![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I think it might be a good idea to get a "best" friend.
One of our vendors and a family friend passed away yesterday and my dad was introduced at the funeral as his best friend to everyone. They were friends and my dad lives a Xander-like life of sorts. He's pretty much surrounded by women so male bonding is never taken for granted but this stunned him. You couldn't find two men less alike if you tried. My dad is quiet and reserved with a dry sense of humor that can go over your head sometimes. V was loud no other word for it, his voice was like a machine-gun on automatic and everything about him was over the top like a used car salesman. My dad is a liberal democrat who never got past 8th grade started work as a laborer at 12 and went on to follow his father and grandfather as a brickmason . This guy was a retired history professor who only lifted a spade to relic hunt.He was ultra conservative and marched in pro-life pickets. He once asked my dad how he could condone killing babies. My dad asked him if he ever fostered a baby while a girl got off drugs or got though with school? he said "Oh I couldn't do that I had five of my own." Well my parents had four and managed to help out so many that we lost count. He shut up for a beat and changed the subject.
I don't know My dad might consider V as a best friend in an odd-couple-ish way but it shocked him to be called that by so many people. This sounds like I'm speaking ill of the dead but I did like him, in small doses he made life interesting and his wife is a dear friend of mine.
I've seen people who after somebody's death will claim to be so and so best buddy but I've never seen it thrust upon anyone before. So d'you think it's something that should be left in a will? I mean I don't own anything just so down the road my most annoying aquaitence doesn't lay claim to the title or my family doesn't bestow it on someone I played uno with who didn't even know I gave him a thought. To my best pal X I leave my Spike doll, my Buffy DVD's, Star Trek books and the title of "Best Friend".
One of our vendors and a family friend passed away yesterday and my dad was introduced at the funeral as his best friend to everyone. They were friends and my dad lives a Xander-like life of sorts. He's pretty much surrounded by women so male bonding is never taken for granted but this stunned him. You couldn't find two men less alike if you tried. My dad is quiet and reserved with a dry sense of humor that can go over your head sometimes. V was loud no other word for it, his voice was like a machine-gun on automatic and everything about him was over the top like a used car salesman. My dad is a liberal democrat who never got past 8th grade started work as a laborer at 12 and went on to follow his father and grandfather as a brickmason . This guy was a retired history professor who only lifted a spade to relic hunt.He was ultra conservative and marched in pro-life pickets. He once asked my dad how he could condone killing babies. My dad asked him if he ever fostered a baby while a girl got off drugs or got though with school? he said "Oh I couldn't do that I had five of my own." Well my parents had four and managed to help out so many that we lost count. He shut up for a beat and changed the subject.
I don't know My dad might consider V as a best friend in an odd-couple-ish way but it shocked him to be called that by so many people. This sounds like I'm speaking ill of the dead but I did like him, in small doses he made life interesting and his wife is a dear friend of mine.
I've seen people who after somebody's death will claim to be so and so best buddy but I've never seen it thrust upon anyone before. So d'you think it's something that should be left in a will? I mean I don't own anything just so down the road my most annoying aquaitence doesn't lay claim to the title or my family doesn't bestow it on someone I played uno with who didn't even know I gave him a thought. To my best pal X I leave my Spike doll, my Buffy DVD's, Star Trek books and the title of "Best Friend".
