Where/how did you meet your best friend

SparkliiQTMTSU · #1 10-19-2001, 01:41 AM

Ok we have a thread about people meeting their significant others but not one about meeting their friends. I know mine is a really weird story but oh well here goes.

Ok when we first moved to TN I was like 8 and we moved into these apts while our house was being finished.Well the people across the hall from us were doing the same thing*waiting on their house* Anyways one day I was outside making some ice cream with my 3 min Ice Cream Maker*haha member those* and the kid across the hall was outside on his little balcony too making creepy crawlers*I know you have to remeber those too* Anyways for some odd reason he just started throwing them at me. Then we started racing to get them

haha anyways after that it was a history. We have been best friends ever since*9 years now!!* His parents are even my little sister's god parents!! haha Does anyone else have a wierd way that they met their best friend??

Nichole

The1calledTKE · #2 10-19-2001, 08:19 AM

umm at school

ees125 · #3 10-19-2001, 10:15 AM

She was my pledge sister, freshman year! We've been inseperably ever since!

AlphaChiS2K · #4 10-19-2001, 10:38 AM

I met Erica at summer camp at Duke University in 1995, the summer we turned 14 (I'm now 20). We were inseperable for those two weeks and kept in touch until camp the next year, and then spent high school trying to figure out when we could visit each other (I lived in South Carolina, she lived in St. Louis). I surprised her at her high school graduation, and this summer she drove cross country with me on the Mother of All Road Trips. She's like my sister... it's the most amazing relationship.

A cool thing... I pledged my freshman year and she didn't really understand... but on our road trip this summer I got to explain to her what the sorority really means to me, and although she kept saying, "I don't think it's for me," and "I just don't like girls that much," she wasn't as contentious about Greek Life as she had been before. Welllll..... she is now a founding sister of St. Louis University's Delta Gamma Colony!!! So I helped bring one more into the fold

ZTAngel · #5 10-19-2001, 11:02 AM

I have many people who I consider my best friend. One of them I met in 4th grade. She lived right down the street from me and we've been friends ever since.
My other one: we met sophomore year in high school. We met through a mutual friend and now we are roommates.
Another one: She was in my pledge class. We're now inseperable.

AOPiLaLa · #6 10-19-2001, 11:34 AM

Well, I have 2 sets of best friends, so I guess I will tell both stories--
My 5 high school best friends I met my sophomore year of high school. I was dating a guy that went to a different school and I was completely unhappy with my friends at my current highschool--they were really just mean and petty. So, one night, I was out with my boyfriend and all of his friends, complaining about how much I hated my school and they were like, "well, transer here and we will be your new best friends" and I looked at Stephen and was like "would you mind" and he just smiled and said no. So I went home, talked about it with my mom and dad and made the decision to transfer schools at the semester break(it was a private school). It was a GREAT decision! The girls that were my boyfriends friends were wonderful and are still today my best friends, even though Stephen and I broke up a year later. I am even a bridesmaid in one of their weddings next year. The crazy thing is they had all been friends since kidnergarten and I came in sophomore year, yet it was like I had been there forever. We always laugh that I just must have been a part of them in another life!
My second group of best friends were from college. I met the first part of my group because she was one of my AOTT pledge sisters and I thought she was so funny! She and I became good friends and decided to live together(with another sister) our junior year. She was laviliered to a Lambda Chi, so we did everything with that fraternity and through her and all of those guys, I met my group of 8 best friends, jokingly referred to as the Lambda Chi groupies(we liked to think we would have been little sisters if Elon would have allowed that). They were and still are my favorite part of college and I still talk to most of them everyday. It was neat too because we were all different sororities, but we knew we were all best friends too. We even had our own little secret saying (SHMILY), and we would laugh and say we were the AXiPi(and Kappa's), because it was a mix of AXiD, AOTT, and Sigma Kappa. I guess I am pretty lucky to have such amazing friends!

AOIIBrandi · #7 10-19-2001, 12:19 PM

I have what I would consider 3 best friends all of whom I met in college. All three of them were in my wedding, and I still talk to them at least once a week (pretty good considering we are spread throughout the country).

I consider myself very lucky because 2 of them are my big and lil. I was a bridesmaid in my big's wedding and the matron of honor in my lil's.

The other I met through my husband. She and I were both little sister's of his fraternity and he was her "big brother". He introduced us one day, and we were pretty much inseperable after that (I don't know if he knew what he was doing ).

IowaHawkeye · #8 10-19-2001, 12:23 PM

my best friend Sara, well i met her when she was born, and the rest is histroy from there

(she's my biological sister in case anyone missed my stupid joke) and my other female best friend is monica, she goes to school in ohio so we don't see each other all that much, but we talk a lot

i have two male best friends, mike and eric. i have known these two clowns since first grade - we met when we were 6 years old, went to school together through 8th grade. then i went to the all-girls high school and they went to the all-guys school next door. they go to iowa with me and are both kappa sigmas - theyre my boys, the brothers i never had!

AngelPhiSig · #9 10-19-2001, 12:44 PM

Well right now I have 3 really great best friends. The first one I met when I was in 5th grade and we had a huge choir concert with all 6 elementary schools in my district. We put on the disney spectacular, and well the one director was really scary, she got up on the desk, took off her shoe and banged it on the desk to get our attention, and well, we ran behind this moveable chalkboard and well, the rest is history!

The sad thing is shes very anti greek!

Well, then my second best friend, and I met when we were in HS, we bicker like theres no tomorrow, but shes still my friend!!!

Then my third I met then the Second took me to a party at another of her friends houses, they were fighting cos they liked the same boy, and well I met Mary Beth there... and she and I clicked, she is a Phi Sigma Sigma too... and also in Tau Beta Sigma, shes coming to visit this weekend!!

(she dosent go here anymore!)

<3 Ali

damasa · #10 10-19-2001, 12:48 PM

I met my best friend Steph in third grade.
She had recently moved by me, and there were a lot of kids our age in the neighborhood. She never came out to play and she never talked to us, and that made us young kids mad! We wanted to meet her and play with her (or tease her, it was at that age) but she never wanted to do anything. So...one day at the bus stop in the morning, I decide it was a funny thing to start throwing gummy worms at her. So, I'm standing about 10 feet away from her, just hurling these things left and right and everytime I'd hit her, we'd all start laughing and doing that, "nah nah nah nah nah" thing, remember that? Well anyway..she started getting mad and told me to stop. So I said something like, "WOW, it talks." Well, she didn't like me calling her it too much so she got really mad and started chasing me. So I take off flying, running as fast as I can, as far as I can away from her. She is on my tail like crazy, so I keep running, and looking back every few seconds to see where she was. A few seconds later we started running around my house, which was quite a ways away from the bus stop, I keep looking back to see where she is, run around the corner and "BLAM." LOL..forgot about the air conditioner sticking out of the house! I ran right into the thing, oh it hurt so bad. It made Blaine all dizzy, hurt, and teary eyed. So she felt bad that she was chasing me, and she went to get my parents. All the time she is crying saying how sorry she was, and she was helping take care of me (holding an ice pack on my head). And, the rest is basically history, I've been really really close with her ever since, but she goes to school in Colorado and we don't get to talk that much anymore

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TigerGirl52 · #11 10-19-2001, 01:14 PM

Being the loving person I have several best friends. My oldest best friend is Kim...we met back in 6th grade when we were both in choir together. Two people could not be more alike. We look alike, think alike, act alike, and even talk alike. We've been through a lot together even almost stopped talking to each other but somehow we always reconnect and we're still really really close.

Next there is Kayla...I started being friends with her because I had a crush on her brother. It's really a bad reason to be friends with someone but hey...I was a freshman in high school. Anyways...I finally figured out that her brother is a dork and we've been friends ever since. Kayla, Kim, and I are basically the three muscateers...we do everything together.

Then there is Miriam. Miriam and I had a class together our first semester here at LSU. I always sat in front of her and her little group of friends. I really started out disliking Miriam because I thought she was loud and obnoxious. Then I decided to try informal rush for my sorority that following spring. Well I walk up to the room that they were having the rush event at in the union and guess who is the first person to come talk to me????? You guessed it...it was Miriam. We were casual friends all during my first semester in Sigma Alpha. Then when I became an active we started getting closer. I think the dynamic of our whole friendship changed when she called me one night at 3 am needing a ride home. She sounded scared and I was really worried about her. I jumped out of bed and ran to my car to go get her. I knew then that we would be best friends because I'm not gonna do that for just anyone.

My last best friend is Lisa. Lisa and I met when she started working where I work. She's only 4 years older than me and we started hanging out after work. Lisa and I can act totally goofy together and yet turn around and have a really serious conversation. She just loveeeeeeees picking on me about my boyfriends or the new guy I like. We haven't been friends for that long but I don't know what I would do without her.

Allison

veruca76 · #12 10-19-2001, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by damasa
I met my bestfriend Steph in third grade.
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Awwwwww! That was the cutest story ever.

juniorgrrl · #13 10-19-2001, 01:30 PM

I don't really have a girl best friend right now. I've always been on a best friend merry-go-round. My best friend from K-6 dropped me when she became a cheerleader and got "too good" for me. We sort of worked things out in 8th grade, and were on speaking terms in HS, but she was forever part of the cool crowd from then on, and I was just me.

One of my other best friends was with me from 6th grade on up. But she found a boyfriend here and hangs out with him and his friends now all the time. They're a very cliqueish group, into Dungeons and Dragons and Anime, stuff that I don't care about at all. So, I wouldn't be "allowed" to hang with them. But when Kathryn and I get to see each other, we always have a lot of catching up to do.

My soph year in HS, I met Anne. She was super smart, cynical, very much like Daria. We got along great, and she was my best friend for soph and jr year. After she graduated (she's a year ahead of me) she went to college in PA and never came home, except maybe for Christmas once or twice. We used to email each other 10 times a day, but she found her own friends and own life up there and doesn't have time for me anymore. We we are able to get together its very strained - she's turned Wiccan and Vegan, and she's just not the same person as before.

I'm pretty good friends with 2 of my roomates, but they've been best friends since 9th grade, so I'm still on the outside of that, a bit.

My best friend though is my boyfriend, Josh. He and I have such an amazing friendship, that I know if he weren't my boyfriend, he'd be my best guy pal. But I'm glad I have him as both

KSigkid · #14 10-21-2001, 02:52 AM

Ok - I met my best friend from home when we were in the third grade - I know it was at recess, but I forget exactly how. My best girl friend from home, I had a crush on her in kindergarten. That whole thing didn't work out, but we've been tight ever since (although we've grown apart a little since college started). My best friends in college (one of whom is KSigRC), I met through pledging - there's a group of us that basically hang out every weekend, we just met through rush and pledging, and the rest is a very drunken history.

Tom Earp · #15 10-21-2001, 11:04 AM

3 best of freinds:

Highschool buddy as we keep in touch all of the time!

Book im Dano. Police officer who met by chance at a wedding reception as a new Officer. Werent freinds then but met later at my liquor store and started comparing notes. I used to sit at the local drive in eating dinner and the hot rodders would roll through until they saw my car, marked of course and get reall quiet, he was one of them as I remember his car, a County Jail Break when I was a Detective and he was riding the Chopper and sitting on top of city hall looking down watching!

After comparing notes, we just bonded as have been through 2 divorces with him and I see or talk to him dailey, he and his 3 rd wife who I knew before he did which just blew both of them away go out and get our mexican food fix once a month.

# 54 of LXA LX Z who has become a very close Brother as we both have a strong Fire for our Chapter and work very hard along with other Brothers to help our Active Chapter!

You can write a book about your Freinds, but can count your closest on one hand!!!