When You Find The Time

“Don’t HOPE. Plan, then ACT!”

-Michael J Armijo
PHILOSOPHICAL STATMENTS

Twenty-five years ago today:

June 6, 1987
Saturday

I woke Scott and persuaded him to go jogging with me to the end of the beach. Surprisingly, he couldn’t make it all the way.
Scott explained, “Dang…I know it’s because I’ve never run in these size eight shoes before!”
“It’s cool,” I reassured him, “We can walk the rest of the way back.”

I telephoned mom and change our ‘come over and clean my house together’ date for Sunday. I figured Scott was here and we could hang out together. We ate breakfast at OLE’s WAFFLE SHOP on Park Street. I explained how the waffle place is a landmark in Alameda. He loved it.

After breakfast we drove in to San Francisco where we cruised along South of Market Street, Lombard Street, COIT TOWER, Market Street, St. Francis Residential, Ocean Beach, The Castro vicinity, Van Ness Avenue, Polk Street and on through Geary. I gave him a reasonably good tour of The City.

We continued back to Alameda and lounged at my house for a while and played a game of chess. I lost.

I tried to nap while Scott waited to accept a Collect Call from OHIO.
Once he received the call I drove Scott back to the Naval Base.
Scott said, “I’m hungry again!”
“You are?”
“Yeah!”
“Well, I’m not.”
Needless to say, I just dropped him off and guided myself to a local bookstore. I left after some browsing and drove over to mom and dad’s house. I briefed mom on my day. I showed her the ‘EVERY INCH A LADY” greeting card of a very obese woman clad in a tiny bikini. Mom laughed.
I said, “Scott bought the same card for a friend of his in Ohio. I don’t know who I’m going to send this to…yet.”

I returned home to a phone call from Johnny on my answering recorder. He wasn’t at home, so I left him a message.

I also called Eileen because she was also on my recorder.
In her message she said, “Call me when you find the time.”
I found the time but, of course, she wasn’t home. Yawn.

In deep relationships there has to be a mutual valuing of the other person.
The two people have to want to play an important part in each other’s lives.
-Michael J Armijo
PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENTS