Your "first time" stories

Things have gone a little quiet on here so I’d like to ask a question and give you my experience:

Question:  When, where and to whom was the first time you ever played to or for someone?  I’m not talking about practicing in front of your partner or jamming with friends but actually picked up the guitar and played to someone?

Mine was on Saturday night and I still have the smile on my face, there I was, sat at my mates kitchen table at about 10pm, I’d been there from noon watching Swansea v Cardiff in the Championship, then England v Australia in rugby union, then Wales v New Zealand and we were killing some time before the boxing (what a fantastic day of sport even if all the results didn’t go my way!).  I’d taken my guitar as my mate has been learning about the same time as me and we often get a drunken jam in at the end of the night.  However my parents had turned up and my mate and me sort of decided not to play as sometimes a drunken jam can end a party quicker than anything. 

Anyway I had never ever played for anyone before, perhaps when I first started playing I’d shown a few people some basics chords and short solos I’d learned but I’d never actually played and sung to anyone other than my mate when jamming or wife and kids when practicing.

Anyway, the men are in the kitchen chatting about blokes things while the women where in the living room doing what women do and my dad  says “go on then, give us a song!†  My heart just slumped to the pits of my stomach!  Now my dad is a straight talking, no nonsense drummer, not in a band but he has always played and he is pretty good so he’d be the last person I’d want to play for, plus I just wasn’t prepared.  On top of all this I had drunk more wine than I care to remember and I was worried that I’d make myself look a right plonker as my left hand fingers clonked desperately over the frets trying to find Em, Am, C..

So having no real excuse, or I should say my father not taking no for an answer, I pick up my guitar and start playing and singing a few songs from my book!  To my amazement my dad was clapping and singing along with a look of shocked surprise on his face.  I must have done about 10 songs and my father said he was shocked how good I was not even taking into account the fact I’d been learning only 10 months.
Even though I was pretty drunk the feeling of exhilaration, pride, satisfaction was incredible and I for sure won’t think twice again if anyone asks me to perform something. 
I guess I am now a “performer† (lol)?