Q1 You're home on a week night, it is late when you receive a phone call from your friend.
The friend asks you to drop everything and come.
Do you: (a) Ask for details.
(b) Continue to get ready for bed.
(c) Phone for someone else to go.
(d) Drop everything and go to your friend.
Q2 You and a friend go out to lunch together.
When the meals arrive the bowls are served incorrectly.
Each order has been given to the wrong person.
You both start to eat.
Agitated your friend starts sifting through his/her bowl unable to find their favourite ingredients.
When you gaze into your bowl you realise that your bowl has the friends ordered ingredients.
Do you: (a) Swap bowls.
(b) Continue with the bowls you each started with.
(c) Order again.
(d) Leave the restaurant without eating.
Q3 Your friend at the office has been ordering and collecting the coffees for the team at the morning break.
You discover that s/he has been receiving a free coffee every morning from the café as a loyalty reward for purchasing six coffees.
Do you: (a) Think that shows initiative.
(b) Start collecting your own coffee.
(c) Offer to order and collect the team's coffee yourself.
(d) Stop drinking coffee.
How to score.
Write down your answers and add the point scores together.
If you answered: 1(a) You are the sort of person who likes to know what they are getting into.
This is great if you are planning an event, but not the spontaneous type.
15 points.
1(b) You do not take the needs of others seriously.
5 points.
1(c) You put your own needs ahead of your friends.
10 points.
1(d) You are the best friend everyone wants but seldom finds.
20 points.
2(a)You are the kind of friend who does not make a fuss.
Share and share alike is your philosophy.
20 points.
2(b) Conversation with your friend is more important to you than food.
15 points.
2(c) Food is more important than friendships.
10 points.
2(d) Neither food or friendship is a priority for you.
5 points.
3(a) You are a true and loyal friend.
20 points.
3(b) You prefer to choose what to give a friend.
Rather than have them use you to get freebies.
10 points.
3(c) A good friend offers to share the work load.
15 points.
3(d) You punish both your friend and yourself.
5 points.
How did you rate? Top Score 60 pointsCongratulations, as a friend you can be depended upon, no matter what.
Small issues are not permitted to cloud friendship.
You are supportive of your friends talents.
The best kind of friend.
45 points Friendship with you is conditional.
30 points You opt out when the going gets tough.
15 points This is not friendship behaviour.
If you want to be friends with the people around you.
Consider meeting their needs or assisting them to meet their needs.
True friends do not expect reward.
Be consistent in your actions.
Be the type of person others would choose to be with.