dude. i hate to say it but i don't agree with that at all. well i think it SHOULD be like that, but it isn't. i have a friend (female) who pulled the "i'm sorry, we're friends, if it wasn't like BAM! from the first time we met, then i'm not interested" on a friend of mine...that was SOOOOOOOO LAAAAAAME...(if you're reading this, i hope you know what you did was lame)
Wait no no no. Like you see I am not saying that being friends requires there being no sparks. Just a lot of people are so sparky at the beginning that it doesn't get them anywhere. A lot of rushers. Basically its not lame. You make friends and then sometimes it happens. Not, hey your hot, sparks fly boom boom boom. I have seen that way too many times to know that that usually ends up in tragedy. And regardless of it being lame it works well.