Being with my sisters is wonderful and crazy and
anyone who is around can testify to that. Mostly we are our best audience.
As my sister and I are in line to check me in a
woman walks by, she does a double take and walks up to us…
W: I know
you!
M: (?) (I look at my sister thinking she must be
talking to her since I don’t have the faintest idea who she is).
BS: (?) (Looking at me, same thought it would seem).
W: You’re
(names have been changed to protect the
guilty or innocent it’s all in the perspective and because if she or anyone
else involved ever were to read this…omg!) Laurie V.! (What?! Who is she? How does she remember me?
My sister is all, “This is you I’m in the clear” She didn’t say it out loud she
said it with her eyes, which is not like Morse code like she’s all standing
there blinking it out because how awkward and I don’t know Morse code and would
be um sec I need to Google this how many dashes was that…but just that sister mind
meld thing right?)
M: Um,
yaaaaaaa. Hi! (Avoiding name) How are
you?
W: It’s me,
Cheryl L., but now Higginbotham. (How is
that for made up?)
M: Oh wow,
right! You look great! (Who the hell is
that?) (Glancing at my sister who is smirking at me, ok no help there who
invited her anyway?)
CL: You
look fantastic, you haven’t aged at all. (I’m
taking that as a compliment, I think) We should get together later what are
your plans? (And as she continues on
mapping out the evening I wonder is this why I blocked her from my memory?)
My best friend Lisa had already checked in and
arranged for our rooms to be next to each other, awesome. When she came into my
room the years just fell away and it was like high school again. My sister was
dying laughing (Lisa and I were sort of
odd goofy types and reverted back quickly).
L: So what
are the plans for tonight, how do you want to plan it out?
BS: (Laughing)
Go ahead fill her in.
M: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, yeah so it seems I
ran into Karen F. in the lobby.
BS: (?) Who? No, Cheryl L. who is Karen F.?
M: Who is
Cheryl L.? I remember Karen F.
BS: Cheryl
L., that’s who we met in the lobby, sigh.
L: I
remember Cheryl L. and Karen F..
M: Really? Did we hang out with them?
L: No, they
didn’t even talk to us.
BS: (Laughing
way too much)
M: Well she
wants to hang out with us now. Sigh.
Enter Scott B. Scott was in my big sisters class
but we were all in choir and friends. We just love him and he is equally as
funny as the three of us so fun is guaranteed.
SB: So,
what are the plans?
As we all look at each
other laughing…
M: You remember
Karen F.?
L/BS:
CHERYL L.!!!!
M:
Whatever! (I then explain the day’s
events and up to how the evening was planned out for us).
Geez, this is where Cheryl reminds Scott that they
used to date and make out in the bleachers on the football field, news to Scott
who is gay.
SB: (?) (Since he is sitting off to CL’s side…and we really
did laugh out loud at his look of surprise, confusion and controlled laughter)
M: Another Cosmo! So Ka…
EVERYONE: CHERYL!
(I can’t be sure but I think even
Karen corrected me in that one!)
We did have a pleasant evening. Well except for
the lady who was hurt because I didn’t remember her even though she stood two
rows in front of me in choir and graduated the year ahead and got Lasik and… (Grrrrrrrrrrrr) I think the highlight of
the cocktail party was Scott filling in for his sister Terri by wearing her
name tag, crossing out her name and putting his and realizing that people must
be thinking she was now he having had a sex change operation!
I think I will pass on the next reunion. Seeing
Cheryl (AKA Karen) was interesting
and maybe one or two others that I did want to see, but they were people from so
very long ago and other than Lisa and Scott have had no apparent impact on my life.
I will focus on those people who are around me and
have played a part in my life and most importantly whose names I can remember…like what's her name and oh yea wait don't tell me just blink it out I got this.
