A Week of Best Friend Profiles: Ami

The last one on my best friend list is not a current one, nor do I have any photos on disc. But Ami was my best friend from 7th to 12th grades and a little beyond. We both played trumpet, and started off not liking each other at all. B/c we were the only 2 girl trumpeters, everyone expected us to be friends and my mom “insisted” I invite her over for a slumber party (or was it her mom??). Anyway, we found out that even though she was the loud-mouthed one and I the quiet one, we were very compatible. Her craziness was a good influence on my shyness. She helped me come out of my shell. I don’t know if my sanity helped to keep her grounded at all though.
We did some silly things like convincing people we were fraternal twins separated at birth and then reunited (it’s amazing that people believed us!). We did some not so nice things like climbed out of the window in the middle of class, and used the same excuse note for about a year to get out of our boring classes (we never let the teachers hang on to the note & used it over and over – I don’t know why the teachers didn’t catch on!). It was the “have you ever” list I posted a few days ago that made me think of Ami, especially the question that asks if you have ever adopted an accent for an entire day. We used to use accents all the time and then go to a furniture store or car lot and pretend to be from the south or New York or England or somewhere w/ an accent and get an over-zealous sales person to go crazy to try to sell us something we had no intention of buying. Not harmful to any one, but funny to us. Especially when one of us would forget to use our middle names as our pseudonyms, and the other would start to laugh. I could write several pages of our crazy adventures!
As w/ my sister, it makes me sad that Ami & I aren’t in each other's life as we had imagined we would be. We lost touch about 2 years after graduation when she went into the Army. The last time I had contact w/ her was about 6 years ago, and then we lost touch again. Last I heard she was working for Southwest Airlines. I hope all is going well in her life!