The Date: Sometime in the early 80's (I was around 11?)
The Place: My cousin's neighbor's playhouse

Before I was old enough to know better, I used to think I was Hot Schtuff. I thought I was the best singer in the world. There are audio tapes and there are video tapes if you want proof.

One day whilst visiting my cousin, we headed over to her neighbor's house to get our Play On.

Our Role Play on.

Jessie's Girl was all the rage during that time, so I had the GREATEST IDEA EVER. I directed my cousin to put Jesse's girl on the record player. I explained to them that I was going to "act the song out" for them. They were not allowed to sing along or do anything but WATCH ME.

They totally agreed, (which at the time, I thought was because of my hotness, but later found out, was because they knew it was going to be a great opportunity to mock me behind my back!) and "let the music play."

As he began singing, I began walking all sexy like, because, you see, I WAS "Jesse's Girl" and I KNEW that Rick wanted me, but, he couldn't have me because I WAS JESSE'S GIRL.

I would walk back and forth "taunting" "Rick". HE WANTED ME! Because I was Jesse's girl!

At the end of the song, I stopped, put my hands on my hip, looked over my shoulder, directly into "rick's" "eyes" (Remember, Role Playing, people) and said, in a whisper...

"You've got me now."

I will never, for as long as I live, EVER live that down. EVER.

I told this story to Melly last night and after she finished laughing really hard, she said "We were destined to be friends, Y."

And she's right. Only a girl who tried out for a talent show with a girl missing toes, singing to Tiffany could understand a girl who once pretended to be Jesse's Girl and who thought she was totally hot while doing it.