Describe the craziest friend you have/ever had...

[Bicoastal]

...my college friend "Jim" was pretty crazy. He got depressed around the time of his 25th birthday and (unbeknownst to me) drove drunk fairly regularly, but the first and only time he crashed his car (into a parked semi) when I was in the passenger seat, begging him to pull over.

Luckily, I wasn't hurt. Thank God for airbags, huh?

Anyway, "Jim" spent a few weeks in jail, then got into AA, quit drinking and is now running his own (moderately succesful) business. The incredible part is all of this happened only last year!

Not quite sure if he's still a friend, but he's definitely the craziest I ever had. What about you?

[Hangingon]

1. The finest, most worthless person I know

I had a friend and golf partner - and a employee for a short time - who definitely qualified as the finest, most worthless person I have ever met. He would give you the shirt off his back - or a kidney. He ate too much, drank prodigiously and didn't know the meaning of fidelity. For a guy who was extremely bright and wrote well, he didn't know how to talk to people or when to be quiet. He never dropped a stroke on his score card but drank the 19th hole dry - two DUI's. After ruining a marriage and losing a family, he seems to finally have gotten on a straight path. I hope so.

[qb]

2. My best friend in high school used to drink and do drugs...

Then he quit booze and drugs and became a Mormon. Then he joined a Pentecostal group and burned most of his record albums (he gave his Air Supply to me). He told me there were invisible demons all around trying to possess us. Now he's a lawyer.

[Bicoastal]

7. Sounds like a pretty natural progression to me...

:P

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. Go read graywarrior's posts, pretty much explains everything.

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

5. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or as a slam.

:toast:

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. It's a compliment you goober!

But iz crazy too!



:loveya:

[graywarrior]

9. You mean like...

[LaStrega]

4. I'm pretty sure my friends consider me their craziest friend n/t

[leeroysphitz]

8. My friend Edward...

He was CRAZY. He had this retail outlet up north selling all kinds of home appliances. Not only did he sell to the general public at below wholesale but his prices, as it turned out, were CRAZY. I love a bargain but selling a toaster oven for $2.50? that's insane. A new Sony 25" TV for $3.50? How did he do it?

Crazy Eddie eventually began killing and eating subway workers and hobos and was incarcerated by the Essex county prosecutor but, to this day I've never seen a better deal on a Kenwood or Marantz.

[harmonicon]

10. I have a friend who lives in a barn in hollywood

1. it doesn't have plumbing
2. she's constructed a 3/4 (to life) sized doll house in it, in which she lives.
3. I don't know how she pays for this, and I don't ask
4. she's really great, and I like her a lot

still not sure if she's the craziest..... I know some serious fucking weirdos.

[graywarrior]

11. I had a friend who used to cook rice on a one burner butane stove in the back seat

of his car while he drove. He'd turn around while driving to stir the pot. Then he'd write a toll booth check for 25 cents. He'd drive from Ma to CA, take a boat to Alaska, drive to the other side of the state, then turn around and drive back home. He'd do this several times a year. I have no idea where he his now.