Do you remember a best friend at school

I was isolated a lot but I had a friend in high school, Sandy. I knew her in earlier classes and we didn't like each other. And I don't know how that resolved.

I was allowed to stay overnight at her house sometimes. Her family was nice to me. Her older brothers were a bit wild but good to me also. Her mother would give us some money and one of her brothers would drop us off at the beach and pick us up later. We spent the day at the beach. A rare good memory.

We didn't keep in contact after school. I ran into her in my earlier 20's. She had a kid by then.
 

I had a best friend in high school when I was about 15 to 16 years old. We were tuned to the same wavelength, had similar nerdy interests, visited each other’s homes, went places together, compared our perceptions of the latest MAD magazine, traded 45 rpm records, you name it. Then when we were high school juniors, he picked up a girl friend who replaced me in his life completely and almost overnight. Things were never the same again. I guess that it was normal, but I’ve never had that good a friend either before or since…*sighs*
 
I never had any intention of posting on this thread, but this afternoon I had to run to Ace Hardware and I ran into an old high school friend that I haven’t seen since we graduated. We talked for about 45 minutes and then he brought up the subject of when I worked for his dad on the huge farm they owned. I forget a lot, but I think we had somewhere around 8 or 9 men working the farm in the summer.

We had two different herds of cattle; a milking herd and a beef herd. I mainly worked with the milking herd cleaning the milking parlor twice a day. I also put a lot of time in working with the hogs and out on the fields. Yes, we were dirt farmers also. During summer, I would work from 7 or 8 in the morning to dark or almost dark.

The one story that really sticks out in my mind was the Saturday night my girlfriend at the time was going to a wedding and I had to pick her up at 4:30 so we could make the 5 o’clock wedding. I told the foreman over a month earlier about the date and I needed to get off work at 3, so I would have time to go home, shower, shave, dress and pick up Barbara.

It just so happened we were short help on that day and Randy, the foreman was expecting me to work late. I told him no, I told you I had to get off early today because of going to this wedding. He got all pissed off, but not at me, but himself for forgetting. I called Barbara and asked her if I could meet her at the church. Well, she went into a hissy fit, so that was off. I told Randy I really had to leave or I wouldn’t have a girlfriend tomorrow morning. Thankfully, he understood.

My friend asked me how I made out with Barbara and did we get married. I told him we dated until I went into the service and we never married. He asked if Barbara found another guy while I was away. I told him I didn’t really know, but she broke up with me because her mother never liked me.

I asked Barbara why her Mom didn’t like me and she told me that her mom told her that she never trusted me. I asked trust me for what? She thought I just wanted her daughter to have sex with her. I was mortified with that answer because I loved her and showed her nothing but respect. I saw Barbara 2 years later after I left the Marines. She married a drunken loser and although I should have been bitter, I wasn’t. There’s more to this story, but I will stop here.
 

I do. I had two best friends in school. Well one grew up with me on our block but was a little ahead of me. Marilyn was my BFF first. Then I fell head over heals for Larry (my first love) when I was a sophomore and made friends with Grace, his sister, who was intimidating to me at first. We became BFFs too. I used to stay at her house for sleepovers, her mother was like a second mom to me (God rest her soul...she died suddenly...way too young). Even after Larry and I broke up sometime after I graduated, Grace and I remained good friends. Grace got me a job at General Electric, where she worked, when I was 20.

Marilyn and I stayed good friends too. We went clubbing together and she was my maid of honor when I married my first husband. Grace and I lost touch when she moved to Virginia but we spoke on the phone a couple of times since. Seemed to me like she was in a time warp yet sounded like a really old woman last time we spoke which was years ago. I had gotten her number from her son who was on Facebook.

Marilyn and her husband had moved too. She passed away at a fairly young age from cancer. I think she was in her 40s. We were godmothers to each other's sons but I haven't seen either of her boys since before they moved decades ago.
 
Yes, Ken Laneve. Don't remember the exact year but do remember playing sandlot football with him & his older brothers Jack & Bob on a lot just off 2nd. ave. We wouldn't let little kids like Joe Namath play because they could get hurt.

We kept in touch even though I joined the Navy & he went to college. When I was stationed at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego he invited us for a weekend in L A. Pool party great Mexican food [his wife was Mexican]. Both super well employed but very humble. Two weeks after the visit we got the sad news he died protecting his daughters. Two L A garbage trucks were racing. According to what was speculated he was stopped for a red light & saw in his rear view mirror that they had lost control & were about to topple on top of his car. He pushed his daughters onto the floor & covered them with his body. They survived he didn't.
 

Do you remember a best friend at school?​


Oh yes I do, she had pigtailed hair, braces in her teeth, and she shared her humbugs with me.
Then...... all of a sudden, she changed, the pigtails were gone, she had the most lovely white teeth, and her body shape was different... and her eyes.... well, they were so magnetic.
Then her Mam and Dad went to live near London, taking my friend with them.... and that was that. 😊
 

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