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Back Door Friend
September 1, 2009
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[...] It may have taken ten years, but Sarah and the Goon Squad learned the “other” meaning of one colloquial expression of friendship – Backdoor Friends. [...]
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I think that sign is also a name for a movie…somewhere on the internet…
Also..how does your fantasy Football temas look this year?
I would have laughed at that sign even if I was sober!
Another bad one: Over the weekend my sister-in-law got married. I was texting her trying to figure out where the rehearsal dinner/party was going to be and asked if the house was in the same neighborhood as their rabbi. She replied “it’s in the same cul-de-sac. hehehe “sac”‘
Awesome! Love the signage – the story – and the new neighbor!
I had that no sound laughter reading this…I would have thought the EXACT same thing reading that sign, probably worse if I’m buzzed. And given my inside voice has Tourette’s, I probably would have said something!
My grandma had that plaque in her house for years and she so meant it. (in the nice way, wow I’d never even thought of the alternative. Thanks!) No one came in the front door unless they were walking up that side of the street or they were the mailman. However, she did spend a lot of time on the front porch and you were in the club if you hung out there too. You’re right about the no formalities thing. We don’t know what those are in our family really.
How cool you have someone close who’s going through a similar transition and who also comes with beer. I really need one of those. It’s so nice when people show up just when we need them. It happened to me recently. I think you know her.
OMG. I laughed till I cried. That was the funniest fucking thing I have seen. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And now I can never go to a craft fair again with my mother with out pissing myself laughing. Because we all know that sign is all over those craft fairs!
Ah… good laugh. And good luck with the football this year!
Queen of Feisty
I need that sign. My husband and I still giggle every time we see a Rick Steves book or tv show called “Europe Through the Back Door.”
If I had been there and there was booze involved, you know that not only would I have laughed at the sign, I would have teased the homeowners and asked them to introduce me to these backdoor friends of theirs winkwinknudgenudge.
I must admit…I laughed out loud when I read the title of your post, let alone the entire thing. Ha!
OK, this one time, at my husband’s grandmother’s house . . . His Nana was quite proper all the time, and didn’t really understand us crazy kids. She was telling a story about the New People across the street, and that last Saturday night, their teenagers were with friends, and they were all THROWING UP IN THE CUL DE SAC! She was clearly vexed and miffed and in high dudgeon when she said that, and Rick and I started laughing and couldn’t stop. I still don’t know what was so funny about it, but we still repeat it to each other 30 years later and it still cracks us up. (Nana was not amused.)
There is no laughter quite as fulfilling as forbidden laughter.
I take it that it’sn ot the same neighbor who was raking your leaves?
Ha, that sign would have cracked me up, sober or not.
If anyone came to my back door I would call the cops. Does that make me unfriendly?
I’m not even sure our front door opens. Everyone uses the side door, except for the people who come in through the laundry room. It’s a regional thing.
Too freakin funny. I really should have looked at the title to realise that it would be inevitable that I was going to laugh until I cried.
LOL!
Our backdoor is fenced in and never gets used, but most of our close friends know to come in through the garage, so I guess that’s as close as it gets at our house…
TEEHEE. I’ll be your back door friend, Sarah.
Erm, I had the same reaction just reading the title of your post..I hadn’t even gotten to the sign yet.
You crack me up.
So are we gonna have a celebratory Our Kids are in Kindergarten! breakfast sometime next week??
I think it’s a movie on 598. I thought you actually took the picture! If it happened recently, you would have.
this post has awesome written all over it!
Still laughing…
Too much information alert, and you are either going to feel honored or grossed out: Last night while the huz and I were ‘cozying’ up to one another, he made a playful comment that brought this post to the forefront of my mind. I ended up in hysterics throughout most of our foreplay.
Ha. I love you.