We lived next door and we were inseparable - like sisters - until I started kindergarten a year before her. We still played together, but we got other friends at school. I have pictures of us playing dress-up with old dresses.
Through the magic of Facebook, I know she now runs a sex shop a couple provinces away. She’s in some sort of contest to be crowned Miss [naughty word taken out to avoid identification]. She had to provide pics and list some rather intriguing interests.
So, any other people seen their childhood best friends in bondage pics? Dopers know some interesting people, there’s gotta be some stories.
My bestest, best friend who remains so this day grew up to marry and be a very Catholic, soccer type mom (or should I say “maaaaaahm” - she moved to Chicago and picked up the accent)to four lovely children. A far, far cry from what I would have expected when we were young.
My best friend during my tween/ teen years is the head of PR at Apple.
I don’t have the slightest clue. I moved so often and went to so many schools that I kept changing best friends. I have no idea where any of them are now and I can’t even remember their last names.
My oldest friend is one I met when I was 8. We went to the same school for about 5 months before I transferred schools again. I didn’t see her again until I was 12. We have been friends ever since (18 years and counting) but we don’t see each other often and she’s not my “best friend”. She is currently doing some kind of sales job, has a boyfriend that I’ve never met but seems to be an awesome guy by all accounts. She has been divorced once, has no children, and still has the same best friend that she had when we were 8. She still lives in the same city she was born in, although she did live in a different state for a few years while married to an Air Force guy. Like me, she dropped out of college. She was going to go back this fall but didn’t. I don’t know why. She is one of those great friends that doesn’t need constant contact to remain friendly. We can go 2 or 3 years without seeing each other and then when we meet up, it’s as if no time has passed.
I’m in contact with my three best friends from childhood, and have always been. One is a dietitian in rural Kentucky, one works for an oil company in Texas and the third is a family practice physician in Iowa.
Doesn’t much compare with sex-shop ownership — or being the head of PR at Apple, for that matter — on the interesting scale.
Same here. The one I do remember was sent back to Pakistan and got an arranged marriage, along with her sister, while her brother was allowed to pick out a Muslim girl from the States. :rolleyes: I have no idea if my friend was forced or not, but since her dad said on many occasions, “America ruins daughters” I doubt she had any choice.
Certainly nothing as awesome as the OP’s childhood best friend.
(I haven’t talked to him directly but found out through my mother, who apparently received a correspondence from their family, that he was studying to be an orthodontist. By now he should be licensed if he stuck with it - makes me feel a little inadequate since I’m still changing my career plans all the time and making shit for wages)
I’m still in touch with all my various BFFs throughout the years, and they’re all married, some with kids, some with step kids, some with just nieces/nephews.
The guy I was super best friends with for a couple years in high school is now a woman, but everything else she is doing with her life is totally mundane.
I had one friend from the age of three up through high school that I absolutely idolized. Probably had more than a bit of crush on him too, looking back on it. I thought he was just the coolest guy ever, and wanted to be just like him.
These days, he’s living in a shithole town in the middle of nowhere, drinking too much, working dead-end jobs, and complaining about Mexicans stealing all our health care.
My oldest friend is a pharmacist. She knew what she wanted to do for a living since she was a tween, and ended up doing it.
My best friend in middle and high school ended up being one of my college roommates and is the reason I ended up going to law school. She is married to another SDMBer, although she has never posted here, has a daughter 8 months younger than mine, and just bought a house. I see her a couple times a year and talk to her online a whole lot.
I completely lost track of my best friend after we went to different high schools. My best friend from college is, like me, retired and still living in Detroit where he spent most of his adult life. His younger son and my older son both live in Seattle area and I went to his son’s wedding there last June. We correspond regularly and meet maybe once a year when we are in Seattle at the same time.
One enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school, did a rotation in Desert Storm and then was killed by a drunk driver when he was stationed in North Carolina.
The other joined the Navy right out of high school and served 6 years in the nuclear reactor operator program. He never saw a minute’s sea duty since his ship was in Norfolk for retrofits on the reactor by the time he got done with his 4 years of training. He was always lucky like that. He used his GI Bill for college, went to medical school and is now working as an orthopedist in Michigan.
Last I heard she got knocked up by a rebound guy, forced him to marry her even though we all knew he didn’t like her all that much, and now they’re both living in a shed-like thing her parents built for them in their backyard. The baby, of course, lives in the warm house with the grandparents.
My childhood bestie is also my first cousin. She’s a minister and a missionary with her minster husband in South America, with a passel of kids. She’s also No Fun. Which is sad, she used to be heaps of fun.
From grade school, who knows? We moved shortly after that period and I lost contact with everybody. My close friends from high school are a different story. One is the foreman of one of the largest steel fabricating concerns on the West Coast. Another teaches at the next high school over from mine. My high school girlfriend is currently a professor of Entomology at Texas A&M.
I didn’t have a clue until I Googled her just now, although I knew that she had become a pediatrician. Apparently she’s now the Associate Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA. I found a picture, and she looks exactly the same as she did when we were 8 years old and playing house.
I had three best friends when I was 8-14 (we are 24-25 now). I stayed in touch and we all grew up to be pretty boring in different ways - the main thing we had in common as kids is that we were nerdy, and that’s still true.
One is now getting her masters in Political Science (so still busy 24/7 with school) - I don’t think she’s had any romantic relationships yet, which makes us both sad. Another has a BA and a real job doing something with marketing, she just got married to her boyfriend of 7 years a couple months ago. The last is struggling with depression (made worse by the boyfriend she loved who cheated and dumped her), dropped out of college and is working at Pizza Hut to her dismay. I dropped out of high school, have been supporting myself since I was 18 doing random shit, and am in a great LTR.
I haven’t been in touch with my childhood best buddy for decades (we moved away when I was 10), but through the wonders of Google I know what she is doing.
She is an activist attorney for LGBT rights, and her wife is transgender.
Dopers know some interesting people, there’s gotta be some stories.
Which is sad, she used to be heaps of fun.