Fun childhood memories
We saw ‘40-year old Virgin’ & ‘Broken Flowers’ on Saturday. The themes of those movies, combined with the other stuff going on in my life -and- Shelby starting school, have combined to bring up all kinds of memories from my past for the past week or so. Here’s one that I was thinking of on the way to work today…
3rd, 4th or 5th grade (???). I get a phone call from Patty S, asking me if I wanted to come to her house & play. I was not good friends with her, but she was never mean or anything, either. I had just been to her birthday party, at her house, a few weeks before that. So, it was plausible that she would call me up to come over, I guess.
I talked to my mom & somehow got a ride there. Can’t remember who drove me - Mom? Dad? An older sibling?
When I rang the doorbell, she seemed kind of confused. It was a bit awkward at first, but she was polite & we had fun playing for a while.
Monday at school, Sharon R & Margaret G asked me if I had fun with Patty. They were laughing so hard they were crying. Turns out they had made that first phone call, pretending to be Patty & inviting me over. So, they got double the fun out of that one, I guess. Got Patty & I both with that one.
Hope they’ve figured out other ways to be happy in their lives, since then. Ways that involve real good things happening to them, instead of bad things happening to others.
Oh boy…sounds like something that would be done to me when I was younger. The kinds of jokes kids come up with like that just amaze me.
Comment by muse — August 29, 2005 @ 5:25 pm