Yah I want a crush. It just feels good. A real one though...

Have one on me.
 

(Follow me, don't follow me)
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush

-R.E.M.

Every now and then I love an orange crush. Other orange sodas don't cut it. Yum.

Stewart's Orange Cream

Orangina

I first had Orangina when I was 11 and was taken to Alton Towers by a friend for her birthday treat. It's an amusement park and was out of my parents' reach both geographically - with no car - and financially thanks to the entrance fees.

My classmate was the youngest of an Irish family with four older brothers. Funny how even those not practising contraception (apparently) always ended with a child of the opposite sex to their many siblings :) She was slightly spoilt, but endlessly good-natured by being sat on by the nearest two brothers in age. She invited me because she didn't really have a "best friend" and thought I'd be fun and up for it. Imagine her dismay when we parked and I staggered round to the back of the car and was sick. She thought that was the whole day shot!

Nah - I was at ALTON TOWERS! You could even see the log flume from the carpark in those days. I was just carsick, being used to long journeys.

Back to Orangina! We met up at a specified time to have a picnic, because that's what you did in those days. The Toals had money, but they weren't vulgar. So we had the sort of food I'd never had before (including pate which I thought was paste) and cold potatoes (WFT?) and to drink... Wow! It was like a cross between fresh orange and fizzy water! It wasn't like orange and lemonade, or squash or anything made by Soda Stream!

It blew me away. The first ever bottle I saw for sale locally, I saved up my pocket money for and took home triumphantly to share with everyone. Who just didn't seem as excited as I was by it. I figured it must have been the setting. And a day that was 95% perfect - because of the sick and the fact I tried to order dessert at the same time as main course in the motorway restaurant on the way home and felt horribly embarrassed by it.

I only know about Orangina because I heard it was good for speed cramps, but I like your story better, Sundae!

I love your stories SG, i can't remember my childhood in that kind of detail at all. Or atleast I'm no good at relaying the details.

My first Orangina was in France. Lourdes to be precise. It was the only drink apart from water that the little ice cream vans sold. I loved it. But mainly because of the gorgeous little bottle, with its label all in French. I'd never seen it in the UK, though this would have been a couple of years after you were drinking it in Alton Towers lol.

Btw. Alton Towers. How exciting was that? Fuck we were easily pleased lol.

Hey, I like that song. I like early REM too tho'. No I don't listen anymore....I'm a dweeb. I know.

Now that I wanted a crush and one is developing, I don't want it anymore. Too much doubt and enthusiasm. I hate it when I am enthusiastic because I just seem stupid. Other people are awesome when they are enthusiastic. I just don't play it well.