First best friend when she stole from my house, which she and her husband and DC regularly visited and stopped over at for long weekends as we lived in a popular touristy area. When I asked her if she'd accidentally packed the said items which were on my dressing table she said she would post them back, but then couldn't remember my full address and then when she finally did get around to eventually posting them, they never arrived. She got very defensive and blamed the postman. After that we didn't have them stay as often, and when we moved away she never kept in contact - seems we were used as a free B&B. I found out from a mutual friend she had form for lying.
Second best friend and ex colleague turned out to be a self centered narcissistic bitch. She had form for regularly falling out with her friends, these friendships ending because of her selfishness. I was warned about her by mutual friends, and was one of her few friends left who believed her and that she was a sweet, kind person. How wrong I was. Long story but after I had moved away I had a horrible text from her a week later saying that "I can't be bothered to wait for you to invite me to visit and I need to make new friends, so am meeting a new group of friends tomorrow" She knew at the time that I was still surrounded by boxes, that the move had been very difficult and there were some problems with the new house but that we would see each other as soon as possible.
This is the same friend who when I had a bereavement 6 months earlier suggested meeting for coffee. The coffee shop was playing loud Christmas music, I was sat there grieving and she was completely oblivious to this. She didn't offer me any sympathy or support, the whole conversation was about her and her problems. We finally left the coffee shop to have a look around the shops. She wanted to go into Ann Summers and couldn't understand why I didn't feel up to it.
She also advised me a few months earlier to have my new puppy pts when she had an upset tummy as "it doesn't seem fair to keep it".
Third best friend I'd been best friends since school. There had been a few things I'd always overlooked like always paying for meals out as she always pleaded poverty (but told me she'd spent hundreds on her new tv and a new haircut), never paying borrowed money back as she "needs it more than you do". Friendship effectively ended the night she got extremely drunk, kept sitting on my DH's knee and kept loudly proclaiming that I was "boring", "a bitch because I am pretty and have lost lots of weight" and because DH and I "can afford to take 6 holidays a year" (latter not true).
These days I have no-one and although it sometimes makes me sad, at least I won't be used as a free meal ticket or free B&B anymore. Lesson learnt. 