking about "spit tests" to determine pregnancy. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about - do the animals spit on a progesterone card? Do we collect spit and then run a test on it?

I found out after I conjectured, in front of a lot of other farmers, the above theory. Everyone laughed. Then we went out to witness a "real" spit test. All it is is bringing in a male alpaca to the paddock, and if a female spits at him, she's 95% of the time preggers.

Boy was my face red.

When we moved home from Italy I was placed in a civilian school populated with farm kids, there were bovines wandering about the pasture next to the school and I asked if they were boy or girl cows and was the bull a boy or girl bull...I had no idea that cow = female and bull = male.

[mimitabby]

When we moved home from Italy I was placed in a civilian school populated with farm kids, there were bovines wandering about the pasture next to the school and I asked if they were boy or girl cows and was the bull a boy or girl bull...I had no idea that cow = female and bull = male.

oh, that's really cute! ( I love the spit test story too!)

[alpinerabbit]

oh geez that reminds me. my 2nd grade best friend made animal sounds while we were playing with toy ponies, she thought they go "pon-pon"....

[bmccasland]

Let's start this with... my dearest Mother is a prude (and probably most of her generation was). She explained about having periods. But as for where babies came from - you got married and then you had babies. So there was something in that marriage certificate that caused babies.

Well in H.S. biology class I found out how other mammals procreated, and boy was I surprised! I knew about male human anatomy, but if I knew THAT had something to do with getting me pregnant, abstinance would have been very easy. The same thing they pee with?

[OakLeaf]

But as for where babies came from -

Y'know, in certain ways my early childhood exposure to the facts of life was pretty liberal. I knew what the external parts on male animals were called (and from stories my mom loves to tell, wasn't shy about naming them, at the top of my voice, at the zoo ). I knew what had to happen between a male and a female before a baby would result. But as far as female parts, EXACTLY where babies come from? My mom pointed in the general region of her crotch. For years my sisters and I believed that a hole opened up in the crease of the groin, for babies to be born from

[mimitabby]

my mother told me the way you got pg was you SLEPT with a man.
Boy did that freak me out as a child!

[Pax]

my mother told me the way you got pg was you SLEPT with a man.
Boy did that freak me out as a child!

You're dating yourself Mimi.

[SouthernBelle]

I'm still waiting for my mom to tell me where babies come from! & bless her heart she died in '99.

I remember a girl in college who did not know the 'facts of life' until her sophomore year!