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It started, like so many wonderful things in our lives, with a burrito. A few years ago @everydaydude and I were lurking around the burrito shop waiting for our food when I noticed a little pink bear in the flowerbed. I immediately tried to pawn it off on him telling him that he had dropped his bear. He was unamused and attempted to discard it back into the flowerbed. I retrieved it, pocketed it, and deposited it in his bedroom later that afternoon. Over the course of the next few months he and I did our best to hide the bear amongst the other guy’s possessions, never claiming ownership, and upon discovering it always stating that the other guy had somehow misplaced his bear and we were doing him a favor by returning it.
After a while, @everydaydude moved to SF and forgot to take his bear with him. In the following years, the bear made its way back and forth between PDX and SF on planes, in cars, in the pockets of mutual friends, via commercial shipping services with falsified documentation to obscure its origin, always arriving with a bit of surprise.
The little bear got lost for a little while but turned up again recently; this time in @everydaydude’s bed. I had a really good time imagining unfortunate circumstances by which the bear would be discovered.
Below you’ll find the slightly sanitized chat log from the most recent episode of Hey Man, You Forgot Your Bear.
9:49 PM Dude: I think you left your bear behindApparently the bear is a girl now. Weird. I can only assume that it’s going to be a very short while until I run across @everydaydude’s sweet little miss lady bear somewhere amongst my stuff.
9:50 PM me: I don’t drink beer.
9:51 PM Dude: BEAR
9:52 PM me: Ohhhhh, YOU FOUND YOUR BEAR???? AWESOME!!!! I bet you’re super excited.
9:55 PM I can only hope you found it while [doing some stuff we’d both rather not talk about] I laughed the whole plane ride home thinking about it.
9:56 PM Dude: negative sorry to disappoint but I DID blame @helena via text
10:08 PM me: Oh Fuck, can’t stop laughing. Seriously. Apart from farts, this bear has the world’s greatest comedic staying power. Non-stop lulz
10:09 PM Dude: yeah she’s already planning her return in fact she knew how to get home to you before she ended up back here
10:10 PM persistence, as you know, is her strong suit