Strange Friendships You've Had

[Cilliandrew]

Me: geeky, socially awkward, atheist, from a working class 'living from hand-to-mouth' background. Her: beautiful, popular, religious, rich, a self-confessed snob. We were great friends for a few years, then the relationship developed and we dated for over a year.

It ended less than brilliantly, but not because of any of the conflicting character traits listed.

I had a situation like this to a T. Sadly religion eventually became a barrier between us. She couldn't accept that someone so seemingly intelligent just refused to accept that God existed, and that was it.

Probably my strangest friendship was a Wiccan chick who i met thru an internet dating site.

The timing of which i started messaging her was kinda messy. I met a girl IRL at JUST around the same time.. Wasn't sure where it was going, so i kept chatting with the Wiccan too.

We eventually progressed to telephone conversations... During the first conversation, as i was talking, suddenly i realized she was masturbating to the sound of my voice on the other end of the line...For some reason, though, i could look past this and we kept chatting. It was nice to have someone i could bounce all of my issues off of.. She always seemed to be willing to be quite honest and straight forward with me about everything. Yes, she tended to do the masturbating thing whenever we chatted, but.... I dunno.. I guess it was a boost to my ego.. Everytime a holiday would come up, i would get a call from her asking me to go out with her because she wanted to have sex. (I was dating my future wife at this point, and was VERY up front with the Wiccan about this, but it never seemed to dissuade her, and for whatever reason i quite enjoyed talking with her, so it continued..)

Keep in mind we had NEVER met in person.. Only chatted on the net and thru phone.. We did exchange photos, though.

There was a rough patch with my future-wife, and i gave in and tried meeting up with the Wiccan in person a couple of times. We went to a movie, and had a bite to eat at a restaurant afterwards. I have to admit that there was near-zero attraction on my front for her , but meeting her in person i realized JUST how in love with me this girl was.. Seemed very irrational to me. SHE was now dating someone, too, but made it quite clear she would drop him in a heart beat for me.

At that stage, i realized i had to stop talking to this girl. Guess i realized what she was going thru.. What torture it must be..She didn't want it to stop, though, and it was quite a mission to cut ties. I would get random phonecalls out of the blue... "Hey, it's me.. I was just calling to see if you had any strange urges today? Because i've been casting a love spell on you all morning.." (She's Wiccan.)

I am to the point where she doesn't call anymore (I stopped answering) and doesn't email anymore (i put them in the trash).. She does however keep finding ways thru social networking sites like Facebook to try to add me as a friend (I never say yes.)

I'm married with 2 kids. She's engaged with 1 kid and another on the way, yet she seems to keep on trying...

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Well I'm Bi and I'm friends with a Nazi sympathizer

I have many bi friends, but Nazi sympathisers; certainly not. That must be an odd friendship.

Well he dosent know Im Bi. And I showed him the tolerance and respect of his views that I wanted to be shown, and looked past it to find a guy who I shared a lot with. (Star wars star trek ect.) And guess what I think Im getting through to him on at least the gay part, by showing other tolerance, they may be kind to show it back.

I hope he isn't antisemitic.

He was and still is, but it has decreed a lot since I've been around, he has realized that maybe he was wrong.

 

[NotAPie]

I was friends with a boy who liked to draw people and buildings. I'd just sit with him for ages and he'd draw anyone interesting who came near us or whatever building took his fancy. And if no-one else was there I'd pull a stupid face and he would draw that.

We actually had nothing in common, but it was just so nice!

Damn. That seems awesome and boring at the same time.
Oh no the confusion is building up.

Anyway I once knew a guy who was overly nice to me.
He'd hug me and poke me every chance he got.
I kinda felt uncomfurtable and stayed in my house all the time.

 

[Jekken6]

i'm good friends with a beautiful girl. And I'm a socially awkward nerd.

 

[RoyalStranger]

I'm for gay rights, and yet I hang out with a bunch of guys/girls with "Yes On Prop 8" stickers on their cars (P.s. Wtf California?)

I'm completely against drugs, whereas my best friend is a total addict.
My weekends are generally spent reading in a quiet atmosphere, my best friend likes to spend it partying.
I study when I get a chance, he waits until the last minute.
I'm a pretty nice person, he's is a total douche.
I'm shy, he's pretty outspoken.
I somehow manage to scare people away (apparently I'm pretty intimidating) , he's easier to approach.
I could care less about gossip, he looks for the juiciest news.
I'm in choir, he's in band.
I do sports, he watches.

 

[notaflamingo]

My group of friends consist of 6 very different personalities Brought together by video games

someone should write a web comic about that

 

[willic767]

I have a friend who is a self proclamed wimp and i slug him in the arm and things like that . but i know things he would never tell any one else visa vesa.And we are best friends

 

[Spitfire175]

One of my best buddies is an extremely devout Christian, while I'm a total atheist.
We talked about religious stuff a little until we decided that neither could convince the other and now the subject doesn't even come up anymore, except sometimes in jest.

This has happened to me as well. Strange indeed.

My time in the Finnish army spawned a number of odd friendhips. People I had very little in common became some of my closest friends. Spending two years with the same people, all having to count on each other, work as a unit and stuff into that APC time after time. Gosh I hate the BMP2.

 

[AvsJoe]

Hmm, now that I think about it, all my friends are either yuppies, gamers, or stoners. Nothing all that unusual about my friendships. I guess the closest I get to an odd friendship was one I had with a grade school bully. In class or in detention we were kinda friends, but during recess we were at each other's throat. We ended up going to different high schools and haven't talked since, but it was a pretty different friendship.