Day 49

I wanted to talk a little today about my good friend Dave. Dave and I went to high school together, but weren't nearly as close as we are now. He was in the grade below me. We started becoming closer during the summers when we were both in college, especially during the epic "Summer of Todd," as we all refer to it. Dave was a big part of the solid crew that tore up ctown during that said summer of 1998. There were a lot of people around then, but mostly it was myself, Gregg, Dave, and my other friend Todd. From that summer on, Dave and I kept in close touch.

Dave is truly one of a kind. He just has a way about him that you cannot help but like him and laugh. He is beyond outgoing. He has done so many things over the years that have made me laugh. Here are some of my favorite Dave being Dave moments:

-On his 21st b-day, we all went out downtown to Shooters in the flats. We all got pretty banged up. In attendance that night was Tribe pitcher Charles Nagy. Nagy had just died his hair bleach blonde. Dave had disappeared for a few minutes and we went looking for him. All of a sudden, I spotted him with Nagy, as I walk over to them, I hear Dave say "..and another thing Charlie, about that hair, its weak, I don't like it."

-He unknowingly let is slip that our friend Brandon, who at the time was one of my best friends for some odd reason, had been sleeping with my high school girlfriend behind my back while I was away at college. Even though it was 5 years earlier at the time, there was no reason for me to be friends with someone who was would do that to me, so we all snipped him. To quote Gregg "this was the best thing Dave ever did."

-Dave has given some unforgettable rehearsal dinner speeches. At his friend Allison's rehearsal dinner, he gave a speech how he knew that Allison and Ari were made for each other because one time he had asked her is she farts in front of Ari. Dave went on to say that Allison told him how she does and how they have farting contests and how she can clear a room with her gas.
At another rehearsal dinner he was rambling so long that people began to boo him off stage and the band started to play music. Dave's response as "this isn't the Oscars, I'll go as long as I want."

-In our wedding video, it captured a classic Dave moment. The circle for the Hora was beginning and was pretty deep, you can follow Dave from his table, to the the dance floor, breaking through the circle, and started his own dance with me, my dad, and my uncle.

-Last weekend, he came by the house to see my mom. We started talking about some girl and he said to my mom, "yeah Patti, she's cute, comes from a great family, has nice boobs....."

Dave and I also are a member of the club nobody wants to be a part of. About a month a half before my Dad died, his father had passed away from Pancreatic cancer. He had been sick for almost a year and it was so tough for him. He was going back and forth between Chicago and Florida where his dad was quite a bit. Through it all, he was so unbelievable positive and strong. He was a role model for me on how to act in the tough situation I was in. He was the guy I was talking to the most through my whole struggle because nobody else could relate to me the way he could. He was the first person I called when I found out my father died. Again we are in the same boat with trying to take care of our mothers as best as we can, both from Chicago. Its tough, but we are both doing it.

Everyone likes Dave. Its hard not to like him. Nothing better than watching him squirm when some tells him he looks like David Schwimmer, even though he looks more like Dylan McDermott. He drove to ctown this past weekend. On the way home, his car completely died at the Indiana/Ohio border. He was stuck for like 3 hours before he could figure out a way to get home. God bless the kid, only he could find a way to stay positive through it all.

Song of the Day: "Cissy Strut" by The Meters