(no subject)
a friend will go to the grocery store for you
a really good friend will go to the grocery store for you on christmas eve
the unimaginable friend --comrade, lover, spouse-- goes to the crowded grocery store on christmas eve for a single can of creamed corn even tho his friend was too addle-pated to put it on the list when first he went out into the day.
no one compares to him.