How close is close and...

7 Nov 2005

Quote by Dino
Depends on how reliable the car is i`d crawl through muck n bullets to see you tho jags ,,,
well,,,
a little bit of muck and one bullet maybe

You should have come paint-balling with us then mate lol

:lol:
But seriously, have travelled 100 miles to see someone.....and 100 back home :lol:

7 Nov 2005

No distance too far for a friend. I think I agree with Treasurechest on this - I'd be more worried if they were too close. We've travelled to Scotland for a party that was all swingers and their kids - we knew before we left that there would be no playing. I can see what Kniphofia is saying about the other way around too - but I'd never shag anyone out of guilt, just so they went away having had a shag to make it worth them visiting. I like to think that I'd be able to measure whether a person would expect that for their trouble and if they did, they probably wouldn't be my cup of tea anyway.

7 Nov 2005

Quote by Kniphofia
It's not just a matter of how far YOU'd travel, either.
If someone has come 80 miles to see you - and they're awful - what are you going to do? Won't you feel guilty, sending 'em off unfucked into the freezing night?
I don't mean the awful people who deserve the brush-off, like the ones who are mean or pushy or pissed or 20 years older than they said..... I mean the people who can't help being awful, who turn out to be ginger, or even........ Welsh.
ducks and hides

:kick: :kick: smackbottom

:kissmyarse:
For a friend I'd travel any distance within reason i.e. within England or Wales and southern Scotland. For a newbie, or someone who's just a meet, no more than 20 miles.
Although my brother does occasionally go over to Florida to see friends of his off the net loon

7 Nov 2005

Quote by Jags

Well, whatever muppet knocked you back for being too far away , needs a proper Jags-slap ! You should order the damned fool come and see you....

One GREAT BIG HUGE JAGS SLAP being administered right here - right now!
:happy: :happy:
OUCH ! redface

:inlove:

7 Nov 2005

Well if we knew them any distance, and the further the better cos it's great to get away sometimes. But If we'd never met them then only 27 3/4 miles.

7 Nov 2005

New years day we did a unplanned 300 mile round trip to say hello to someone we had chatted to loads of times on the forums and in pm but had never met in real life. He just said it was a shame we lived so far away or he would have put the kettle on. So we got in the car and drove to Newcastle for a brew, then drove home (sure it would have been cheaper to make the brew ourselves) lol

Would we do it again? Yes of course, but this time we wouldnt drive home two hours later wink

7 Nov 2005

Quote by Naughty Wigan Couple
New years day we did a unplanned 300 mile round trip to say hello to someone we had chatted to loads of times on the forums and in pm but had never met in real life. He just said it was a shame we lived so far away or he would have put the kettle on. So we got in the car and drove to Newcastle for a brew, then drove home (sure it would have been cheaper to make the brew ourselves)
Would we do it again? Yes of course, but this time we wouldnt drive home two hours later

I've done this!! :lol: much the same circumstances, been chatting to someone on t'internet for months and months, made some flippant comment about 'isnt it about time we met in RL'.....20 mins later I'm on the train to Plymouth! :shock: stayed overnight though! :twisted:
Now though, with work, study and family constraints I simply dont have the time or resources to be gallavanting half-way across the country like that, and at the moment I'd really struggle to meet anyone who was out of a 20 mile radius of me :cry: . I dont mind travelling the distance for munches if i can plan it wayyyyyy in advance, or for real friends.....but for a meet? nope.

7 Nov 2005

HI guys,
The furthest we have travelled so far is about 50 miles for a social. if i met someone really special i might be willing to travel further.
But finding people who want to meet and have fun is very hard.
I am meeting lots of people on chat and things but notmany that i would travel very far to see. if meet at all.
And on the subject of red hair and welsh, thats not funny we arnt all bad. lol.
sunday and doj

7 Nov 2005

I've travelled a fair distance in the past to see good friends, the last time was to Bristol and back but I did combine a mate's 30th with catching up with 20 or so other people that I hadn't seen for ages, so it actually worked out quite well in terms of distance/number of friends - about 20 miles each way per mate. I also got to meet up with three or four very cool people who I'd not met IRL before the party.
In general I'll go a long way for friends, whether just to catch up with them/help out if required or to 'meet' them for other purposes biggrin

As for meeting someone off here (or I suppose off any other site), then I probably wouldn't travel for more than an hour or so unless I was very confident they weren't spinning me a line or they had good references.

7 Nov 2005

I regularly (but not as regularly as I would like) have a round trip of a few hundred miles to see someone, as she does with me - and I don't regret a single inch of the journey lol

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Mal

7 Nov 2005

How far is too far ??????
that all depends on how far naughtynymphos tells me we are going lmao

7 Nov 2005

Well i once drove 500 miles to see a friend in Glasgow. Got up at 3:30am drove up there, had coffee, a damn fine chat, more coffee, a peck on the cheek goodbye then drove 350 miles to a business meeting - stopping every hour for a leak cos I had drunk to much coffee.
Was it worth it?
Absolutely. It was great conversation with a very witty and charming lady.