Embarrassingly sheltered and naive

ArmyBride0604

Despite the watching of soap operas at a ridiculously young age, I was incredibly shelted as to the actual details.  So much so that in 9th grade, one of the boys in my class asked me, via note passing, "spit or swallow".  I thought he was talking about toothpaste - my answer was "spit!  gross!  why would you ever swallow - doesn't that mess up your stomach??".  Somehow I ended up with the note at the end of the whole thing (said classmate did NOT share with me why he found my answer so hilarious) and my mom found it.  I got the lecture of a lifetime and she STILL wouldn't tell me what was wrong with the conversation.  I think I finally figured out what he was trying to ask me by senior year...

thatgirlang

Oh, this is sooooo good.

WildHorseFeathers

That's kind of funny, but my DH was kind of the same way, very sheltered! I was glad to break him out of it. Your story has given me a good laugh, doesn't stink so much having to come back to work!

lkich

I think knowing or not knowing it's a really funny answer! Your pour mother!!! She must have had a heart attack!

Mary and Dave

I was pretty sheltered as well.  I knew about sex at an early age because of my older cousin, but I didn't even know much of anything else until I was in 11th grade or so.  I was very naive.  I had no clue what "spit or swallow" was either.

FrickandFrack

LMAO.  I bet your mother just about died.

ArmyBride0604

I'm 90% sure my mother probably thought that I was actually practicing oral sex - and I had no clue what was going on.  I'd love to have a tape of the argument now because we weren't anywhere near being on the same topic, and it only left me more confused than I'd been to start with.  I think I walked away with the idea that you weren't supposed to talk about brushing your teeth with your friends...and I'm pretty sure there was a grounding involved.