It’s always interesting to bump into a friend that you
haven’t seen in years. I don’t know how guys work when it comes to this but
this is the general scene structure for girls: one of us recognises the
oblivious other in a crowded area and makes a huge effort to get to her which
means that somebody’s little dog’s tail will get stood on. There’s a great
moment of recognition when they make eye contact and then.... the scream.
It’s definitely annoying to listen to but far too much fun
when you are the one screaming.
I had no idea I was a
‘screaming –with-excitement’ type of girl ,I always thought I was a simple word
shouter, you know like one of those people that scream out “yay”. But not the
day I saw my best friend from standard 3. That day I was transported back to
some year in the 90’s where I was screaming and dancing around hugging like it was the start of term and we were
reunited after the holidays. Perhaps that’s why girls scream with excitement.
Hmm ... anyway so we sat down and we had
the ‘catch-up’ talk which goes like this: “So?”. And your friend responds “so?”
then you both burst into what you’re doing, where you’ve travelled and how
happy you are to see each other.
And then nothing.
Awkward, silent nothing.
Once the catch up is done it’s almost as if all we had to
talk about was the past, our present selves aren’t friends so all we have to
talk about is when our past selves were. Unfortunately our past friendship was
prepubescent so we both evidently didn’t remember much past ‘that time at
school when’ and that other time ‘I came to your house to play and’.
Solution: high five and bugger off.
