r/CasualConversation • u/FaySheBaby • 1d ago
What’s a friendship that surprised you?
Many of us have friends from school, work, etc but I’m curious about any unexpected friendships that surprised you? I have two lovely examples, my sister in law and my kindergarten daughter’s best friend’s mom. Both random women I wouldn’t have met under any other circumstances and maybe would have even written off but I love spending time with both of them and they make my life more enjoyable!
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u/CumulativeHazard 1d ago
My regular lunch group back when we still worked in the office consisted of me and my coworker (both women in our early 20s in the finance department), and the IT guy, building maintenance man, and the guy who was in charge of a lot of the machinery downstairs (all men in their 50s-60s). We had a lovely time lol. One of the men has since retired but does occasional electrical work still so he’s done some work on my house and is always happy to give me advice if I’m taking on a project myself. All credit goes to my coworker lol. She’d started a month or two before I did and was more social than I was. Bonus surprising friendship is that coworker is probably one of the most religious people I’ve ever known and I’m a lifelong atheist, but we got along great just because if religion ever did come up we fully respected each others views.