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I can't remember who said it, but someone did, and it bears repeating: a friend will help you move house; a true friend will help you move a body.

RF

I have friends like that....looks for body...

Thanks for that

at RF

I'm not sure if I'd be a true friend then, I can't really see myself moving a body

Goodnight all

night bel sleep well

Laters B'El.

Friendships are based on different things and sometimes people move on because they don't have things in common any more. If you don't have the same amount of fun you used to have when you do meet up then maybe it's time to move on anyway!

Thanks Z. Person in question read this thread and sent me an e-mail to apologise so I've just sent one back. Hopefully things will get back to normal soon.

Now, about that body...

RF

Glad things are working out!

This got me thinking about friendships - there are those that die because of lack of oppertunity and effort - my friends that have moved to a different job recently. I'll make the effort to keep those alive and send a text message to see if they fancy a drink.

Those where we see each other regularly anyway: in the same social circle/hospital* but don't have much in common I wouldn't make an effort to keep going.

*much the same thing for Junior Drs.

I know exactly what you mean Z .

Can't find that body

Hmm.

Gets me thinking too.

A large number of my friends are people I've worked with. More recently, people I've met over the internet (including h2g2) have come along.

When I'm working at a place, I have a large circle of aquaintances, and maybe some friends. When I leave a place, that's when I find out who were the friends, who were the aquaintances. Some places I've worked, the friends=0. Other places (including one I left 8 years ago), the friends I made there have been amongst the most enduring in my life (I had a peripatetic childhood, the concept of "childhood friends" never happened with me).

When I leave my surrent employment, there is, realistically, one person I'd keep in touch with.

RF

A lot of my friends are people I work with too but I wouldn't want to keep in touch with a few of them if I left.

I'm very bad at keeping in touch with people once our paths diverge - leaving school, university, moving house, no longer standing at the school gate. Often, once the common interest has gone, there's really nothing left.
When you do meet up with people again, once you've caught up on the news of the past years, that's it.

You do have to make an effort to keep in touch wih people unless you regularly see them e.g. at work, belonging to a club. It's all to easy for time to slip by without making arrangements to meet.

This seems an opportune moment to mention A13222847

As me good chum Peter Garrett* says, "What's *your* excuse?"

RF

Not taht I've actually met him or anyfink like that...

You know my excuse

I'm now going to be one of those selfish sort of friends that was mentioned earlier, and talk about my problem. My girlfriend is doing the one way communication: text messages go in, and nothing comes out.

And I have no excuse for anything. I'm sorry.

I may or may not have been involved with a certain girl. Anyway she actually later mentioned that she was in the habit of waiting for men to ring so that she'd know that they actually wanted to talk to her. Which I thought was interesting.