One of the things that I will miss most about John is how unintentionally funny he was. Though I have many memories to choose from, this is one that always makes me smile when I think about it:
It was on the evening after "Thunderdome" and a group of us had gone to the Lemongrass Grill for a celebratory dinner. Earlier in the evening we had exchanged Secret Santa gifts and apparently John had won a 2 gallon bag of rainbow-colored Pepperidge Farm Goldfish cookies. All through dinner he was chucking them at us across the table... after all, what else are you going to do w/ all those goldfish!
The evening concluded w/ some of us saying our goodbyes on the corner of 14th St & 6th Ave. It was Sunday and nearly 11pm, so we were all heading home in different directions. I asked John where he was going since his flight was at 5am. He said that Po had his luggage in his trunk and was going to give him a ride to the airport... after he finished his date! I asked John what he was going to do in the meantime since he (being from Florida) was dressed completely inappropriately for December in NYC - he had on a thin leather jacket, scarf, and gloves. He just smiled and said he didn't know but he would figure something out. So that's how I left him that night... freezing his !@# off, wandering the streets of lower Manhattan, carrying a giant bag of Rainbow Goldfish cookies ;)
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