cold call friendship: classic or dud?

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Same situation as mark on the other thread but not amorously-tinted - classic or dud? Classic, I say. I'll get it together, and explain my life-scenario-why.

― david h (david h), Monday, 9 September 2002 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic, though at least 90% of the time it won't work, and you won't like the person enough to be friends (or vice versa). But might as well give it a try in the hopes for that 10%, right?

Besides, how else do you meet people?

As this is almost my first-ever post to this message board, does this count as cold-call friendship?

― nory (nory), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

cod-call friendship: phone a fish.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay Nory! Welcome to the abyss MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

The last person I tried to do this with was only interested because she thought it was a cold-call dating situation. Once she discovered I had a girlfriend, she ran in the other direction.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Naming yourself after Nory from The Everlasting Story of Nory is a pretty sure way to make people love you: I'm going to be unable to read your posts without imagining sweet clever little Nory typing them out at home.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't even understand how this could come about.

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I passed letters to a girl in corridors, at high school. I hadn't talked to her. We are now good friends. See?

― david h (david h), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i think its kind of classic due to the unpredictability of the whole thing, you could really hate the person or really like them.

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

You were intending just to be friends when you "called" her? Did you just have some kind of notion you two would get along? Based on what?

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for the warm welcome, Dan (I'm ignoring the evil laugh here, though, after *eavesdropping* on you guys for a while now, I have at least a slight inkling of where it comes from)!

And five gold stars to nabisco for catching the Nicholson Baker reference. I wondered who would get it first.

cold call friendship vs. cold call dating--is there really any way, at first, to distinguish the two?

― nory (nory), Monday, 9 September 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Does it have to be actually calling some stranger up? That sounds just a teensy bit creepy. But introducing yrself to interesting-looking randoms at uni/parties/gigs can be all kinds of classic. c.f. inviting weird innernet nerds to your flatwarming party.

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

yesterday i went over to my new neighbours 'cause he invited me for a beer. he was socially awkard, and the beer was awful and all we did for half an hour was watch the news, he didnt talk. so no.

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony, beer is never awful if it is free.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

It sounds like an exciting and free-spirited thing to do. But it is probably just mental.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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