Best friends understand each other no matter what, including the fact that you sometimes have to compete with each other for male attention. When the two of you are together, it’s like you speak your own language; you wouldn’t trade her for anything except a guy over 6’1 with a car and a job. Here are the things BFFs understand about putting each other down if a cute guy is anywhere in the vicinity.
His jokes deserve belly laughs; yours deserve a confused “Whaaaaaaa?”
You and your sister from another mister can spend hours giggling together—sometimes you even forget what you were laughing about in the first place. But it’s important to remember that when someone cute’s around, you aren’t funny. He is very funny, and you don’t even make sense. Who but your best friend could make a confused noise and exchange a skeptical glance with the guy you both just met? Love her!
If you act like a total idiot, she does not know you.
UGH, you two are such dorks when you’re together. It’s crazy that anyone has ever had sex with either of you! But if you pull any of your weird shit when that guy from that band walks in, she doesn’t know you. You are some spaz who’s standing way too close to her, and it’s because of your deep connection that you understand you need to walk out of the room. Because you are so close! Only a bestie could be capable of such coldness.
His opinion is right even if your different opinion is right.
In one glance, you and your BFF completely understand that a hottie approaching means that facts and shared opinions will go out the window. It doesn’t matter if you both once bonded over hating It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. If he says it’s hilarious, he’s so right, and didn’t you say you hated that show? How could you hate the funniest show ever made? This is how a friend becomes a best friend.
Your most secret embarrassing stories are fair game.
Best friends tell each other the embarrassing things that they don’t tell anyone else. She knows all your secrets, and so will he, because they will come up in forced ways throughout the conversation. The time you farted during a really dramatic scene in a movie theater? Hilarious! The time you had to go to rehab for huffing paint? LOL! She really loves how you live your life without any shame whatsoever.
She will support you by talking shit about you if you leave for even one second.
Friends support each other no matter what. Best friends will throw you under the bus the second a tan guy who makes her laugh comes along. If you leave your BFF and that cutie alone for even one second, she will lean in to conspiratorially mention that you’ve been single for three years, poor thing. It’s beautiful how much you’ve been through together.
You have some gross stuff on your face.
True blue friends know that they have shit on their face, no not literal shit, but that’s what it looks like! Ewwww! No, on the other side of your face. No, how could you still not get it?? You need to go to the bathroom! LYLAS!
Real friendship means making sacrifices, and your dignity is a small price to pay for a friendship in which, two nights later, you and your BFF can have a sleepover after he doesn’t call. You don’t need men; you have each other until all bets are off when that cute pizza guy rings the buzzer!
