I won't wish you a happy birthday. Or even a belated happy Friday.' 'Oh, you can wish me happy Friday.' He smiles again. 'I have no objection to Fridays.'
Are you doing the 'I'm so flippin happy it's a Friday' crazy banana dance? Did you have a long week? Are you tired????
But it's Friday, so let's just OOOUSSSAAA for a minute and 'talk'.
It's Friday, so let's dance.
I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think ... I think ... maybe ... it's both happening at the same time.
I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain’t they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain’t led no hum-drum life.
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.
‘Oh, Forrest,’ she say. ‘You have come home at last. There wadn’t a day gone by I didn’t think bout you, an I done cried myself to sleep ever night since you been gone.‘
Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!
But ever since you tole it to me, that’s what I been goin by. I been lettin the ‘tide’ carry me and tryin to do my best. Do the right thing.
A day or so later, that guy come up to me in the hall an says he's gonna 'get' me. All day I was afraid terribly, an later that afternoon, when I was leaving to go to the gym, there he is, with a bunch of his friends. I tried to go the other way, but he come up to me an start pushin me on the shoulders. An he's saying all kinds of bad things, callin me a 'stupo' an all, an then he hit me in the stomach. It didn't hurt so much, but I was startin to cry an I turned an begun to run, an heard him behind me an the others was runnin after me too. I just run as fast as I could toward the gym, across the practice football field an suddenly I seen Coach Fellers, settin up in the bleachers watchin me. The guys who was chasin me stop and go away, an Coach Fellers, he has got this real peculiar look on his face, an tell me to get suited up right away.