When your friend is right next to his/her friend, turn around and act like you're talking on the phone with your best friend and you're really happy about it.
My colleague and friend, sitting right next to me, a man with whom I worked closely every day, a cat owner, said with a very audible whisper, "I would be sooo embarrassed".
People are putting down their tiny popcorn bags and finishing their white wine and rushing in to discover friends sitting right next to them: 'Fancy seeing YOU here,' everyone is squealing".
Sylvia Guberman, coordinator of the United Democrats of Stratford, who said she lost relatives in the Holocaust, said she found it hard to believe "that two friends standing right next to each other would accidentally make the same outstretched, closed-handed, stiff-armed salute at the exact same time".
A few minutes later the train came and I got on and sat down in the half-empty car, followed by my new friend who sat right next to me.
You never know, your new best friend may be right next to you.
(If this image is to be believed, this is Amanda Miller's high school graduation quote: "A good friend would bail you out of jail, a best friend would be sitting right next to you saying 'man, we messed up'".).
This "best possible way" includes letting people ask followup questions, as if Google is your best friend and is sitting right next to you on the couch or in the car.
And our go-to prop maker and good friend Max Humphries has his workshop right next door, so if we need an emergency set of antlers, then we couldn't be any closer to the best person for the job.
And just around the time you thought you lost yourself and all your friends, you found them standing right next to you.
