How are you at maintaining friendships? - Page 2

LSA · 02-15-2010, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by m21sniper

Perhaps i'm crazy, but i actually call and hang out with my friends.

Yeah, well maybe not the calling but we hang out all the time. Although I suppose that's a perk of being 20 and living close to each other still.

Talewinds · Talewinds's Garage

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Originally Posted by LSA

Yeah, well maybe not the calling but we hang out all the time. Although I suppose that's a perk of being 20 and living close to each other still.

And not married? And no kids?

LSA · 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Talewinds

And not married? And no kids?

Oh god no....

but we've been great friends since grade school the 5 of us. I've got a girlfriend and another one of our friends has a girlfriend but that's about it. We're still in school, live at home have good jobs, life is good

cantdrv55 · 02-15-2010, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by vash

why are we even responding to this thread? cantdrv55 isnt even going to check back...

lol

McLovin · 02-16-2010, 07:10 AM

very, very easy to tell among the posters in this thread who is married and who is not.

masraum · 02-16-2010, 07:29 AM

Yeah, I'm similar. I'll lose contact with high school buds for years, but will probably eventually email them to say "hi". College friends are pretty much the same. Old work buds, etc....

It's sort of an "out of sight, out of mind" thing, except that I probably do think about them from time to time, I just don't keep in touch. I always figured it was partially from being a military brat and moving every 2.5-3 years.

I've got one person from my college past that I keep in touch with, but even then, it ebbs and flows over time.

BeyGon · 02-16-2010, 07:43 AM

There are four or five people I have known since high school I talk to every week or so and we visit once in awhile, most are out of state. I like to go up to the islands in Washington to visit. Also there is a group of thirty or so that meet every year at Doheney Beach where we drink a lot of beer and talk about what great surfers we used to be.

Head416 · Head416's Garage

My college roomate and I can go three years without a single call or email, then meet up and hang out as if only a week has passed.

Yet still... going three years without a "hey what's up" does seem kinda stupid.

Burnin' oil · 02-16-2010, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by cantdrv55

. . .

Any of you guys like me?

That sounds kinda needy, but, sure, I like you . . .

lm6y · 02-16-2010, 04:07 PM

Same way. I have four friends. Three of them get it if we don't talk for a year or so. But they all know I'll be there when the **** gets bad, and I know they'll be there for me. No questions. When we do get together, it's like nothing has happened. We pick up right where we left off.

Then there's my Buddy Jack. If Jack calls twice, and you don't call him back, the third time he's really pissy. Then he tells everyone that he gives up, and he'll wait for me to call. I told Jack's wife that Jack is a needy *****, way too high maintenence, and I just don't have the stamina to play these High School games anymore. I haven't heard from Jack since.

He'll get over it.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

I had a buddy like that in HS.... Except his family had money so he tried to buy friends and keep them happy with money to counter his needy ***** qualities... Well that stopped working too and now he is rather lonely I hear... Someone told me he is "having" to get married.... Doesn't surprise me... Dumbass....

cantdrv55 · 02-16-2010, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Burnin' oil

That sounds kinda needy, but, sure, I like you . . .

lol

Speedo959 · 02-16-2010, 05:40 PM

I have a buddy that I met when I was 5. Neither one of us could cross the street so we'd kick a ball back and forth. Were like brothers. If I don't call at least once a month he gets all bent. I'd dump any other friend with this attitude......but like I said were like brothers.