I must be younger than I look

Today just before noon I called my friend Don to see if he wanted to go to lunch Friday. We don’t do well with phones as he is hard of hearing and I am hard of talking, but I was loud enough for him to hear the invitation. He said, “We might be dead tomorrow; let’s go today!” It was classic Don. Not foreboding or macabre, just an attitude of “Why wait?” And we didn’t. I picked him up 20 minutes later and we enjoyed a nice Chinese food lunch. We even got ice cream afterwards.

While we were enjoying the ice cream, I thought I’d pick his brain a little for his life story that I am writing. I asked, “Where were you when you heard about the Kennedy assassination?” He explained that he was working at General Electric in California and that the news was grave indeed; he liked Kennedy. He said it was a bad day.  He then asked me where I was. “Um, the pre-existence?” It was funny. No one has ever asked me that before.