i would put down what im doing and do my best to help.

i've done it many times. Stop exactly what i'm doing and get to them as fast as i could. I would do it because i'm a friend, and thats what friends do.

a/ how good a friend are they?
b/ how serious is it? really serious or touchy-feely girly serious? (i.e. not very)
c/ can you really help them or do you have to drag x number of relatives/other friends in and make a big display of helping and achieve nothing?
d/ are you intending to quote the Bible?
e/ will any money be exchanging hands?
f/ would they return the favour?

I'll do anything I can to help anyone - unless they start taking the p*ss then they can f*** off and die for all I care.

a) pretty good
b) well that would depend on what you see as serious
c)depends on the problem
d)why do you ask that? and i wasn't planning to, but I could
e)depends
f) well is that an issue?

It will be much easier to patch things up with whoever gave you the assignment than with a friend you left stranded. Help them, and then do a half-asses job on the project and turn it in. --- VH16

I am Nobody; Nobody is Perfect; Therefore, I am Perfect

Of my friends, Yes. I would help them without requard as to weather they would return a favor. That is what a friend does. To want the favor returned is just an to be an aquanteance. True fiends help each other. The exceptions is if they ask money and you don't have it to give, but support, research, ect can always be offered.

You could do that, but you're nt thinking out of the box ( amazing how these medicinal herbs of mine help me with that )

You see, if you're friend has just called you, you could get the call back nnumber ( even public phones have them so SHADUPP ) call back and talk to them over the phone WHILE working on your project, so that way, both your project AND your friend dont receive perfect help or attention, but get that srot of half half, sloppy attention that is the mainstay for humanity, so in effect your actually helping the constant degregation of uhmnaity

That or I've had wayyy to much, but yea

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Have no friends in RL, so moot point

If a very good close friend, the call would, of itself, justify going.

If a friend for which this kind of analysis is necessary, then most likely, no.

I would not bother. I would offer some time on the phone call to see if we
could sort out the problem over the phone.

In a pinch I'd make some other calls for that friend to muster help if possible.

either way life goes on. Flip a coin, make a choice and stick with it. Although this situation is probably long gone by now. --- VH16

I am Nobody; Nobody is Perfect; Therefore, I am Perfect

As Taw said, it depends on how good the friend is but as I only keep close friends so the answer would of course be yes.

i wouldn't give moral support. i dont believe in that. either that or i've never come across a situation where i or any of my friends needed any of that. usually i do help them out whenever they call. but if it requires me to go over, i'd finish a section of what i was doing and then go over.

Didn't we have a topic about what we would do for our "mates" a few months ago?

Depends on the importance of the work i'm doing and how good the friend is. A good friend will understand that sometimes there are more important things than couselling sessions for whineys

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