Someone who treats you only as a "friend" when it is convenient for them.
The type of friend who only calls when they need (money, help, support, advice, etc.) but are never there to help or give it back to you.
They are the type of friend who will want to hang out with you when they are bored and have nothing else to do and have nobody else to hang out with. But, as soon as another opportunity arrives they will leave and not talk to you until they need you again.
Typically a very self-centered type of person who only truly cares about themselves.
The type of friend who only calls when they need (money, help, support, advice, etc.) but are never there to help or give it back to you.
They are the type of friend who will want to hang out with you when they are bored and have nothing else to do and have nobody else to hang out with. But, as soon as another opportunity arrives they will leave and not talk to you until they need you again.
Typically a very self-centered type of person who only truly cares about themselves.
When the person treating you as an Friend Of Convenience - FOC needs something:
Amanda: "Hey Dave, I'm having problems with my family, can I come over and hang out for a while?"
Dave: "Sure, I'm always here for you."
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When you ask the person treating you like an "FOC" for the same thing in return, but they are feeling good about themselves already and don't "need" you:
Dave: "Hey Amanda, I really had a bad day, my girlfriend left me and I got fired can I come hang-out?"
Amanda: "Um... yeah not right now I'm kind of busy.. I'll call you later" (Actually she was doing nothing but a crossword puzzle, and never calls you back)
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When you know you're friend is treating you as an "FOC"
"Hey Dave, what's up with Amanda? She never seems to hang out unless she's having problems or needs something from you. "
"Yeah i know, I'm just her FOC, and I'm pretty tired of being used by her!"
Amanda: "Hey Dave, I'm having problems with my family, can I come over and hang out for a while?"
Dave: "Sure, I'm always here for you."
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When you ask the person treating you like an "FOC" for the same thing in return, but they are feeling good about themselves already and don't "need" you:
Dave: "Hey Amanda, I really had a bad day, my girlfriend left me and I got fired can I come hang-out?"
Amanda: "Um... yeah not right now I'm kind of busy.. I'll call you later" (Actually she was doing nothing but a crossword puzzle, and never calls you back)
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When you know you're friend is treating you as an "FOC"
"Hey Dave, what's up with Amanda? She never seems to hang out unless she's having problems or needs something from you. "
"Yeah i know, I'm just her FOC, and I'm pretty tired of being used by her!"
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(In a school)
Child shouts, 'I am superman!' and gets up off his sit while slowly ripping off his school uniform
Teacher: Little boy, you sit your ass down!!!
Students laugh at the teacher's outburst and continue their talking.
Teacher: Silence class, I am not well enough for this, i have a sore throat (Cough)(Cough)
Random Student: Ha ha ha what a convenient sore throat miss!
Teacher: Silence!!
Child shouts, 'I am superman!' and gets up off his sit while slowly ripping off his school uniform
Teacher: Little boy, you sit your ass down!!!
Students laugh at the teacher's outburst and continue their talking.
Teacher: Silence class, I am not well enough for this, i have a sore throat (Cough)(Cough)
Random Student: Ha ha ha what a convenient sore throat miss!
Teacher: Silence!!
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Used to describe anything so convenient at the current time that it defeats the purpose of trying to figure out why it just happened to be there.
Used to describe anything so convenient at the current time that it defeats the purpose of trying to figure out why it just happened to be there.
As the burglar neared ever closer, Amy grabbed the oh-so-convenient letter opener that for some reason was taped against the wall she was backed up on. Then, she stabbed wildly at him, and he fell to the floor.
With a grin stretching across her face, she drags the body to the well in her backyard (wtf?!) and pushes him in. It was then that we realize that that was no burgler —— that was another of her victims.
With a grin stretching across her face, she drags the body to the well in her backyard (wtf?!) and pushes him in. It was then that we realize that that was no burgler —— that was another of her victims.
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A: I bombed that final. I'm freaking out and ready to explode in frustration.
B: Chill out to some Kings of Convenience, then.
B: Chill out to some Kings of Convenience, then.
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"I guess I have a convenience crush on my lab partner, he smells kind of weird, but sometimes he does my homework and I see him like five times a week."
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