People who have met their online friends? What made you instantly regret it?

Met my best friend at the time on League of Legends.

After talking every day for three years, I ended up moving to his state much closer to him, so we decided to finally meet.

We talked about all the things we'd do together and how awesome it would be.

I loved him so, so much. He was there for me through so much and was a wonderful

friend. He had a new girlfriend at the time of our meetup and he brought her along with him. I had no

problem with this because I'd love to meet the woman who makes him happy. It was abundantly clear

from the get-go that she wasn't a real big fan of me. I did my best to be kind and still had tons of fun.

I didn't hear from my friend much after that. A mutual good friend of ours messaged me and when I

asked about my best friend, they said his girlfriend was telling people that I was basically an

awful person for whatever reason. Three years later and he's engaged to this woman and I'm happy for

him. But I haven't spoken to him in those three years.

I still miss him every day and I wish I could be there for him on his wedding day.

Not instant regret, but did make me realize things could have gone badly if this friend hadn't been a good human.

There was a guy I used to play Halo 2 with all the time.

We were playing Halo one day,

and I made some off-the-wall comment about how bad traffic was due to them redoing one of our

local roads. He said his town was redoing a lot of roads too. I think I had a friend over or

coming over, and I forgot to mute my mic and said the road he lived on, asking when he had to leave to come over. Anyways, my Xbox buddy was like,

holy crap, do you live in XYZ? And I told him, yeah. Turns out he lived like five miles away for me

on the other side of town. We ended up meeting up, and I was about 11 or 12 at the time. He was like

17. And he went and bought me a burger and milkshake and we chatted. Pretty cool dude from what I remember.

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