My 3 Day Weekend

One Friday afternoon, a friend hit me up. She was feeling like riding out and wanted to know if I would join her? Sure, why not, I had nothing planned. I was just about to get off work and had a 3 day weekend ahead of me.

My friend told me to bring a change of clothes just in case we don’t make it back tonight. Normally I would have questioned that but it was cool, I can do that. She mentioned that she picked me up something to eat so I didn’t have to worry about fixing anything before we left out, sounded good to me.

Had that “it’s Friday, it’s the weekend and I’m off for the next 3 days” feeling plus the weather was nice and I was feeling good. Got myself ready to go, packed a change of clothes and some food for us just in case I’m not trying to eat out.

She didn’t know for sure where she wanted to go so she asked me to roll the dice to help us decide. We ended up heading west to a big town a couple of hours from here. Drove around the town for a while then decide that we should get a room and chill for the night.

We were lucky, found a room for a decent price and it was a couple of blocks from where a lot of businesses and lights were. We got our walk on for a couple of hours. It was cool, perfect weather to walk in and the scene was decent. There was one of those spots that had a creek running through it with sidewalks and benches in it. By this time, it was dark. We grabbed the food I packed and hit up that spot to chill out and eat.

We ate, talked and laughed. Everything was good. I had that feeling like I never wanted that moment or feeling to end, it was kind of intoxicating. Plus knowing I was out of town in an unfamiliar place feeling.

A few hours later, we hit the room and it was a wrap. We got up bright and early the next day. It felt like an old school Saturday when it was my favorite day of the week. My friend mentioned that she had seen this food spot that she wanted to try. She asked was I down? Oddly, I was like “yeah, they might have something I can get down with”.

We hit the food spot up and it was fire. After we ate, we drove around the town some more, it was another nice day to be outside. We stopped by this museum, it was cool. After that, we headed back to town. Got back to my place, turned Netflix on and took a trusty nap. Felt like I was sleep for 8 hours but it was only a few hours that had past. Got up and fired the grill up. She was still knocked out on the couch.  

She eventually woke from her nap and joined me outside where I was working the grill, cooling and listening to some Curren$y on Pandora. Was telling her that this was way too perfect but I rolled with it and enjoyed the moments.

We ate good, talked about life and our dreams. Usually when I’m around someone this long I’m ready for them to go they ass home but that feeling was absent. Didn’t try to find that feeling or question it.

The nice sunny day was about to turn into a rainy day. She asked “you want to get your drunkin on with me tonight?” Heck YES I do. She was going to introduce me to a new drink tonight. We hit the store to get all that we needed for drinks and went back to my place. It was raining pretty good by this time. Some good music was on, good company was in my presence and that drink, sheeeeeeiit, that drink had us feeling right.

We both passed out. Not sure when we fell asleep but we didn’t rush to get up that morning. The sun was shining in the crib and we were chilling. She fixed us breakfast and we went back to getting our lazy on.

Eventually we got up and moving around. I mentioned “I haven’t taking a drive in the country in forever”. She was like, “lets do that and also find a spot to have something like a picnic?” I was down. We gathered all that we wanted to bring along and was out. Country riding is the shit when the weather is right. She knew about this spot off in the cut that we ended up stopping at. We were off in the woods, talking shit but I was paranoid. I didn’t know where I was or if someone that’s trigger happy was creeping around. She found that shit funny but not me.  

After we got done riding and getting our country experience on, we headed to the park to have our picnic. Headed back to town after that. She asked “what are you getting into for the rest of the day?” I hadn’t thought past that moment so I wasn’t sure what I’d be doing. She mentioned having some free game rentals and wanted to know if I wanted her to put her foot to my ass in some games. Gave her that “really bitch” look but inside I was like hell mf yeah!!

We rented a few games and got our game play on for hours and hours. The night had come out of nowhere, next thing we knew it was early the next the day. We laid it down. When I woke, I was feeling refreshed. Time away from work, good company and a lot of good moments back to back, I couldn’t complain nor fight the feeling. Hadn’t had good time in a long time….

….I could hear my phone ringing but wasn’t sure where it was? Focused, found it, then realized…I had fallen asleep on the couch after work. It was still Friday? I was confused, salty and looking crazy as hell. I looked around and started shaking my head “DAMN, that was just a dream.”