Who are your true friends?

It's the dude that comes over on Sunday afternoon/evening and helps you deal with raw sewage in your basement. That's a true friend. Of course...I provided the beer and sewage.

What do ya got?

 

I got nothing.

 

What kind of beer?



Just kidding. I think at least some of my friends would do that. I would for a friend. I would have to cover my self from head to toe in plastic though.

Literally

 

Boo hop come on PR you must have at least one true friend. I have a couple people I know would not fuck me over and majority if the time would do anything within their power to help me.

 

We got stuck last night in a deep snow drift. After 3 diesels tried, I had to call a buddy who has a F450 who lives an hour away.
He came down, Got stuck himself, I was able to reach him with my winch to pull him back. He was able to anchor to a field post so I could winch my rig out.
He gets 10mpg so I knew it would be a $40 minimum on a dry good day for him to drive it down, But in snow/ice with 4wd locked, I grabbed a couple hundred dollar bills.
He laughed and said nah, You have winched me out and have never asked for anything. Told him not the point and I put myself out in BFE stuck, Compensation is warranted. He said if you have a warm shop and a cold beer, That's all ill except. But before he left, I was able to sneak a bill into his console.

That's the kinda people I am friends with.

 

I have a good number of acquaintances, and maybe a few "friends," but I don't consider myself to really have any true friends. I really don't think many people have true friends, and those who do are more likely to be women.

 

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

A true friend accepts you as you are. No standards, just simple enjoyment of one another.

 

I have the best friends in the whole world. There are 6 of us in the core group that would be and have been there for each other through some of the hardest times in our lives. Death of parents, personal problems with spouses, raising kids, medical problems, emergency middle of the night phone calls, etc. I wouldn't be the person I am today without each one of them in my life. I talk to all of them every single day. One of the friendships dates back 28 years. Another 2 date back about 20 years. The last 2 have been in the group just for the past 2-3 years. They are my rocks. I would probably be a pretty messed up person if it weren't for them. I wish everyone could have friends like I have. I'm a very lucky girl.

 

I really only have about two true friends. One of them I met around 11 years ago on another forum, actually. We've always been there for each other. We talk about everything we can't tell other people.

The other is my fiance's best friend. He's a great guy and he's always been there for my man, even at his worst moments. I've come to consider him a close friend of mine as well because he's always supported us in our relationship. He's going to be the best man at our wedding and the only not-blood related uncle of our children. I hope he finds a good woman someday because going on double dates was fun even when he was dating a bimbo lol

 

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right on...
i've dumped 3 "friends" this year, all three long term "friends" as well. seems they were great friends when the relationship was beneficial for them, their chips are down, the balance shifts and their true colors showed up. like the streets in downtown, one way.

 

I've had those friendships too. I had to "break up" with one of my friends of over 15 years because it was a one way street. I told her she was here when times were good but as soon as I need support or a shoulder to cry on, which is extremely rare, she is nowhere to be found. She was basically here for the party but when shit hit the fan she was gone. I was always there for her. Shit, she called me one night at 11:30 because her boyfriend broke up with her. I immediately left my house, stopped at the store and got her a box of Kleenex and a carton of ice cream and sat up with her all night while she cried about it and I still had to work the next day. She was a blast to hang out with but that's not what true friendship is. There was a lot more that went on that I won't get into that made me cut her out of my life but that sucks when you have to do that.

 

Well...what you should offer a true friend. Two Hearted Ale, Ranger IPA, Stone IPA and Ruination IPA (awesome!) and a few local brewery items. Pretty good stuff for my area.

 

theres the one way street, and then sometimes it takes years to find out someone is a racist, homophobic fuckwad.
his wife quit voting years ago just to keep the peace. his own fucking wife.
i usually strive, sometimes work hard, to be understand but some people deserve to be cast aside.

 

You are the true friend.

 

You must be a good friend to have such good friends.

 

I don't know....making your friends drink IPA's? Is that really what true friends do? I guess whatever makes you "hoppy". haha. We do have a shit ton of micro breweries around here. My husband and brother in law have tried about all of them I think.

 

True friendship is whatever you want it to be. I have low expectations for my friends. If they aren't there for me, whatever. That just isn't their personality, or they have something more important to do. I'm not everything.

As long as they genuinely like me and they treat me with kindness. I've never dumped a friend, nor have I had a friend screw me over.

 

I have been blessed with having some really special people in my life that I am honoured to call friends. Not the fair weather type but those who are there when things are not good.

I know I would and have done the same for them and it is nice to know that we all have people we can count on.

 

"To have a good friend is to be a good friend"

I try damn hard. I'm one of those people that would get out of bed in the middle of the night for any of them for any reason. In fact the other morning one of them called me and woke me up hysterically crying because she lost her wedding ring in her house. She asked me to come look for it with her. I was out of bed and out my door in 6 minutes and it was only for a wedding ring. My best friends daughter was having a baby and went into labor at 1 am. I had only been asleep for an hour when I got the call but I was up, showered and got to the hospital at the same time they did because she said she was scared. I was there until 10:30 that night with them. I know that if I needed anything like that from them they would do the same thing for me. That's what you do for your friends. Plain and simple.

 

Yes. True friends do that!

And then they get a ride home...which also counts for something.