Everyone has them, you know you did. The newest Category Stories is "high school crushes" and so come and scrap it! High school prom picture, picture of you and your first beau, maybe a celebrity crush?
Well, some of you may have seen this picture before, maybe even heard the story behind it? If not, well sit back, pull up your fingerless-fishnet gloves and listen to this totally gnarly tale...
The year was 1989 and I was a sophomore in high school. I read Tigerbeat magazine all the time, flipping through the pages, seeing Madonna as a Virgin (jaa, right...), MC Hammer doin' it Hammer-style in his parachute pants, and stars like Molly Ringwald living Pretty in Pink, Ralph Macchio waxing on and off, and Johnny Depp fighting crime on 21 Jump Street...yep, I like, totally, had my big eyebrows, my big hair and a big pink prom dress just waiting for the fall dance!
Then I saw it, the contest entry form for the Tigerbeat Dream Date contest. You mailed it in (pre-internet, remember those days?) to try to win a date with the then teen star Corey Haim, famous for the movies Lost Boys and Lucas. I immediately filled it out, kissed it for good luck and placed my radical Ray-Bans on to deliver it to my mailbox.
About a month later I got a letter in the mail stating I'd won the Tigerbeat Dream Date contest with the one and only Corey Haim!!! I was thinking, "like, this is totally bitchin'!"
On the night of the dance, Corey Haim picked me up in a hot pink Trans-am that totally, like, matched my dress. All eyes were on us when we entered my high school gymnasium. Even my ex-boyfriend, Jake Ryan was shocked, and I could tell, a little jealous. I mean, I was walking in with Corey Haim, like,totally tubular, ya know? (insert gum smacking sound). And these 3 mean girls, all named Heather (weird) glared at me while adjusting their scrunchies in their hair. My good friends Ferris Bueller and Tootie (she's a crack up that Tootie, always wearing those rollerskates, and being so top heavy and all, we always wondered how she stayed up!) looked on and gave me a thumbs-up with their free hand not holding a can of TAB. Spandau Ballet, Wham and ABC playing in the background under the dimmed lights and crate paper streamers, yeah, it was a pretty radical night, like fer sure...
And I've never been one to kiss and tell, but, um, like, yeah, we did rock the casbah....
Okay, like totally bitchin', riiiiight?
(okay, so that wasn't totally true. I did go to the dance with big hair, big eyebrows and that big pink dress, but it was with my ex boyfriend - without a cool pink Trans-am and sadly Ferris and Tootie weren't there. My dad didn't like my boyfriend and wouldn't allow me to hang up my prom pictures with him in them. Corey Haim, well, I did like him as an actor, but honestly, his head fit best out of all the other actors heads in Tigerbeat, and I needed a head to cut out and paste over my ex's. I also have a prom picture of me and Kevin Costner, too. Again, I was limited back in the 80's with just my bitchin' scissors and glue stick people...These 2 pictures are still hanging on the wall at my parents-too funny, huh?)
Now go play along with us!! I'm supplying the prize this month. A big assortment of papers, alphas and embellishments. I'll be like, totally bummed out, if you don't come play, like, totally...
