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Yep. You were in 8th grade. She was a senior.

Your lack of ability to start her car had little to do with your [lack of] chances

I hear you, though... When I was a senior I had a crush on this woman at the karate school. I was 17. She was an adult (either 22 or 26? can't remember). Unsurprisingly, nothing ever materialized. But I probably didn't truly understand how abysmal my chances were until I got older.

I see this stuff now with my son when it comes to girls... How can someone so freakin' smart... Be so dumb?!?!

I never said I thought I had a chance.  I had a crush, I wasn't living in la-la land.

All I meant was, even when you know you have no chance, you still don't want to look like a dweeb who can't start a car in front of a cute girl.

That was actually the stint we lived in Georgia for a couple years....she was a true Georgia peach.  As weird twists of fate would have it, she wound up marrying a guy from where my family is from in Louisiana and moving there....where we moved back to after GA.  Not where I grew up in Baton Rouge, mind you....but nearer the Texas border where I finished growing up.  She kind of followed us there just a couple years after we left.  She's still there in (one of) my little hometown(s)(I also consider BR my home town).  She quit being so cute a couple decades and a couple kids ago, but she's a nice lady.  I like to think she's happy I eventually learned to drive a stick.