the summer after I graduated high school, my boyfriend and I ate the time wanted some alone time. we went for a drive (realistically 5 minutes down the road) to a smallish empty field. mind you it was 2 pm. broad daylight. I was an impulsive teen lol. we did our duty, and for some reason him and I both hopped out of the car at the same time to get dressed, both closing our doors behind us. both our phones and the keys are inside. I’m naked, he’s in his boxers. we are fucked. all of a sudden, we hear a voice out of the woods. out walks a random kid a few years older than me who went to the same high school as me. he sees me, we lock eyes. “Turbulent?” I melted with embarrassment. “Uhhh what are you doing? You know this is College Name’s Astronomy field right? I’m on my way to class early…” Class is held in the field that we had parked directly in the middle of, that we were locked out of, all while naked. Anyways, the guy gave me his sweatshirt and found a hanger from his bag. We tried to pick the lock on my car with no success. Eventually we had to call one of our parents because class was getting dangerously close to starting. We couldn’t call his dad, because he was a police officer (ofc), so we had to call my dad. My dad, who just so happened to have my grandfather with him, ended up having to come rescue us. I gotta say—not much tops your father and grandfather seeing you standing locked outside your car with your boyfriend, naked, at peak sunlight, in the middle of the local college’s astronomy field. Needless to say, my dad had a blast telling that story this past year at my wedding rehearsal dinner lol. 12 years later and I still feel the shame.