A Simple Statement That May Haunt Me For The Rest of My Life

When I was a young teenager (around the age of 13-14) me and a group of my friends had this total fixation on a group of guys we didn't know. For some reason, we seemed to have some idea that they were something pretty special (I think we can blame one particular friend at that time for filling our heads with that rubbish). Once we finally got to know them, they pretty much ended up being typical teenage boys (and total jerks). Big shock!

I remember one time, when one of them was trying to insult me and made some kind of comment about betting that I didn't wash between my toes. Well, I had never really given a lot of thought to whether or not I was washing between my toes when I bathed/showered, but I was fairly certain that I did. It was a stupid comment, but at the time it still bugged me.

It is now 25 years later and I haven't even seen the person who made the comment in about 23 years, but I still too often think about it as I am showering and washing between my toes. I think that one simple (yet totally unfounded and stupid) statement (and the memory of that dumb boy and his friends) will haunt me for the rest of my life.