2895. Yeah, love you too © Bruce Goodman 5 November 2023

Arnie was the coolest dude in my whole class. He was always on his cell phone talking to this girl and that. They were planning dates, and consulting him about everything. And then at the end he would say, “Yeah, love you too.” The rest of us guys if we were lucky had a girlfriend, but most of us to be honest just fumbled through puberty in a totally incompetent way. Not so Arnie. “Yeah. Catch you later. Love you too.” Then there was the colour of his phone. It was pink. Pink! He didn’t care. He said it used to be Megan’s and he thought of her every time he spoke into it or held it to his ear. If you didn’t know who Megan was you were a nobody. Megan was now working as a model. She was five years older than Arnie. How impressive is that? The other day I was with Arnie and he was on the phone – “Yeah, love you too” – and a teacher came up and said he was wanted in the Principal’s office. So he took off in a hurry and left his phone behind. So I picked it up and said, “Arnie’s been called away fairly urgently.” And there was no one on the other end. Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story