Here For the Memories
A thought-provoking audio memoir shorts filled with stories, humor, anecdotes, and commentary on social, cultural, business, and religious issues. Whatever Linden remembers and thinks will entertain, challenge, and inform is a possible subject.
Here For the Memories
My Defiant Dance With a Man in Drag
Remember the thrill of sneaking out, feeling like a rebel against the rigid rules of your teenage years? Join me as I recount one of the most amusing acts of defiance from my high school days—a night when my friend Brian and I dared to crash the school dance, despite my mother's ironclad ban. With Brian strutting in drag, we didn't just attend; we stole the spotlight. This episode is a quirky reflection on the universal tension between youthful rebellion and parental authority, leaving you to wonder if there might have been a way to defy the rules with a touch more respect.
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Here For the Memories
Here for the memories thought-provoking audio memoir shorts filled with stories, humor, anecdotes and commentary on social, cultural, business and religious issues. Whatever Lyndon remembers and thinks will entertain, challenge and inform is a possible subject. The collection of memories about one's life allows for the development and refinement of a sense of self, including who one is, how one has changed and what one might be like in the future.
Speaker 2:Greetings and salutations. This is Lyndon Wolfe and you have reached my audio memoir called here for the Memories. It's not a podcast. Please don't say that. It's an audio memoir for friends and family to have something to know me by some source of information on my life, my opinions, my experiences and just you know things in general. Glad you joined. You're always welcome.
Speaker 2:Everything in the house that I grew up in was sinful. Let me say that again Sinful. Okay, that's a gross exaggeration, but there was a pretty long list of activities and substances that would immediately put you in jeopardy of eternal damnation. A truncated list would include playing cards, playing billiards. Premarital sex Okay. Depending on what your definition of marriage is, this one certainly has some merit. Interesting story I was once in a singles class at a Southern Baptist church when the subject, of course, came up.
Speaker 2:When the facilitator that would be me asked the question if premarital sex was okay, a middle-aged man, seemingly unaware that he was in a room filled with single Christian women and thus putting himself in harm's way, blurted out couldn't believe this. Is there any other kind? Due to the restraint of the Holy Spirit, he left the room unscathed A modern-day miracle. But back to the list Tobacco usage. Swearing based upon cultural definitions, of course, inappropriate clothing. Candidly, I never saw my mother that she didn't have a skirt on ever, and most young women in that quite conservative day she probably would have considered lewd Gambling over anything other than Christ's clothing clothing or Judas Iscariot's replacement among the original twelve and dancing that seemed to be the most loathed Dancing. In summation, if it was fun, pleasurable, enjoyable, it was sin, if you like it. It's got to be wrong. By the way, that also has some merit.
Speaker 2:So my senior year in high school, having been prohibited from attending any school dances, I asked a lifelong friend, a good girl, a mother knew as well as her fine family, to accompany me. Amy was willing to be seen with me, which was actually quite shocking, even though it was more of an appearance than a date. After explaining to my mother the situation, my desire to go, that it would be Amy and she knew her family, yada, yada, she paused for less than one second and said no, in no uncertain terms. None of the other kids she reasoned had so I would not be allowed to either. Dejected, I told Amy and plotted activities for dance night to keep me from thinking about what I was missing. Brian Decker, though seriously more handsome and nice than I, had a similar problem. Not the prohibition piece, he just didn't have a date, which I never figured out, so he decided to hang out.
Speaker 2:But that meeting launched hatched, if you will a heinous plan to attend the dance under very strange circumstances. I believe it was Brian I'm going to blame him with thick mustache and all who said he would dress in drag even though we didn't call it drag in the 70s. Who said he would dress in drag even though we didn't call it drag in the 70s, and that we would crash the party, so to speak. And we did. We both played on the school's basketball team, so we were relieved.
Speaker 2:When Coach Majors was monitoring the entrance, a man who never laughed in his entire existence broke into the faintest of grins and said get in there. This is the most boring dance ever. It's like watching paint dry or grass grow. Maybe you'll liven things up. Then he said go in his demanding voice, and off we went.
Speaker 2:So, despite my mother's prohibition, her clear objections, I was not only at the dance, I was at the dance with a man in drag and I must say that we were hit, as they say. We got the party started. Brian was a much better dancer than I. I had no clue, candidly, since it was banned. In my household Even the observation of it on something like Lawrence Well was barred or banned, and at my house the best description of my dancing to this very day would be that of a seizure. So of course I let him lead. That was kind, that was gracious, that was practical. My mother would have been proud, except I shouldn't have been at the dance. Later we even got our picture made, like all couples. That picture, to my amazement and trepidation, made it into the school annual Brian with thick mustache, lady's hat, skirt, pulled up showings of leg and me next to him laughing uncontrollably and pointing at him with hand close to my stomach, which was cramping from all the intense laughter and excessive goof-offs.
Speaker 2:So I defied. My mother, attended a dance with a man in drag, shamelessly committed the atrocity of dance floor gyrations, seizures, and left the evidence of it all in a picture that told the sordid story of my defiance. I'm so glad my mother never found out at least to my knowledge she didn't. I had enough family demerits without this major one. Plus, it would have hurt her to know that her son defied her, even though he considered her demands unreasonable. He should have been obedient. I don't know what your story is. I don't know the dynamics of your family if they were legalistic or if they were liberal but you know, all children think that their parents' demands are unreasonable, even when they're not. That's just the way we're wired. We're wired for rebellion.
Speaker 2:As you look back on your family dynamics and the way your parents raised you, were you respectful? I wish I'd been more respectful. Were you obedient, at least in the sense that you were willing to listen and tolerate what they were telling you to do? I wish I had been more obedient. You know, I've always said that every day I live, my parents get smarter, better and wiser.
Speaker 2:When I was 15 or 16, they were idiots. Then I got married and had a child and tried to start a career and tried to balance everything keep up with the finances, keep up with work, keep up with the family. It was exhausting and suddenly my parents got smarter, better and wiser. And as I continued to age, they still get smarter, better and wiser. And as I continued to aid, they still get smarter, better and wiser. I hope that's the case with you. Yes, at some point we all, in our youth and naivety and our belief that we have our head and hands around everything on this planet, the world, how it works, life in general, think our parents are stupid. But don't we know today they really aren't, they never were. I pray you look back on your relationship with your parents and find it happy, whole and blessed. I'm Lyndon Wolfe. This has been here for the Memories. So glad you joined. Go make some memories and God bless.
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