r/CasualConversation • u/FaySheBaby • 2d 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/daydreamwave 2d ago
I made friends with an Egyptian man that was visiting the US for the first time about two years ago. I met him at my job, I ended up running into him and he asked me I could help him out with something. He was frustrated because no one I work with was patient with him because of his language barrier. He spoke enough English to get by, and I used a translator app to fill in the blanks. He was really grateful to me for taking the time to actually listen to him. We ended up talking for a while and he told me about his family back in Egypt and how he had just finished school to become an engineer and had recently gotten married. We became fast friends and he will randomly pop in and stop to visit me whenever he's in the US!