What's the most unusual way you've met/gained a friend?

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Is there a moment you can remember where you made a friend unexpectedly in a memorable manner?

For me, it happened when I was at Secondary school, it was at break time and I'd just come out of the school's Library. I walked up and down the stairs a little, trying to waste time until the bell rang.

Don't get me wrong, I had friends, but at that moment in time I was avoiding them, because they were always constantly arguing with each other, and it was no longer fun to hang out with each of them. I didn't want to have to pick a side on who to support, nor did I want to deal with any of the melodramatic teenage drama.

Instead I just tried to waste time, wondering if they even noticed that I'd gone, because they were all so entranced with squabbling all the time it was like I wasn't even there.

Usually I was careful not to pass the same spot too many times (so then it looked like I had somewhere to be, and that I wasn't just alone trying to waste my time), but I was thinking about my friend group, so I absentmindedly passed the same hallway a few times.

This caught the attention of a group of popular girls in the year above. After about the third time of passing the same hallway, they approached me. "O.M.G. a nerd!" one of them exclaimed at me, they all chatted amongst themselves excitedly as I stood there awkwardly wondering if I should just walk away. "You're alone, right?" another asked, I simply responded "Errrr" not quite sure what to say.

"Aw, we know this girl who's just like you, I bet you two would be friends!" remarked one of the girls. Then they discussed amongst themselves if we would be friends or not, even though I didn't know any of these girls, and I didn't know the girl that they were discussing.

So, after they had done talking to each other, they led me outside and a few of the other girls led another girl to that particular spot. This led to one really awkward introduction, as you can probably imagine.

We both joked about how strange it was that what was happening was actually happening, and over time we actually got to know each other, and yes- we even became friends. I guess the girls that dragged us both there were right after all.

The only "unusual" instance I can think of is the time I met this one person online back in 2010 and we ended up turning into best friends over the years.

She approached me at college corridor and said:
'Hello, I'm <name> and I've just finished my rehab for drugs addiction!'

Well...I met one of my friends a couple years ago from an adult pokémon/furry website (not a dating site). He was one of the site's technicians.

We honestly started our friendship after I said he was hot once he posted a picture of himself in the chatroom....lol... That's what initiated him sending me pms as we gotten to know each other better. He was very open-minded about my belief in the multiverse, my relationship with Shadow and so forth and we then ended up taking our conversations further on Skype.

Very sweet and charming long-haired goth guy and a ridiculously smart man. Despite him telling me that he doesn't feel worthy enough for me due to having some low self-esteem of himself not being like other guys, I always tell him that he is. That there was nothing wrong with him and that he was amazing~ My openness to talking about sex with him and my gratitude and kindness are the things he's told me that he loved me for.

He's the guy I want to live in Canada with~ c:

I randomly saw a girl wearing the same Doctor Who TARDIS hat that I wear everyday when it is cold at school and yelled "I HAVE THE SAME HAT ON!" to her and we have been good friends ever since.

Real life, during middle school (7th grade to be exact), I met someone who shared the same first name and almost the same birthdate (same day and month, but he was a year older) as me.

Online... I had seen this one girl on a forum/rpg website I used to serve as a moderator on. For about 2 years I had seen her around, but she was just a face amongst the regulars there. Well, when it somehow slipped out from my mom that I was an Aspie (something not actually proven to this day, but because one person gave her that explanation as to the reason for my behavior she took that as fact), I then approached her as she had previously stated that she had been diagnosed with PDD-NOS (possibly misdiagnosed and was an aspie). We talked for a while and quickly became friends. We remained best friends for 5 years until I horribly screwed things up... and 3 years later I'm sitting here writing this.

Another friend I met was from college back in 2013, I was sitting in the game room during break and the guy I had a crush for was sitting on one of the couches talking with a friend of his (I didn't know anything about him at first, I just...thought he was hot...'cus he was a shinny, well-polished goth boy with long dark-brown hair who wore all black. Literally looked like someone from an anime show >_<). He was discussing about the existence of demons, angels, monsters and fictional characters from video games which automatically got me interested and despite being socially adverse and scared to speak I joined in the conversation which went well. The guy and I shared phone numbers and we continued to talk about our beliefs of the multiverse, fictional characters and the like.

He was and is still a huge fan of the Kingdom Hearts series and he used to channel the characters (let them “front” in terms for a soulbonder) and allow them to speak to me (although none of them seemed to like me… >_<). He had let a human version of Shadow the Hedgehog talk and "date" me for a while until he dumped me saying he has no feelings for me anymore which heh…wasn’t that pleasant of an experience but I can laugh about it now. That guy from college also told me that he was an incubus who had a wife that was on another planet which was cool and something I could find relateable.

I was a big novice when it came to telepathy, but he helped start me on my journey to what I do now which is literally second nature at this point. He taught me about astral projection, manipulating energy and third eye techniques to help see glimpses of non-physical beings in my room which was super neat!

The only problem with this guy was that…. we always seemed to fight. Like get into arguments about morality and stuff and he was very biased about my sexual interests. He also seemed annoyed when I wanted to hang out with him at college and asked me if I was some sort of dog since I would follow him around a lot. The guy also didn’t like my Shadow, saw him as too dangerous for me to be associated with and would tell me that he didn’t love me which literally PI**ED ShadowTheFluffhog off making Shadow very bitter towards the guy and didn’t like me talking to him.

Despite this, I still wanted to be his friend and talk to him because during that time, I wasn’t really communicating much with Shadow and I didn’t have the kind of friends I have today. Then at one point, we decided to break off communications with one another since all we’ve done is fight and it wasn’t doing anything but dragging our friendship down. We discussed this over Facebook so we hadn’t talked to each other for about 4-5 years and we avoided each other at college. But recently we’ve began communicating with each other again on Facebook. I still wouldn’t consider him a "friend" but he’s at least someone who knows me and has been an impact on my life whether for the good or bad. And he’s just another guy I know who believes in the supernatural and the existence of fictional characters.

@MariaTheFictionkin Your posts are always so outlandish, they make for some enjoyable reading. Your belief system calls to mind Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritualism. He wrote an introduction to one of his Sherlock anthologies in which he talked about a realm where fictional characters exist. It's hard to tell whether he meant this seriously or not, but then this was a man who had quite the obsession with otherworldly phenomena, so it's possible. Perhaps he was the original fictionkin, or at least one of the first. Who knows.