Ok, so its the end of the school year, Washington state, in a little community just outside Seattle. It was just before the summer of 1971 (christ, that makes me feel old), I just turned 15, and I'm at my typical nerd hiding spot at the back of the bus.
Somewhere along the ride, for reasons still unclear to me, one of the very "popular girls" from the front of the bus walks to the back of the bus, asks me my name, and then proceeded to break out singing loudly, to the whole bus mind you, Laura Nyro's whole song that was then popular by The Fifth Dimension, "Wedding Bell Blues"...
Bill, I love you so, I always will
I look at you and see the passion eyes of May
Oh, but am I ever gonna see my wedding day
I was on your side Bill when you were loosin'
I never scheme or lie Bill, there's been no foolin'
But kisses and love won't carry me till you marry me Bill.......and so on...
for which she then took from me my yearbook that had been so deftly and artistically goofy signed in a multitude of nerdy ways by my equally nerdy friends, a couple of whom were sitting there jaw dropped as I at the back of the bus, and then proceeded to write the entire song out on the blank back page, hand it back to me, walk away, me in awe, and for whom I never saw again as we soon moved away...
I still feel embarrassed by the experience..