After we talked in an earlier episode about what Martha calls anyway friends–those friends you pick right up with after not speaking for a long time–a listener sent in this quip: Friends are like fish, they’re fresh when you catch them. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Friends are like Fish”
Remember when we were talking about what I call my anyway friends, my friends who
I might not see for years and years, and then I see them and I just start talking with them
immediately? You have those kinds of, yeah, you’re like anyway, and it could have been a week or a
month or years. Yeah, there’s no break in the relationship. And we asked you to share your
terms for these kinds of friends. And we heard from Romy Burgraff in Chicago, who writes,
“My husband Robert uses a darling expression when I’m reunited with my girlfriends now scattered
about the country. He says, your friends are like fish. They’re fresh when you catch them.”
Isn’t that nice? That’s nice. Yeah. She says he’s not a fisherman, but I kind of like that.
I think I’ve heard of a collective noun for a group of women saying hello. It’s called a squeal.
Oh, yeah, yeah, right, right, right.
We’d love to hear your new language.
What do you call it when you see a friend that you haven’t seen in a long time and you just instantly reconnect?
Maybe there’s something new you should teach us.
Email words@waywordradio.org.
