Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Denton Tall Tales #10


Billie Jean was a girl that I went to elementary school with. She was probably 3-4 years older than me. She had very large thick glasses and was tall and I think she was kind of well developed for her age, but I could be making that last part up because I don’t think I was paying much attention in those days. I also think that she may have been slightly retarded, I'm not sure about that one either.

We all played a game called the Billie Jean Touch. It was exactly the same as the Coodies game, except we called it Billie Jean. Lets say you accidentally bumped into Billie Jean in the hallway, well, you would have to get rid of her touch. So then you would touch someone else and PROCLAIM, “You have the Billie Jean touch!!!” You could guard yourself from the Billie Jean touch by putting your two fingers together. This would insure that the Touch would not be transmitted to you.

Billie Jean got pregnant in sixth grade. I'm not even sure if i knew where babies came from then. Whenever she would walk past us in the hallway we would sing, “Billie Jean is not my lover…..” And make sure we didn’t get her touch.

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