Bygone Correspondence

(after the storm but before the rain)

I know it's hard to tell because we're all wearing shades in this picture and all look awesome, but my friend Linda is kindof a big deal.  She is the first one of us (and speaking strictly for myself here-- perhaps the last) to become a VP.  Naturally, we gave her a hard time for her success.  Just as these same people gave me a hard time for my ivy league education.  It's what friends do.  Friends also pick friends up from train stations. And airports.  And mess with their friends' heads.

While we waited for Linda at the Jetport on Friday, Nic came up with a brilliant yet devious plan.  When Linda texted that she had arrived and was ready to meet us, Nic instructed Jenny to play aloof.  "We're lying on the quad and can't wait for you to join us."  What followed were a tense couple of minutes, a terse "thought you were coming?" text, and lots of giggles on our end.  The whole episode was punctuated by our favorite line of the weekend-- an ever terser follow up text from Linda that said merely: "email yesterday".  

When the jig was up and we revealed that it was all a joke, Linda generated some comedy gold of her own.  By getting lost in the tiny Portland airport.  "Why didn't you just follow the other people on your flight?" we asked her.  "I did.  And got stuck in a parking garage."  So she wandered and wandered while we waited by the escalator, until she sought help from a man at the gate, asking "excuse me, is this Portland, Maine?"  It was.  And it was great to be back.