As the departure time (for military service) rapidly approaches, I am nostalgicly reminded about the people I knew. I have spent a short 20 years on this planet, and yet, I have met (and hopefully touched the lives of) more people than I can remember. The following is a short trip of nostalgia, which is mostly for me but you might also find interesting.
-le Ed.
I have met several unique and interesting individuals in the course of my life. These blurbs are a shout-out to them and a rememberance of the way they touched my life.
I knew a man...
...who would say, "Let's kick it in the a__" when refering to speeding up
...who could do a standing backflip
...who could pretend to fight dinosaurs, and still look cool
...who owned a mansion
...whose own life was a wreck but he stood up for me
...who could calculate the speed of the bus with nothing but his watch and the passing trees
...who said, "It's like havin' ___ with a thirteen-year-old. You can put it in there, but ain't nothin' gonna happen."
...who lent me a thousand dollars and never asked for it back
...who told me, "I saw those in the War."
...who a co-worker was afraid of
...who caught me playing video games on company time
...who said, "I want to hug you, but I shouldn't because I'm gay."
...whose mother's authentic Thai food tasted good but burned the hair off your chest it was so spicy
...who joined the Navy
...who said, "You want me to kick his a__ for you?", and meant it
...who had the guts, determination, or the crazies, to up an join the military with me
...who caused a scene in Perkins at 3 in the A.M. when we went there drunk and st___d
...who would laugh at me, not with me
...who is older than me but has yet to show an interest in women
...who would laugh with me, not at me
...who hit college in '02 and is still recovering (from the parties)
...who would come to work (at Wal-Mart) high as a kite and talk about things that didn't exsist
...who told me to make "an 18th-level character"
...who wouldn't know talent if it bit him in the a__
...who was driving my car without a licence when the officer stopped us
...who introduced me to bull shots, which come up twice as quickly as they go down
...who invited me to a houseparty, but even though he invited me, he didn't know what a houseparty was
...who would host "parties" that rapidly devolved into "spin the bottle"
...who could dance
...who could NOT dance
...who could not dance, but thought that he could
...who sold me a bottle of 1914 Gold Medal Jack Daniels, I still owe him 50 bucks
...who, on the roadie home, said the immortal words, "Dude, sometimes, ...I be dumb."
...who, like you the reader, deserves mention here, but doesn't get that reward
...who would say, "Boom! You're done!"