Snowballing

Posted on April 29, 2003 in Book of Days Culture Daily Life Strange

Note: This is fourteenth in a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: Write about secrets revealed.

While Watching Clerks:

I didn’t care to learn what “snowballing” was. Lynn made no comment but when the number 37 came up she said “I certainly had sex before I met you. But the number was less than 36.” She got ready to tell me what it was, for her, but my hands went up, swatting rapidly, pushing like I was preventing a huge box filled with plastic pellets from falling on the floor. Whispery grunts and then I stammered “Lynn. We don’t share those secrets, what we did before we married.” I made a sound like a truck’s air brakes. The conversation had to come to a halt. The only secrets I wanted to hear were those that the screenwriter laid out as a trail to follow through his story. I didn’t want Lynn to tell me a number or names or types of sexual acts. And I didn’t want to know if she ever snowballed or not.

Black and white gives me such a headache.

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