What Time Can Do To You

So I was driving down the road

chatting my wife, taking her to the beach when suddenly

a toll booth popped out and instinctively I

took out a dollar bill thinking it would be enough

and I

took a glance at the toll booth man and

and

I felt this feeling of deja vu, the guy

was staring at me and I was starting at him

and he said

Thank you, took the money from my hand and

I drove away and

gradually as the look on his face faded away I started to remember that he

was my one of best friends during high school and

how we used to hang out together as best buds;

how we

skipped school together,

rolled down the streets with a boombox on my shoulder

screaming out good old 70's songs with no care about the world at all

and yet here we are

again

and I wondered why

he was a sitting in that sick confinement collecting money and guarding the road

probably thinking that was it

while I was on my car

with my wife

heading down to beach to enjoy a nice time there

I wondered what drifted us apart only to

find ourselves separated from each other in very different places

a toll booth man and a married guy who makes a living being an English teacher

As I pondered my wife was still talking to me but I

could no longer hear what she was saying instead

I was awestruck at just what Time could do

to two old friends.