you only get one first impression

Friends are best kept close, but everyone knows it's your enemies who are better kept closer. Manipulating people is an art, it requires time, effort and a little self confidence, without these and practice you won't go anywhere. It is an art because not everyone can do it, and i don't mean the kind of manipulation that druggies use to beg for money for their next fix, or the kind that loser next door does to obtain a free fag/ fiver/ ride to the party...this kind of manipulation is that of the amatures, and it will never last, people aren't that thick, they catch on.

No, i mean the type of manipulation where by you make friends with people, purely on the benefits they can provide you with, for example i have a friend with a holiday house in thailand, cool if i need free acomo next time I'm traveling, and a friend who works in a designer handbag store with tasty discounts, and a friend who's boyfriend is well off and will quite literally keep the drinks coming on a night out. You see the art behind manipulation is to befriend the person whilst you don't need them because you never know how soon, but at some point they are going to come in handy...