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Back to back stories from "things that make you feel old" quotes....good thing I'm still in my peak.  Right? 

Grade 11, this was one of the movies for our Director study in English P.  Our English classroom was right at one end of the school, entry off an alleyway, then a long hallway after the door before you entered the room - you could always sneak out for a ciggy (or come in late) and our teacher just did not care (some days, he'd even join us).  This day, we snuck in and after a few minutes the two main characters kissed (both men).

Being very mature and comfortable in our 16yo masculinity, we started laughing, pretending to gag, etc.  Thinking we were so funny, we didn't realise no-one else was reacting.  Suddenly the movie stops, the lights flicks on.  It's the AP sitting at the teacher's desk!  "Where the hell have you two been?".  Turns out there's a FAR move explicit scene in the few minutes before we got there, and the AP had had to stop a few times to calm the class, hence why no-one else reacted.

For punishment, we had to (re)watch the movie with the AP in our own lunch breaks.  Took the best part of two weeks detention - that movie must be four hours long!

I'll claim this as the first ever LP I bought with my own money.  (It was actually the second, the first was "Soft Metal" or some compilation but that's because the record shop guy recommended it).

It was the year 1988 - I was 8 - but what an incredible time to get into music.  I got a record player, amp and speakers for my birthday from my parents, and my father and uncle started my journey of musical discovery with a new album every month for a year.

Guns'n'Roses (Appetite), Skid Row (Skid Row), Metallica (RTL, MOP, then AJFA on release), Slayer (Reign in Blood), Anthrax (spreading the Disease), and slightly later Megadeth (Rust in Peace was the first album of their's and I bought it myself).  There must have been some others I don't remember, but it was just hit after hit - and with a month in between getting each one they were played constantly.

...edit:  Just looked up "Soft Metal 1988".  Damn if that songlist isn't my secret guilty pleasure of hair metal singalongs.