Page 9 - Leisure Living Magazine Autumn 2018

Then: Boy Talk,
Now: Botox
I’m speed-
ing down San
Vincente Blvd with
four of my best
friends, one in the
front seat, three
squished in the
back, after spend-
ing a sun baked
day at Sorrento
Beach, after hours
of flirting with cute teenage guys. Transistor radi- os blaring into the warm air. Baby oil sizzling on our skin. Turning every fifteen minutes to keep our bodies directly in the sun, in those days when the sun wasn’t bad for you.
I’m speeding down San Vincente Blvd. I’m not wearing shoes. We are singing at the top of our lungs when in my rear view mirror I see a cop. Like I said, I’ve been speeding. He pulls me over and I’m sure I’m going to be double ticket- ed: one for speeding, one for not wearing shoes while speeding.
I feel that moment now as if it were yester- day. Seconds into the melody, my cell phone rings. It’s one of the girlfriends from that San Vincente ride. She’s practically crying from hap- piness, talking so fast I can hardly make out her words. “Quick. Turn on the radio. 98.3. Guess what’s playing?”
Back then we giggled nervously as the cop pulled us to the side of the road. I pull over now because I can’t see through the tears streaming down my face.
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“How gentle is the rain...” The song is blasting on the car radio. I can’t remember who sang it but I can remember exactly what I was doing over fifty years ago when it played on the radio of my 1960 Falcon.
Tears because so much time has passed since those carefree beach days? Because I know I can’t go back to those days? Or is it because after all these years I’m still very much in touch with those friends from those beach days and what could possibly be bet-
ter? Nothing.
Sure, we’ve changed
throughout the years. As teenagers, we talked about boys and college. And then boys
again. Dreaming of life once we entered the “real world.”
In our twenties, some of us started careers. Some of us started families. We talked about diapers, sleepless nights, and bosses that just didn’t appreciate our worthiness. And we did all this from our homes on landlines, since cell phones existed only in The Twilight
Zone.
In our thirties, we yapped about our kids and
spent endless hours on hard benches at sporting
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Friends since 6th grade, Kathy Heineman, Zauzi Travis and Barb Clemons. There’s been a lot of boy talk in this over-55 year friendship!