Last night around 6 pm as I was waiting for Chris to get home from work the phone rang.
I always look at the display on the phone to see who’s calling and if I don’t recognize the number I often don’t answer it as it’s usually someone trying to sell me something or lately one of our Provincial political parties asking “Can we count on you?”.
So I looked at the telephone display and I saw the words “the Jewelery Doctors”. At first I thought why is a jewelry store calling me? I’m not in the business anymore and the only reason I could think of was that maybe something happened to my sister who’s still in the jewelry trade and they were calling me to help her.
Then a little light went on and I remembered that the Jewelery Doctor was our friend old Bob. Chris and I used to work in the same building as him when we were both jewelers. That’s how we all became good friends.
If you ever need custom made jewelery you must visit Bob. His work is not just “designer inspired jewelry”. No, it is designer jewelry. He can make absolutely anything you can think of and his designs are amazing. I didn’t do the same kind of work as Bob. Chris’ work in the trade was closer to Bobs and I know he aspired to create beautiful pieces like our friend bob.
We had a nice talk on the phone. I probably haven’t talked to him for about a year since he’s a hard man to get a hold of. Chris, in fact, had been downtown on Tuesday when he went to submit our Passport applications to the passport office and he’d dropped into the jewelry trade building that we used to work in to visit with my sister and some of our old friends. Unfortunately Bob wasn’t around when he’d dropped in, but he heard that Chris had been there so he was calling to say hello.
Unfortunately Chris wasn’t home when he called and when Chris tried to call him back he’d already left the office.
It’ll probably be several more months before we all end up talking again.
That’s one nice thing about good friends. Even if you don’t manage to talk or get together often it’s easy to fall right back into place once you do get together.
So true! I have several friends like that. We’re not always so good about getting in touch, but when we see each other, it’s as if not a day has gone by!
You have settled Bob contact number in your phone as The Jewelery Doctor? LOL so funny to put this kind of funny names to remember a person
I so agree with you. I love that comfort of falling right back into place with old friends. We’ve moved around a bit, so I’ve got friends scattered in a few different countries, and it is so nice to just pick up where you left off, no matter how much time has passed. It makes you feel there are bits of home all over the place. And there’s not too many feelings nicer than that!
Cheers!
yu.. nothing beats the old days with old friends… they are always there to comfort you and join you through rough times. and indeed never forgets.
hi Tricia! I wrote a post inspired by this one, and I linked it back to you. What a gorgeous website your friend has! And how cool to have been a jeweler…you are obviously a woman of many talents.
I also wanted to tell you that I have screwed around extensively with my HTML on my blog (it’s an absolute miracle the thing works at all) and I’m hoping I’m a Do-Follow blogger again. Oh, let it be so!