K181 posted...
If you need to put a qualifier in front of "friend," I agree.
If a co-worker was someone you hung out with outside of work as well, you'd just call them a friend.
This reminds me of a funny story about my boys.
One night Mrs. Devsman was meeting some friends for dinner, and after she left, they forgot and asked where she went. So I told them she was going to meet some friends.
Well, they started running up and down the hall yelling "Mama's friends!" because, Iunno, they're kids and weird things are funny to them.
I showed Mrs. Devsman the video I took, because of course I took a video, and she took it as incredulity at the thought that Mama had friends. So we laughed for a second and then after a second of silence, it hit me and I said
"At least they've HEARD of your friends."