My third grade classmate and I were on the same page. Back in “The Good Life,” she was cleaning her desk. Apparently I was doing the exact same thing last week! I found a card I had stashed and sent it to her with a lovely, lengthy rambling-about-nothing-much note. (Something I might have perfected?)
In her cleaning she tossed a card from her desktop which I had sent last year, one that made her laugh. Imagine her surprise when the exact same card showed up a few days later?
After we laughed about that on the phone this morning, me getting over my embarrassment at not recalling the first missive, I had a brilliant idea! I am going to go and buy the rest of those cards and send them each year until they run out. I think she’ll appreciate it.
The risks inherent in friendship…looking like an idiot and being one with a person who understands. And of course, finding great practical jokes to employ.