How did you meet your best friend?

[Deleted]

I sat next to her in class and went to lunch with a group of firends. We started quoting Mel Brooks movies and became BFFs

[lucky513]

my mom hired her mom to babysit me and my sister

[wambam]

I went to an event for a new chapter of my sorority that was starting in my town. R was their chapter adviser. Then I started training at her gym.

[flutterfly]

Elementary school. Most of my closest friends I've known since the 3rd grade. We bonded over NKOTB lol.

[TrickyBob]

My husband knew her and her husband for years and he introduced me to her. I was terrified of her because she is 10 years older than me (and her husband is 10 years older than mine) and I thought she'd never like me because of the age gap. A year passed after that introduction and they invited us down for a New Year party in 2011/2012. Ever since then, we have all been best friends and I absolutely love her.

[VeryViolet]

We were in 7th grade tech ed class together and found out we vacationed at the same place. I was new in school and she was nice to me. We survived the awkward years, high school and being college roommates. It was meant to be. She is coming to meet Henry this weekend I am so excited.

[stephlove]

My H worked with her, and then she started dating a girl, who quickly became a best friend too.

[luckyval]

She was the front of the house manager at a New Orleans themed restaurant/oyster bar where I waited tables in college.

I met H there, he was a bartender. And she met her now exH there, he was the bar manager.

The four of us started dating around the same time and would steal bottles of wine from the restaurant and then go back to somebody's place, drink and play cards after work.

[messykitchen]

We met when we were both 5, at Montessori school. We've been bff's for 33 years now, even though we hardly ever get to see each other, being many states apart.

[ginap]

At work. We just clicked. We have a very similar sense of humor and just get each other.

[Booze Raccoon]

7th grade for BFF 1

We worked together at our first job when we were 23 for BFF2

[chedominique]

Nov 12, 2013 16:47:45 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

Hmm ... my core "best friends" group is four of us, we met in high school. Were always in the same crowd but didn't really get close as a foursome until senior year of HS. We went to different colleges and have lived in different cities, and are all in different places in our lives, but we live in the same city now. We're like sisters, always poking fun at each other and analyzing each other's lives and relationships.

I have other singular very close friends that I've picked up along the way - through college and different jobs, but I don't think I would give any of them the "best friend" title.

This sounds like my story, the only change is that we all got close our sophomore year.  My main best friend introduced me to her cousin before we graduated HS and I married him years later (heart).

[mrsgoontz]

I met one at a bootcamp class but didn't really talk to her that much for a few months. I knew we both went to the same college so I asked her one day if she wanted to watch a Bowl game that our school was playing in at a local bar. Over dinner we just really hit it off and have become very close friends.


My other best friend was my pot-luck roommate freshman year in college and we've been best friends ever since.

[DotAndBuzz]

Our moms went to HS together. reconnected after college at church. Signed up for the same session of baby swim lessons for me and bff when we were about 10 months old. I've basically known her my entire life.

[bonquiqui]

BFF #1 in college through exH.   He was best friends with her now husband

BFF#2 at work.  We instantly hit it off, and went out for drinks one night and the rest is history.  

[BieberMyBalls]

We were 12. She was in the same class as I was, and was a big trouble maker. She had her own table (the kind with folding legs) pretty much from the beginning of the school year because she was loud and distracting. One day, she was kicking the leg of the table and it callapsed and she yells "What the hell?!" in the middle of silent reading, and I knew then I had to be friends with her and we've been best friends ever since. She was such a bad kid in school, but she was and still is one of the most loyal, trustworthy friends I've ever had and I love her to death.

[berbles]

Freshman year of HS.  I was already a diver and she joined the dive team because her BF was on the swim team and she didn't want to swim competitively.

A few weeks into the season, we were waiting for the bus to pick us up for practice, wandering the front hall.  Outside the main office, there was a display of artwork from a class, in which the assignment was to draw a self-portrait as a shoe.  What would your personality look like if it were a shoe?

And there was this one shoe drawing that was... not terrible, but not quite right either.  All the proportions were wrong or something.  We were both looking at it and at exactly the same time, we both said and did exactly the same thing: "It's like... SHOE!" :explosion hand gesture:

We both looked at each other, burst into laughter and decided we must be BFFs.

[pugz]

One night I was next to her in the computer lab and we bonded over our mutual love of guacamole (of which I'd brought a bowl to snack on while writing a paper!) Something just clicked.

[vicky]

We came from the same womb.

[berbles]

My other BFF/sister from another mister I met on TheSiteThatShallNotBeNamed. We lived in different states, but clicked pretty instantly. And then when she and her H divorced, I helped her move to Cali. She lived with us for 9 months.

[W.T.Faulkner]

She was born to my parents three years after I was.

[Deleted]

our parents moved to the same street right around the same time, when i was 2. we're only 3 months apart, so we were natural playmates. we just never stopped being friends. we even went to college together.

my other closest friend i met in law school, the very first day. i met my husband that day too. it was auspicious. and also my mom's birthday.

[BaliHai]

Well I have my SIL, who I met two weeks before our freshman year of HS at a music orientation. We clicked immediately, even though we'd actually "met" a month before that while competing for the same music scholarship.

My other BFF and I met in freshman year also, but didn't interact until the next year. She sat next to a girl in Geometry who told her not to talk to me because I was a bitch (lol), so she decided to find out for herself.

I have another friend who I love dearly and haven't been as close with since getting pregnant, but she is still totally my "call me if you need to hide the body or fake your own death" friend. We met at an old job in 2007; it was another "clicked immediately" situation and we've been friends ever since.

[Deleted]

She and her husband moved in across the street from us. My H was out working on his car one day when her husband came over to see the car. They started talking whenever they saw each other. Then one day they brought us cookies and we invited them in and we sat around and talked for awhile. After that, we'd all four have dinner out occassionally and she and I would go see movies or go shopping or just go anywhere to get out of the house. We both get cabin fever often. We just gradually started doing more and more things together and now we talk almost every day.

[circa1978]

The way people in St. Louis open a conversation is to ask where the other person went to high school. When I was a cub reporter in Chicago, I was sitting in a police station taking down items for the blotter and I tried to make small talk with the girl from the competing newspaper by asking her that. She knew I just moved there from Missouri so she looked at me like I was nuts and said there was no way I'd even know her high school and named a small Catholic school on the south side of Chicago that just happened to be the same school my college roommate attended. It turned out we had pretty much everything in common. I love her completely.

[Deleted]

Nov 12, 2013 17:06:31 GMT -5 sequins said:

When do you decide that you are "best friends" and not just close friends? Is it awkward like in dating where one says I love you and the other doesn't?

Lol...it's not really something that we discussed. We just both know that the other thinks of us as one of her best friends. It's been implied and said several times.

[alicenelson]

Nov 12, 2013 16:48:43 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

I picked her up in a bar. Right alicenelson? Or am I confused, it could happen. I'm old.

Nupe.  But I think that's where we consummated our relationship. 

It was when I took a part-time job at Dillards.  1990 or '91, I do believe.  I think it was after we moved the store into the new mall that you and I actually met, gazed into each other's eyes, and said, "Beer me, wench!"  The rest is history.

[BaliHai]

Nov 12, 2013 17:06:31 GMT -5 sequins said:

When do you decide that you are "best friends" and not just close friends? Is it awkward like in dating where one says I love you and the other doesn't?

Since HS began my first two BFFships, it was very much a "aww, you're totally my best friend! ...No really, you're TOTALLY my best friend" thing. With my third lady, we have SO much in common and bonded so quickly that it was more like


It hasn't needed restating over the years for any of us, it's just been so long now that it's a given.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Nov 12, 2013 17:14:17 GMT -5 @scottydeux said:

Nov 12, 2013 17:02:45 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

She was born to my parents three years after I was.

Aw.

I know, barf, lol.

But it's true.  She really is my best friend, and always has been.

[junebug]

Our families moved to the same neighborhood when I was 3. We are a month apart in age so we were natural playmates. We have been BFF ever since.