I’m walking on the street, and I see someone I didn’t expect.
Friend: hey Matt!
Me: yo wassup. What are you doing out here?
Friend, pointing to laundromat behind them: laundry.
Me: you don’t have laundry at your place?
Friend: nah, it broke. Listen, y’all should know imma be leavin town for a bit.
Me: what for?
Friend: I got a phone call from my sibling last night. I pick up the phone and they like, “I love you.”
Friend: and I’m all, “where in the hell is this comin from?”
Friend: they tell me, “I’m starting my cancer treatments next week”
Me: holy shit
Friend: yeah man. I had no idea they had fuckin cancer
Me: do you know anything else? Like, what kind or what the prognosis is?
Friend: Hell naw, they didn’t tell me shit. The only other thing they said was, “I need you to come out here and sign some papers.”
Friend: motherfucker I ain’t signin no papers imma come out there and take care of y’all.
This conversation went on for a while and never got any less depressing. Talk to your loved ones, everyone.