Who's your best friend?

I was thinking the other day, what makes someone your “Best Friend”? Is it someone you hang out with all the time? Or the person you call when you’re in trouble? Is it the person you’ve known for the longest amount of time? Is there some sort of etiquette, where you must be better friends with the person you’ve known the longest, rather than the person you know the best?

So, I’ve made a quick survey that you can do to figure out who is your bestest friend of all. Don’t cheat! If you’re gonna do it, you can’t read it first, otherwise it won’t work…

1. VIP list – ok, choose the party you’d most like to have … lets say it’s a pool party… if you were having a pool party and could only invite say 5 people, who would you invite? They don’t have to get along with each other, so long they get along with you. Put these 5 people at the top of your list.
2. Hanging out time – Rank the 5 ppl in order of how much time you spend with them (this includes how much time you spend talking to them – extra weighting if you paid for the call – but does not include any time you spend talking ABOUT them to others. Extra weighting also if you would actually drive across Sydney to go see them with no particular plans in mind. Disregard all hours spent at dragonboat training)
3. Who’s your bailer – extra points to the one you call to bail you out. Think of the last time you were really stuck. Maybe your car broke down, or you ran out of money, or some gay guy was trying to hug you on NYE, or you weren’t invited to a party and needed to pretend you were busy, or you WERE invited to a party but you didn’t want to go … who did you call? Who bailed you out?
4. Known time – how long have you known this person? Ok, now minus all those years you spent avoiding them… And take away the years you spent complaining about them… Now totally disregard that number, cos it doesn’t mean anything.

AND YOUR BEST FRIEND IS… the first person you thought of when trying to answer question 1.