Thursday, June 09, 2005

Friends and Time

Funny how one day you're a natty headed kid with not a clue about life and the next your teasing each other about "'70's" hair do's, and each other's receding hairlines. Of course this observation is borne of my earlier observation of my daughter's fascination with the hippy Bo Bice. I apparently stirred the pot with this one as I heard from my dear friend the former Tracey Wright....and I mean "dear friend" most sincerely............

Of course I also heard from the Chuckstinator in Holland...he of very little hair these days, but a good sport all the same and the owner of quite an entertaining blog himself..."misadventuresofchuck".........

Still if nothing else Blogging seems to lend itself to plenty of retrospect at times, as this has been the case of late. I mean really-- writing about my DAUGHTER!! I'm still in shock I have a kid. And then there was Tracey's reply about her son in HIGH SCHOOL!!!! jesus...gimme a break. It seems like yesterday I was up to alot of no good and fun times with her in that little Omni...of course that's the great part about old friendships...you can pick up right where you "left off". Case in point would be, everytime we see each other he drift back to that magical night in 1979...November 11th actually---to Bob Marley and the Wailers in concert University of Pennsylvania...now I can tell this story a 1000 times, and no-one, unless they saw the great one himself...really can identify with what we saw that night. We boarded the train in Swarthmore station, laden down with a backpack full of Genesee Creal ales...of course my Mother entrusted her soon to be 16 year old son with the "responsible Tracey"..HA!.......

Hell I still don't believe we where there. But we were. We also were there for....get this-- Pope John Paul's visit to Philadelphia...not sure what that's all about. Still we did alot of funny things, we worked the Swedesboro-Gibbstown drinking circuit at Waynes Paradise Inn, limping home on more than one occasion, we even worked together occasionally...lifeguarding. We shared good times, funny times, sad times, heartbreak times..you name it. So it's with a nice sense of connection that I see her posting to this site after all these years gone by....of course it's also tempered with a great deal of amazement when she speaks of her High School children...who have great hair mind you....just like I had. Your the best Trac...funny, witty and always lurking even after all these years....maybe we'll have some more laughs this summer at the Jersey shore? I'll be up at Bill and Sal's in Avalon last two weeks in August....surely there's someone we haven't told the BM & the Wailers story too?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

can someone get me a tissue.......
TP, you are the best, and I treasure the times that we had together!! Yes, we had some very interesting times!!! And then to see you at the bar of the 4 Dogs in Marshallton this fall, after being thrown out of your house by a couple of hurricanes!! Maybe we can meet again at the next 'Tri-athlon'!!!
Or the Jersey shore, that works too!

PAYNTERinFLORIDA said...

We will definitely meet at the triathlon!....we'll have it more coordinated this time...a hug and a kiss for you Trac...your bud...Timbo

Anonymous said...

Jezz, I was gonna comment, but I think you two need a moment alone...

Anonymous said...

thank you Chuck, for the privacy.....
;-)