And I think for most of one year I got mad at her and changed accounts in msn and blocked her on the other. This friend is EoFF's very own Bonnie.

It's true. I can't and typically don't keep friends for very long. I don't seriously expect to stay Chemical/Ashley's roommate for the 4 years she asked me to commit (it could happen! just historically unprecedented), because by then she'd be my second longest, still current friend of 5 years (and Bonnie would by then be my friend for almost a decade, if she actually lasts that long.

Honorable mentions include my roommates for 2.5 years who I don't keep in contact with, and people from high school, who don't really count because I never kept in touch with them, and saying 'hi' to the same person every so often doesn't count as friends.

My parents are in their 50's and 60's and have friends that they met in grade school. I'm like...WHAT how is that even possible and my head explodes, and goo comes flying everywhere. I think I have spiderman beat for most disgusting super power (spider goo is gross...eww).

Online friends do not count, because if they do I have a 9 year long friend from Texas that rarely talks to me, but we're on msn.

Honorable mentions include my ex girlfriend's cousin who is waay too young for me to be friends with, but whatever, since we don't talk anyway, my friends from IBM who have left IBM and we keep in touch every few months instead of every month, and a girl from my karate class who asked me to go to her high school prom, who doesn't respond to my '*poke*' openers to catch up on old times. I'd add her on facebook but we'd just shoot the smurf and stop talking. That typically ends up to be the case with me and my friends.

Do you have long lasting friendships with people? How the heck do you do it? I want some of your gypsy magicks.