Remember walking down the street and knocking on your friend's door?

I had to work Boo at the Zoo this weekend. And last. It was cold out. But that isn't what this blog post is about. This post is about something I said out loud while I was there.

As you know I come from a small town, so naturally I have friends from said town. Now I haven't had the chance to get back home in a while so that means I haven't seen my first friends in a while.

So here I am at Boo at the Zoo freezing my little tush off and I hear,

"Allison? Allison!"

I turn to my left and BAM! Little Tia is standing right there waving and smiling at me. Tia turns 18 on Wednesday do she came into the city for a "real bar experience."

At first I was super excited to see her. I love her, she's like a little sister to me. But then I got mad.

"How come you never told me you were coming in!"

I pretty much scolded the poor kid but my emotions were running high- I was so freakin excited but she caught me off guard and I don't like being surprised.

"I got a new phone so I don't have your number. I couldn't text you."

"You have me on Facebook! Coulda messaged me on there!"

Did I really just say that? Yes I did bout loud. People stared.

Now I'm all for social media, I love it a lot. But sometimes I miss the days when I would tell my friends to "call on me" which meant coming to knock on my door later to see if I could come out and play.

I wonder what life was like for the generations before mine. No Internet. No cellphones. I doubt they could even fathom what an "app" was.

I'm all for moving forward in today's world. Social media is huge. Everything is becoming digital these days. But sometimes I wish I could be that little kid again- when I could hear my mom calling me to come home from a block away because that woman is a powerhouse when it comes to yelling. My curfew was when the street lights came on. And 50 cents was enough for a jumbo freezie at M&Ms convenience store- and a jumbo freezie was enough for both me and my best friend Dillon to share. That would be really hard to believe if you saw him now... A whole box of freezies probably wouldn't fill that kid up.

I used Facebook as a verb. End of story.

These are some pics of me and Dilly over the years. He's my besty.