Stories

"You might hear a few stories over the years, but you never hear enough to have the full picture."

-- Jane Green

God this is so true. Those of you who know me, those who really know me, know that I love to hear stories. Stories of how couples met, stories of peoples childhoods, stories of their adulthood, funny, silly, sad, traumatic, I love them all...

I had a great (unplanned) dinner with a friend of mine today. We shared a few stories, of our childhood and shared so many laughs that people around us were begining to give us funny looks... it's amazing to me how my friend and I had completely different childhoods, teenhoods, and partial adulthoods, but yet have found eachother to be... eachothers "count on you" buddy... and now have so much in common! It's great. It's like being 7 again and making a new best friend!

I also had a great time talking to one of my new co-workers. He is an older guy. 60ish or so, kinda grumpy, any effort made by me to initiate conversation was shunned by a mear raised eye brow and piddling smile Until he was left with no other choice and sat with me and another co-worker for lunch. Anyway, somehow the conversation evolved from a "it's a great day out" to family, friends and school. To spare you of the details, and shoot to my point... I now know about how he served for the U.S. Army and was stationed in Italy, met his wife in Italy (she is American, but was also stationed there), came back to the U.S. lived in Washington, married at 23, became and Architecht and had a daughter... with the fluff, laughs, and jokes... it was really interesting! I loved it, every minute of it!