25 July 2005

When I was in middle school, my friends and I happened upon a school binder left behind by one of the most popular girls in school. We rummaged through it to see if we could discover anything intersting, any SECRETS.

Nothing special, UNTIL. A sexual position playing card. number 6. I forgot the name of the actual position. But there was nakedness. We made a huge deal of it (well, we were 12), passing it back and forth between us. Every time after that that we wanted to make each other laugh, we'd pull each other close, as if we had something important to say, and whisper "...number six." It would send us into fits of silly laughter.

I would like to say that from then on we'd use "number six" as a code word for sex, but that was just in my mind. Every time anybody around me said "number six" or I read it anywhere, that's what I would think about. but that has since faded. Now whenever I want to use a code word for sex, I just say that we danced.