One of my absolute best friends I made in New York was a result of eavesdropping. I was having a smoke outside and this guy was obviously in the process of re-breaking up with his boyfriend. It was obvious that he didn't want to hurt anyone and the guy on the other end was flying between pitiful and livid. It was a pretty fascinating thing to hear one side of and try to guess what the hell their relationship was, to the whys and how's and all of that. Every little detail gleaned is like a new path.

I pretended to be completely unaware and just sat on my phone playing my game and smoking.

Cut to the next day as I'm leaving my apartment to go to class. Right in front of me is the poor soul from the stoop the night before. I smiled politely and asked if he was having a better day, not even realizing that he didn't realize I had heard everything the night before.

Apparently it wasn't a totally creepy maneuver (or it was just destiny) and we ended up talking and getting to know each other over the next few weeks, without actually ever committing to hanging out.

Of course it just took us both being shit faced one night and running into each other to go from friendly cigarette smoking buddies to hang out every night doing homework and blow and getting generally trashed.