Temporary bar buddies

Thom Dunn of Jamaica Plain recounts an evening in a local bar with one of those instant-friend strangers you feel awkward around when you see them in the light of day:

But in those hazy, drunken moments in the low, musty lighting of the bar, you'd swear we were the best of friends, and at the time, perhaps we were. So when I see him now, I can't help but feel some strange sense of camaraderie, fueled by nostalgia for nights that I hardly can remember.