MY FIRST KISS

My first proper kiss (snog) was with a boy called Alistair. I can't remember how old I was but I was a teenager and it was sometime in the mid 1970's.

Alistair was a boy that one of my friends fancied so I don't actually know how I ended up snogging him?

Every Saturday night we used to have parties in the basement of my friends house. When I say parties, what I mean is - a group of us teenagers used to hang out and listen to David Cassidy & Donny Osmond records and drink lemonade and eat crisps. Can't imagine that teenagers today would be happy with that. Sometimes we would go really mad and put some fruit in the lemonade to make a punch.

There was always about 5 or 6 girls and my friend had an older brother who would be there with some of his friends and his girlfriend (he had a lot of different girlfriends) - so there were always plenty of boys around.

As far as I can remember the first part of the evening was spent sitting around chatting. Sometimes we would play darts because there was a dart board on the back of a door. The parties never went on very late. I seem to remember they ended at about 10.30pm-ish.

However, at some point in the evening the boys & girls would start dancing together - and then we'd all be paired off and snogging. Haven't a clue how this happened. It was like there was some unwritten rule, whereby it got to a certain time at night when both sexes gravitated towards each other. For most of the evening we were two separate groups.

I can only think I ended up snogging Alistair because my friend must have paired up with someone else that night. Everyone always ended up with someone .................. Unless there was an odd number of girls and boys. - If that happened the person that was left out, always busied themselves with tidying up the empty crisp bowls and empty lemonade glasses in an effort to portray to the others that they weren't bothered about having a snog!

I don't remember any of my friends having a proper girlfriend/boyfriend relationship with any of these boys. Yes we may have snogged the same lad every Saturday night for a few weeks - but that's as far as it went. I can't even remember how old we were when we were doing this. Approximately 15 or 16 I think. I do remember though, that I hung out with this group of kids on a Saturday evening for quite a long period of time.

My first kiss? I only remember ever snogging Alistair once. He was a year or two older than me and a good looking boy that a lot of girls fancied.

Unfortunately a couple of years after my first kiss, Alistair was killed in a car crash - very, very sad.