I had just one more reminder that I'm getting old today. It actually didn't hit me until lunch was over. I ate at the food court of the mall today with two friends I hadn't seen in years but were in town to visit for Christmas. There was a lot of " I remember when..." stuff usually followed by something stupid we had done I wish they would forget. One of them is a high-falutin' military officer working in the Pentagon and the other is now a high school math teacher in Austin.
Just walking into the mall and especially the food court is enough to make me feel old when I looked around at the kids busy eating some junk with one hand and texting the person across the table with the other. I won't even talk about what they were wearing for fear of sounding as old as I now feel. I honestly wouldn't have believed any of the three of us would ever have survived this long in as relatively good shape as we are. That's not to say that time has been good to any of us.
As I walked back to through the parking lot to my vehicle still chuckling about some of the things we talked about I realized something. Nobody would consider any of us sissies and yet the one thing that would always bring the conversation down was when one of us would say something about our ex-wives. All three of us had been through a lot over the years; we talked about being places we shouldn't have or doing things that should have killed us and the only thing any of us seemed to really regret was getting married. Hmm...
3 comments:
The three of y'all got married? Is that even legal in Texas?
I think I'd regret that, too.
I know one was KC but who was the other?
Dew
His brother John. Can you believe it?
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