I've decided this month to write things I'm thankful for. I'm starting with friends. I've been blessed with some of the best friends a guy could want. In "It's a Wonderful Life" Jimmy Stewart's character becomes the richest man in town, not because of money but because of all his friends. In that regard, I consider myself very rich.
I wish I could list everyone of them, but this would be to long of a post. So if you are one of my friends please know how thankful I am for you!
One quick example of my friends: We have been friends since childhood. This story has always stuck in my head about our friendship. We were in english class and looking at the Magazine "Dynamite" He poked me in the ribs and he had written on a bald man's head, "Kojak Fan" (T.V. show in the 70's) It started me laughing out loud. The teacher of course thought I was laughing at him, so he called me out. "What's so funny would you like to share with the class?" Being the rebel I was I replied, "It's not against the law to laugh!" Well it turns out that it was against classroom law, a whole different beast. The teacher sentenced me with writing 500 sentences that I would not laugh in english class (shout out to Bart Simpson- I was so ahead of my time) So my friend says it's his fault and that I shouldn't get in trouble. So he ends up getting the 500 sentence sentences also. We called each other back and forth all evening checking to see how far we had gotten. At that age 500 sentences is alot. The next day we turned them in and the teacher threw them right in the trash. So much for my early writing career.
Now my friend could have kept silent but he didn't he took the fall with me and to this day he still is my friend. I was honored with being best man in his wedding. Health wise he's not doing so well today, so my thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. So today I'm very thankful for my friends and as Kojak used to say, "Who love's ya baby!"
I wish I could list everyone of them, but this would be to long of a post. So if you are one of my friends please know how thankful I am for you!
One quick example of my friends: We have been friends since childhood. This story has always stuck in my head about our friendship. We were in english class and looking at the Magazine "Dynamite" He poked me in the ribs and he had written on a bald man's head, "Kojak Fan" (T.V. show in the 70's) It started me laughing out loud. The teacher of course thought I was laughing at him, so he called me out. "What's so funny would you like to share with the class?" Being the rebel I was I replied, "It's not against the law to laugh!" Well it turns out that it was against classroom law, a whole different beast. The teacher sentenced me with writing 500 sentences that I would not laugh in english class (shout out to Bart Simpson- I was so ahead of my time) So my friend says it's his fault and that I shouldn't get in trouble. So he ends up getting the 500 sentence sentences also. We called each other back and forth all evening checking to see how far we had gotten. At that age 500 sentences is alot. The next day we turned them in and the teacher threw them right in the trash. So much for my early writing career.
Now my friend could have kept silent but he didn't he took the fall with me and to this day he still is my friend. I was honored with being best man in his wedding. Health wise he's not doing so well today, so my thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. So today I'm very thankful for my friends and as Kojak used to say, "Who love's ya baby!"
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