Kate and Pippin Spoiler Pit Bull and Chicks Spoiler Focus: Have you witnessed the unlikeliest of animals becoming friends? Alt. Focus: Have you yourself become friends with someone in the past who was completely different from your regular circle of friends? Did you befriend the nerd in math class and figure out she was your soul-mate? Meet a ditsy cheerleader in science class that ended up being your best and longest friend? Make friends with someone who didn't speak a word of English but was somehow able to communicate with you?
Focus: Have you witnessed the unlikeliest of animals becoming friends? Look in my freezer... probably the one place you'll witness game birds chillin with waterfowl.
My two best friends in high school were a girl who grew up in Jersey (and looked the part, although she didn't act like it at all) and a girl from Peru who spoke conversational English, but spoke with Spanish grammar, so it was almost impossible to understand. This was an unlikely friendship because I'm constantly trying to speak in proper English and haven't worn makeup since those first few years when it was new an fun.
Personally I always liked how these two became friends, always brings a smile to my face. Growing up we had different animals on the farm, the Saint BErnard/collie cross got along fine with the cats in the winter, but that was mainly a keeping warm thing. The weirder one was the sheep we had, when it's brother dies young it was apparently the follower sheep and all that was left to follow was the dog. This damn thing followed that poor dog everywhere, plus chased cars, tried to lick you etc. Creepiest fucking sheep ever, but damned if it wasn't good for laughs.
Was just reading about this study of the happiness of 10,000 married couples; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022351410601100 A good friend of mine is a right-wing boozehound who's enlisting next year when recruitment opens again, whereas I'm posting this from a bedroom full of weed smoke and guitars*, but we have pretty similar views on basically everything, so we realise the differences are motly a matter of tatse. *I actually earn my money from this**, so I'm not a feckless hippy. **Music, not dealing.
She is an atheistic bikini model, and from a trust-fund family. I was a broke-ass seminary student. We met from a series of freak coincidences that left us snowed-in together for a few days. Together, we are really good friends. Outside of our belief systems, we share a lot of interests, and viewpoints. Works out well for both of us, and we both like to hit the bars.
I think I've repped everyone in this thread, mostly with some variation on 'Awwww'. Awwwwww. Alt Focus: about 6 years ago, I was a casual user, if by casual you mean drinking and smoking every day, and partying hard on the weekends. Get off work and have people round by 6pm Friday, the last straggler would leave about 10pm Sunday. My various habits were, at their peak, averaging about $800/w, which was actually more than my income at the time, supplemented by short term loans from more responsible friends. My girlfriend at the time was an addiction counselor who got flown out to a remote region to counsel prisoners in a rural detention centre*. Never got drunk, or high, or anything else. Saved most of her money, had enough for a deposit on a house by age 23, just super responsible. Surprisingly, the relationship lasted a year and we remain friends to this day. (Side note: what a shitty situation. The town has a population of 11,557, and 1 or 2 counselors, and the counselor(s) reported on the inmates to the PO's. The inmates were from large dysfunctional families. If an offender was given a negative report, often their family members would come to the Dept. Health building there and trash the cars in the parking lot or threaten the staff, etc. Both counselors were 22 year old girls fresh out of Uni. Nothing like having your girlfriend 1600km away interviewing rapists who knew where they worked.)