I've known Mike since I started playing football at Malow, and it's from those middle school football days that I'm gonna take a memory. One day before practice, Mike was tapping up his ankles and made a comment about how he shaved his ankles so he could tape them up right and how now that he was thinking about it, shaving his ankles felt pretty fucking lame. I was cracking up. This has to be one of the most random memories I have, and I honestly have no idea why I remember at all, but that's what's weird about life sometimes. We remember worthless stuff just because when it happened, we thought it was a classic moment.
I actually have a way better memory with Pendy than this. In ninth grade, he and I were in the same English class with Ms. N. There's plenty about that teacher we could comment on from the way all 6"2 of her would sit behind her desk with her legs spread, saying "You know?" upwards of thirty times a class period, but the funniest day I remember from that class was when we had a substitute. This particular substitute was named Mr. Male Bodily Fluid (Work it yourselves, ya perves). So one day we come into class and this older gentlemen is sitting at the teacher's desk. All is normal until he opens his mouth and happens to have the heaviest lisp that I may have ever heard on a person. I don't care how nice of a person you person you are, there's no chance in hell that if you're a couple of 14 year old guys that you're not finding a lisping teacher hilarious. We were courteous enough not to lose our composure in the classroom, but somehow we both got a pass to leave the class and the minute that door closed we burst out in laughter. I had that guy as my sub a few more times in my high school career, and he's a pretty good substitute actually, but that day at that age in that class with this kid, his whimsical sayings just didn't catch on.
I still see Pendy around MSU sometimes and we always say hey to each other. He's a cool guy and I'm sure he's gonna do some good things with his life.
Cheers LBC, make sure you try to prank call me next time I'm in Hawaii for my parents anniversary, ha.
-Andrew
