How Many Friends would you say you have?

HeavyMetalFan

Malkin157 wrote: »

I have 104 friends.

I've got about 100 cows.

suelizab

I thought I would be the only one. Maybe we should have a forum for those without and see who is in our own areas .

bagpuss38

I have two best friends, one i have known for 17 years and has proven time and time again to be a truly wonderful friend.
The second I have known for 27 years, she is both of my daughters godmother, a truly lovely and selfless lady and I can't imagine not having her in my life.

sussexchick

What a great thread!

If you'd have asked me this question prior to October, (my 50th birthday) I would have said about 8. Since then I've realised I've got 2 'real friends', fortunately I never threw a party for the remaining miserable beggars who couldn't be bothered to send a card or give me a call.

Jagraf

I have a group of friends - 6 including me, who are there for each other in good times and bad. We have made a pact to never let each other down and book a get together about once a month well in advance.

I then have two other special friends, and then we have a couple of couple friends.

I would say I have fewer friends as years go by as my definition of friend changes :eek:

Read the poem a reason, a season, a lifetime. (Not sure if its called that).

Curlywurli

I don't have any. I have lots of work "friends" but they're not the sort of people to contact me out of work. I never seem to have time for me with work and my family, so have no time to make friends.

Jagraf

Just to add my friends are the ones I met when things were bad. When I had no money and I was rubbish company. My fair weather friends have long gone.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm wondering whether I can count in friends' husbands or no? - as in I tend to count in the husband as well as the friend personally.

I guess I'm lucky (or have got to a "certain age"...ie where I've lost every last scrap of sex appeal:() that my good friends obviously trust me with their husbands (and they are indeed right to do so I hasten to add.....).

So I also count husbands of good friends as being my friends as well...though I wouldn't envisage seeing them minus my friend iyswim. Certainly my very best friend and her husband both count me as a good friend - though, strictly speaking, its her that I am friends with.

So....count the husbands out though...and I would guess at the number of people who count as "friend by the definition of I could turn up on the doorstep in an emergency with a suitcase" as 10 I would say. Some in home area/some here/some scattered across Britain.

I was very touched when I moved here about a year ago to find that someone I didn't know very well gave me a bed for the night before I did The Move/had made me a cake specially to bring with me/etc and I thought it was a lovely gesture on her part...which did have me feeling distinctly tearful at the time.

Good friends are indeed a blessing.:D

EDIT: I wonder whether I should count in an Internet "penpal" I have made on another forum, who I also reckon would pass the "turn up with a suitcase" test...though we've never clapped eyes on each other yet. That would make it 11 that would pass the "suitcase" test then.

barbarawright

I'm interested in how many people define friends as people who would drop everything for them. Isn't it better to think of how many people *you* would drop everything for?

SailorSam

HeavyMetalFan wrote: »

I've got about 100 cows.

I've got about 100 flying pigs.