A friend who shall remain nameless...
I met him in P6 (which is Year 6 in England) when I moved to a new school. He was the headmaster's son and had been instructed to show me around. Seeing as there were only 5 other kids in my year (one of which was isolated from the rest of the kids (Guantanamo style), and another a Jehovah's Witness) I became pretty good friends with him.

So we both moved up to secondry and things went well or two, during the time where everyone conforms to the collective ideas of the year-group, acting pretty much like sheep.
However, third year came along... when everyone starts to find their own musical taste, own dress-sense and basically just find themselves.
I had no trouble doing this. I'm a strong-minded person and am proud being me, not part of some social group.
He, on the other hand, was lost. One day he'd think he was a vampire, the next day a goth and then the amry-type.
Slowly I began to notice things. He was listening to my style of music, stealing my jokes and sense of humor and just gerally pretending to be me.
He was copying other people too, but me being his best friend, was getting it the worse. I was outraged. I AM UNIQUE.
So I was continually getting more and more pissed off at him progressively morphing into me and couldn't find a reason to ditch him.
Then I had a girlfriend (she was a bit weird, but that's a story for another day), and when she finished with me I found that he'd been screwing me over behind my back.
That was my reason to tell him to piss off.

He tryed to make it up with me over MSN. I told him that if he wanted to make it up with me, he could talk to me in real life. I've barely heard from him since.

And to prove my point that he was copying me, he went out with the same woman a month or so later.

The story doesn't end there. Hell no.
The best thing is I ended off better. One of my aspects of personality he stole was me being incredibly camp and pretending to be gay. So I stopped that, but he didn't. Now everyone thinks he's secretly homosexual. (So do I.)
( Butters and his titanium codsocket, Fri 28 Jul 2006, 17:08, Reply)