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March 27, 2006
Keeping Tabs on Former Friends - GE Friend Style
My best friend in elementary school (hereinafter “The Tank”) and I drifted apart about halfway through high school. (I refused to rob banks or murder prostitutes. And although I’m pretty sure the Tank refused to do those things too, one can never be certain.) GE Friend and the Tank both attended college at the same university. Thus, when GE Friend was home from college one weekend, I asked him about the Tank.
Thinking Fool: Hey, do you ever run into the Tank at school?
GE Friend: No, I’m pretty sure he’s dead.
The moral of the story? If you know GE Friend, make sure you check in with him at least once every six months. Otherwise, he might write your obituary prematurely (which is a bad thing unless you and your loved ones are trying to defraud an insurance company into paying benefits on a life insurance policy).
