The Four Year Wait for Ribs



Scoot was being a pain in the butt when I tried to get a picture of us in the car!

So many good memories with this kid!

Finally forced him into a picture at the doorstep!







Flashback to my first day of ninth grade.  I'm in this new town at this scary school and I don't know a soul!  When I get to Seminary, the teacher starts talking about his "inspired" seating chart.  I start looking around the room, wondering which cute boy God wanted me to sit by.  I ended up next to this boy that I recognized from the gym class I had earlier that day, and I instantly started judging.  He was obviously a football player, so he was obviously a tool.  He was wearing a jacket that said he was Student Body President, so he was obviously stuck up.  To make things worse, I was still in that awkward, shy new girl phase.  So, when he turned to me and said hi, I smiled and went back to what I was doing.  I was totally intimidated by this kid!
About a week later, we had a PACER test in gym class.  This was basically an endurance test.  When I lasted for twice as long as any other girl and outlasted ninety percent of the boys, people started noticing the quiet new girl.  When I sat down in Seminary later that day, Scooter, on yet another valiant attempt to reach out to me, said, "Wow, good job today, you're a really good runner, Meghan."  He found that key to winning me over: he complimented my running!  Next thing I knew, we were best friends.  We had an awesome handshake and everything!  He was the first friend I had in Layton, and he was the one that introduced me to a lot of the other friends I eventually made.
During one of our talks, we somehow started talking about ribs.  I told him about how I always get sauce all over my face whenever I eat them, and that my parents had told me I could never eat them on a date.  He laughed and said that his brother had told him the same thing.  So, we made a plan.  On my sixteenth birthday, he would take me on my first date, and we would get ribs, just to spite everyone!
Well, I didn't stay in Layton long enough to see that day come.  Whenever he would come down here or I would go up there, we would try to get ribs, but it never quite worked out.  Last week, he came down with his family and, knowing that this could be the last time we see each other before his mission, we made getting ribs a priority.  It was so much fun!  First, we went to go see Batman (which was SUCH a good movie!).  Even though we were getting ribs after, Scoot bought us the extra large popcorn combo and we totally stuffed ourselves.  When we got to Texas Roadhouse and FINALLY got our ribs, we stuffed ourselves again, but enjoyed every last second of it!  Then, he wanted to go get sno cones since he knew how obsessed I am with them. 
We had quite the adventure getting to the Sno Shack!  I kind of might have led him on a wild goose chase around town since he didn't know where he was.  I kept saying "Well, you could turn left here, or you could go right" and "Guess where you go now!"  We ended up going from Texas Roadhouse through Washington, around Little Valley, to Bloomington Hills, down the roundabout, through Bloomington, up to Green Valley, over the new overpass, around the Temple, and down to the Sno Shack.  It was funny, and we enjoyed having more time to talk!  We had so many great memories to reminisce about.  I've sure missed him!