Friendship

**yesdachi** · 05-08-2006, 15:43

A friend is someone who will stand with you when times are good but a good friend, a true friend is someone that will stand with you when things are bad. The tough thing about being able to tell the difference is that you usually have to go thru something bad before you can really tell. For me, the only other person that gets the same treatment as the true friend but isn’t, would be a brother or other close family member.

Another trait of a true friend might be forgiveness when they do something stupid like, “give it all up for personal pride”.

**Sjakihata** · 05-08-2006, 16:32

Friendship doesnt exist, only mutual beneficence.

**Divinus Arma** · 05-08-2006, 16:45

Me and my pal have been close friends through the last six years. We weathered some hard core **** together; brought down some corrupt cops at our station together, bought homes on the same street, I helped him through a divorce, kept an eye on his wife when he went to Iraq, and we watched each other's backs when some moments got generally scary. I trained his butt when he first arrived. I looked out for him and forgave his personal faults (bit of an angry fella).

Then he ups and decides that he doesn't want to be friends 'cause I drew a penis on his face with a permanent marker when he was smashed.

Breaks my friggin heart. What a wus.

**Taffy_is_a_Taff** · 05-08-2006, 17:01

Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

Then he ups and decides that he doesn't want to be friends 'cause I drew a penis on his face with a permanent marker when he was smashed.

Surely he'll come round.

If you can't rely on your friends to draw on your face when drunk, what can you rely on them for?

**yesdachi** · 05-08-2006, 17:03

Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

Then he ups and decides that he doesn't want to be friends 'cause I drew a penis on his face with a permanent marker when he was smashed.

Any chance you took a photo? …nevermind.

**doc_bean** · 05-08-2006, 17:07

Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

Then he ups and decides that he doesn't want to be friends 'cause I drew a penis on his face with a permanent marker when he was smashed.

Was he often a victim of such pranks ? Did he do them himself ?

**Reverend Joe** · 05-08-2006, 17:15

Somehow it just seemed so appropriate.

**Divinus Arma** · 05-08-2006, 21:03

While he had never drawn on me, he was certainly the type to do just that.

He is very mischievous, and that is one of the reasons we get along so well. He isn't quite as a brazen as I am. Once there was a Parade in our downtown and we were hung over and walking by. Well, the crowd was too thick, so I thought it would be faster to just walk in the parade next to a float and wave at the crowd. So I did just that. I picked a random float with regularly dressed people, and jumped in the parade, waving to the crowd. There were about four other people with us, tagging along. He stayed on the sidelines with the people who refused to join, and one of the tag-alongs jumped in the parade with me. We just smiled and did the beauty queen wave until we got to the block we wanted to be at.

But yeah, he is normally a nutjob like me. The same night that I chiefed him, he was screaming at the top of his lungs before he went over to a neighbor's house who were having a little mariachi party (some didn't speak english, and we never met 'em before), and jumped in, offering them beer and trading shots of tequila. Then he hit on that neighbor's 14 year old daughter- that was bad, I had to coax him back to the party before he got his butt kicked by a gang of illegals. They were pretty understanding for the most part. As long as he doesn't do it again.

We went to Vegas once, and he was hitting on hookers all night. I kept having to drag him away. I had to push a hooker away at one point. Then she screamed and her pimp came rolling after us in his wheelchair. It was hilarious.

As for the photo: We were videotaping it! We wanted to put it on Break.com, but he broke the DVD so nobody could see it again.

This kind of thing is no big deal. Once I got drunk at my own party before all the guests. So they did the only honorable thing: They stole all of my beer and went to another party after pouring chinese noodles all over my car from the balcony. I totally deserved it, and I have never gotten smashed before my guests again after that. I'm Divinus Arma, I have a responsibility to be drunk. But I have a greater responsibility to ensure that my guests are drunker or at least drunk first. That what being a good host is all about. He shoulda known better.

Now if it were at somebody else's house, no way in hell would I have let that happen. I would've stood guard over his drunken self for the whole night, and I would have expected him to do the same for me.

**Strike For The South** · 05-09-2006, 02:36

dude hell come round and if he dosent you stab him. God made the weekends so we could be inhibtied. I drank all of my friends vodlka this weekend and stole a gram and a half from him he was pissed but he is also my best friend and Ive been saving his ass since the 5th grade people often forget the big picture and foucse on the right now and you cant do that