Kipp became somewhat of an unsung hero in my eyes. His self-confidence was overly intact so telling him would have been a mistake. He already thought everyone saw him as a unicorn.
I did hold him on a pedestal. We could mock all around us with mere eye contact. One eyebrow in the air and I knew he was thinking something racist. His fake laugh with the nervous giggle just meant he need a conversation to end so he could go poop.
A couple months later we found out the Spring Break plans to Florida didn’t fall through for everyone on the list.
Really just Kipp.
Why was he was excluded from the adventure? Why did all his friends lie and leave him? It’s hard to say. His frequent bouts of urinating wherever he wanted? Inability to shut up when dissatisfied? The farting?
We went back & forth coming up with reasons for the desertion and decided to quit wasting our energy. The reasons why were bountiful. We like to go back to this special moment in his past and use it as a candid way to categorize all unanswerable questions.
How were the pyramids built?? FLORIDA, Spring Break, 2002! That’s how.
In our future ‘Florida’ would even become itself.
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