Comments on: Remember the Sadie Hawkins Day Dance? http://wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/ Celebrating words, books and the writing life Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Coralie http://wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Coralie Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:14:11 +0000 http://www.wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/#comment-43 Hi Chris! Thanks for stopping by! What a time we had as teens! Some good experiences; some not so terrific! Oh, those dances...the dance band playing, "Good Night Sweetheart," still sounds to me like old times. Bittersweet, I guess you'd say. Still, some great memories! Thanks for sharing! Hi Chris! Thanks for stopping by! What a time we had as teens! Some good experiences; some not so terrific! Oh, those dances…the dance band playing, “Good Night Sweetheart,” still sounds to me like old times. Bittersweet, I guess you’d say. Still, some great memories! Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Chris http://wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Chris Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:44:05 +0000 http://www.wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/#comment-42 Hi. What a coincidence that I found your blog and you are writing about High School! Just this week I received an email from my very first boy friend. He is now married, but we are planning to meet the family, his and mine, this week. I remember good times and good dances, and not so good time and not so good dances. but No, I do not want to be a teen even again ! Thank you for sharing :) Hi. What a coincidence that I found your blog and you are writing about High School! Just this week I received an email from my very first boy friend. He is now married, but we are planning to meet the family, his and mine, this week. I remember good times and good dances, and not so good time and not so good dances. but No, I do not want to be a teen even again ! Thank you for sharing :)

]]> By: Coralie http://wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Coralie Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:57:54 +0000 http://www.wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/#comment-41 Oh yes! That's right, I remember that Sadie Hawkins was the from the L'il Abner comic strip! I read that crazy comic every night. Thank you, Al Capp! I really had to laugh envisioning your mother driving you two to the dance. What a funny and poignant memory! Love your descriptions! Thanks for sharing! Oh yes! That’s right, I remember that Sadie Hawkins was the from the L’il Abner comic strip! I read that crazy comic every night. Thank you, Al Capp! I really had to laugh envisioning your mother driving you two to the dance. What a funny and poignant memory! Love your descriptions! Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Ritergal http://wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Ritergal Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:48:01 +0000 http://www.wildwoodpress.org/remember-the-sadie-hawkins-day-dance/#comment-40 Oh, yes! The Sadie Hawkins Dance! Thank you for the reminder. You don' t mention the origin of this dance, which sprang from the comic strip L'il Abner. Sadie Hawkins was a superbly ugly gal who needed all the help she could get. One day a year was declared for women to propose to men, so she could get a husband. (Or so I remember, without any research.) So much for background. In my high school, in Los Alamos, NM, the Sadie Hawkins Dance was held the first weekend in November. I invited a boy to Sadie Hawkins my freshman year. He did accept. We did go. We did not know each other, except to nod in the halls, and I have no idea how I happened to choose him. I wore a short skirt made of burlap, with patches sew non, and a simple scoop-necked tee-type shirt with 3/4 sleeves. In the interests of protection from cold grown, sandals substituted for the bare feet of Dogpatch. As I recall, my mother drove us to and from the dance. Aside from dancing a couple of fast dances, awkwardly at best, I don't remember much about the evening. It definitely was not a romatic event! I never asked a fellow to that again. Around Valentine's Day we had our annual Sweetheart's Dance, and this was also a Girls Ask Boys thing. My senior year I did ask a boy I'd dated a couple of times, but some blond sophomore beat me to him. Aargh! I was so elated when he ended up sick in the hospital, unable to go with either of us! Would I want to go back and be a teenager again? Not on your sweet bippy! Oh, yes! The Sadie Hawkins Dance! Thank you for the reminder. You don’ t mention the origin of this dance, which sprang from the comic strip L’il Abner. Sadie Hawkins was a superbly ugly gal who needed all the help she could get. One day a year was declared for women to propose to men, so she could get a husband. (Or so I remember, without any research.)

So much for background. In my high school, in Los Alamos, NM, the Sadie Hawkins Dance was held the first weekend in November. I invited a boy to Sadie Hawkins my freshman year. He did accept. We did go. We did not know each other, except to nod in the halls, and I have no idea how I happened to choose him. I wore a short skirt made of burlap, with patches sew non, and a simple scoop-necked tee-type shirt with 3/4 sleeves. In the interests of protection from cold grown, sandals substituted for the bare feet of Dogpatch. As I recall, my mother drove us to and from the dance.

Aside from dancing a couple of fast dances, awkwardly at best, I don’t remember much about the evening. It definitely was not a romatic event! I never asked a fellow to that again.

Around Valentine’s Day we had our annual Sweetheart’s Dance, and this was also a Girls Ask Boys thing. My senior year I did ask a boy I’d dated a couple of times, but some blond sophomore beat me to him. Aargh! I was so elated when he ended up sick in the hospital, unable to go with either of us!

Would I want to go back and be a teenager again? Not on your sweet bippy!

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