TToML 13: First Impressions

Summer 2010. Living at RG with Marjo.

Alright, two stories tonight. They both involve my dear friend, McKensey, and they are two of the first impressions that I got of her before she became one of my best friends.

Story one: This is the first memory I have of McKensey. It was probably earlier in the Spring actually when this happened. But it was a Sunday, after ward prayer, and everyone was just chilling in the quad like normal. There's this one particular crabapple tree in the quad whose trunk grows very near to the balcony. If you stand on the ledge that's down around the quad, it's just a short arms length away. Well, I don't remember the specifics of who I was with or what I was doing, but I look over and see this girl stuck up between the first and second floor of Roman Gardens. She had sort of climbed up the tree and was leaning back against the railing and the side of the floor for the second story walkway, and her feet were on the trunk of the tree holding her up. (Ok, I just went facebook exploring to see if I could find a picture in the quad with this tree, and no luck. So I drew one for you.)

Like so:

But now she was trying to get down and finding that she didn't quite know how to do that. It was one of those situations that was much easier to get into than out of. So I just remember Sara and perhaps another person or two over there trying to figure out how to help her down and I just laughed because it was a funny situation.

Story two: This happened in the summer. At this point McKensey and I were friends, but not good ones. We had hung out in the same group several times and I liked her, but still didn't know her very well. So one day I was standing outside my door, just looking out into the quad. It was probably a Saturday and we were bored and couldn't figure out what to do. Well, the manager, Dave, happened to be walking around out there and McKensey was out by the pool. Here is the conversation I witnessed:

"Hey Dave, have you noticed anything missing around here?"

"Uhh..."

"Like the 'No Diving' tile for the hot tub...?"

"Oh, yeah, actually I had noticed. You know anything about it?"

"I may or may not...but you'll never know until my garbage disposal is fixed."

"Umm you need to put that back. I could get you in serious trouble for stealing from the complex."

"......Oh. Okay."

I laughed so hard! It was obviously supposed to be funny and only somewhat serious, but he totally didn't get the joke and reacted in a bit of a hostile way. This girl and I were gonna get along mighty well.

Needless to say, the tile found its way back home, and McKensey's disposal got fixed by Nate since Dave was obviously never gonna get around to doing it.