So I wrote this post probably over a month ago but since it was basically done, I'm still posting it even though it's old =)
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I'm pretty sure I have the bestest friends.
Of course everyone thinks that, but mine are
significantly super cool. I'm pretty sure.
I started working at the ice cream
shop in town so I quite frequently see large quantities of people
I know.
This is where my bestest friends come in.
They have probably come to get
ice cream visit me at Pizza Man more
this year than ever before. Actually they made a pact to never get ice cream there unless I was working.
One of the last visits they decided to have more
fun than usual....
I was standing at the window as this nice older
man came up as if to give me his order.
Instead he started to talk....
"Hello! You’re Kaylee, right? Nice to meet
you. I've heard a lot about you....and you have two brothers, one of them
Elijah, and the other...Ben? Ok. Very good."
“And your family is all camping right now and
you’ll join them tomorrow?
….So I heard that you are looking for a nice
Christian guy?!”
(And all this info he knew was totally true too)
By then was standing there with a grin and kinda
big eyes just trying to figure out what was going on and what I was
missing.
I then noticed that there was a guy with a black
hoodie –hood up of course – right there as well and he seemed to be videoing me
while he back was still towards us…..
That was when I got a little scared, because
there’s a guy that someone is trying to set me up with and I was suddenly
worried that he was hidden around the corner or something!
Then I was like, no, this is just too funny for
that, so I very seriously said,
“Well, yes, I guess I am but not right now of
course.”
And then all my friends (Josh, Ruth, Joy, Nancy,
Ben, and Jonno, as well as others) burst around the corner laughing their eyes
out.
The whole thing got videoed (by Mr. Sanders with
the black hoodie) and they had been planning this for a while. They used their
missionary friend who was visiting since I don’t know him and they fed him all the lines.
I loved it though and now think my friends are
double cool =)
And then (almost) totally random friends come to
visit me at work, then leave and then come back when I’m closing at like 10:30 pm
and actually do my work for me. It’s great.
That's what Billy did.
He was in the area for work on Sat. and he
called to see if he could come visit us.
I haven’t seen him for like 4 years and it’s
been even longer for Dad and Mom.
We all did some major catching up and laughed at
all his funny stories and the hilarious way he can tell things.
I had to leave for work then but some other
mutual friends (the above-mentioned tricksters) wished to meet up with him so
he said he’d meet them at the ice cream place and therefore would see me again.
They all hung out there until like 7 (laughing
and talking, of which I couldn’t totally participate in since I had to serve
people, but at least I’d gotten to serve them too!)
and then they all left to go to Sander’s house.
It was a bummer I couldn’t go, but was happy for
the bit of visiting I’d had.
Well, it was after 10 later that night and I was
cleaning up for closing and Billy called me. He was just leaving Sander’s and
was coming back over to hang out more.
He came right in and took the mop from me and
mopped the whole floor for me!
That is the part I dread, especially at
ten-thirty at night, so I was super happy.
One of the other girls came in and saw him
mopping and whistling away and asked,
“Do you work here?! Cuz I haven’t ever seen you
before.”
He was like, “Nope! I don’t! ....I’m Billy and
I’m from Nashville.”
Then we went out and sat on the curb and talked until nearly midnight. He said he’d
totally talked himself out before then, but he still had something left because he did most of the talking :)
So super fun and random to do that day.
That’s why I love my friends!
And I love my job. I mean really, I just stand there and make people happy all day.
Smile and hand them an over-sized amount of ice cream!
