Ever met a person...
... that you just kept bumping into over the years? BH is that sort of person for me. We were friends in kindergarten up to about fourth grade. We used to play Sonic the Hedgehog outside on the playground during recess -- he and Penny were basically my first real best friends. Anyway, in fourth grade his parents divorced, so he had to move. I don't really remember much of it other than one day he was there, and the next he wasn't.
Anyway, that was basically the end of it in my mind -- I was too young to understand that you could keep in touch with a person over the years, so I just sort of moved on and made some new friends, including this girl named Heather Wellauer. She ended up paying me a visit again randomly about five years later, but we'd grown so far apart that we both came to this mutual agreement that we were going to go our own separate ways and so we did. I haven't heard from her since.. I hope she's doing well. (Penpen, were you there when Heather stopped by? She was so... not cool. I remember we walked down to the elementary school so she could reminisce and she smoked a joint on the way there and a cigarette on the way back.)
Back to BH, when I was... what, 15? 16? something like that, out of the blue, I got a phone call from him. We spent the next two months basically on the phone every night with each other (Penny, do you remember me telling you about that?). It was fun, but it got disrupted when his phone went out. We picked up sporadically after that, but life got crazy and eventually it just sort of fell through the cracks. I kept seeing him over the years, but never for very long -- usually like during the Canoe Regatta or something like that.
Anyway, at the beginning of this year, my mom surprised me by telling me that he was working underneath her now. Talk about a small world! It's sort of funny how things like this work out. Of all the people in that entire big factory, he ended up working for my mom -- go figure! It's kind of fun how the world is so small like that. Just today, when I was at work, I noticed one of my fellow coworkers was in a picture with John, one of my best friends here at Cornell. Turns out my coworker was in the same building as John and had done this trivia thing with him that previous weekend.
The world is so very very tiny sometimes.
Anyway, that was basically the end of it in my mind -- I was too young to understand that you could keep in touch with a person over the years, so I just sort of moved on and made some new friends, including this girl named Heather Wellauer. She ended up paying me a visit again randomly about five years later, but we'd grown so far apart that we both came to this mutual agreement that we were going to go our own separate ways and so we did. I haven't heard from her since.. I hope she's doing well. (Penpen, were you there when Heather stopped by? She was so... not cool. I remember we walked down to the elementary school so she could reminisce and she smoked a joint on the way there and a cigarette on the way back.)
Back to BH, when I was... what, 15? 16? something like that, out of the blue, I got a phone call from him. We spent the next two months basically on the phone every night with each other (Penny, do you remember me telling you about that?). It was fun, but it got disrupted when his phone went out. We picked up sporadically after that, but life got crazy and eventually it just sort of fell through the cracks. I kept seeing him over the years, but never for very long -- usually like during the Canoe Regatta or something like that.
Anyway, at the beginning of this year, my mom surprised me by telling me that he was working underneath her now. Talk about a small world! It's sort of funny how things like this work out. Of all the people in that entire big factory, he ended up working for my mom -- go figure! It's kind of fun how the world is so small like that. Just today, when I was at work, I noticed one of my fellow coworkers was in a picture with John, one of my best friends here at Cornell. Turns out my coworker was in the same building as John and had done this trivia thing with him that previous weekend.
The world is so very very tiny sometimes.