New Old Friends

I find myself reaching out to old friends that I haven't seen or heard from in years. I kind of want to surround myself with people that remind me of a time when life was still an experiment, when there were no bills and the closest thing to breaking the innocence of your young life was finger banging a chick during a school play.

I was driving around my old hood that I lived in during 7th and 8th grade. I remembered one of my best friends from that era. When I got home I looked the dude up, called the number, got his parents, and his pops gave me the cell number. We kicked it for a minute and reminicsed for a little bit. We both went in the service after high school. I remember thinking damn, I should have went to the force my damn self. But he was kicked out like I was. LOL, shit happens. I was glad he is doing good and hopefully we'll go out for drinks or some shit. Hell we're grown now. The thing that bugged me out was that he is still cool with his girl from back then, and you know what? Why did they call me on the three way? LOL, that's all we ever did back in the day. A ton of folks on the three way talking about nintendo, big daddy kane, and teachers we hated. It was good to go back there for a while. Just to remember when life was carefree. Yall remember emergency breakthru's on the phone? BWHAHAHAHAHAHA. Shit, your game would be seriously thwarted if the operator came on like;

"Boooooooooooooooop, Emergency breaktrough from Toya, will you take the call?"

Now I have to use Toya as an example. She was my girl back then, and was the QUEEN of emergency breakthru'n. And my ass would be on the horn with the next chick, running out of excuses as to just who the hell this Toya person is.

"Uh, my cousin from downstairs."

"She can't come up and knock on the door?"

"Her leg is broke."

"Uh huh."

"I'll call you back."

"Uh huh, okay."

A couple days later, and as normal, Toya and I had broken up over something dumb. But it never fails for her to call to yell at me.

"Boooooooooooooooop, Emergency breaktrough from Toya, will you take the call?"

"Ugh, I hate this chick!"

"Your cousin?"

"Nah, she my ex, she on my jock."

"Uh, you said that was your cousin."

"Huh? Errr ummmm. What I meant was tha..."

"Click"

"I guess I'm taking the call operator."

Ahhhh, the good ole days...