You guys ever lose a good friend from your childhood?

[Mayne]

around 25 years ago I lost my best friend from a mountain climbing incident. I still think about this crazy fucker from time to time.

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, but I found him. He went home without telling me. It was a tense half hour though.

 

[Printer Bandit]

I've never had any real friends.

 

[Mayne]

I always find it fascinating how this fucker would of turned out. I have an idea though..but its pointless.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

One of my two best childhood friends killed himself when he was 18. Think about him quite a bit actually.

 

[boomerang]

Yup, to bone cancer. The "treatment" back then was slightly more barbaric than today. The end result is the same though.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Lost a childhood friend back in 2008. We were close in elementary and middle school, but I moved away for high school. After college, I met up with a friend through FB and he told me the news. Matter of fact, yesterday was the day he passed.

 

[Mayne]

Lost a childhood friend back in 2008. We were close in elementary and middle school, but I moved away for high school. After college, I met up with a friend through FB and he told me the news. Matter of fact, yesterday was the day he passed.

i'm sorry man

 

[cbrunny]

Not yet

 

[skyking]

older brother was a good friend. He was 18, I was 14.

 

[SaltyNuts]

I did, but then I found him again.

 

[Imp]

I thought I did, but then I reconnected on the Facebook and noticed that I didn't really give a shit...

 

[pontifex]

I always find it fascinating how this fucker would of turned out. I have an idea though..but its pointless.

maybe you shouldn't have pushed him off the mountain?

 

[werepossum]

One of my two best childhood friends died a few years back and I didn't know until after his funeral. Had terrible chest pain for two days before going to the emergency room, then had a massive heart attack in the waiting room.

 

[Number1]

older brother was a good friend. He was 18, I was 14.

Yap. I was 26, my brother was 24, 32 years later it still hurt.

 

[BoomerD]

Yep. My best friend for many years enlisted right after I did...managed to find his way to my platoon. He was killed while we were out in Indian country. I carried his body out for 3 days so his parents could bury him.

 

[Red Storm]

My best friend drowned in front of me on a camping trip. He was 17, I was 15. I still think about him at least once a day.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Yes, he is listed in my sig.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Lost a good friend from high school, killed in an auto accident in his sophomore year in college. But you know what? I haven't seen more than two or three people from high school since graduating more than 30 years ago and doubt that I would have ever seen him again if he had lived. This kid was brilliant and had a huge interest in history and world affairs ... I'm guessing he would likely have been a very good attorney, perhaps a congressman or senator.

Another friend that I'd known since first grade blew his head off with a shotgun. Also hadn't seen him in more than 30 years. He had a weird, promising, disappointing life after high school. He graduated from medical school but never went into medicine. Then he was a rental property owner and landlord back in the home town with a dozen or more properties, but went broke from real estate speculations in the housing crash. Then he was a bar owner, and went broke again. Then he was involved in some weird scam that made national news, and ultimately killed himself.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

In 3rd grade my best friend was hit by a car and killed. He was riding his skateboard down a hill, lost control and ended up in front of a car going 45MPH. Still miss him, and I can still see the bloody sheet his parents put up in their front window (the sheet was what the paramedics wrapped him in before they got to the scene).

 

[Puffnstuff]

Hasn't anyone told Mayne that relationships with inflatable friends can be all patched up?

 

[MongGrel]

I lost several friends here and there over time.

My Mother was killed in a car accident two weeks before my high school graduation in 1980, I tend not to dwell on things like that.