We are meeting with some friends to go out for dinner tonight. Doug and I have been friends since I think it was Grade 10. So let's see if I can figure this out. Graduated High school in 1975 grade 13, so...
1974 - Grade 12
1973 - Grade 11
1972 - Grade 10.
2010 - 1972 = 38.
38 years whew.
Doug is a very good friend, Sharon, his wife is a very good friend as well, LifeWife and I have a tendency to just drop by their place every now and then. Sometimes we call, sometimes we don't. They are always very welcoming. In fact we have dropped by a couple of times when they already had friends visiting them, people we didn't know, and that doesn't phase them a bit. "Come on in," then introductions would follow.
We are celebrating Sharon's birthday. She already had a party/celebration but we had a previous commitment and were unable to make it.
Grade 10 I think it was Doug and I were in the same English class. Frank P. was the teacher, here is the difference between then and now. Doug and I went to his house for the weekend, no big deal, no grilling from the parents, nobody thought it was weird. There is some joke here that we were riding in Frank's car, a convertible, and the radio was on, and Frank and Doug were singing. And I made some comment about how I hated it when people sang along when I was trying to listen to the song. It was really funny at the time... Even now Doug or I will just say, "You know what I really hate??" and that is enough to get a good laugh from us.
Doug and I were in art class together, Doug is an artist, I am not. We discovered photography together, the high school had a darkroom, so Doug and I would go out shooting then come back and develop our film, print a contact sheet, (does anyone know what that is anymore) then choose a few to print. We would take pictures of exactly the same thing and yet somehow his shots always looked better than mine. They had that hard to define "edge" or view or perspective that mine just didn't seem to have.
Shared memories, reminiscence of past significant events, troublesome times, very good times...
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