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Whether you’ve known your bestie since you were toddling around together in playschool, or if she’s a more recent fantastic discovery, you’ll know there are certain things in life you’ll only get up to with your bestest friend.
Dairygold’s new Make a Minute campaign is all about making time for the good stuff and for a lot of us here at Her.ie that means making time for our friends. So with that in mind, we started thinking about all the things we let our best friends (and only our best friends) get away with.
Some of these might sound very familiar *cough cough*.
1. Borrowing *Everything* You Own
A friend will borrow a dress happily after you swear twenty-five times you really don’t mind. A best friend will be confident in slipping on your new shoes for a special night out once she’s run it by you quickly.
2. Giving an Honest Opinion on Your New Boyfriend
This is tetchy ground for most and even your closest friends have to tread carefully, but at the end of the day the likelihood is that your BFF is your fiercest defender and protector, as well as occasionally being the greatest pain in your ass. If she thinks something is up with this guy, listen carefully.
3. Finding It Absolutely Hysterical When You Embarrass Yourself in Public
That one time in your early teen naivety when you figured using a razor to shave “around” your eyebrows was probably the same as plucking them. It didn’t work out exactly as planned and you will never live it down, because your bestie still laughs about it like it was yesterday.
4.Bombarding your Facebook with links, comments, photos…
What happens when you put two best friends together? In-jokes, ‘hilarious’ stories from that girl’s weekend in Galway and a shared appreciation for men. Now give you a platform where you can post all of these with videos and more? It’s a posting apocalypse.
You don’t even mind – you now officially have the funniest Facebook page of anyone you know. (Just don’t expect people to share your humour. Not everyone is that cool).
5. Asking You for Ridiculous Favours, Regularly
Can you babysit on New Year’s Eve, because she hasn’t had a night out in ages? Can you drop her to the airport… two hours away… at 4am?
Of course you can. Because the day will come when she’ll return the favour. It always does.
6. Give you a major reality check
Fallen off the edge of the earth for a month after meeting a new boy? Or are you acting like a total diva about something ridiculous? Your best friend will undoubtedly be the first one to call you out and hit you with some home truths.
7. Calling In At Any Time, Without Warning
So what if you like to whip your bra off the second you come in the door and it’s still on the arm of the couch? So what if you skipped the washing up, threw on a day-glo face mask and are busy clipping your toenails when the bell rings? She’s coming in anyway, and there is no invite required.
8. Throwing Personal Insults at You Regularly
Telling you your new dress looks like a used couch or your granny’s recycled curtain material? It might be the truth, but you have to be a blood relative to get away with that. Not to mind what she had to say about your last haircut. After she took a picture of it for her records of your best/worst embarrassing moments.
9. Tell you the truth about what you’re wearing
This one does nothing for your ass and you know it. A friend will lie to save your feelings, a best friend will already be in your wardrobe finding a replacement.
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Dairygold has been spreading its deliciously creamy taste straight from the fridge for over 30 years, making you an extra minute for something that matters to you, like spending time with your best friend.
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