It is okay to be slightly "crazy" every once in a while, and we should cherish our crazy friends. Of course, they need to be harmless. What is considered "slightly crazy" depends a lot on the culture you live in, which makes the examples in this post somewhat limited, we cannot fully shake the Western view of life.
Very much outside our definition of slightly crazy, and thus inexcusable: They beat their children or their wives - unlike an NFL player, they go on a road rage spree, a drunk window smashing excursion or make life hard or impossible for people of a different skin color or ethnic origin.
Cooking way too much food for friends is fine, being messy is okay, rambling about everything and everybody is okay - though exhausting. Going Halloween or carnival crazy is generally accepted, although we are eagerly awaiting this year's installment of news reports along the lines "<school, church, organization> forbids Halloween costumes".
Other examples are the young woman who spends much of her night in front of a tricked out big screen computer playing World of Warcraft, or the friend who hit his head in an accident and has been afraid of the number 4 ever since.
The number 4, not 3 or 5 or any other, just 4.
As long as the friend realizes that he or she can be a little off or slightly crazy, all is well. The people the blogster distrusts or fears are those who won't admit to themselves that they, too, are a little crazy every not and then.
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