[bgroat]

Luck is an interesting element.

My best friend for 20 years (we've since fallen out of touch), was someone I met in kindergarten?

How did we become friends?

My surname starts with a "G" and his starts with an "H" so we were seated next to each other

[sitkack]

I met someone at Strangeloop because they were a doppelganger of an acquaintance from some years previously. I now realize that I had this attitude like we already friends because of that unrealized similarity. Attitude and any alignment in interests is more than enough, or alphabetical. :)

[bgroat]

"Uncommon Commonalities" are wild.

There was a girl who I couldn't stand in high school... but we bumped into each other in a train station on the opposite side of the country... and hung out all afternoon.

Just being from the same small town made an immediate (but brief) connection

[krumpet]

I had the same experience in 6th grade with a friend who moved to Michigan from Iowa. Last names "M" and "O" put us next to each other in class and the rest is history I suppose.

It feels corny to say, but you really can't make old friends.