I Carried A Watermelon and Other Awkward Moments
4 min readSep 17, 2023
There’s this scene in the now cult classic movie”Dirty Dancing” where Baby meets Johnny for the first time. Johnny is the resident hottie and rebel in this story (shocker, I mean, it’s Patrick Swayze in a muscle shirt and tight pants). We won’t discuss the feathered-hair-sorta-mullet. Anywhoo, Baby has this fairly sizable watermelon in her arms and she’s NOT allowed in the staff quarters. But she’s bored…