Friend from High School overdosed yesterday apparently. I haven't spoken to him since then, so ten years, but we hung out a lot. He was never the brightest kid, which is why I stopped hanging out with him really, but he always had a good heart and dammit the kid made me laugh.
We once had a substitute teacher in high school and we were all dickheads so when she passed out the attendance sheet we all wrote names like "Hugh G. Wang", "Heywood Jablomey", and "Dick Zenormous". Jimmy wrote "Spiderman". The next day when our actual teacher came back she said she was extremely disappointed in all of us and that we should be ashamed to have treated our sub so badly. She sighed and sat down to silence. Then Jimmy raised his hand and said "Miss _____, I have a confession. I'm the one who wrote Spiderman. She just looks at him and goes "Well I appreciate the honesty Jimmy but I wasn't really referring to that name."
I couldn't stop laughing. I still think about it. He was so sincere. Anyway, I wasn't close to him for the last decade so it's not like I'm super upset. Just a kid I knew in HS. Still...
Drugs suck.
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