One of my friends is relentlessly negative and--unintentionally--very funny.
He's middle-aged, not elderly like me, he still works (unlike me) in a high-stress professional job, so he should be sensible (unlike me) about his health. His doctor told him to walk once a day, so on Thursday, a mild, gorgeous only-in-Miami early March morning he went for a walk and sent me a picture.
His text asked me if i was positive or negative on "New Miami", which is my name for the post-jimmy butler "Heat", which was the previous topic we were texting about that morning. Ana and I had just sat down to study when I saw his text, the photo and "New Miami" so I briefly texted back that i would answer fully when we were done.
At 4:30 or so I responded with one of my signature, longgg texts on the +'s and -'s of what I saw inNew Miami...the "HEAT".
Friend: "Dude I wasn’t talking heat
I was asking miami as a place to live"
OH! 😂 My brain was fried and I was exhausted and I hadn't read his entire morning text. Well, I love it. I never had it in my mind that there was an Old Miami and a New Miami in my 40 years down here.
He then went on to lambaste 1) how Miami had "changed"--for the worse 2) the cost of living 3) how Lincoln Road Mall had lost its "character", (although the quality of the food had improved in his opinion) 4) the materialism. These were mostly fair critiques but I hadn't thought they had changed. Old Miami, less materialistic, New Miami, moreso? He ended with a diatribe against the whole population!
"My biggest beef with miami has always been the people
I have found a niche between work friends and some people on beach but the mean human in miami is vapid and materialistic and someone I don’t want to talk to"
Me: "😂well then don't talk to them you goof!"
I then went to Publix. I texted him after I got done getting food and was back in the car,
"what got you on this topic?😂you go for a morning walk and take a picture of the beautiful miami skyline and that makes you down on living here??😂😂"
Him: "No just made me think about how much it changed over years
"But no plans to leave here
"Just looked at skyline and made me think"
He then quickly changed the subject to a pic of Eleven standing on my shoulders that I had sent him, and that he had shown to his wife who found it hilarious.😂
