Hire some winos at the liquor store to help you carry the stuff downstairs,lol.
Probly wont cost you more than a few bottles of shotgun.

If I was closer I would come and give you a hand.
N of 50 isnt far from you is he?

This is an interesting thread for sure. I agreed with Marty's thoughts on it in many ways. I have a good friend who doesn't like to ask for help or doesn't think help is there if he asks. A lot of that for him is self pride. He knows I will do anything he calls me up to do, he's near killed me a few times but we laugh about it (big implements and poor hand signals) can go south quick. I enjoy all my friends because regardless of some poor circumstances we have our best interests at heart. I can say like many on here though, not everyone has the same experiences.

I think women and men think differently on friends.

I have a few that I call true friends. My best friend since 5th grade is one. We can go for months without talking, but still best friends. He could call right now and say I need help with something and it’s not exactly legal and I’d get dressed, grab a few weapons, and be in the truck heading his way within 2 minutes. He’d do the same for me. I have a couple others like that as well. I call, and they’re on the way.

I have a lot of folks I know and they’re friends, but not true friends.

True friends KNOW my past and I know theirs. They know my secrets, and I know theirs. True friends aren’t allowed to talk to my kids, lol!! Some things just don’t need brought up.

You guys seem to be very pessimistic when it comes to friends. I would say that I have quite a few friends, of course I am closer to some than others. I have a couple friends that I may only see once a year, but could stop in at their place unannounced, walk right in and be welcomed with open arms and treated as if I am there every day. Then I have some that I see regularly and are more like family than friends. Closer than most of my family to be honest.

Also most of my friends are, and always have been women. Most of my guy friends are my friends because I was friends with their wife first. Even my best man at my wedding was not a man at all. Our pastor had a hard time wrapping his head around that one.

Mine are mostly fellow Coal Miners. When you have 25 men and their wives show up at the Hospital too be with your wife when you are not expected to live thru the night and spend the night praying for you those are your friends.

Right? I was thinking I’m reading wrong, shared with the Mrs. and she pointed out nearly five years removed from the corporate world and I still get calls from the folks that worked for me. Even got a phone call on my Birthday from my manager. lol

Will any of those folks help you get rid of a body…no questions asked? If so, they are truly friends. If not, they are just acquaintances.

First, I wouldn’t ask anyone to help get rid of a body. If you can’t figure out how to do it yourself, that work ain’t for you.

That said, all of them would not only come to my aid but the aid of my immediate family should the need arise as I would theirs.

what body?

Doesn't have anything to with them being women does it??? I've found people are generally more tolerable and less judgmental of the opposite sex.

I have dozens of people whose house I could walk into and be welcomed in.... but is that all it takes to make a friend???? I'd open my door to pretty much anyone on this forum, but that doesn't mean they're all my friends.

Sounds like each of us has a different definition of a friend. Nothing wrong about it just different.

Biblically, we are to love our neighbor, does being a friend exclude them for this commandment?

I still have my best friend from high school 40 years ago, we didn’t do much many years
as we both had families and his divorce. We always take time nowadays to fish and hunt
together. Had some that squeezed me out of MY hunting spots that I no longer talk to. Had many
that I found out weren’t true. My wife, son and daughter are truly my best friends. I find out
Quickly the people I wanna be around and have some darn good ones. Oh and my lab that goes to
work with me everyday.

There is no "test" or "requirements" for friends. These are just people you would take a bullet for, and you dont know why and it wouldnt matter anyway.

I have a few good friends. 3 actually. Our friendship has been over 49 yrs. I have known these men longer then my wife. I do know. If anything would happen to me. They would be there for my wife. That is all that matters to me. A long time ago. An old priest told me. It is better to have a few good friends in your life. Then a whole bunch of friends.

I had plenty of friends until I quit drinkin.

I had one, that I'd true!y place as a "once in a lifetime" friend.

This guy would do anything for me, and visa versa. I hauled him to his cancer treatments and I think it was harder on me than it was him.
He died.
these kind of relationships are rare.

All my real friends are dead. The joy of living long.