What's weird is that I haven't made any new friends in about three years. I mean actually went out a met someone and became their friend on my own. I know that doesn't make any sense because I'm friends with tons of people I wasn't friends with a few years ago. But the difference - I just realized - is that everyone I've met in the last couple of years I've met through people. Most everyone I know I can trace back through other friends people.
Now that people have left town for jobs and summer I find myself down a few friends. But a couple weeks ago I was at beer olympics and was placed on a team with a couple random guys. We got eliminated early and I ended up drinking with these two 5th year seniors for a couple of hours. They were pretty cool, and I went home not thinking much of it. Over the next couple of weeks I saw them at the bar a few times. In spring term the crowds move between the bars depending on the day of the week. So I saw them at Mitch's on Wednesdays and The Jug on Mondays.
Last Wednesday Mitch's blew a circuit and weren't serving $2 pitchers and Peter and I were about to leave and the guys happened to be there and said they were going to grab a case and drink. We ended up drinking with them for another couple of hours and I think that I might have made some new friends. But I won't be official until we've exchanged numbers which would be way awkward. So perhaps I'll stick to the random bar encounters.
I seem to have a knack for meeting people right before I move out of town.
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I was thinking about kindergarten the other day. The first day, a group of three came up to me and said, "Do you want to be our friend?"
They were dudes (duh, I wasn't friends with chicks for years). And it was awesome. We need to do that more often.
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