It's How Friends Do It

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!