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When "Grease" came out I had just turned 13...

posted 8 years ago by Rocksterious
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... and Olivia Newton John had already turned 29 during filming.
How awkward is it (particularly in today's hyper PC obsessed world) that I had a serious, full-on crush on her from the very moment I clapped eyes on Sandy in the first trailer?
Don't tell me I was too young to understand what I was feeling or how unable I'd have been at that age, to process or deal with those feelings if I'd met her IRL, especially had she been responsive or pliant to my adolescent desires.
Trust me, I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do with her, given half a chance.
I'm not suggesting that I believed that any of that was possible, just that I knew what I wanted as much as anyone.
Did anyone else here share my deluded/adolescent fantasy at such a "tender" age, or was I truly the misfit that our progressive, "modern" society loves to suggest that I must have been?

Edit: I still get that "funny feeling" when I hear the first few bars of "Summer Nights". lol

[–] cleverestbunny-430-409659 7 years ago

Well, here's a thought.
When the movie "Clueless" came out, and you were about 30, did you have lustful thoughts about Stacy Dash?

"You cannot boil a llama and expect it to taste like a grilled monkey".

[–] gibsonj338-3 7 years ago

When "Grease" came out, I was negative four years seven months and eight days old. I cannot remember the first time I saw "Grease," but it had to be sometime in the 2000s; I do not remember a thing about "Grease" which is why I am currently watching "Grease" now. After watching "Grease," I will watch "Grease 2" and then will watch "Grease Live!" I cannot wait.

[–] roman2886 7 years ago

I wasn't even born when grease came out I was minus 5 the 70s and the 80s had the best movies the greasers died out in the 1970s they really did exist they were known as rockers in the uk.

[–] Porrohman 7 years ago

I was 7, And...felt exactly the same way. Scary! Hahaha

[–] roman2886 7 years ago

I have answered a few threads about how old people were these films came out I was only a little tiny tot when goonies came out that is even more scarier the youngest ones were only 4 7 and 10 the oldest ones were between 11 and 20.

[–] liscarkat (16469) 5 years ago

I doubt anyone worries about a thirteen-year-old boy having a crush on a twenty-nine-year-old woman. But if a twenty-nine-year-old woman expressed sexual fantasies about a thirteen-year-old boy, that would be awkward. If the sexes were reversed in the latter case, heads would explode.