Thursday Thirteen #16

Thirteen Reasons Why Old Friends Are the Best of Friends:

1. Because they usually travel great distances to see you.
2. Because you can over-indulge on crepes, cookies, and cheesecake with them and they (hopefully) don’t think less of you.
3. Because you wind up staying up late with them, talking about nonsense like the frightfulness of white pantyhose and the contents of Absinthe.
4. Because they stoically endure an hour of you showing them your scrapbook, all the while saying appropriate things like “Boy that looks nice!”
5. Because you can do free/cheap things with them and they don’t care that you are poor.
6. Because you can go for a long time without seeing them and then it is like no time has passed at all.
7. Because you can reminisce about the good ole days together.
8. Because they rejoice in your victories and are sad in your losses. Often, they can even see your growth through it all.
9. Because you can have fun with their kid and then give him back when he starts crying (or if he needs a diaper change)!
10. Because you can just lounge around with them and be perfectly content.
11. Because they will go on rides with you when your hubby won’t (like the Toys’R’Us Ferris Wheel)!
12. Because they remind you how to laugh out loud.
13. And because their friendship has already withstood the test of time!