Losing your best friend and partner since college is like breaking your heart and then losing half your brain. One day 50% of your knowledge and memories are stored safely in someone else’s noggin and then poof. You’ve lost where the water and gas hookups are at your house. Where the german car goes to be serviced. How many times you’ve been to England. And how to stop the incessant beeping of the espresso machine. You also lose the other half to all your inside jokes.
So today a friend sends a screen shot of the weather app and it’s predicting 5 straight days of little rainclouds– some with mini lightning bolts. It’s been sunny and beautiful since it rained over spring break. We’ve already forgotten what it was like to be trapped on the mountain, surrounded by water. Most days I find myself regularly stepping into the sun and proclaiming, “Ahh, the sun feels good on my baboon heart.”
Say what? Yep. James always said it. He swore it was from Saturday Night Live. And we’ve been saying it since I was nineteen. But there was no YouTube back then so I just had to trust him it was a thing. I’m a sleeper.
I literally just watched the skit for the first time ever… yes Jacob… “uncultured”– Take Your Shirt Off – SNL. Take 7 short minutes and watch it. I’m still giggling… except that I can’t unsee that outie. Anyway, all this time and I had no idea it had so many famous actors and comedians– Woody Harrelson, Chris Farley, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and David Spade. Well, whose ever heard of Kevin? But my pop uncultured brain definitely recognizes him.
One time, in college, I said it while driving James’ truck down Foothill Boulevard. And then a police car immediately turned on their lights and pulled me over. So then we started saying, “Ahh, the sun feels good on my baboon heart. Woop woop.”
Next time you step into the sun, try it out. I guarantee you’ll smile. And now you and me, we have an inside joke.