# What person in your life knows you best? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725 "2009-11-07T17:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/1 "2009-11-07T17:06:02Z")
For me it’s probably a tie between my best friend from college, my baby sister, and my former therapist. Currently Sis is slightly ahead. I lent one of our nieces my debit card earlier so she could do some shopping for a family dinner, and when my niece asked for the PIN, my sister told her it was probably one of 4 sequences: the first four digits of Avogadro’s number, pi, Planck’s constant, or e. She was right. I’ve never told her how I choose my PINs; she just knows that’s what I think is easy to remember. But I don’t doubt my college friend could have made the same deduction. She can also predict, almost infallibly, what I will order if we are visiting a restaurant new to both of us, or what movie I’ll choose to see, or whether I’ll like a given author. (Athena help me if the two of them decide to join forces and whack me. I’d never escape.) Of course, my therapist knows things about me that neither of them do, as I do not discuss sex with my little sister. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/2 "2009-11-07T17:38:53Z")
Not really my spouse, but a long term (16 years together; we’re not married) SO. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/3 "2009-11-08T04:05:22Z")
Definitely my partner; we can practically read each other’s mind. I don’t even know who my second choice would be. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/4 "2009-11-08T05:07:54Z")
I can’t really answer the poll, because I don’t feel that there is anyone who really knows me at all. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/5 "2009-11-08T05:28:29Z")
I’m with Hockey Monkey. Nobody knows me that well. Certainly not well enough to guess what I’d choose for a PIN. Perhaps my son, or daughter would come closest… Hey! There’s no option for child !! This poll stinks. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/6 "2009-11-08T05:47:03Z")
Nobody for me, either. There’s not much about me to know, but my friends and family only know a superficial amount about me at that. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/7 "2009-11-08T05:49:41Z")
My husband knows me best, hands down. And thank goodness, because I couldn’t have picked any of the other options - grandparents deceased, no brothers or sisters, no best friend, and no therapist. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/8 "2009-11-08T05:50:50Z")
And yet she still puts up with me. A Saint, I would say. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/9 "2009-11-08T05:56:09Z")
Where’s _“just a close friend,”_ I have a hard time categorizing anyone as my “best” friend, because she’s more like a sister than a friend. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/10 "2009-11-08T06:26:50Z")
I don’t really like the phrase “best friend”, but it would be my best friend, **Orange Skinner**. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/11 "2009-11-08T09:39:20Z")
My mother of course. ---
**Author:** ![Starring\_Emma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Starring\_Emma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starring_Emma)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/12 "2009-11-12T05:50:46Z")
My bestfriend/stepsister Becca ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/13 "2009-11-12T09:39:26Z")
I wanted to vote ‘None of the Above’ but 'tweren’t there. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/14 "2009-11-12T22:55:41Z")
I put “my spouse” and “my best friend,” but they’re the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/15 "2009-11-13T02:03:58Z")
None of the above. My daughter knows me better than anyone with my SO coming in a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/16 "2009-11-14T01:47:20Z")
Also none of the above. My Aunt, to whom I have always been incredibly close, knows me better than anyone in the world. She knew me when I was a tiny baby, a precocious kid, a religious fundamentalist teenager, and an adult coming into her own. We bonded like sisters. We’ve been through everything together, and she is the one other person who knows what it is like to be sane and healthy and related to the rest of our family. ETA: **winterhawk** , awwww. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/17 "2009-11-14T02:53:37Z")
My husband knows me frighteningly well. He wouldn’t be able to guess my PIN, because it’s based on an obscure nickname someone gave me in high school–he’d know it was something like that, but of course he would have to be told just which nickname and how it’s been changed. I can tell you what he’ll base his PIN on in the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-person-in-your-life-knows-you-best/516725/18 "2009-11-15T14:54:22Z")
My husband knows me extremely well - he can predict me almost exactly. Oddly enough, I don’t know him very well at all. Of course I know the basic person that he is but there are many many situations in which his reactions and opinions are a complete surprise to me.