ツ Spinnankers…

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Dale and I met in 3rd grade and we’ve stayed great friends ever since. Dungeons and Dragons, learning how to disco from my mother for the C U P dances, Space invaders, Pizza Pete, War Gamers Society, Timex Sinclair programming, motor cycles, boy scouts, sleeping in igloos and ice caves, scuba diving, spelunking, the parties. Those bachelor parties! We stood up for each other in each of our weddings, and we don’t spend enough time catching up because of the children we’ve brought into this world and our marriages.

The cool thing is we can go for years without seeing each other and when we do finally hook back up, it’s not like a day has passed since the last time we were together. We are both a little older, a little greyer, have more kids and more trials a tribulations to discuss, but for the most part, nothing has really changed at all.

I was unpacking some old boxes a few days ago and discovered some old video footage. We were 21 (circa 1988), and we hit a bar called Schooner’s in Al-keye that doesn’t exist anymore. The plan was to sing some karaoke and bag a couple hot babes like we always did on the weekends (yeah, right – I don’t think we ever had one success!). If I remember correctly, Marlboro was sponsoring the karaoke event that night and they had cigarette girls handing out tiny packs of smokes and lighters all night. Hell, I think that was the first night I ever drank a Midori Kamikazee! Yuck!

We did run into one hottie that night, but I don’t think any one of us was up for a three-way. But it was a blast none the less. I gave you my favorite hat that night, and the hottie tried to get out of the bar with it! I hope you still have it somewhere!

These videos represent a time in our lives when we hardly made over minimum wage, we both drove shitty cars, listened to Motley Crue, The Cure and Journey, only cared about what we were going to do that next weekend, and how we were going to land a girl friend. What a great time in a young person’s life! Man, I miss those days and I miss you too!