Show-Nuff

Dear Rich,

You know you and I never spent much time together. We never really made plans to go anywhere and do anything. But I know this I always had a good time talking to you and there never was a time where that happened that I did not laugh. You always have a smile on your face, and even if you were having a pisser of a day, you talked about it in way that made me crack up.

You kind of remind me of someone I should be related too. I mean the red hair, the pale complexion that always seemed to be tinted red with some form of exertion or another (I think to think it was the effort of suppressing the urge to strangle morons, which is something I can relate too). You are a good drinker, and make for some of the best passing remarks one could hope for.

All this and not to mention the depths of your geek-minutia knowledge. If ever I felt old, or weird, or just plain out of place for some random 80s reference, there you were to not only laugh at the joke, but probably one up me on my weirdness. An example:

Counterperson: “…these kids were like somekind of weird cult that worships 4loko.”

Me: “Sort of like the Berenstain Bears of the ghetto.”

Rich: “Nah I saw em, they are more like the Monchichis.”

This would be followed by blank stares from everyone at the counter, punctuated by you and I laughing and probably a couple of “jesus” comments thrown in. Its not easy getting older, and its even harder to feel like you are socially relevant to anyone under the age of 30, but luckily for us there are a few of us out there that can still talk like we are 14 sitting around a table of maps and dice drinking mellow-yellow.

I don’t know how much I will be seeing you around since I don’t tend to get out much, but I think the next time I see you I am going to make you sit down and play the “How big a nerd are you” game with me for a spell.

We have never used facebook, but it has been a blessing seeing your news feed that is often filled with the type of humor that seems tailor made for me. I will certainly miss this, and will have to comb through it all before the unfriending and cull all of your website sources. It won’t be much of a substitute, but hopefully there will be more in person interaction to back it up.

Today was a great day, but tomorrow our FBfriendship will end,

Curt