picklestein said:
Hey Doof, did you grow/him grow up in Portland? Did he/you go to Wilson High by any chance?
The reason I ask is that I have a ton of friends from HS that knew him. I believe we even played baseball against each other. It's so long ago, that every name sounds familiar. But his name definitely does. After reading about his career, I never realized his pics always stood out to me. Like that pic of the kid dying of ebola and everybody was just hovering around, 10 feet away. Not wanting to get near the dying little kid.
I grew up in Portland.
I knew him from before he went to highschool, when he went to Bridlemile Elementary, (not all that far from Alpenrose Dairy).
I only found out this weekend past of him dying because I am going to Portland at the end of the month and was going to see what was new with him or if I could find a way to meet up. Had found out he had moved to back to Portland to help out with his folks a while back.
By the way one of my sisters was friends with David's sister. They would play with their model horses and wound up going to any number of horse related functions, but I digress.
David and I were more of the 'lets go down to the creek and throw rocks in the water or try to build (another) dam today", or 'lets go climb trees', 'go find a haunted (abandoned) house' or 'its raining, lets play legos' kind of friends. We also had the college kid buy us some beer when we were in 6th grade with our lawn mover money. He also is responsible for the scar in the back of my head when were throwing rocks at some target in an empty dirt lot and I somehow got in the way...3-5 stiches, and I remember my mom being more freaked out by the huge dirt pile I left at the emergency room.
Then we moved away in 7th grade and went to different high schools. Ended up in the same college though, but never were as close as we were when we were kids.
Anyway, his death is not a soul crushing thing, like say if your current best friend died, but best friends from any time period, even years distant, when they die, it still sucks.