And the tricky thing is they don't ask you for money outright, but you always seem to find out about some calamity that's about to happen in their life if they don't get $X by Y, and that they just don't know what to do. They do know none of your suggestions they appear to be asking you for will work either (how about sell that new $3,000 guitar you just bought? "Nah, the pawn shop will only give me a few hundred for it..."). I never knew how much of a jerk I was for "not getting the hint" and "letting a friend go homeless."Once others know you're rich, new "friends" will come out of the woodwork...
Of course, the date comes and goes and not only are they not homeless, but they've bought yet another new guitar. Funny how that works.
Oh, I also never knew how much of a moron I was either, for not giving a friend $100,000 to invest in some kind of scheme where he was guaranteed to pay me back double in only about a month! What idiot wouldn't want to make $100,000 in a single month?
My best friendships are with people who are doing well financially. Money can just add too much strain to a relationship.