Felix and I are on the campaign. We need to get ourselves some more friends. You see, I believe that there are two types of people in the world: the kind that have a lot of friends they hang out with, and the kind that have a lot of acquaintences but really only hang out with a core group of friends. Felix and I are definitely the latter.
Excluding siblings, we basically have three or four best buddies. That's it. These are the folks we see once, twice, sometimes more a week. The kicker, though, the reason why we're on the campaign trail is that our friends are MOVING AWAY. Far, far away. (Jean, you lucky dog! I can't believe George and Lisa are leaving us!!!!) We've actually known about the possible moves for quite some time now, but I don't think the full import of the situation truly dawned on us until recently.
When they move away, we won't have any friends left.
You might think I'm being dramatic; I admit that I have those tendencies. But even Felix agrees that we're soon to be friendless! It's so depressing. Fortunately, I'm not the sort to stand aside while the inevitable runs me over. No way. We're strategizing - looking over our name rosters and worming our way into other people's lives. I'm busily planning lunches, phone calls, parties, and gatherings, anything I can do to renew old ties and establish new ones.
We gotta get cracking! Moving day approaches, and if we haven't sorted things out by then, it'll just be me and Felix. Scary thought.
