![]() ![]() I rolled the window down and hollered, Laurie we’re here! My mother interrupted and said, Gerald go to the door and get her. My mother then gave me the instructions to get Laurie. Well, we got in our car and went two driveways up and pulled in. Laurie and I played together all the time and I knew she was perfectly capable of walking to our house to go to a bonfire. I replied, Pick her up? She’s only two doors up! Still my mother said wait. When the evening for the bonfire arrived I went running for the door shouting out, Mama, I’m going to go get Laurie! My mother said, Gerald, wait! We will pick her up. I asked Laurie if she wanted to go and she asked her mother if she could go, then Laurie’s mother called my mother for the details and afterwards gave the approval for Laurie to go with me. I decided that I was going to ask a friend of mine, who is a girl who lived two doors up from me, to the bonfire. ![]() By using their name we would say a friend of mine, who is a girl. For a side note sometimes us boys would stretch a little. So, in light of these facts we always used first names and never the term, a girl friend of mine. You must understand that at that age and considering where I lived we were careful not to say girl friend because several of us boys did not have our cootie shots yet and if we did have our cootie shots, for most of us boys even though we liked the girl she may not have liked us back. We were told that we could bring a friend and the parents (of the younger ones) where assured that there would be plenty of chaperones for this outing just in case any of the boys decided to bring a friend of the female gender or vise versa. Our youth director had announced that the youth were going to have a bonfire wiener and marshmallow roast along with a hayride and games. Back in those days our youth group consisted of those around 9 years old to about 32 years old. ![]() I was very active with the youth program in my church. I was approximately 9 or 10 years old living in Decatur, GA. I had to go to her door, get the girl, then open and shut doors for the girl and then walking the girl back to her door after returning her home. Iremember the first lesson that I had in picking up a girl who I invited to go on a church outing. ![]()
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