Ricki Yasha TarrA Crushing Question!
Courtesy of @cpm
Who was your first ever crush? How old were you?
How do you feel about them now?
TimeCycles@TimeCycles @cpm Definitely! mine was probably a celebrity too
Alice McFlurry 
@RickiTarr @cpm This is my first crush, Teddy. He was super nice and would share his juice with me, so clearly I was in love.
I haven’t seen him since first grade, but that was back in Phoenix in the 1980s, so there’s a good chance he’s in prison by now. Probably still sharing his juice, though.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@RickiTarr @cpm Gorgeous young lady from Southend called Tina. We were both about 13-ish. One visit each way, then we got bored and never saw each other again. Never got jiggie, but I learned stuff about 'courting' which later became useful.
Patrick ChizeckI think my first crush was Whitney Houston in the video for "I Wanna Dance With Somebody ", which came out in 1987, which means I was 9 years old.
What do I think of her now? Well, she sure led an interesting life, and had a hell of a voice. RIP Whitney.
Mark Maguire@chizeck @RickiTarr Not the first celeb crush and I was a bit older in my early teens, but completely CRUSHED at the time by the singer, the song, the look. Total star.
Doctor LURK@RickiTarr @cpm in real life, I think it was a girl named Ashley at my preschool. She had long brown hair that I thought was pretty. Or you could count Vicky, the first girl I ever held hands with, in first grade. But obviously I haven't been in touch with either of them because I fancy myself a more or less well-adjusted 40-year-old.
My first puppy love was Emily, in 8th grade. I sometimes wonder how she's doing.
On TV, it was Penny from Inspector Gadget! She was so smart and kind.
@doctorLURK @cpm I loved Penny because she had to be an adult even though she was a kid, and I got that
@RickiTarr @cpm she made saving the day look so easy!
@doctorLURK @cpm Her brains were her most important attribute
GuitarKat@RickiTarr @cpm @dabertime I was 11 or 12. Probably 12. I don’t want to say who it was… it wasn’t one of my classmates or anything.
I haven’t spoken to them in like 20+ years so idk lol I hope they kept their soft heart and those eyes. He was so gentle and sweet but affirming and softly directing while allowing for learning and understanding your own self for growth.
PamelaWaldman@PamW @RickiTarr @cpm @dabertime I’m not sure, fond memories? But it’s what I remember of them. I think I have a picture somewhere lol
Quester 🌤️🌈
@RickiTarr @cpm This needs a little context, when I was around 4 years old, my parents enrolled me to this Christian kids club that was sort of like kindergarten. I have no idea if they still do this to Finnish kids today, but in the 90s it was a thing. Anyway, in my group there was a boy named Pasi. Apparently I thought he was cute, and I wanted to spend as much time with him at the club as I could. No idea where he is now, I’ve not seen him for… 33 years now!
I TRIED TO TELL YOU@RickiTarr @cpm I complained to Mom & Dad in
kindergarten when some girl was chasing me around the schoolyard.
Started going out with her in HS --took years to put the two together lol
kindergarten when some girl was chasing me around the schoolyard.
Started going out with her in HS --took years to put the two together lol
ADHDeanASL@RickiTarr @cpm Kelly Olsen, a CUTE little brown haired girl who lived across the street from me when I was in kindergarten-2nd grade. I left a gumball machine ring on her front doorstep and hauled ass out of there. No clue what became of her.
@adhdeanasl @cpm That's adorable
Philip SetnikHmmm, a very pretty young girl in my elementary school class. Probably around fifth or sixth grade. I was so smitten. I moped about her, hung out in this empty field sitting on a big rock near her house, just hoping to get a glimpse of her... yeah, it was pretty creepy, stalkerish behavior, looking back.
She didn't feel the same way, sadly.
I mean, it didn't help that I was the teacher....
JUST KIDDING!!! EVERYTHING ELSE IS PATHETICALLY TRUE!
thefathippy<Outrage building, building, building...then exploding> with laughter
Annie in ProgressErnie. A boy across the street. He and I snuck into a garden shed and shared a kiss. He moved away before we could try a second one.
He wrote me one love letter afterwards.
@LikeItOrLumpIt @cpm Sigh so cute
Charles Herold@RickiTarr I had a crush on a girl named Jeanette or Jeanine when I was 6. Then I totally lost interest in girls until I was 16, after which my crushes were numerous.
I have no feelings about my first-grade crush, which, after all, was over a half century ago.
@cherold You were just busy for 10 years lol
Maggie Maybe@RickiTarr @cpm My 1st crush ended up being my 1st boyfriend. When we were in our mid 20s he left me for a 17 year old girl who thought it was cool his only goals in life were to go to the gym and sell weed. Their thing started because she would drive him around all day while I worked. Lol
I saw him again a couple years before Covid started, he was still with that girl, they have two kids, he’s still not doing anything but living off her while she works a couple jobs. I’m so grateful he left me for her.
@maggiemaybe @cpm Phew good dodge
chrdude 
@RickiTarr @cpm First crush was Anne. She came to our school part way through Grade 6 and by Grade 7 I knew she was the one. That crush lasted four years until they moved away for two years. By the time they moved back I had discovered there were other girls. The crush was not reciprocated although she was always friendly. Haven't seen her since Grade 13 in 1961.
RacerX@RickiTarr @cpm as a young lad (12?) I participated in a game of old-fashioned hide & seek (girls hide while boys cover their eyes and count to 30, then vice-versa) We had just moved to the neighborhood, and I wanted to make a good impression on the cool kids. As the girls counted, I ran around the corner of the house and took refuge behind a lilac bush, where I was "discovered" by Anita S. who planted a big smooch on my lips and poked her tongue in my mouth. My young mind was permanently blown.
erica_sea55@RickiTarr @cpm at boarding school, aged 10, I had a crush on a boy, John. I’d go to Bible Study (though always been agnostic) because he was a Christian, and we’d all sing a hymn at the end & hold hands. It ended one day, during the prayer, when after after desperate holding it in, an enormous loud fart came out. Matron was taken aback, then said, “the devil made you do it Heather”. More likely it was the cabbage at lunch 😂. I was mortified…but it cured my crush 😂
@RickiTarr @cpm unfortunately I have decades of similar stories 😂 not all about farting though 😂😂
Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸I can still remember seeing her for the first time as I entered a 7th grade biology class at a new school.
In my early 30s, I sent her a note through our school saying I'd love to meet for drinks if she were ever in LA. That actually led to an adult relationship. Didn't work in the end, we weren't the right fit, but that was fine because who ever gets to find this out for sure? Hers is still the only name that can make me weak in the knees. An involuntary smile as I type this.
@RickiTarr @cpm One of the happiest things in my life :)
Kim Possible 
@RickiTarr @cpm Took me a minute to find this pic. When I was four, I had a big crush on my second cousin Peter, who was six.
ZiselbergerI was 12. A girl in a bunch of my classes named Anne. I liked her freckles and her attitude. We went through highschool together but never dated. She's a liberal journalist in FL now, so I might crush on her again.
Princeoflonelymt@RickiTarr @cpm I believe i was about 9 or 10 and there was a girl who I thought was so beautiful and sweet. I did absolutely nothing about it ever and I don't think she ever knew, much less returned any feelings. Another girl that was actually in my class asked me out and I forgot about it until now. She's a lawyer now, I have no clue if she's still nice. Probably not seeing as she's a lawyer.
Anna@RickiTarr @cpm Prince. I have absolutely zero regrets.
bookzombie@RickiTarr @cpm @kimlockhartga Celebrity? Caroline Munro. Real life? A girl at my 6th form (equivalent to first year of high school. I was a fairly late developer!)
LRRR IC: PRETTY SURE I CRUSHED AND DEVOURED A FEW OF MY BROODMATES. THEY'RE DEAD NOW.
OOC: *Sigh* Chelsea Fischer. We were the two kids they pulled out of first grade for advanced spelling, so we sat in the hallway and quizzed each other on the hardest words in the booklet they gave us. I was always flushed and scared. I had a major crush on her, and my then-best friend (who might now have realized how gay he was at the time) decided that he, too, would have a massive crush on her. I haven't seen her since I moved in 4th grade, but I heard she's a doctor or something now.
Sir_Osis_of_LiverI had changed schools for grade 5 ('79-'80). Charlene in another grade 5 class made it known that she had a crush me. So, I figured I should have a crush on her right back. So we started playing at lunch hour, as you do.
We were roughhousing one lunch hour, and she knocked me on my back and attempted to pin me. She missed and sat on my face. In a skirt.
We were teased mercilessly after that, and broke contact. A year later, I'd changed schools again. I never saw her again.
To add insult to injury, Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album came out a few months later, featuring "Sit On My Face".
If we were together in a hallway, there would almost inevitably be someone singing that one to us.
It's a funny story, now, but mortifying at the time.
Baranduin@RickiTarr I had a boyfriend when I was in 2nd grade but I clearly didn’t really care much about him because I didn’t think it was a big deal when he explored “screwing” with Dawn instead of me. I have no idea where Billy Joe is now. Not sure I want to know.
So. Andy Gibb. Damn. I fell hard. I’d moved on by the time he died in ‘88 but it hurt.
Tormod HalvorsenAs best as I can recall, Debbie Harry, early 1970s. Gorgeous...
Oh, I know... I just stated when the crush started 😊
Jim. From Kansas.@RickiTarr My early crushes were all of a type, quiet girls with blonde hair. Trisha, in 5th grade, was the archetype. She moved away, and I haven't really thought of her until today.
The one who was "too good a friend for me to really pursue" in high school played a part in me meeting my wife at college. I haven't spoken to her in years, but she's sort of a big deal in her field now.