6267 Shady Brook

Yeah, I was brought to tears via laughter as I wandered back into the memories of living at 6267!! Most people never experience what I experienced living there. My old neighbors have become some dear friends. In fact, my 2 downstair neighbors met and married because of the good ol' run down apartments at the Hill. It was like college for older 20 year olds.

• We had a knickname for it Melrose Place. At any one moment you could find any of your neighbors at an apartment across the way or upstairs.
• When everyone eventually headed back home to upstate New York or moved closer to Greenville, we had to return random cups and plates that somehow ended up in the wrong apartment.
• We also had a crazy neighbor that lived across the way(Matt's travis impression is the most accurate).
• We competed for the batman spot and threw shoes at doors to get one another's attention without actually going downstairs.
• We even had a microwaved roach (rescued by Matt from Kristin's bathroom) that hung out on top of our mailboxes.
• Don't forget bush diving and the planting of the squash that received much love and tender car.
• Oh and our treks to the VCC for 75 cent drinks.
• And you never knew what kind of trauma Bernard the freezer guard suffered at the hands of My Favorite Neighbor...yeah, I still have him.

There are many more memories but the one that stands out the most is a dear friend that taught me how to enjoy the small, silly, really random things in life. He reached down and grabbed that hiding somewhere in my depths. A year and a half later, he had to visit again to revive it once more since it had been swept under the rug and I didn't even know it. I am so thankful for that. Though I talk to him once or twice a month, it is good to know that the one who discovered my goofiness canstill have me laughing so hard my stomach hurts when I need it most. ......How? Mostly talking about nothing....

And my roommate at the time had come up with this silly game that we would play when hanging out usually at a bar and when talking with My Favorite Neighbor tonight I busted it out and dusted it off....it goes a little something like this:

"Make up a word RIGHT NOW!"

"Schnookensong!"

"Use it in a sentence"

"Man, that guy just schnookensonged you all over this highway!"

yeah, seems a little stupid...but you should try it...it just might have you laughing so hard drops of much needed joyous tears may fall out of your eyeballs!!