When I was in high school I had attended a dance after a football game. I’m not much of a dancer now and I was even worse back then, but I knew how to get my slow dance on.  As my buddies and I were checking out the girls my radar went off.  That’s the one.  So I took a deep breath and asked her to dance in my shy little voice and she said yes.  I was just about to walk away from her when I realized she had said yes and wasn’t laughing.

We started dancing, she was very cute and I was very nervous. My face was buried in her big 1980′s hair and thinking “Gee your hair smells terrific!”  Then I told two people and they told two people and so forth and so on.  I never did get paid for coming up with that commercial either.

I was chewing on a piece of gum and when the dance was over I realized later that my gum was gone.  What the heck?  I was so nervous I probably just swallowed it.  After a few fast songs another slow song finally comes on.  She said yes once so maybe I’ll try my luck again.

I went to look for her and when I saw her I froze up like a statue.  Not because I was nervous this time, but because I realized that I had also just found my gum.  That’s right, hanging from her hair.  Daaaaaang!

Since it was a slow song I just slowly turned and walked away. I’m not sure when she ever found it and I never asked.  I did, however, learn a very valuable lesson from that experience that I can explain in just two words. “Tic Tac!”  I’m just sayin’.