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<p>The best friendships sometimes start in the least expected ways.</p><p>Meeting someone under weird circumstances can cause you to bond quicker, and regardless of whether you have a light friendship or become ride-or-dies, the story lives on.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/n9whcd/whats_the_craziest_way_youve_ever_made_a_new/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared the craziest way they&#39;ve ever made a new friend, and the stories truly run the gamut.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/The_Doctor_Of_Dice/">The_Doctor_Of_Dice</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I dropped my sword off a bridge and she somehow caught it.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I was on my way to an event while open-carrying my English broadsword. As I was walking, my sword frog broke and it fell off the bridge. She was walking under the bridge and happened to catch the sword as it fell. We got to talking and have been friends for a few years.</p> <p> </p> <p>It was in its scabbard. So it wasn&#39;t an unsheathed blade.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RStilesVol/">RStilesVol</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>We ate summer sausage at a Boy Scout trip where we were not having a good time. Didn&rsquo;t talk the whole time. Just fed him like a baby. Didn&rsquo;t see him after that, we went to different schools. 10 years later, sitting in freshman algebra when someone taps me on the shoulder and followed up with &ldquo;you got anymore summer sausage?&rdquo; He was the best man at my wedding and is still my best friend today.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Hereistothehometeam/">Hereistothehometeam</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>This is something no kid should ever do. But we were stupid.</p> <p>Me and a friend went to another friend&rsquo;s house to see if he could play. We were probably 10 at the time. We knock on the door and his mom tells us to give him a few minutes. So we&rsquo;re waiting on his porch when we see a woman walking past. She stopped and said hello to us very happily. Like she knew us. She came up and shook our hands and said &ldquo;Max just got home if you boys would like to come over and play with him.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Confused, we didn&rsquo;t know anyone names Max, but we just said f**k it maybe Max is cool. We were really stupid. Anyway, we walked with this woman back to her house down the street and she took us inside and said &ldquo;Max your friends are here!&rdquo; This nerdy-looking kid with huge glasses walks out of his room and we both just stare at each other. Neither of us know who the other is, and I&rsquo;m pretty sure the mom mistook us for someone else. Well, the kid just says &ldquo;...you wanna play Star Wars?&rdquo; I f**king loved Star Wars. So yes the kid ended up being cool and we started hanging out after that lol</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/_AskMyMom_/">_AskMyMom_</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Me and my cousin (dudes) were nuns for Halloween, think of the movie How High. Anyway, I met a guy dressed as Jesus and we partied for the rest of the night lol.</p> <p>I can&rsquo;t remember where my cousin went, but me and this dude were just having a blast. Somewhere out there, there is a picture of me and him doing shots. We didn&rsquo;t become friends or anything but I&rsquo;ll never for get that night. Lol</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Back2Bach/">Back2Bach</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>In the university concert hall, I&#39;d do daily practice for a forthcoming organ recital.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>One student from the art department would sit and listen in the otherwise empty hall as often as possible. Eventually, he introduced himself and asked interesting questions about organ literature and how the instrument worked.</p> <p>From there, we just became friends - meeting each other for lunch and going to social events and concerts together.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok-Supermarket-1414/">Ok-Supermarket-1414</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was at a hostel in Ireland, jetlagged and couldn&#39;t sleep. I go to the common area and these two drunk Finnish girls (I&#39;m a guy FWIW) stumble along. We ended up chatting for hours and before dawn we book flights to, and a hotel in, Paris. We only hung out for a few days, but man was that fun.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Askdrillsarge/">Askdrillsarge</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I peed on him, had a party at my place when I was 20, this guy I didn&rsquo;t know (friend of a friend) turned up already drunk as hell, he drank a little bit more, caused some trouble, broke a few things then passed out on the lawn. The next morning he was still there snoring like a drunken sailor and, being hungover and still a little annoyed at him popping my Swiss ball, decided that where he was lying on the lawn would be the perfect place to void my bladder. He was less than impressed about it but took it in stride, we were good friends for a solid five years until we each moved and lost touch.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Therearenogoodnames9/">Therearenogoodnames9</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Walked out of the college cafeteria wearing a Ranma 1/2 shirt. Guy was standing there talking to his girlfriend and spotted the shirt, called me over, and the three of us ended up spending the rest of the day talking anime. We have been friends for over 20 years now.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sijerukhitam/">sijerukhitam</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>We were wearing the same outfit in a music store, I was like &quot;lol&quot; then we made eye contact and he was like &quot;nice outfit dude, you&#39;re a fan too huh?&quot; and start making a convo about the band then we exchange number and basically became friends.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>But, then after months of friendship he confesses that he&#39;s attracted to me sexually. I said I&#39;m not into men, and he respects my choice and we&#39;re still friends till now, no hard feelings.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bitchy_Ghost/">B**chy_Ghost</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Letting her sit beside me when she came into work with the flu. She looked like death warmed over and coughing a lung out. She looked and sounded so horrible that no one else would let her sit beside them, and she didn&#39;t want to sit by herself in case she passed out.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>At the time I didn&#39;t like her in the least, but I felt sorry for her that day after seeing how everyone was treating her.</p> <p>10 years down the road and she&#39;s my best friend.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wowthatfood/">wowthatfood</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I mean mine isn&#39;t that crazy but I was playing a Roblox naruto game with a friend and me and him found this one guy who was pretty good at the game, so we got his discord and added him to the call we were in. Turns out he basically was a perfect match for a friend. He had a similar sense of humor, same interests, and same age. We have been friends for almost 2 years now.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Indy_Smooth_Brain/">Indy_Smooth_Brain</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I met my husband when we both helped &lsquo;rescue&rsquo; a guy that got drunk and slit his wrists. Our 36th anniversary is next month.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FatalErrorHappend/">FatalErrorHappend</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>In the first grade I just came up to a girl who looked nice and the conversation went as follows:</p> <p>Me: Hey, wanna be friends?</p> <p>Her: Sure.</p> <p>And just like that we were friends. Looking back at it I don&#39;t understand how did I manage to do it. I&#39;m introverted as f**k nowadays.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Restalion-_-/">Restalion-_-</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>She came to my workplace as a new part-time employee and put on those blue rubber gloves. I was working in a very hygienic workplace. She looked at me, right into my eyes and with the most serious voice I&#39;ve ever heard said: &quot;It feels like I&#39;m gonna put my hand into a cow&#39;s a**.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>And I just had to laugh so hard, She started laughing as well and then introduced herself. Since that moment we were friends and with her helping me at my table the shifts always felt so short.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Rinsetheplates_first/">Rinsetheplates_first</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was on a night out in a gay bar and all these sexual health volunteers came in offering pee tests for chlamydia. I was having a nice chat with the guy after giving him a vile of my piss. As I wrote my number down for the result I said &lsquo;if it comes back clear give me a call maybe we could go for a drink&rsquo; a few days later he did.. the romantic side never came to fruition but we became decent friends. However, he was henceforth known by me and my friends as Clamydia Dave (he didn&rsquo;t seem to mind).</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ShatterdHaven/">ShatterdHaven</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>It was a completely random game of Overwatch, note that I barely ever talk in multiplayer games but this one time I did, and we&rsquo;ve been friends for 3 years now...</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EhlersDanlosSucks/">EhlersDanlosSucks</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>We met on a flight. We were talking about our hometowns and when she learned I grew up near Cape Canaveral, she told me about the business she owned. It revolved around retired astronauts and hosting exclusive, private events with them. We kept in touch and long story short, I ended up sharing some cake while chatting with Buzz Aldrin.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bymikeshaw/">bymikeshaw</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Met a cool, weird dude named Jon in a college biology class (at a very big university with a lot of students). Our friendship stayed confined to the classroom and didn&#39;t amount to anything outside of school. The next semester I was unfortunately arrested, put on probation/house arrest for just under 2 years (don&#39;t worry, nothing bad...it was on cannabis distribution charges...that&#39;s relevant for the friendship part of the story).</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>As I was days away from absolute freedom, I asked a good friend if he knew anyone in town I could get weed from for a celebratory &quot;welcome back&quot; session. He said yes and the next week he took me over to this guy&#39;s house. Low and behold Jon opened the door and we both absolutely lost it, as we hadn&#39;t seen each other in 2 years. From that day forward we became great friends and I really look back on it all laughing at the absurdity of it all.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Bonus: we got to talking about the state of cannabis around campus and who has the best quality. He mentioned that he &quot;used to have this amazing connect that went dark a few years back&quot; and then mentioned his guy&#39;s first name. It was a unique name, and I immediately followed up with a &quot;you mean (insert last name)?&quot; and he replied with a confused and ecstatic &quot;YES!&quot; and we proceeded to lose it once again. I used to sell weed to this kid on campus that then sold to Jon...and now that I was off probation, I was getting mine from Jon. The circle of life...or weed?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cejiv/">cejiv</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was at a club with a friend. While there a random guy approached a girl and was being really annoying while trying to pick her up. The girl started yelling at him and shot him down harder than I had ever seen done. My friend and I started laughing and some other random guy started laughing as well. That started a conversation between the three of us. That random guy has been my best friend for over 20 years now.</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/iSutoraikou/">iSutoraikou</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>So, I was in a group chat with some friends of mine. A girl in that chat had showed up, and little did both of us know we were in the same period. I ended up saying in the group chat &ldquo;I have a feeling someone here is in my same period.&rdquo; One of my friends in that group chat said &ldquo;That would be (insert friend&rsquo;s name here)&rdquo; We ended up making eye contact and are close friends.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the craziest or weirdest way they made a new friend.

The best friendships sometimes start in the least expected ways.Meeting someone under weird circumstances can cause you to bond quicker, and regardless of whether you have a light friendship or become ride-or-dies, the story lives on.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the craziest way they&#39;ve ever made a new friend, and the stories truly run the gamut.1. From The_Doctor_Of_Dice: I dropped my sword off a bridge and she somehow caught it.  I was on my way to an event while open-carrying my English broadsword. As I was walking, my sword frog broke and it fell off the bridge. She was walking under the bridge and happened to catch the sword as it fell. We got to talking and have been friends for a few years.   It was in its scabbard. So it wasn&#39;t an unsheathed blade. 2. From RStilesVol: We ate summer sausage at a Boy Scout trip where we were not having a good time. Didn&rsquo;t talk the whole time. Just fed him like a baby. Didn&rsquo;t see him after that, we went to different schools. 10 years later, sitting in freshman algebra when someone taps me on the shoulder and followed up with &ldquo;you got anymore summer sausage?&rdquo; He was the best man at my wedding and is still my best friend today. 3. From Hereistothehometeam: This is something no kid should ever do. But we were stupid. Me and a friend went to another friend&rsquo;s house to see if he could play. We were probably 10 at the time. We knock on the door and his mom tells us to give him a few minutes. So we&rsquo;re waiting on his porch when we see a woman walking past. She stopped and said hello to us very happily. Like she knew us. She came up and shook our hands and said &ldquo;Max just got home if you boys would like to come over and play with him.&rdquo;  Confused, we didn&rsquo;t know anyone names Max, but we just said f**k it maybe Max is cool. We were really stupid. Anyway, we walked with this woman back to her house down the street and she took us inside and said &ldquo;Max your friends are here!&rdquo; This nerdy-looking kid with huge glasses walks out of his room and we both just stare at each other. Neither of us know who the other is, and I&rsquo;m pretty sure the mom mistook us for someone else. Well, the kid just says &ldquo;...you wanna play Star Wars?&rdquo; I f**king loved Star Wars. So yes the kid ended up being cool and we started hanging out after that lol 4. From _AskMyMom_: Me and my cousin (dudes) were nuns for Halloween, think of the movie How High. Anyway, I met a guy dressed as Jesus and we partied for the rest of the night lol. I can&rsquo;t remember where my cousin went, but me and this dude were just having a blast. Somewhere out there, there is a picture of me and him doing shots. We didn&rsquo;t become friends or anything but I&rsquo;ll never for get that night. Lol 5. From Back2Bach: In the university concert hall, I&#39;d do daily practice for a forthcoming organ recital.  One student from the art department would sit and listen in the otherwise empty hall as often as possible. Eventually, he introduced himself and asked interesting questions about organ literature and how the instrument worked. From there, we just became friends - meeting each other for lunch and going to social events and concerts together. 6. From Ok-Supermarket-1414: I was at a hostel in Ireland, jetlagged and couldn&#39;t sleep. I go to the common area and these two drunk Finnish girls (I&#39;m a guy FWIW) stumble along. We ended up chatting for hours and before dawn we book flights to, and a hotel in, Paris. We only hung out for a few days, but man was that fun. 7. From Askdrillsarge: I peed on him, had a party at my place when I was 20, this guy I didn&rsquo;t know (friend of a friend) turned up already drunk as hell, he drank a little bit more, caused some trouble, broke a few things then passed out on the lawn. The next morning he was still there snoring like a drunken sailor and, being hungover and still a little annoyed at him popping my Swiss ball, decided that where he was lying on the lawn would be the perfect place to void my bladder. He was less than impressed about it but took it in stride, we were good friends for a solid five years until we each moved and lost touch. 8. From Therearenogoodnames9: Walked out of the college cafeteria wearing a Ranma 1/2 shirt. Guy was standing there talking to his girlfriend and spotted the shirt, called me over, and the three of us ended up spending the rest of the day talking anime. We have been friends for over 20 years now. 9. From sijerukhitam: We were wearing the same outfit in a music store, I was like &quot;lol&quot; then we made eye contact and he was like &quot;nice outfit dude, you&#39;re a fan too huh?&quot; and start making a convo about the band then we exchange number and basically became friends.  But, then after months of friendship he confesses that he&#39;s attracted to me sexually. I said I&#39;m not into men, and he respects my choice and we&#39;re still friends till now, no hard feelings. 10. From B**chy_Ghost: Letting her sit beside me when she came into work with the flu. She looked like death warmed over and coughing a lung out. She looked and sounded so horrible that no one else would let her sit beside them, and she didn&#39;t want to sit by herself in case she passed out.  At the time I didn&#39;t like her in the least, but I felt sorry for her that day after seeing how everyone was treating her. 10 years down the road and she&#39;s my best friend. 11. From wowthatfood: I mean mine isn&#39;t that crazy but I was playing a Roblox naruto game with a friend and me and him found this one guy who was pretty good at the game, so we got his discord and added him to the call we were in. Turns out he basically was a perfect match for a friend. He had a similar sense of humor, same interests, and same age. We have been friends for almost 2 years now. 12. From Indy_Smooth_Brain: I met my husband when we both helped &lsquo;rescue&rsquo; a guy that got drunk and slit his wrists. Our 36th anniversary is next month. 13. From FatalErrorHappend: In the first grade I just came up to a girl who looked nice and the conversation went as follows: Me: Hey, wanna be friends? Her: Sure. And just like that we were friends. Looking back at it I don&#39;t understand how did I manage to do it. I&#39;m introverted as f**k nowadays. 14. From Restalion-_-: She came to my workplace as a new part-time employee and put on those blue rubber gloves. I was working in a very hygienic workplace. She looked at me, right into my eyes and with the most serious voice I&#39;ve ever heard said: &quot;It feels like I&#39;m gonna put my hand into a cow&#39;s a**.&quot;  And I just had to laugh so hard, She started laughing as well and then introduced herself. Since that moment we were friends and with her helping me at my table the shifts always felt so short. 15. From Rinsetheplates_first: I was on a night out in a gay bar and all these sexual health volunteers came in offering pee tests for chlamydia. I was having a nice chat with the guy after giving him a vile of my piss. As I wrote my number down for the result I said &lsquo;if it comes back clear give me a call maybe we could go for a drink&rsquo; a few days later he did.. the romantic side never came to fruition but we became decent friends. However, he was henceforth known by me and my friends as Clamydia Dave (he didn&rsquo;t seem to mind). 16. From ShatterdHaven: It was a completely random game of Overwatch, note that I barely ever talk in multiplayer games but this one time I did, and we&rsquo;ve been friends for 3 years now... 17. From EhlersDanlosSucks: We met on a flight. We were talking about our hometowns and when she learned I grew up near Cape Canaveral, she told me about the business she owned. It revolved around retired astronauts and hosting exclusive, private events with them. We kept in touch and long story short, I ended up sharing some cake while chatting with Buzz Aldrin. 18. From bymikeshaw: Met a cool, weird dude named Jon in a college biology class (at a very big university with a lot of students). Our friendship stayed confined to the classroom and didn&#39;t amount to anything outside of school. The next semester I was unfortunately arrested, put on probation/house arrest for just under 2 years (don&#39;t worry, nothing bad...it was on cannabis distribution charges...that&#39;s relevant for the friendship part of the story).  As I was days away from absolute freedom, I asked a good friend if he knew anyone in town I could get weed from for a celebratory &quot;welcome back&quot; session. He said yes and the next week he took me over to this guy&#39;s house. Low and behold Jon opened the door and we both absolutely lost it, as we hadn&#39;t seen each other in 2 years. From that day forward we became great friends and I really look back on it all laughing at the absurdity of it all.  Bonus: we got to talking about the state of cannabis around campus and who has the best quality. He mentioned that he &quot;used to have this amazing connect that went dark a few years back&quot; and then mentioned his guy&#39;s first name. It was a unique name, and I immediately followed up with a &quot;you mean (insert last name)?&quot; and he replied with a confused and ecstatic &quot;YES!&quot; and we proceeded to lose it once again. I used to sell weed to this kid on campus that then sold to Jon...and now that I was off probation, I was getting mine from Jon. The circle of life...or weed? 19. From cejiv: I was at a club with a friend. While there a random guy approached a girl and was being really annoying while trying to pick her up. The girl started yelling at him and shot him down harder than I had ever seen done. My friend and I started laughing and some other random guy started laughing as well. That started a conversation between the three of us. That random guy has been my best friend for over 20 years now. 20. From iSutoraikou:  So, I was in a group chat with some friends of mine. A girl in that chat had showed up, and little did both of us know we were in the same period. I ended up saying in the group chat &ldquo;I have a feeling someone here is in my same period.&rdquo; One of my friends in that group chat said &ldquo;That would be (insert friend&rsquo;s name here)&rdquo; We ended up making eye contact and are close friends. 

Friendships grow out of the most unexpected interactions.