Old friends
Three friends of fifteen years, late at night, third glass. They have told each other everything and are bored of it.
- When did you last climb something you were not supposed to?
- Guess which of us has cried at an advertisement. Why them?
- When did you last walk somewhere further just to keep talking?
- When did you last laugh until you couldn't breathe, and who caused it?
- When did you last stand out in the rain longer than you had to?
- When did you last swim in water you couldn't see the bottom of?
- When did you last get badly lost, and who was with you?
- When did you last climb a fence, and what was on the other side?
- When did you last sleep outdoors, and what woke you?
- When did you last watch the sun come up, and who else was awake?
- When did you last walk home at 3am, and what route did you take?
- When did you last get so cold you couldn't speak properly?
- When did you last miss the last train, and how did you get home?
- When did you last pretend to know the way?
- When did you last drive somewhere with no destination, and who came with you?
- When did you last hear a noise outside at night and go look?
- When did you last sing in a car with other people in it?
- When did you last leave a party without saying goodbye?
- When did you last dance outside, and what was playing?
- When did you last carry someone, or get carried?
- When did you last go into water fully clothed?
- When did you last get told off by someone in a uniform?
- When did you last go somewhere you'd been told to stay out of?
- When did you last walk past a house you used to live in?
- When did you last hear news of someone we all used to know?
- When did you last do something none of us would have predicted?
- When did you last make a new friend, and where did you meet?
- When did you last fall over in front of people?
- When did you last wake up not knowing what time it was?
- When did you last shout as loud as you could outdoors?
- When did you last cook something over a fire?
- When did you last sit outside in the dark with nothing to do?
- Which of us would you call from a police station at 4am?
- What's the worst weather you've ever been happiest in?
- What outdoor plan do you always agree to and dread all week?
- What's a place you loved that you'd refuse to go back to?
- Which friend would you never introduce to us, and what would go wrong?
- What's the kindest thing you've done that you'd hate to be thanked for?
- Which city has treated you badly and you still defend it?
- What are you good at that you've never let anyone watch you do?
- What gear do you still own for a hobby you gave up?
- What's the most beautiful thing you've seen and didn't photograph, and why not?
- What story about me have you told that I've never heard you tell?
- Which of us gives the worst directions, and why do we still follow them?
- What's the pettiest reason you've held a grudge against a stranger?
- What have you carried for miles that you should have left behind?
- What's the best night you've had that started out badly?
- Where have you slept badly and still want to go back to?
- What did we get away with then that you'd report someone for now?
- What did people believe about you at sixteen that you never corrected?
- What do we still call you that stopped being true years ago?
- What role do you play in this group that you'd like to resign from?
- Which of us would last longest out here, and why isn't it you?
- What's the worst advice you've given that someone went ahead and took?
- What do you do exactly like your mother and hate noticing?
- Which friendship did you let die that you'd restart tomorrow if they called?
- Which stranger do you still think about, who wouldn't remember you?
- What are you afraid of that you make yourself do anyway?
- Who here have you been wrong about, and about what?
- What do you miss about a place you couldn't wait to leave?
- What did you fake being interested in until you weren't faking?
- Teach us how you pack a car boot for a week away.
- How do you keep warm outdoors when you've dressed wrong?
- Teach us how you'd find your way home without a phone.
- Teach us your trick for sleeping upright in a moving car.
- Teach us how you'd pick a swimming spot in a river you don't know.
- How do you get into cold water without making that noise?
- What's the walk you'd take a visitor on, and where does it end?
- Teach us how to carry something heavy uphill without wrecking yourself.
- What can you fix with your hands that the rest of us pay for?
- Teach us how you stay awake in the last hour of a drive.
- What do outsiders get wrong about the weather where you grew up?
- What can your body do that you'd have to teach us slowly?
- Teach us how you'd get a lift from a stranger.
- What's your technique for eating in a moving car without ruining it?
- Teach us what you'd do first if the power went out tonight.
- What do you know about your street that your neighbours don't?
- Teach us how you'd survive one night outside with what's in your pockets.
- Guess which of us has slept outdoors most recently, and why them.
- Guess what I do in a city when I have an hour alone. Why?
- Guess which of us gets lost first without a phone, and why.
- Guess what I've changed my mind about since we last met, and why.
- Do I seem like someone who could spend a night alone in a forest? Why?
- Guess which of us has been the coldest in their life, and where.
- Do I seem like someone who feeds the birds? Why or why not?
- Guess which of us will be the last one talking at this fire, and why.
- Guess what my neighbours think I do for a living, and why.
- Guess who here would be first into the water, and why.
- Guess what I miss most about the place we grew up. Why that?
- Do I seem like someone who knows the names of trees? Why or why not?