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I am going with no. I am not friends with anyone I knew from childhood. I moved from NELA to NE Arkansas in the early 70s and then from NE Arkansas to Saudi Arabia in the early 80s, then military school in Indiana, college at LSU and La Tech happened.
I have seen my best buddy from Elementary school one time in the past 40 years, my dad and I were driving from Memphis in a large moving truck full of all our old household items from when we moved to Saudi and stopped to visit his family along the way. It was like looking through a portal of what my life would have been had I stayed in NE Arkansas. My buddies sole interest was fixing up his old car and making moonshine to run it on when he was drag racing. I also made moonshine in Saudi for drinking, but he told me his moonshine wasn't for drinking, so I was afraid to even try it.
My old roommate from military school came to visit us a few years back for a few days. He is retired now and travels the country in a van visiting his old friends. He doesn't drive more than 20ish miles in a day and typically stays some where until the cops ask him to leave. When he left our house in Haughton, he was headed towards Arizona and said it would take him a few months to get there. I asked if he was going to visit his sister in Monroe, he said no. That is the opposite direction from Arizona and he didn't want to "back-track". I guess at 20 miles a day it would take him a week to make it over to Monroe, so I can see where he is coming from. He told me there was a rest stop on the LA side of the border in Greenwood he wanted to check out and compare to the Texas rest area just across the border. I told him the Texas rest area was nicer and he should just go there, he said he needed to find out for himself and see how long it took for the LA police to ask him to move along. I wished him the best. He did tell me I was doing better than all of our old high school friends and was in a much happier place, so I was glad to hear how I stacked up. Who knew all my old buddies are now fat, divorced, and miserable.
I have one buddy from La Tech I still am friends with. I see him a half dozen times a year. His kids play football, so his life is pretty well consumed with them.
My best buddy was a customer I met through work 25 years ago. We try to get lunch at least once a month to catch up, but he has family and we don't do the go out to bars thing anymore. It is more just rant about work and idiot choices folks make.
I guess my wife is the friend I see every day. Not sure how that works out in the grand scheme of friendship, but it is better to enjoy being with your spouse than not. Otherwise I might be fat, divorced, and miserable like all of my old high school buddies.
I have seen my best buddy from Elementary school one time in the past 40 years, my dad and I were driving from Memphis in a large moving truck full of all our old household items from when we moved to Saudi and stopped to visit his family along the way. It was like looking through a portal of what my life would have been had I stayed in NE Arkansas. My buddies sole interest was fixing up his old car and making moonshine to run it on when he was drag racing. I also made moonshine in Saudi for drinking, but he told me his moonshine wasn't for drinking, so I was afraid to even try it.
My old roommate from military school came to visit us a few years back for a few days. He is retired now and travels the country in a van visiting his old friends. He doesn't drive more than 20ish miles in a day and typically stays some where until the cops ask him to leave. When he left our house in Haughton, he was headed towards Arizona and said it would take him a few months to get there. I asked if he was going to visit his sister in Monroe, he said no. That is the opposite direction from Arizona and he didn't want to "back-track". I guess at 20 miles a day it would take him a week to make it over to Monroe, so I can see where he is coming from. He told me there was a rest stop on the LA side of the border in Greenwood he wanted to check out and compare to the Texas rest area just across the border. I told him the Texas rest area was nicer and he should just go there, he said he needed to find out for himself and see how long it took for the LA police to ask him to move along. I wished him the best. He did tell me I was doing better than all of our old high school friends and was in a much happier place, so I was glad to hear how I stacked up. Who knew all my old buddies are now fat, divorced, and miserable.
I have one buddy from La Tech I still am friends with. I see him a half dozen times a year. His kids play football, so his life is pretty well consumed with them.
My best buddy was a customer I met through work 25 years ago. We try to get lunch at least once a month to catch up, but he has family and we don't do the go out to bars thing anymore. It is more just rant about work and idiot choices folks make.
I guess my wife is the friend I see every day. Not sure how that works out in the grand scheme of friendship, but it is better to enjoy being with your spouse than not. Otherwise I might be fat, divorced, and miserable like all of my old high school buddies.
