Saiko had let me know through several different friends that she wanted to date me. The problem is, I wasn't remotely attracted to her, and she was also kinda crazy. I told all of her friends who tried to get me to date her that I wasn't really interested.

One day, one of my buddies begged me to do a double date with him because the girl he wanted to take out had a double-date only rule. I told him that if he could get me a girl to go on the date, I'd go (huge mistake). He called a little while later and told me I'd be with Saiko (a friend of the girl he was after). Even better, they wanted to go to a drive-in movie. 🤦

Reluctantly, I agreed, but stipulated that I would drive (and took my dad's car with bucket seats and a giant console between the front seats).

The movies were terrible chick flicks and unbelievably long, and a spent the entire time smashed against my door and intermittently rolling the window up and down acting completely unaware of Saiko who was contorting herself over the console trying to get closer to me. Meanwhile, my buddy and his date were making out and who knows what else in the back seat... Great fun.

Finally, the torture ended and we drove back to the meeting spot (where everyone else's cars were parked) and I expentantly waited for everyone to get out. My buddy had other ideas though and decided to keep chatting and drag out the date as long as possible. I finally lost it when Saiko took her shoes off and put her feet on the dashboard and I told everyone to get out, now, because I needed to go home and go to sleep (it was probably 3am at that point).

She still didn't get the hint though and continued to try, until a few weeks later when I had to physically shove her away when she tried to force herself on me as I was sleeping on the bus on the way home from the state track meet.

After that, she went scary crazy and started vandalizing my stuff. I'd come back to my truck with honey smeared all over it and thumbtacks stuck under the handles, or paint on my locker, or other crazy stuff. I seriously got concerned that she was going to wait by my truck one night and shoot me or something, but my friends all thought it was a hoot... I was soo glad when she graduated and went to college (this was my Jr year and Saiko was a Sr).