It may have come to your notice I have managed to find another old army buddy from my first three years in the army. All this from an idle trawl on fbuk after deleting all the one eyed-black-lesbian-shotput-tatttooists from Mongolia (specially recommended by fbuk) I found somebody who looked like the Pete Bates I used to know although to be fair his new profile picture does tend to make him look like a phsyco serial killer unlike my charming immage
Now as we used to be prettty close and he often helped in the mayhem I caused I decided to send a request and see if it was him. I sent a message that would only make sense to the aforementioned: were you 24119586 Pte Bates of Gordon platoon? It took him about three months to either decide who I was (had I changed that much?) or work out who I was.
Now I am back in contact I wonder just how much we have both changed after 40 years of living our seperate lives. I remain convinced I am still the same old areshole I ever was but, then again I am probably too close to the subject matter to be objective. I suppose the only way I’ll ever know is try and meet up sometime. Is this another episode of ‘bucket list number 9’ where I turn back the clock again or will it just lead to memories best left in the past?