I wasn't Mr. Cool, or in the running for prom king, or the captain of the football team, or any of that. I wasn't rich, my first car was 13 years old. Yet I had a ton of friends who enjoyed hanging out with me. Hell, I'm the guy that showed up to prom with seven dates.
I suspect I can point to two things, I was always doing something that I thought was cool (and looking for a partner in crime), and I am one of the most kind hearted people that most of my friends say they have ever met.
Look at the DUmmies, were they building home-made rockets for a couple of weeks, then tearing apart a an old lawn mower and a R/C toy truck to try and make an R/C lawnmower? Does anyone here think that the DUmmies didn't hate everyone in their school who showed up with a newer car, or had friends, or was dating the "girl/guy they couldn't get"?
To mopaul: You want to know why that bully puched you in the nose and everyone laughed at you while you bled? You had been a jerk and a bully to everyone around you, they didn't like you because you made it obvious that you didn't like them. But even then, you could have saved a little face. You could have fought back, but instead you decided to be a little proto-emo and cry about it.