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Whether in the proper spirit of HN or not, I very much appreciated both stories. Made me glad I posted my attempted humorous comment. Thank you :)

> watches in horror as my brother discards another one.

Love it.

Edited to add after further thought, bringing it back into relevance with the topic:

To steal a Hunter S. Thompson quote, the "too weird to live, too rare to die" friend: someone that just seems to attract unusual experiences and has great value merely for the volume of weird life stories they're happy to share and also somehow continue to collect.

Inevitably overlaps with other categories, but also absolutely require a category of their own.

I believe that I fit into this category for some of my more "vanilla" acquaintances (and even some family members).