High school friends are the best - Zach Porter

Today my good friend Lee is flying in all the way from San Francisco for a visit to our hometown of Tucker, Ga. Lee, or Lee-bowski if you will, is one of several funny souls I have kept on the friends roster since our days at Tucker High School. Lee, and our high school buddies "Darth Hunt," "Old Blue" and maybe even our boy "Possum" (don't ask), will head out into the wild Tucker night to do some catching up.

I hang out with my remaining Atlanta-based friends from high school on a regular basis, going to concerts, Thrashers games, Braves games, or the occasional brew-ha-ha in Athens, Ga. I feel I'm in the minority though, as most of my current aqauntainces and coworkers express little to no interest in what their old high school classmates are doing. I find it odd that most people do not have a solid connection with at least a few people that they went through such an awkward but defining period of their life with. It's not that high school was a social or academic blast for me, sometimes it was pure hell, but I still made friends who I have kept despite their going off to college all the way on the "left coast."