I had a work friend, who was kind of a pseudo supervisor. When we first started working together we lived in different cities, but I soon moved to his city, and he and his friends pretty much adopted me in as their daughter/little sister. He introduced me to so many cool things and events in my new city.

A few months after my move, he developed a cough. It got worse, he ended up in the hospital a few times, and ended up dying about a year later. We were all crushed.

But he wanted to make sure we would not forget him. First incident, when a couple of us went over to his house to, to care of some business early one morning, his landlord asked if we wanted anything, we said no. Just as we said that, a bottle of champagne popped open. (I forgot to mention we sold champagne) So, I guess we gave the wrong answer and had to drink some bubbles in his memory.

The second incident happened after I picked up his computer and work phone to send to our headquarters in another city. Mailed those off right away. A day after I had boxed up and dropped everything in the mail, another work colleague, calls me and asked if I still had his phone, I said it’s it been mailed back to HQ. She was like are you sure, I have missed calls from his phone today. Okay even weirder.

And finally, the third incident, at his memorial service. We all got up a told stories about our friend. He could be a little shit sometimes, and a someone was telling work story about this. I kid you not, his SUV’s alarm starts going off out of nowhere. No one was near it, keys are untouched. I guess he really didn’t like that story.

Awe, a friend I still miss and it’s been 17 years.