Your friends. Where did you meet them?

[Kathleen04]

Are they old friends from high school or before? College friends? Did you meet them at work or through some kind of hobby-activity?

:)

My friends are a mixture of high school and college friends..the only bad thing is that during different times of the year we're dispersed throughout the country.

[Madrone]

1. No high school or college friends.

Work.

A teacher at my middle school when I was 13.

The daughter of a meth addict I rented a room from when I was 23ish, and she was 15.

Not coworkers - but some customers @ my job.

Online.

[xmas74]

2. High school and college.

Work, clubs and online.
I tend to make friends easily.

[Kathleen04]

3. That's a good quality.

If you don't mind the question, what kind of clubs do you participate in?

[xmas74]

5. Political grassroots organizations

like the Progressive Womens, DFA, etc. I also belong to an Astronomy Club here in town. We meet on a monthly basis w/ our telescopes and view the stars, sometimes bring some wine to drink. I also have quite a few groups that I volunteer for that are for my child. And I am a member of the historical society. I now have someone who wants to teach me to quilt so that I can join her quilting circle. They stitch handmade quilts, raffle them off and donate the proceeds to the local food pantry and the Back to School store (which gives free school supplies to families who couldn't afford them). And I belong to a book club.
Truthfully, I have stretched myself too thin. But if you are looking to make friends just hang out in places where people of similar interests hang out. For a book club, hang out in a library or a book store and start a conversation w/ a stranger about the book that they are looking at. Ask them about the book and find out if its any good. Maybe bring up the idea of both of you reading the same book together and getting together exactly one month from that day at a local coffee shop to discuss the book. You'd be surprised at how well that works.

[Kathleen04]

7. All of that sounds like alot of fun

and thanks for the advice. :thumbsup:

[xmas74]

10. No problem.

It's an easy way to do things.
I've met people in movie lines before too. I will single out someone who is alone in the line that is seeing an interesting movie and start a conversation. It works great when you are alone. You ask them if they have seen this movie yet and get them to talk about themselves. In a few minutes you find out if there is a movie coming up that they are interested in. You make a date for the day of the movie opening. No strings just two people who want to see the same movie.
That almost always works as a good way to start a friendship. It works for dates too.

[SmokingJacket]

4. Lots of kid related people -- met on playground or at school.

Otherwise, work-related and just living in the neighborhood.

high school and college friends are all far away, if no less dear...

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Most are from high school

Some from university, and a few completely independent of both.

[expatriot]

8. high school and college friends are far away

my wife and i are eachother'f best friends and the only people we really hang out with. I have a lot of friends from being politically active down here (Yuma, AZ) but we don't hang out.

[trof]

9. Church. I met them all in church.

yeah...right.
Most of them in the 'hood we moved into a dozen years ago.

[johnnie]

11. My oldest friend I met in 1973

He moved into the neighborhood and we became friends. I was 9 and he was 8. I moved out of the neighborhood, but I kept in touch with him. In 1977 I wanted to form a band and he was the only person I knew that played drums. He knew a guy at school that played guitar and we got him in the band. In 1978 another kid joined the band and we have all been friends ever since.
I have many more friends, but these three guys are my closest friends. We still jam and record music. They are like my family, and sometimes even closer than that.

Here we are in 1980


Here we are in 1995 or so.

[SOteric]

12. I suppose it depends...

I have some very close friends who I've known a great many years. One I met while we were in middle school, one is a long-time employee of my dad's and a dear friend of the entire family, one is a priest I've known since I was a teenager.

I also have some dear friends who I know less intimately, many of whom I went to school with, or have worked with, or know from church. I have a friend who used to live across the hall from me in an apartment building in lower Queen Anne. The men with whom I was previously involved are, for the most part, close friends even today.

[KG]

13. dive bars and back alleys