Who is your oldest friend? - Page 4

**KingKeigh** · November 17th, 2016, 01:23 AM

As an air force brat, I lost most of my old friends from high school due to moving around every couple years. My oldest friend and acquaintance goes only as far as my sophomore year in high school. After being best friends in high school at an air force base in Spain, we went our separate ways after graduation and both eventually met again in America after staying in touch by post cards and letters (remember those?) in 1985 where I was a groomsman in his wedding despite the fact that I was then living in NY and he was in Idaho. Then some years later we lost touch again since we lived far apart. We reconnected in 2005 after 20 years. Now we get together a couple times a year and bring our girlfriends/wives for vacations at his boss' time share in Florida.

skullorchard · February 21st, 2017, 11:08 PM

I can certainly relate to KingKeigh. I'm also Government Issue and spent most of my younger years, moving from place to place and country to country.That lifestyle makes it hard to build long-lasting friendships. However since my Dad's last posting, I now have several friends that I've known for many years. My oldest is Roger. We've been friends since the fall of '67, followed by Dave since '72, Merv '74 and Peter '86. Good long-time friends are rare and to be treasured.

**denton7** · February 21st, 2017, 11:10 PM

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**Brecht** · February 21st, 2017, 11:20 PM

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**Sir Honkers** · February 22nd, 2017, 10:14 AM

My oldest friend is a girl I grew up next door too. At her wedding I was her man of honour. The world's only one ever I suspect.
Oddly enough, we have never had or developed any romantic feelings for each other, but we are today still the best of friends. It took her husband and my wife some time to get their heads around that I can tell you.
I talk to her about stuff I wouldn't bring up with my male friends and it is good to have one person you can really talk to.

**bloke57** · February 22nd, 2017, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by loosegoose

My oldest friend is a girl I grew up next door too. At her wedding I was her man of honour. The world's only one ever I suspect.
Oddly enough, we have never had or developed any romantic feelings for each other, but we are today still the best of friends. It took her husband and my wife some time to get their heads around that I can tell you.
I talk to her about stuff I wouldn't bring up with my male friends and it is good to have one person you can really talk to.

I can turn that a bit on its head.

I have many female friends - some exes, some not - with whom I can be totally natural pals.

But my ex-fiancée, although I refer to her as Australian, grew up just around the corner. We first met at infants school in January 1963.

It was a very strange quirk of fate, too unbelievable to make even a convincing novel, that brought us back together despite 43 years and 10,000 miles following her emigration in 1990. It's over now but it was very odd!

**tygrkhat40** · February 22nd, 2017, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by loosegoose

My oldest friend is a girl I grew up next door too. At her wedding I was her man of honour. The world's only one ever I suspect.

I was a groomsman for a friend's wedding in the early 90's. His bride had a man of honor.

**Sir Honkers** · February 22nd, 2017, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by tygrkhat40

I was a groomsman for a friend's wedding in the early 90's. His bride had a man of honor.

No one likes a smartarse

November 17th, 2016, 01:23 AM	#31
KingKeigh Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Southern NJ Posts: 514 Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,538 Times in 512 Posts	As an air force brat, I lost most of my old friends from high school due to moving around every couple years. My oldest friend and acquaintance goes only as far as my sophomore year in high school. After being best friends in high school at an air force base in Spain, we went our separate ways after graduation and both eventually met again in America after staying in touch by post cards and letters (remember those?) in 1985 where I was a groomsman in his wedding despite the fact that I was then living in NY and he was in Idaho. Then some years later we lost touch again since we lived far apart. We reconnected in 2005 after 20 years. Now we get together a couple times a year and bring our girlfriends/wives for vacations at his boss' time share in Florida.

February 21st, 2017, 11:08 PM	#32
skullorchard Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 179 Thanks: 7,071 Thanked 3,904 Times in 173 Posts	I can certainly relate to KingKeigh. I'm also Government Issue and spent most of my younger years, moving from place to place and country to country.That lifestyle makes it hard to build long-lasting friendships. However since my Dad's last posting, I now have several friends that I've known for many years. My oldest is Roger. We've been friends since the fall of '67, followed by Dave since '72, Merv '74 and Peter '86. Good long-time friends are rare and to be treasured.

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February 22nd, 2017, 10:14 AM	#35
Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,361 Thanks: 286,977 Thanked 386,352 Times in 30,314 Posts	My oldest friend is a girl I grew up next door too. At her wedding I was her man of honour. The world's only one ever I suspect. Oddly enough, we have never had or developed any romantic feelings for each other, but we are today still the best of friends. It took her husband and my wife some time to get their heads around that I can tell you. I talk to her about stuff I wouldn't bring up with my male friends and it is good to have one person you can really talk to.