Has anyone ever actually called a friend at 3am?

I called my friend at around 3am in the morning to rescue me from the elephant on top of my wardrobe after drinking too much absinthe. She came round and removed the imaginary elephant. Now that friend.

My best friend called me early morning when her husband died she was distraught and I got my coat and went round still in my jammies.

ive also called said friend early doors think it was 5am forgetting it was that time to ask for her recipe on focaccia but she was already up thankfully.

we then would call each other at that time cos we’d be up anyways blethering having our first coffee of the day.

I rang a friend at 2:30/3am once as I'd just had my heart broken for the first time. We were 21 so who needed sleep anyway?

Same. I honestly can’t imagine what couldn’t wait until 6am to call about, break up wise

Delightful or not, I’ve been there and it isn’t life or death.

I will take calls at any time of the day or night from my adult children. I know them well enough to know if they call me at 2am, there’s a very good reason for it.

I rang my best friend at that sort of time when I'd walked out of my marriage and didn't know what to do next. Luckily he heard and answered. If he hadn't he would still have been my best friend, just not heard the phone.

You sound delightful.

Have phones dhs best friend at the back of 3 once when I haemorrhaged at 30 weeks, he was at my house within 3 minutes (bloody lucky he was a fireman). I would only do so in an absolute emergency. If one of my friends called at 3am it would genuinely worry me as its so unheard of.

Seriously? Her life as she knew it had just fallen apart

Yes. My best friend is my sister and I have called her in the early hours a few times over the years.

That would piss me off. A cheating husband is hardly a bloody life or death emergency.

Twice.
Both for emergencies when I needed dh to take me in to hospital (well, one was childbirth).

Never 'just for a natter'.
But unfortunately, I have been to more than one funeral of people who have taken their own life, and, quite frankly, if having someone to talk to at 3am would have in any way helped, then I would have been glad to have taken calls.

I know my adult ds has taken a call from his friend at that time, when his friend was in a particularly bad way. In that moment, it was massive, for his friend.

Not 3am but I once phoned a friend quite late at night because 111 were sending me to A&E because they thought I had an ectopic pregnancy and I was panicking. I'd already lost one pregnancy a year or so previously and I was really upset thinking I might be losing another. It wasn't an ectopic pregnancy, and she stayed with me for ages until I told her she should go home because she was shattered and had to drive. I could walk from the hospital to my flat in around 15 minutes. I phoned in sick to work as I was finally allowed to go home around 6am and was in no fit state to work. It was quite nice walking home at that time, although it was January.

I answered a 2am call last year from an old friend I wouldn’t ordinarily expect to hear from in the middle of the night. I was up feeding my newborn anyway so I decided to pick up in case he was in trouble and trying to get hold of anyone who would answer.

He was steaming drunk, on holiday and had decided to ring me to see how I was because his wife had had PND and he wanted to make sure I was feeling okay 🙈 he texted me the next morning to ask what he’d said because he saw my name in his call log and had no recollection of the conversation 😂

Poor execution, but I did appreciate the sentiment.

Yes, they were my birth partner and I had gone into labour!

We had a call off a friend last year at 4am. I was her birth partner, waters had broken.

I have three friends who I call my 4am friends. I’ve called one of them in the early hours. It helps that we’re all insomniacs.

I have had a friend call me at 4am in crisis. It was really hard to deal with as I was hours away, but I did what I could, and they are a true friend to me and i was glad to help. It was extremely stressful though.

I had another friend call me at 1am when someone she thought was breaking into her house. I advised her to lock herself in her bathrroom and phone the police.

I have called a friend at an unsocial hour and a friend had called me too, both in emergency/urgent situations. Luckily we heard the phone ring and answered.
I dont think everyone always has their phone on overnight or may not hear it and that understandable.
We have a running joke in our family that if we win the lottery jackpot we will ring (a list) of family and friends in the small hours,tell them we are in desparately in need of their help and could they come immediately and sit and wait (with champagne on ice) to see who turns up !

I once was phoned at 3am by a friend who had been confiding in me about her abusive husband. She rang with a voice trembling and said the police were already at the house could I go. I left immediately in my PJ with ugg boots rapidly pulled on I left a 12 year old and a 6 year fast asleep and drove 5 minutes to her house. I locked the door behind me.
I arrived and ambulance and 3 police cars were there. Her husband had attacked her not enough for hospital but the house was wrecked glass smashed everywhere and the police wanted her and the children to leave the house and I got her and the kids into my car. I got her children to bed and sleep in my bed (the promise of a snuggly Labrador was enough and promised them I would look after mummy) I went back downstairs and two officers then came and took statements whilst I made tea etc at 8 am I phoned work and told them I wasn’t coming in and took all 4 children to school in a mismatch of uniform. I then returned with her to her house and it was like a war zone - he had destroyed it radiators off the fridge freezer smashed up etc and he was in court by 10 am that morning. It was a long hard night. I would do that for anyone.

Genuine emergency fine. My friend was going through some really difficult stuff and struggling at night. I set my phone not to be silent for her number at night, and told her as much. Although she never actually used it.

Similarly 11pm call from neighbour with dying husband, I went straight next door and took the dog as requested.

A friend rang me at 3am years ago as she was distraught having just discovered her husband was having an affair. I was glad to have been there to listen to her in her time of need.

I hope noone does ring me at 3am. My phone is on silent all the time with no vibration. I probably wouldn't see it until the next day.

We’re often told on MN that unless a friend will pick up the phone and support you at 3am

Who on earth say's this? Not something I've ever seen on here. I've got plenty of friends I wouldn't dream of contacting at 3am. My two best friends I would, but thats about it. Doesn't mean the others aren't friends,, just not as close as family.