Barf Stories Told by Close Friends

When middle-aged, children's role models get together for drinks, the first happy hour is spent sharing the reality of stressful, work-filled, soccer-parent lives. If the evening is sustained, parents might reminisce about younger days as they search for things about which they can laugh. More than occasionally, talk can include confessions of overconsumption.After enjoying the intensity each individual conveyed telling of embarrassing overindulgence, I realized that the better of...
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When middle-aged, children's role models get together for drinks, the first happy hour is spent sharing the reality of stressful, work-filled, soccer-parent lives. If the evening is sustained, parents might reminisce about younger days as they search for things about which they can laugh. More than occasionally, talk can include confessions of overconsumption.After enjoying the intensity each individual conveyed telling of embarrassing overindulgence, I realized that the better of these tales represent a humorous, shared experience; one rarely put down on paper. These stories made me laugh; so I could not leave them buried amongst the bones of behavior about which we are ashamed. I robbed their graves, selected the funnier ones, completed unarticulated details, embellished all, and preserved them in this book. They are fiction, laced with truth; and hopefully, nearly as humorous as the original tellers thought they were.Douglas M Parker