seemingly innocuous moments that you will always remember

I mean like, fleeting things that stay with you, do you have some to share?

(my version is slower and a bit better than this one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tTu95Ebxo

Every time i hear this song i think of this one day when i was working in a record store in Dublin, and this girl was coming down the stairs through the floor the store was on, and she did a small sort of dance and smiled at me. it wasn't like a romantic or sexual thing, i can't even remember her face or it's not particularly the smile that mattered. I've just never forgotten the shared moment.

It’s not because she was beautiful, I can’t even remember if she was. It’s because the moment was so perfect, the music, I guess it was a Saturday, everything just felt very right. Nothing was said and I know nothing about this person, but it comes into my head anytime I hear this record, and I think about it for a while, it sort of encapsulates life for me in a way I am only today trying to understand at last, after years of thinking about it.

do you have similar tales to tell?

I remember being upstairs in WH Smiths, in the bit where they sold the records, with various members of my stuffed shirt no humour family, when the opening bass line of George Michael's 'I Want Your Sex' floated over the shop's PA system. I still remember the young teenage embarrasment of the situation, thinking to myself 'shit, no, anything but this song, ffs I hope they don't comment on it, arrrgh'.

like this, except massively embarrasing (NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEkOVdUjHc

sitting in a transit van on a colony holiday thinking I'm going to remember this moment & still doing so 30 years later.

& maybe the point is that I can't remember what moments fit around that. Just being in a van that was winding down country roads.

Being in a Ford Fiesta on the motorway on the way back from Brighton, tipping it down with rain, heavy traffic, probably the driver was breaking the speed limit. Listening to 'Ace of Spades' through the single car stereo speaker balanced in the ashtray. Really apocalyptic. One of my friends jokingly says "hey, we're gonna die, aren't we!".

the way one of my ex-girlfriends used to cutely poke me in the arm with her finger each morning as a signal that she was now awake.

the text my mother sent me when I asked her what she wanted for Christmas the last year they still lived in the same state as us (and knew they were moving soon), which read "just want us 2 all be 2gether"

Christmas before last, my mother had just installed a bird table in the back garden right in front of the kitchen window, and I very clearly remember standing in front of it for ages watching all these little goldfinches darting around and fighting over little morsels of food very early one morning.