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McDude's Kind of CoolOde to the old colleg rooomate |
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� 2004-09-19 - 10:12 p.m. I went to NC to visit my old college roommate. He move there in June for a job in an industry that he loves. We first met 7 years ago in August. We were randomly assigned roommates in the dorm. I talked briefly on the phone with him before we moved in together. Apparently I said, �That�s cool a lot during our first phone conversation.� I moved in before he did and was set up when he arrived. I baseball glove and a guy I knew from my hometown who we�ll call hillbilly Jim. Hillbilly was seated at my computer probably fixing something because he�s a guru. The old roommate walks in and sees hillbilly Jim who looks just like the old WWF wrestler hillbilly Jim. He�s about 6�5� overweight with a long beard and long hair. My old college roommate thought it was me and about freaked out. Needless to say he wasn�t too impressed with me and tested me out later that night by playing guitar until late in the evening. Being laid back like I am, it didn�t faze me at all and he took a liking to me. We were soon drinking every night and our room was soon the pre-party room for the floor, before heading out in the evening. We had tunes cranked, video games to play, porn on the internet, alcohol to drink and a great view of the girl�s dorm next door. I soon fell in love with his sense of humor. We�d be returning from a beer run and courteously ask if he could carry the beer just before we�d get to the room. Then he�d run ahead with the beer and lock me out of the room for a minute. He�d ask with an honest expression, �How long have you been out there?� when he opened the door. Or he�ll pretend to be angry about something you did. Then, his piercing laugh will lighten the mood and another beer will be drunk. Soon, he began dating baseball glove and then pulled the roommate switch and began dating her roommate who was also an ex of mine. The three of us lived together in a cheap summer apartment one summer. We soon had 3 turtles a gerbil and a cat. We even watched a ferret for a while. It was a great summer. He graduated the next December and I still had a year left. He stayed in town and I moved back in with him and his girlfriend during my internship. We both moved to Chicago at around the same time and continued to party and hang out. Until of course he moved. It was a good visit. Friday he had to work all day so I played poker online. I finished 7th in a 102 man poker tournament. That night we got dinner at Hooters. I ordered an Iced tea and the waitress said, �You�re not from around here are you�.did you mean sweet tea?� No said I wanted just regular unsweetened tea. My buddy said he was burned by that to. Apparently most people just get sweet tea in NC. The next day we went to a college football game. We tailgated with his boss who had a catered BBQ tailgate party. The BBQ was great and everyone put cole-slaw on the sandwich so I did the same and it was the best BBQ sandwich that I ever ate. On the way to the game we were singing stupid lyrichs to songs and he sang the lyric, �I don�t have hair on my balls because of some disease.� We were both rolling. Then when we got home he suplexed his cat and then put it in a full nelson. Surprisingly the cat seemed to enjoy the wrestling match. You haven�t lived until you�ve seen a grown man put a cat in a full nelson. Today we went to a bar and watched the first half of the bear�s game before I had to catch my flight home. It was sad to leave him but I�m sure I�ll see him a lot in the future. Here�s to you my old college roommate. Like this entry? Vote for me here!
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