Saturday, September 15, 2007

Growing up too fast!

When: 2000-2001 ish
Where: Bombay
What: I spent a lot of my childhood around people a few years older than me and it's inevitable that children will do what they see, or atleast consider doing it. I guess I got my crazy ideas from the girls who talked about waxing their legs and shaving and other things that "grown up" girls do. So one day, after a lot of thinking, I grabbed the razer when taking a shower and shaved my legs! A day or two later, I told my best friend about it. At first she rediculed my actions by lecturing me about how I might get caught, or how it will grow back thicker. But like I said, I did this after a lot of thinking. I explained to her it wasn't hard for me to hide it from my parents, I'd just wear long pants and it didn't bother me that it might grow back thicker, because then I could just shave it off again. I finally managed to convince her, and she decided to try it out too. I gave her strict warning to be careful and not get caught, because obviously the blame would me traced back to me. The next day she showed me her clean shaven legs, and we walked about like two 2o- year- olds. A few days later, when both of our mom's were having an intense discussion, my friend pulled me aside and told me that her mom found out that she shaved her legs and that she is now telling my mom to check my legs too. I instantly began to freek out at her, arms flailing and voice getting higher and higher. When I got home that evening, my mom called me to her, she wanted to "discuss something". To make a long story short, after some intense questioning and examining of the legs, and lets not forget, shouting and yelling, I was instructed not to shave my legs again!

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