My childhood best friend, Sam, AKA "POTTY MOUTH," finished his orthodontics residency and has started his practice after eleventy million years in school. In celebration that he has finally crawled out of the hole into which he went when he began dental school, a small group of us met in San Diego to crash on the beach for four days.
This trip was incredibly exhausting but well worth the energy expenditure.
On Sunday evening two of us flew back to Salt Lake City. There, the greatest coincidence of my life happened. I've talked about my very best friend, Corey, on Stranger, but not much for several years. Corey and I were in law school together and then when we finished school over three years ago, she moved to southern California and I stayed in Salt Lake and texted Snuggie selfies to strangers.
She and I have maintained our long-distance friendship well over the years but have missed seeing each other. As it just so happened, Corey was making a quick trip to Salt Lake City, unbeknownst to me, and just happened to be on the same flight as me, sitting right next to me.
We spoke in one continuous breath for the entire two-hour flight, most definitely irritating everyone sitting around us. But it was the best flight of my life.
Brett didn't luck out quite as much as we did across the aisle. But he did hear every detail of the life story of this woman and her bra strap.
~It Just Gets Stranger
I felt so abandoned. I'll need years of therapy... But your hair is particularly on point today
ReplyDeleteHow are ALL of your friends attractive?
ReplyDeleteThe attractiveness quotient in Utah is pretty off the charts. Avoiding the worst of life's vices actually has an appreciable effect on physical appearance generally.
Delete^^^Truth.
DeleteTestify, Stranguh! (I'm doing my best Mormon impersonation of a Baptist right now.)
DeleteCorey is a babe!
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DeleteThis is AWESOME!!! I have to ask, though, Eli-- how many '"very best" friends in the world do you have? Maybe I'm just getting them mixed up and the ranking isn't clear. Perhaps I should start a Stranger Wiki so we can keep track of all the characters on this show...
ReplyDeleteIf a Stranger Wiki was created, I could probably die happy.
DeleteDo it. I would appreciate it so much. You could have links with each character to posts where their name shows up, so that way fans of, say, Brandt could have all his stories in one place. Please!!
DeleteEli's already given us a head start with the labels. I don't think they are 100% accurate, and there are probably posts from before he started using them that mention people, but still a valuable resource.
DeleteHmmm... I wonder if my tech-geek son could help me set that up. :)
DeleteWiki . . . .wiki . . . . wiki . . . .
DeleteEverybody chant with me now . . .
Wait wait wait. I went ALL the way to Salt Lake City last week JUST to see you, Eli, and you were back in California instead?! I am so insulted! It makes my cousin's mission farewell and my giant family reunion that I went to not at all worthwhile! Although, your hair is phenomenal right now.
ReplyDeleteI love the look of weary, polite resignation on Brett's face.
ReplyDeleteThat is such a cool experience! I was just talking to a friend last night about the random places we've run into friends. On an airplane has not been one of them, though!
ReplyDeleteBrett has somehow managed to look interested and horrified at the same time. That's incredibly impressive.
ReplyDeleteOh, the body language exhibited by both in that photo speaks volumes!
DeleteAll of your friends (and you, of course!) are entirely too attractive! Your hair is the best though.
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