Dave Allen is one of the manliest men I've ever known, and because of that he quickly became one of my favorite people ever. I met Dave when me and too buddies of mine, Dan and Brett, were looking for our third roommate for our apartment that upcoming year and he came across an ad we posted online. We liked him right away but it wasn't until that fall when he moved in with us that we, especially me, realized that this was one of the coolest guys I'd ever met. There are a lot of memories I have with Dave, some of them being quite hilarious and probably inappropriate to post on the interweb, so I'm going to go with one that I think best defines the kind of friend this man's man is.
One night during the school year, Dan and Brett were out of the apartment probably studying engineering or something, while Dave and I were just chilling in the apartment and outside it was essentially raining slush on the Earth when all of the sudden BAM! "What the fuck was that?" I say as the electricity goes out in the apartment and we look outside to see that the damn transformer exploded and our entire apartment complex lost power. After realizing that the power probably wasn't going to come back on anytime soon, we end up grabbing some random candles lying around the apartment (don't know how the hell we had as many candles as we did, we can thank Dan for that one) and since we couldn't use our computers or watch TV, we ended up just chilling in the living room. After a while of doing nothing I thought, you know what, I'm gonna have a drink. So I went into my room, grabbed a bottle of Bullit bourbon, two glasses, and came back into the living room where I poured us both a decent amount of whiskey then proceeded to share stories about stupid shit we did when we were younger. Hearing about how he and his buddies would have firework fights on his property and how one of his buddies broke a then left a few bucks on the ground for repairs had me in stitches. All we were doing was drinking whiskey with no electricity and chatting, but it was about as good a time as you could have with another man.
Dave is a hell of a guy, and expect to be friends with him for a long time, even if we just end up meeting up every once in a while to have some good whiskey and reminisce about some of the shit we did that year we lived to together.
Cheers,
Andrew
