I've just had a history of making bad friendships, so I always become nervous around people. Of course not ALL of my friendships have been bad, but I've had a lot of "friendships" where I've gotten totally f***ed over. These people who you think are your friends are actually using you and talking s*** behind your back. That kinda thing.

I guess I'm "too nice" to people and I unknowingly put myself in a situation to get taken advantage of.

So it's like... I want friends, but then I don't want to have to deal with THAT again. It's happened in middle school, high school, and college. All different sets of "friends". Meh.

I like the meetup idea... possibly going to some software related things like jpb suggested. But that's the only thing I can really think of. I don't really want to join the local cycling clubs because those clubs are aimed at road cycling, whereas I like mountain biking. (I find road cycling a bit boring and repetitive.) I just have no one to go mountain biking with.