For
spring break my girlfriend and her best friend had planned a camping
trip to southern Utah to a semi-secret little spot by the name of Red
Cliffs. By semi-secret I mean there is a forty place national park
camping ground with running water and toilets. Real undergroundstuff, like Cat Stevens. The problem was that there was room for 10
people in two cars and those spots were taken. The rub there was that
my friend Cole was left out. Cole had a bizarre existence for a high
schooler, he worked as a baker at a local shop and had to start work
at godforsaken-o'clock in the anti-meridian. The upside of this was
that he had to head home for bed at a very early time on nights
before work and he was going to have to work during spring break.
Meaning that he couldn't have come if he was invited which I was not
at liberty to do any way because it was not my trip and there was no
room. I choose not to discuss that fact with him and opted instead to
try to avoid him for the week running up to spring break even though
we had two classes together. I don't really know why I wanted to
avoid the subject coming up but then again I am a big fan of ignoring
things an hoping it goes away eventually. I could tell Cole was mad
and that his feel-bads were hurt that he was getting ditched but I
just passed him in the hall finding something else to look at or
someone to talk with to pretend I couldn't see him and have to deal
with it. Real stand up guy right?
