Flashback Friday (Part 81) - To Have A Good Friend, You Need To Be A Good Friend

Most colleges have spring break this week. When I was in school I went to Key West twice and the outer banks once but my junior year I went solo to London for a week. One of my closest friends from high school was living there for the semester and it was my opportunity to go across the Atlantic for the first time.
I didn’t have a passport and due to some procrastination, need to mail my original birth certificate which was five hours away from my townhouse at school and just being a 20-year old college student, the day I was supposed to fly to England I didn’t have my passport. Yet.

My flight from Dulles was at 6 p.m. I spent the afternoon driving around my neighborhood at the top of every hour looking for the mailman postal carrier.

I found him.

He was the wrong mailman postal carrier.

At 3 p.m. I went out again and found the right person. In what seemed like slow motion she moved to the back of the truck, saw my name on an envelope from the US government with an address in New Orleans.

I had my passport.

I spent the week doing all sorts of exciting things like seeing Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, Oxford University, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Tower of London, Piccadilly Circus and constantly looking the wrong way before crossing the street.

But one of my most favorite things was the literary pub tour with my friend Amy and her fellow UNC classmates.

For a few pounds, a tour guide took us past someone of notoriety in the literary world's houses and then we’d go to the nearest pub where he’d recommend a half pint of a select beer. Our group would just order a pint of Newcastle or Guinness and drink it twice as fast.

This may or may not have led to some quick trips to powder our noses at the next pub.

On my last night, we celebrated my 21st birthday which was a few days later. This may or may not have led to a lot of wine being consumed, dancing and some eternal devotion of our friendship between Amy and I captured in this picture.

This picture is still one of my most favorite.

My dead grandmother emails more than Amy but she has already sent me a happy birthday message this morning.

The lesson here is to have a good friend, you need to be a good friend. Also accepted, don't wait til the last minute to apply for a passport. I've done it twice.

Now it's your turn.

Find an old picture like Cathy and share a story about it and then email me so I can add a link. Flashback Friday has no real rules other than to have fun.

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