I like to check my blog stats. What can I say, I’m a numbers geek.

Most of the search terms that get to my blog tend to be what I expect: guns, self-defense, martial arts, kuk sool, maybe the various bands from Sunday Metal or music-related posts.

But today I had my first funny search term:

hand placement when making out

I do have some articles that discuss hand placement, but not in relation to making out. I put the search phrase into Google and gave up trying to find my blog in the search results after clicking through a number of pages. So I guess this person was doing a lot of reading for them to get to me. 😉

Now, I find some humor in this; not depreciating humor, but more finding it cute and innocent as I imagine some young awkward teenager behind this (but who knows). I figure the person searching on the term was honestly looking for some advice. Maybe it’s just the old fart in me but… back in my young awkward “first time making out” stages of life I didn’t have any Internet to look things up on (get off my lawn while you’re at it). You just happily and awkwardly stumbled into it all and did whatever you did. Maybe it got too intense for her and she stopped things, or maybe it got too intense for you and you stopped things. And hopefully if you’re wondering about just where to put your hands while making out, yes there will be a stopping point not much further down the road from there! But you just did what you did and dealt with the awkwardness and the joy. If you did get any advice it’d usually be from some friend telling you something like “put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV“.

So to whomever was searching for the answer, if you’re still searching for an answer, the answer is to stop geeking it up by searching for answers online. Go do a more uh… “direct line of searching”. I’m sure they’ll be just as awkward and unsure as you. 🙂