“What you got there?” my friend Larry asked.
I held up the leaf I had been twirling around in my fingers.
“Dude! That looks like Poison Oak.” Fish, another friend, shrieked.
Bertha, the unofficial leader of our little group of friends, said to Fish, “You are about ignorant!” and gave him a rather forceful slap to the back of the head, “Any idiot can see it’s a maple leaf.”
We continued walking through the park laughing and joking with each other. It felt great to be among friends again.
“Don’t take this wrong,” I started to say, “but it is good to have all of you back again.”
Bertha put Larry into a headlock and gave him a hard set of noogies. Noogies are when you put someone in a headlock and rub your knuckles hard against their scalp. Trust me; it isn’t a pleasant experience to be the one receiving the noogie.
“I missed you guys too.” She said.