It was pretty much a scene from a sit-com.

I'm looking at my friend sitting across from me in my living room. It's early and we're each clutching fresh mugs of coffee. The sun's poking through the windows and fluttering past the curtains. He's sitting with his right leg over his left at the top of the L on the couch, and I'm plopped along the bottom right. Between chuckles, we've bopped from his latest rotation at the hospital to the resurrection of Myspace.

Mostly, though, we're just chit-chatting about life.

That's when it dawns on me that, for all the times shows like How I Met Your Mother or Friends misrepresent a real day in the life, this might be the first time a normal scene from my life would line up with one from TV. I mean, when's the last time you walked into a friend's apartment for coffee before work?

Pulling my eyes from the window behind him, I refocus on my friend. He's using hand gestures to describe his latest string of overnights as a med student. It's 7:30am and I have my first call at 8:30am. After weeks of phone tag, he'd asked if I could do breakfast this week. I said absolutely. So he replied with the day that worked best, and when I told him about the call, I assumed maybe we'd try for lunch instead.

"Well, what about before?" he'd asked.

So, here we are—having coffee before work like Chandler and Ross dropping by Monica and Rachel's first thing in the morning. Sitting up to take a sip from my mug, I'm thinking they might've been onto something.

I mean, we had to plan it... but my friend and I managed to get together for coffee.

And it was like a scene from a sit-com.

So I'll take it.

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Our Daily MAP Year Prompt
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Where could you do something different with your day-to-day?

onward. 

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