Friends

Vickie and Barb 2007

Where would we be without our friends? This is Vickie. We have been friends since the 8th grade at Havermale Jr. High. She still lives in Spokane but I moved away 30 years ago. For 4 years we were pretty much joined at the hip. We did everything together from playing softball with all the neighbor kids to the card game War with just the two of us. My folks even let Vickie go back to North Dakota for vacation with us. Neither one of our families were big on birthday celebrations so we spent them together. Vickie's mom thought I was a bad influence on her so occasionally she would ground us from each other. That's when we would use our "special" code and meet at the little deli in our neighborhood grocery store and have an ice cream sundae. One of us would call the other and say "salt" and the other would say "pepper" if she could go. If not we would say it was a wrong number....I wonder who we thought we were fooling? Anyway we let a boy come between us and break that hip lock. We have kept in touch all these years and I finally made it back to see her a couple years ago. Aside from cutting off her hair she hasn't changed much at all. We both still enjoy ice cream but we both have to be careful now, our metabolisms just aren't what they used to be...