Randy : First Impressions
I must have been about six or seven years old when i first met Randy. About fourteen years ago but i remember it so clearly now. My dad told me to stay in his locker room but me being about six years old wanted to explore so as soon as my dad turned around i was out of that door. Within about five minutes i was lost and scared. Go figure, daddy was right.
So I was looking around this arena trying to figure out which rom was my dads. Every room looked the same and I was too short to see the pictures of who's room was which. So I thought that I'd listen for my dad, his voice to me was very distinctive. That's when I heard voices of what I thought was girls, yup Dwayne and Randy at ten years old and whatever age Dwayne was sounded like girls. Great image now right?
Anyway I looked into this room to find out what was wrong, I thought I would be brave and try and make some friends who would take me back to my daddy. Well, in this room I saw this tall guy of around sixteen years old standing on a bench with this stuffed my little pony toy in his hand taunting this boy who was tallish with this mop of brown hair, singing
'Want it' extending the toy the other boy reaches for it and then pulling it back and saying 'can't have it!'
This was strange. I didn't even think about the toy, Dwayne was about ages with my eldest brother Bryan and I had never seen Bryan do anything like that. I thought he was mean and I told him so. The other boy was just staying quiet holding on to his pony which he got back when Dwayne dropped it when I shouted at him. I thought that the younger boy was a wimp, but I felt sorry for him. Dwayne left after that and I just sat there and talked to the boy. Who I later found out was called Randy.
We sat there and talked for what seemed hours, probably about ten/twenty minutes, but I was six I didn't know the difference. But we became friends that night and found out we lived in the same town and went to the same school, he was in the year above me. We remained friends for a really long time after that night. He was like a brother to me and I a sister to him.