My Friend’s Roommate’s Laser Tag Party
As I’ve stated before, I didn’t know anyone when I got to Nashville for mortuary school. Luckily, only a few days after moving in, some familiar faces arrived accompanied by their heads and bodies and limbs. They were people from my hometown who were attending universities in that very same city: David, Robert, and Nate all living together at Vanderbilt and Amanda at Belmont. For context, I was friends with the first three since middle school and Amanda since preschool. Also, David and Amanda were dating. They’re now married with kids and a house and a pool and the whole thing. When I moved in, I knew they weren’t far behind, and I was counting the days. They would bring with them a comfort and familiarity that my 19-year-old self seriously needed.
Early that first semester David called to invite me to J&J’s Market & Cafe, a coffee shop where people could play the cool, hip acoustic guitars they’d strategically strewn throughout and play any board game imaginable. The reason for the outing that night? To challenge Amanda and three of her friends, including her roommate who was very nice but whose name I can’t remember, to a friendly game of Trivial Pursuit. We were just playing for fun, and it wasn’t meant to be super competitive, so I don’t want to dwell on this, but we destroyed them. I’ve heard one of them, to this day, has to cut pies into either four or eight slices…
