Cracker Jacks. Remember those? It wasn't about the sweet caramel corn...no! It was wolfing that stuff down at lightning speed to get to the plastic blue ring at the bottom. And if you were really lucky, some cute boy with his hair plastered down with his moms spit would give you that blue ring and ask you to go steady. What did that mean exactly? It meant that if there were 6 more boxes of Cracker Jacks and 6 more blue rings, he would have 6 new girlfriends by the end of the week with nothing to show for it.
Going steady was like being given a lottery ticket and never even scratching off the silver to see if you won or not. You might think, "So what's the point?" I think the thrill at that age was just knowing you had something that your friends didn't have even if it wasn't worth much.
Now it's your turn...tell me your memory of "going steady" and how that shaped your dating years?
Best answer wins a signed copy of my book, Dater's Ed! The winner will be announced Sunday, October 5th.
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