My best friend Hallie once said in high school that you know
you’re befriended someone when he is comfortable enough to poke fun of you. It’s
true.
As a young adult, I knew I’d befriended certain work friends when
they invite me to lunch to meet their spouse. When I bake up some yumyums (at
their request) and leave it on their desk in Tupperware I never expect to see
again, and find the same container sitting neatly on my desk a few days later,
freshly washed, before I arrive. When they lend me their prized broadband card to
let me finish some work at night – rather than coming in the office at a crazy,
early hour – during an especially busy week when my wireless card died.
It's amazing how people -- even those we spend 40 hours a week with but aren't quite real-life friends (yet) -- can surprise us in such small but sentimental ways.
Real-life and work friend Irene and me purposely dressed in coordinating outfits on Halloween |
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