When I was about 5 years old for some reason I really wished the school receptionist was my mum. My mum's a good mum and it's not that I wanted a replacement, I just think I had a kind of crush on her.
This is utterly ridiculous to me, but some time when I was a kid I saw a Cilla Black LP in a shop window and I wanted my mum to buy me the album just for the picture. Looking at pictures of her on the Internet now I cannot fathom what that was about. If the picture of her was good it must have been a once in a lifetime thing because I cannot see anything about her that was attractive at any time in her life.
I had a crush on a bi-racial baby sitter one time. She offered to let me stay up later to watch a horror film after my brother went to bed and I really wanted to say yes just to be with her, but I didn't understand why I wanted to be around her so much so I said I'd go to bed at the same time as my brother. I think I was a pretty normal kid, I always wanted to stay up late, but that must have been the one time I volunteered to go to bed early. I don't know how old she was, but I'm not sure what her motive was in offering to let me see a horror film. She thought I was saying no to the horror film, but I was saying no to being around her, which I really wanted but didn't understand.