My wife Marie and I have been best friends with John and Zoe for the better part of five years. I’ve known John since high school and we reconnected after we both started working at the same company. My wife and John’s girlfriend, Zoe, became instant friends through their shared love of gardening, Harry Potter and, of course, social drinking. The four of us quickly became as inseparable as twenty-somethings in 2018 can be. Every Friday one of us would send the inevitable “what’s up this weekend?” group text leading to a night of anything from drunk Mario Kart to dragging ourselves out of a dive bar at three in the morning.
Last summer, I was fortunate enough to receive a huge bonus from work. Marie and I decided to put it toward a swimming pool. A few weeks of work later our dream was realized and we opened the pool on a warm day in the middle of July. To christen our new purchase, we invited John and Zoe over for the evening and planned a night of fun, drinking, eating and swimming.