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. :)
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
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.
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