I was checking my email this morning when a Facebook invite,Linkedin invite and an email from my website popped up all at once. I immediately recognized the name Chris Aldrich. Chris attended American Community School with me in Athens Greece. We had some wild times I tell you. As American kids living in Greece we took full advantage of the situation. I remember once Chris and a bunch of our friends went on spring break to an Island we started out with money in our pockets, sunny weather and not a care in the world.Someone had the bright idea to rent motorcycles and away we went....Chris drove his off the side of a mountain(sounds worse than it was) but it totaled the bike. The shop that rented the bikes to us said if we didn't give them all our money they would contact the police. We ended up sneaking into a beach resort and sleeping in a cabana freezing half to death and eating peanuts they left at the bar....Sounds terrible I am sure but you know what that was the time of my life...go figure...anyway I found out Chris also works for RE/MAX in Oregon...It is a small world after all
Richard,
Loved this story.... it is a small world and the 'Net is making it even smaller!..... Great sign; do you stand on the freeway with it?
Kathy Opatka Re/max OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND
I love the networking sites! I have been able to contact many long lost Friends and it has revived many memories like yours!
Richard, what a great reconnection story. I just started on linkedin, facebook and twitter and am hoping something like that will happen to me! Years ago through the power of google I was able to reconnect with a few friends from childhood and it has been great - looking for the next phase!
I have found so many people on facebook it's insane! I just got an email from a friend I hadn't seen since my sophomore year in high school. She saw that I was in real estate and now I am helping her find a home! How cool!
First of all, two words: Bad Boys.
It is easier to find guys who were classmates than it is to find girls since girls usually have a different last name than when they were in school.
I am amazed at how many people I am re-connecting with on facebook. I did not understand what the big deal was at first. I am beginning to get it.
Happy Monday!!
Lori
I've reconnected with a lot of old high school and college friends through these networking sites. In today's market it pays to be online networking!
Very amazing how you can run into people you haven't see or heard from in years! What a great story!
I actually spoke with Chris on the phone this morning. It was great catching up with him. he did have some corrections to the story...like he mentioned the bike wasn't totaled and we spent all the money to fix the bike not pay off the shop keeper. Funny how you remember stuff . When he recanted the story to me it was hilarious...I laughed and Laughed. Maybe if we are lucky he will write a brief summary of how he saw the whole thing go down....(or over the cliff)..lol
Richard,
What a great story. I also have reconnected with old friends the same way. Got to love it.
That's a nice story Richard. It's weird how these connections are made, it proves to show that you never know what tomorrow will bring.
Great story Richard and it is nice to connect with old friends and get together as well.
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