Kissing
When I was in junior high (or maybe even earlier), my parents made a deal with us – if we didn’t kiss anyone until we got to college, they’d pay each of us $1000.
So far, three of us have gone to college and so far my parents have paid out a total of $0.00.
Last week, my cousin Ashley wrote a post about how, based on my parents offer, she and her husband have decided to offer their kids a car to take to college if they can wait to kiss someone until after high school graduation.
I told my parents last weekend that if they’d been offering a car, I would definitely have waited. To my surprise, they didn’t believe me.
But I would have waited. See, my parents paid my housing/food costs while I was in college and I paid for my books and tuition. About a month before scholarship notices came out, I started dating someone. But I didn’t kiss him until after I found out that I’d gotten a big scholarship. If I hadn’t gotten that scholarship, I’d have needed that $1000. So it’s not like I wasn’t weighing the costs.
If it’d been a car, there wouldn’t have been anyone worth kissing.
Would you have waited for a car? A $1000? Something else?
Hmmmm, personal opinion: I’d rather have a kiss than a thousand dollars.
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$1000 would probably have had me. Although I would have been angry with my parents for putting me in a position where I had to choose between kissing and $1000. A non-issue, though, since they didn’t offer the money and I had no prospects for kissing in high school. (My grandma did give me her sports car for graduation, though, so it all worked out.)
Probably not. But I was a little hussy back in high school. OK, not really, but I had a boyfriend I don’t think I could have resisted kissing. So, fine, kind of a hussy.
That’s the best idea since the chastity belt!
I don’t think i would have waited to kiss Seth just for a car…or money. Life’s too short to possibly pass up ‘a special momment’ for something material.
Scotty and I dated for eight months before we kissed. I’d have waited longer for money. I mean, after eight months, I should have been able to wait a few more years, right?
I might have done it for the $1000 but definitely for the car!
Too funny. I will almost give my kids anything to not kiss till college. So funny!
Man, I so would have gotten that $1,000. There was absolutely no one worth kissing in high school. I doubt my parents would agree to a retroactive prize award, though.
Honestly, I think that’s horrible. I’d never do something like this to my kids. I think if more kissing went on this would be a better world.
I agree with the dynamic trio.. life’s too short. My first kiss was worth way more than 1000 dollars.
Wealthy kids from our school had some kind of extremely lucrative deal like this with their parents, except some really disgusting amount of money and virginity. The slutty older sister was pretty mad when her sister tried to get it on a technicality…
because she was a lesbian.
They were weird parents anyway though, sheesh.