Friendships Are Weird

I have two best friends. One of them writes in this blog. For the sake of their security, I will call them Friend A and Friend Tim.

I met Friend A in January of 2004 on my school bus. I was the new kid, an instant outsider, and he wasn't exactly the most popular kid in school. Considering he lived down the road and we shared similar interests in Star Wars, video games and tormenting the only kid around more nerdy than we were, it shouldn't be a surprise that we became fast friends. But, becoming friends with someone because you share interests is not why this friendship is weird.

I met Friend Tim in the later months of 2004, in our ninth grade history class. Unlike Friend A, my friendship with Friend Tim gets weird right from the get-go. My first words I recall ever saying to him were the following: "Fuck off." True story. As you may or may not be able to tell, he didn't.

Back to Friend A. Most people are adverse to death threats or violence. Now, I'm not exactly certain, but I feel like being almost impaled with a large sharp metal object is a friendship-ender for the average person. Of course, that's not to say Friend Tim isn't dangerous. In fact, he's partially the reason I sleep with a knife under my pillow. At the same time, Friend Tim has also never thrown a medium sized television set at my head.

Of course there's a lot more to all of these friendships than flying televisions and pain. There's Mystery Science Theater-ing, three a.m. Wawa runs and ghost hunting. The point is, our friendships are weird. Most people don't enjoy terrible movies, are asleep at three in the morning and run away the second they hear about ghosts.

Moral of the story: The best of friends are the friends that have the same level of weird. Also, the best friends are the ones that are incredibly durable and have horrible accuracy. Because if they don't, then somebody dies.