CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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My Friend From The Future

Saturday, June 04, 2011

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I was friends with this guy from eight years from the future; eight years at the time he got here, not eight years anymore. Unfortunately, he didn't really pay attention to sports, so we couldn't bet on anything but championship games, and even then it wasn't smart to bet more thirty dollars because he might get even those wrong. I wanted to be really annoyed at him but then I realized if I traveled eight years in the past I probably wouldn't be able to remember the outcomes to games either.

The only good thing about knowing someone from 8 years in the future was that he could recommend new restaurants before they got trendy and the waiting lists were too long. We once at this place in downtown Phoenix the day after it opened. The food wasn't worth how much we paid for it, but the tables were made of glass, and there were fish swimming around in it, and there had only been people sitting at those tables for a day prior. So that was cool.

Other than the fact that we couldn't make any real money off of knowing someone from the future, the worst part was when he'd realized that his past self was in the same area we were hanging out; we'd have to go out of our way to not meet the other him, or else we would risk reality itself becoming unraveled or something. This was all very theoretical, and I wanted him to meet his past self just to see if it really did anything, but he never wanted to try it.

Once our time line caught up to the point of him going back in time and he was the only version of himself walking around, and he couldn't recommend any new restaurants or even give us educated guesses on sporting events, we kind of lost touch. It's not that I wanted to not be his friend anymore, but, you know. The freshness of knowing a guy from the future kind of wore off, and then he was just a dude. Also, his girlfriend was kind of a bitch, and she kept insisting that she hang out with us when he was around.
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with love from CRS @ 9:08 PM 

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