Changed a tire once
Few girls in high school were standing around their minivan looking sad after school, I went over - I kindof knew them and they were attractive types - found out they had a flat tire, so I helped them change it. Took the time along the way to show em how to do it - as my father had showed me just a few months before. They were on their way shortly and I felt good about it, maybe fantasized that night about how I would have liked to have been thanked - but otherwise forgot about it.

For the next few weeks in school, whenever one of these girls passed me in the hallways, they'd clasp their hands together, put them next to their cheek, tilt their heads and flutter their eyelashes at me and say really loud in an over the top sappy damsel in distress voice:

"My Hero!" as they walked by, ending it with the big dramatic damsel Sigh.

And that was it - no sex or drugs or anything big (sorry =)), just a little fun acknowledgement, in public, that was half making fun and half sincere for a while after it happened.

At 16? I had to pretend I was too cool to care about such silliness... but really, I thought it was pretty ace.

Because of them, I "had to" explain to whoever I was walking with, in a humble way, what they were talking about and I got a little social status bump from it all. I still think that was a cool thing for them to do, even if just in fun.

Saying thanks always counts, saying thanks to a teen where his peers can see, when you're a pretty girl? Ace. They were good folk.
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Wed 15 May 2013, 19:13, 8 replies)

BTW it is spelt tyre.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 15 May 2013, 19:20, closed)

Not "over here" it isn't.
I have to spell it that way now. Most disgruntled with Canadian English, sometimes it looks correct, often it uses filthy Merkin spellage.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 15 May 2013, 20:29, closed)

I've been in the USA of Americaland since November,
and I have no intention of changing my spelling habits.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 15 May 2013, 20:45, closed)

Do you like your toast done on one side?

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 15 May 2013, 21:45, closed)

Shit, bro. That's a fucking bleak picture you just painted of your adolescence.
You've made me feel slightly bad about being popular and having lots of teenage sex.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 15 May 2013, 19:45, closed)

Fair point but you should stop it now. Yewtree is ongoing.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 15 May 2013, 21:19, closed)

Age of consent is now 20, you heard it here first folks

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 15 May 2013, 22:10, closed)

That isn't the bleak part of his life
That was the peak, it's all been downhill since then.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 22:17, closed)