When you spend your entire life in a small geographical area, it does indeed become a small world. (Although I did go on the “Small World” ride at Disneyland once, and to this day, I can’t stand that song)
Anyways……we have a group of about 6 or 7 gentlemen who come in for dinner every couple of weeks. Last night they were at a table right across from the bar. Considering they were the only table in the lounge….it was next to impossible not to hear them.
Near the end of the evening, they were talking about local high schools….and then they threw out some years…like “72.….’74.….so I got curious and walked around to the table and asked who graduated in ‘74, and from where. Turns out one of the guys and I graduated together. Not only that, we also went to the same junior high school. So once we had that established we started talking about all the people we remembered in common…..the 30th reunion……I even threatened to make a copy of his old year book picture and bring it in. lol!
They had also mentioned another name of someone I went to elementary school with, but had moved and went to another high school. Turns out he was the ’74 graduates accountant….and I knew the guys parents and sister from another restaurant I had worked at.
So then the ‘74 graduate throws out some more names, I remember them, and they are all the cousins of another guy at the table.
Considering there are 100,000 people in our city, and our graduating class had over 700 people, and this is 37 years later….it was a lot of fun to play who knows who.
It just goes to show you, you never know when your past is gonna pop up and bite you in the ass….. So behave…..
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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