Meeting your best friend. How?
 

Consider for a moment your best friend in the world, if you don't count immediate family members such as spouse, sibling, parent, child, etc.

How did you meet that person?

You will be shocked to learn that a poll is forthcoming.

got in a fight with him. a bloody one. then two weeks of pure shit talking and another less bloody fight. then we talked it out. since then we've been best buds and are now moving in a house together.

Bailed him out of jail.

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It was the 7th grade... and nearly a quarter century later we're still the best of friends.

Kind of odd really, he is 18 years younger than I. He used to follow me drag racing, then when I quit, he started. I mentored him for a few years, now he has far surpassed anything I did on the drag strip. He has been successful Nationaly. The age difference has had zero effect on our friendship.
Oh, the closest selection I could find in the poll, was everyday activitives
:banghead: I just found the adult hobby category, sorry.

My junior year of high school a group of us used to get together and play Tecmo Super Bowl he started showing up and we've been best friends ever since.

lol, we had just moved, this was back in 1987 or so. I was throwing out the trash in the alley. Friend was as well, thats how i met em. I am going to be 31 next month and we are still friends. I was something like 12-13 years old.

sold me a bag of weed at a party.

Speaking of age differences, my secretary is 61, and her best friend is 24. Not sure how they met...don't really care.

On the topic of age differences, my mom's best friend for several years was a girl who graduated in my class in high school. They were bank tellers and worked right next to each other, and met when I was in college. It was a little weird for me.

That is quite a spread, but very cool. :thumb:

sold him a bag of weed at a party...'sup mo?
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Best friend from childhood, met in 3rd grade class. Lost touch with when I went off to university. Still on good terms when I run into him back home.

Best friend from college, met in marching band. He's a pharmacist in S.D. somewhere. Calls to chat every once in a blue moon.

Present best friend, law school study group. Goin' golfin' in the mornin'

Were you a little jealous? I know my daughters are very close to the same age as my buddy, and have always been just a little jealous of the friendship.

I developed a pretty good friendship with one of the grad students I worked with a few years back. I'm 18 years older than he is.

I don't have a single one best friend, I have about 4-5 of them. The summer before my 2nd grade ( 7yrs old, almost 8) and I was walking through the neighborhood with a basketball because I was gonna go shoot baskets at the school which was only about a couple blocks from my house. On the way I saw some kids playing bball but I didn't think they would see me or ask me to play, but they did so I went over there and played all afternoon. Everyone was within a year of age from one another and we all lived in that same area until this day and still are the best of friends, which is 17yrs later.

Nah, no jealousy at all, because I didn't hang out with the girl at all, and we had absolutely nothing in common. However, she had a lot in common with my mom. They liked to go to garage sales together, and they were both into antique collecting and stuff, so they did a lot of that. It was weird for me only in the fact that I never would have guessed that the two of them would become friends, and I knew them in very different contexts. I was glad that my mom had someone to hang out with.

I was his sponsor when he joined the Air Force and got stationed at my base.

That is a great attitude to have. My girls, called my buddy, the son that I never had, etc. When in reality, we just both liked to Drag Race and drink. Not at the same time, for the most part. But there are some storys.

raped his little sister

The person I would consider my best friend and I sat next to each other in a college class together for about a month or so without saying a word to the other. I figured that him and his friend sitting in front of him were a bit stuck up, but later found out that they were actually afraid of me, which became really a good joke after they got to know me. What can I say, I walked around with a psycho look back then.

Hey, way to go, Rain Mom!

I guess I'll go with at an 18+ job although we don't work together in that sense.He's an advertising client of mine and has been in every monthly issue we've mailed for the last 17 years.

ya in Lawrence me and my friend were walking through a parking lot to the car after a bar and my friend (drunk and stupid) decided to fuck with 3 guys in a car, well they get out of the car and I'm like "ok, 3 on 2 maybe were gonna throw down....gotta back the friend up even if it's his fault" and then a car full of 4 more guys pulled up, so now it's 7 on the 2 of us and things almost go down, we came "this" close to getting our asses kicked and then I yelled "**** this, let's go to the afterparty!" and one of the guys yelled "ya, **** this let's go **** some chicks!" and they invite us to thier place for an afterparty and we went and had a good time.

On topic, I guess I have 3 or 4 really good friends, all "best friends" and I met 3 of them at a workplace, and 1 was a regular at the same bar I frequented

Wait!!

You people have friends?

Who knew?

Met him in 5th grade, became best friends. Best friends throughout high school, went to separate colleges for two years but stayed in touch through phone calls and e-mails... then I transferred schools and we became roommates. Stayed friends throughout... he moved to ST. Louis, I moved to KC, he was best man in my wedding, we still see each other a few times a year and talk a couple of times a week. A friendship of 20 years.

Can you only have one best friend?

I have a friend I met in the first grade. We have been friends, more like brothers every since. We only get together every year or so, he works in DC.

I worked in the military with a couple of guys and as it turns out we live in near proximity. We talk weekly and our families get together frequently.

There is also a group of us, 5 families that I would consider best friends. It includes the two guys and their families above. We have dinner parties every other month or so. When there are events in our families, usually happy events, the group is always among the first to know.

I think I answered my own question, you can have more than one best friend.

Best would indicate, better than any other, right? The others would be good friends, but not best friends.

Met him at antoher friends house at the time, i was probably 8 at the time, since then been his best man at his wedding, can't ask for a better freind, bascially a brother to me.

The thing is that I don't classify any of them as better that the other. They are all not just good but great friends and I would put my life on the line for all of them as I feel they would me.

The only person in the world I value more than my friends is my wife, she would truly be my best friend.

I had a best friend since 5th grade. Then he screwed two of my girlfriends, ran our business into the ground and almost got me divorced. We aren't friends anymore.

Why not?

I guess cause he doesn't like sports like I do.

So...any theories on why junior high seems to be particularly fertile ground for making best friends?

I guess one theory I might have is that, at that age, you're just old enough to really do things on your own. Therefore, the friends you make may be the first friends you really bond with doing "your own thing". Also, maybe you end up with these folks for half a dozen years through high school, whereas your elementary friends may end up going to different schools or moving or something.

Quite fascinating.

There are four people I'll refer to as my best friend - two I've known since high school, one since the Navy, and one I met right after I got out. But of the four, the No. 1 guy is one I met my junior year right after moving to Kirksville. The first time I saw him, though, was about a month before school started. I was mowing my aunt's yard, a gig he had had until I came to town; she never liked him, and basically fired him when I got there. So I'm pushing the mower, and there's this kid mowing another yard across the fence giving me a dirty look. So our first impressions were "Who's that asshole who took my job?" and "Why is that idiot staring at me?" :D

I would say that that is a very defining time for us. We're growing up and becoming our own persons... I think that's the biggest reason. Until then, everyone's friends generally. It's in junior high that jocks start to become jocks, music geeks start to become music geeks, etc.