I'm really curious how people found the great loves of their lives. It doesn't have to be your current significant other. You can talk about your former boyfriends or girlfriends if you like.
What brought this on? I just realized that out of the last five people I've dated, two of them were coworkers and three of them were my classmates. Clearly I need to meet more people beyond my usual circle. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
You asked. I'll take any excuse to post this. Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
*whines*
But Dags, I've read that already.
OK, it is just as cute the third time around. Posted by EarlNMeyer-Flask (Member # 1546) on :
I found her attached to my wrist when I was 14.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
So this is what is in explicit emails:
quote: "Hey. I'd like to talk to you. Can I call you sometime?"
Work stuff.
I met the man in the institute of religion lounge. The only thing he found attractive about me at first was that I was playing chess.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
It is, isn't it?
Jenni and I met, of all places, working together at Cracker Barrel, in Holyoke, MA.
I was a PAR 4 server/trainer and she was a part-time hostess.
Kinda funny, as I had always had a thing for keeping my work and my personal life (as far as dating, anyway) separate.
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Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Tony and I were introduced by a high school friend of mine.
Said friend knew Tony because she was at the time involved in a three-way relationship (herself, her girlfriend and the boy) with her ex-high school rowing coach, who was also Tony's rowing friend.
True story.
We tend to stick with "introduced by a mutual friend" when asked.
But we hit it off that night and a week later were inseperable. My friend rang the next day sounding slightly miffed: "I knew you'd get along, but I didn't expect you to get along that well!"
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
I met Raia in class and we became friends as the year progressed (we had a whole lot of mutual friends but hadn't really had much contact previously). There was a whole lot of Snafu around prom time. I got asked to prom by a girl who had a boyfriend becuase her boyfriend wouldn't be in town, and it was her senior prom and she needed someone to go with. Raia was going with our group with out a date. Then things changed and the other girls boyfriend was going to be in town for prom after all, so I convinced her to go with him instead (yes it did take a little convincing , I 'm not sure he really wanted to go ). Then when prom rolled around and I got a chance I offered to be Raia's 'date'. We had an awesome time that night, at one point we sat on a swing bench quoting Monty Python back forth to each other for an hour straight and laughing hysterically. We must have gone through the entirety of Holy Grail and much of Life of Brian, much to the horror of some of our friends. By the next weekend we were going out, and have been going out ever since Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
Icarus and Cor planned a trip to New Jersey, invited anyone who could to join them in Atlantic City, and I was among those folks who ventured out.
It was primarily GreNMEtics, plus my sister and a friend, and I met Strider. We hung out, stayed near each other, hit it off in that "shy, quiet, I like you but I don't know what to say" kind of way, then parted ways.
But we started IMing (we knew each other, also, from the Matrix Mafia game that had been on GreNME right before that - i was his Godfather!) and just...talked a lot. And i remember he went away for a weekend (we'd only been talking a little) and he wrote me an email letting me know he wouldn't be online. I thought that was so considerate and so unbelievably sweet.
Then we were talking one night, maybe two weeks later, and he bites the bullet and says he digs me.
And almost two years later, we're living together, have five ferrets and two cats, and couldn't be happier
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Here.
Hobbes Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I came along with my best friend, his cousin, to visit him on a road trip. I met him at his front door. Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
Just shows that some good came of it, Geoff...not trying to be insensitive, or boorish by saying that either. It just goes to show you, you never know when it will happen.
I avoided my wife, who had a very obvious crush on me, for almost a year because she reminded me of someone....adn I remember wondering if I should, because I wasn't sure I was ready to date.
I guess I was.
I remember talking to you when I first came here to Hatrack, and you telling us about her, a little bit.
I didn't know anything about your brother, though.
Kwea
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
ldsfriends.org. Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I think it is cool when your significant other already has a great rapport with your family.
By the time I returned home from the Philippines (and had no clue that Porter wanted to marry me) my whole family was rooting for him. I remember hearing later that my Dad asked his advice on whether or not he should give me one of their vehicles to use at college. I think the implied question was, "Do you have a car that you could use to drive my daughter around?"
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Beren, I think you have enough proof that it can happen anywhere, any time. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
That's cool.
Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
In a nut shell. We met at church. He and another guy were asked to come be a witness because there was a couple that was making out in a classroom. It was my sister and her boyfriend. I laughed and we started talking.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
quote:Beren, I think you have enough proof that it can happen anywhere, any time.
This is going to save me a ton of money on bar tabs.
Keep the Meet Cutes coming. Annie will come in and hand out prizes. Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
We first met in the dinner line at the Deseret Towers cafeteria at BYU. She turned around and asked me if I would like to have dinner with her. That was in fall 1995.
We next met at the staff recruitment meeting for the Aspen Grove family camp up on Mt. Timpanogos just above Sundance. That was in early 1996. I ended up starting work there a month before she did, and I anxiously awaited her arrival. We were an item all summer.
In February 1999 we met again, this time at her front door. She opened the door and my heart melted. We got married about a year later.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
Andrew and I met when I took his summer class.
Yes, I got an A, but I earned it and he didn't ask me out until my grade was in and I was no longer enrolled at that college (I took summer classes there b/c it was much, much cheaper and the credits transferred).
Still, we keep that on the DL in the academic world.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
I downloaded a program of his on 3 June 2003 and had problems using it. I posted questions at his website (6 June 2003), he responded. I still had problems, I posted more questions on his forums (14 June 2003), he responded with the offer to help me personally. Then we started chatting as he helped me figure stuff out.
I left Canada 12 August 2003, where we met for the first time in person on 15 August 2003 at about 1:45am, kissed at the airport until we were told to get out of the way, and were married 8 hours later.
Hmm. A little more than you were looking for, but there it is.
[ February 18, 2005, 01:59 AM: Message edited by: quidscribis ]
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
That is such a romantic story, quid. A little nuts, but romantic. Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
"Hmm. A little more than you were looking for, but there it is."
No no no. I WANT details, especially when the story is so awesome. Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
We were in the same freshman ward at BYU. Sounds typical, but there's a twist. He dated one of my friends for the whole year, while I dated another boy in the ward. We were both rather exclusive and serious in our prospective relationships. However, when he was gone on his mission, she got married. And my boy came home this summer and met a girl from his hometown. They got married over Christmas break. Crazy old world. I've been dating Paul now for 5 months (to the day, even go figure), and it's been wonderful.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
um, nowhere.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
dag,
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
quote: That is such a romantic story, quid. A little nuts, but romantic.
Um, yeah, it was a little nuts. I fully admit that. However, I also add that both hubby and I are a little nuts, so it suits.
And Dag, yeah, that was really really cute. Glad you posted it. Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
nerdfest 2004
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I met my husband at a party my senior year of college. He came in wearing jeans with hole in the knees, with long underwear poking through, and I lost my heart. This was before cut jeans with pretend long underwear poking through was in fashion. He still takes credit for that fashion. Basically, I asked him his sign, commandeered a ride home, and then asked if he wanted to see my room. I was very subtle.
Edit: It is estimated that 60% of students at my college marry alumni of the college. Kinda scary, that.
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Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
I met my hubby 17 years ago at Roy Roger's. I was the drive-thru girl and he worked down the street and ate there almost every day. I hid behind the fry station while another girl told him I thought he was cute. He came back that night and asked me out. He took me to see "Rocky Horror". I was so impressed because he was in college and I was just a high school senior. It only took me 14 years to get him down the aisle! Now we're happily married with our 4 month old daughter. Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I like to say that Diane and I met in Kevorkian's front yard.
But that's not quite true. We met a day or two before that.
We met when I was the first person to show up for NDY's first protest action. When she rolled up, I asked her if there was anything I could do to help. I ended up selling tshirts.
For some reason, that impressed her. Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Hatrack.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Bar tabs, Beren? I'm shocked!
Of course, this would include bars with pool tables, no?
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Hmm, let's see. My husband Paul and I actually met in an IRC channel #sinfest on the Sorcery server, to be specific. He noticed me because, unlike all the other females in the room, I wasn't attention-whoring around, I just said "Hi" when he came in the room and then went quiet. He PMed me and said "Hey, you awake?" We started talking, before I knew it we were talking for a couple of hours every day, and a few months later I flew up to Wisconsin at my semester break to meet him (I know, I know, immensely stupid in retrospect. But I had a cloth bag full of marbles in my luggage so I could whack him if I needed to). A few months after that, he was no longer happy with his living situation there, so he came down to Indiana to live with me. That was in June 2001, and while we've had our share of rough times, we're doing great now.
My other sweetie, Brian, I met on Emode, which I believe is now known as Tickle. That was back in October of 2003; I don't remember if his profile showed up in my "recommended matches" folder or if he messaged me first, but I clicked on his profile name and was rewarded with a photo of a jaw-droppingly gorgeous man and a profile saying "polyamorous computer geek seeking same." After some chatting, he and his girlfriend came down and had dinner with me and my husband, he and I hit it off really well, and we've been dating ever since.
My other "significant other" I'm not sure if I should call her such, as our relationship isn't really romantic or sexual in nature. I met her in the summer of 2004, at my knitting group. She came into the cafe on a Sunday afternoon when almost no one else had shown up besides me, and we ended up chatting away for three straight hours while we sipped coffee and knitted. We had tons in common and liked each other right away. She was currently in the process of leaving a very unhappy relationship, and while the thought entered my mind that I'd love for her and Paul to get together, I didn't want to push her into anything she wasn't ready for. A few months later, though, they ended up "hooking up" on their own, which made me super happy They've been dating since October, and recent circumstances have led to her moving in with us for a few months. This was not in the plan, we were planning on doing this after a year or two if things continue to go well, but she ran into some bad luck and needed a place to stay for a while, so here she is. Though the situation isn't quite ideal (our place is just a tad too small to give everyone their own space), we're making the best of it, and though I know she's not happy with her employment situation, I'm selfishly enjoying having her around and I'll be sorry when she eventually does move to her own place. So even though she and I aren't really "significant others" according to its traditionally understood meaning, we're very dear friends who share a husband, so I figure it qualifies.
Wow, that was long. I guess these explanations can get complicated with poly relationships
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Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I met my husband in the Estate of Unrest in Everquest. Do I win for "Most Geeky"?
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Cute awards, eh? That's tough. So far, Quid gets one, but then again, I've always liked that story.
Posted by AntiCool (Member # 7386) on :
I'm really surprised that beverly didn't post it, but here's the whole story for those who are interested.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote: Do I win for "Most Geeky"?
Only if you married him on Everquest before meeting him in person.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Tom: He was a woman in Everquest. While I support same sex marriage, I don't practice it.
So No. I guess I lose ::sniff::
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
My boyfriend and I were assigned seats next to each other in sophomore English. I recall being very upset because I hadn't been seated near anyone I knew, and instead was next to this boy I'd never seen before. Of course, then I'd learned that he'd fallen down a mountain with my brother the summer before on a bike trip, which made for a bond. We went out that summer, but it didn't work. We started going out seriously the next May, and have been going out ever since. It'll be two years this May.
For our first Christmas he gave me a Tai Chi sword, how great is that?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"He was a woman in Everquest."
Okay, so maybe HE can win "most geeky." Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
In high school. My junior year, her sophomore. My best friend was interested in her best friend so we all hung together. Teres was with a guy that wasn't treating her very well -- ignoring her, that sort of thing, even though he plainly liked her -- so we started spending time with her to make him jealous. It worked. he broke up with her. However, by this time she realized she was having more fun hanging around us then she was with him, so as soon as she told me he broke up with her I asked her to go with me, and she said yes.
Let's see, that'll be... 23 years ago March 17.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
At church. We were both greeters. We greeted each other. And God saw that it was good. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Israel.
I was a grad student, and he had taken a trip to Israel to reward himself after finishing his PhD. We met through a mutual acquaintance at the university campus, dated for the 8 weeks he was in Israel, and eventually decided we wanted to be together.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I may have the steal the "geekiest" prize from you, Pixiest. I met my husband in a MUD (which is like an all-text everquest, for those of you who aren't familiar with the concept). We did, in fact, get mud-married before we met IRL. We talked for about 2 or 3 months, at which point he asked to come down to Atlanta to meet me. He met me and my parents (who absolutely insisted that he stay with them...so that they could "keep an eye" on him) at the same time (poor guy).
It may be cliche, but it was love at first sight. He actually asked me to marry him that night. (I will say, though, that while I didn't say no, I didn't say yes, either--it was more along the lines of, "Hey, thanks...but why don't we get to know each other in person a bit better first?")
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Hmmm... my RL name is Megan... And we both got married to guys we met on MUDs (EQ is nothing but a graphical MUD).
The world is a strange place.
Posted by John Van Pelt (Member # 5767) on :
Sharpie and I met on ISC (Internet Scrabble Club) in early 2002. ISC is a graphical interface for online Scrabble, and includes a chat interface for players and kibbitzers. Her handle was Marsh, and her profile gave away no personal information, so it was many months before I even knew her gender -- I knew a guy at my local scrabble club named Marshall, and for some reason this influenced me to lean toward believing she was male.
Mostly we just played, and found our competitive level very similar. Increasingly, our chat went beyond pleasantries to good-natured jibes, wordplay, and banter. Marsh often made me laugh, and responded to me wonderfully. Quickly Marsh was my favorite opponent and we would encounter each other almost daily.
It is not insignificant to me that I had already formed a very strong sense of compatibility, liking, and respect before knowing her gender. This is but one aspect of this age of online relationships.
Leaving out a few major details which will have to wait their turn to see the light of Hatrack -- we first met in person at a Scrabble tournament, more than a year after first meeting online ... even then, I told myself I was mostly interested in putting a face to a name (I was very distracted by personal stresses at the time) but afterwards it was clear that our brief hello and hug had been inadequate. I wanted to know this woman better!
The 450 miles between us is only one of the obstacles we've faced, but to cut a long story a bit shorter, we've been dating since June 2003, and I'm now working on moving away from New England to be closer to her, with the eventual goal of being together forever.
As soon as possible is not going to be soon enough. And this account is far too dry for what has been a transforming relationship. We were made for each other.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
My husband and I met at church. He and a friend of his came up after the meeting and introduced themselves to me and we all talked for a bit. A week or two later, John came up and talked to me again, inviting me to a church activity that week. I'm not a social person and so I tried using the excuse that my mother and I were sharing a car at the moment, so I didn't know if I would be attending or not. So, of course, he offered to pick me up. He got to my house early and spent about 15 minutes talking to my parents while I was showering/getting dressed. I was a little worried about the weirdness of him talking to my parents before we ever really even got to know each other very well, but it didn't phase him at all. I think we ended up spending about 6 or 8 hours together that night. After that we spent part of almost every day together until we got married about 10 months later.
[ February 18, 2005, 12:47 PM: Message edited by: ludosti ]
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Juliette and I were in my high school's production of Little Shop of Horrors my junior year (her sophomore year). At the time, she liked me but I liked her friend, who didn't like me. Then Juliette got a boyfriend and I got a girlfriend and we didn't think about each other much at all. The following year we were in Witness for the Prosecution together, at which point she had already broken up with her boyfriend and I was just about to break up with my girlfriend. (We were going to break up anyway, but Juliette being in the picture probably sped things up by a month or so.) I liked her, she liked me, but unfortunately my younger brother also liked her. In fact, we got in a fist fight in front of her, which I lost. While that was quite embarassing for me, she still liked me, and we started dating shortly afterward. In the interim my brother has forgiven me and, apparently, has all but forgotten that he ever had a crush on her at all.
I was actually kind of a turd for the first year we were together, especially the first couple of months. I've no idea why she stayed with me, but I'm glad she did.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
quote:I may have the steal the "geekiest" prize from you, Pixiest. I met my husband in a MUD (which is like an all-text everquest, for those of you who aren't familiar with the concept). We did, in fact, get mud-married before we met IRL. We talked for about 2 or 3 months, at which point he asked to come down to Atlanta to meet me. He met me and my parents (who absolutely insisted that he stay with them...so that they could "keep an eye" on him) at the same time (poor guy).
Megan, mind if I inquire which MUD? Wouldn't, by anychance, have been MUME would it?
Posted by DocCoyote (Member # 5612) on :
Met my SOs online. Been together for 9 years.
We corresponded for 2 months, then met in Nashville for a weekend, then decided it was right and joined up. That was in late 1995.
Pixiest: I lost my SOs to EQ. We have 3 computers in the house, and they're generally logged into Seventh Hammer, unless the kids are playing. We spend more time thinking about Norrath than Colorado.
Lisa
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Xavier and I are an offical Hatrack couple.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
"Of course, this would include bars with pool tables, no?"
I don't know Shan. Do you have some kinky fetish for pool tables?
I love reading these stories people. They fill my bleak and barren life with hope. Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
this thread has been helping to get me in the mood for my 4 year anniversary! any more stories?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
quote:The world is a strange place.
Indeed! ...maybe we're actually the same person!
How do you pronounce your name? Mine is a little odd (with a long e--Meeeeegan).
Alcon, it was a MUD called Aardwolf; I haven't played it in years, as it was starting to be overrun by little thirteen-year-old boys who spoke in l337 and said things like, "will u marry me so I cn c ur boobeez?????!??!?!?!"
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
You pronounce your name Meegan? Interesting, I've never heard that before.
But don't worry, nobody ever pronounces my name right first time! Not Raia, but Shani... my real name.
And I completely verify Alcon's SO story.
I met my first one on Hatrack, but I'm not a good example of a Hatrack SO success story, I guess, since I'm now with someone else! I guess I could say that the previous SO's current fiancee was met online, and happens to be a close friend of mine, so I have some connection somewhere, though not sure where...
I'll figure it out and let you know. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I think I would probably say "Shah -- nee"; is that close?
As for the "Meegan" thing, it's Welsh. Most people have either never heard of it, or respond with, "Oh, I once knew a girl who pronounced her name that way..."
I also occasionally get, "Meegan? That's weird. ...are you pronouncing your name wrong on purpose?"
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Megan -- that's my most common answer.
It's close, but the emphasis is on the second syllable, rather than the first... "Sha-NEE," or even "Shuh-NEE." I don't really know how else to describe it online! It has the same rhythm as "capri" or "Marie," if that helps.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Ok, cool. I'll bear that in mind if we ever happen to be in Bloomington at the same time. Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Hehe... sounds cool! Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
A kinky fetish for pool tables . . . hmmm, nope.
I just like beating the pants off the tough guys that think I can't play 'cause I'm a girl.
(Double entendre NOT intended, but amusing nonetheless.)
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
double entendre?? Where? *looks for it* I don't see it...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I think it's "beating the pants off" Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :
Paul and I met here on Hatrack three years ago.
We didn't really talk to each other on or off the forums for the first six months, but then one day I remember reading one of his posts and reflecting on his others and thinking, "Hey, he must be a very nice and interesting man to get to know well". So, I randomly IMed him looking for a little intelligent conversation and within a week or so we were talking to each other online for at least an hour each day. A few months later we spent our first phone call talking straight until morning. Thus, six months after we first started talking we became a couple, and two months later he proposed to me the day before he left for Iraq. Two years after that and here we are today: we met in person for the first time a year ago (after Iraq), he's in Germany for just under the next three years, I'm entering my first year of college in the fall, and a wedding is being planned for two years from now.
[ February 19, 2005, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: Pixie ]
Posted by Fishtail (Member # 3900) on :
Since this is still on the first page, I figure it's not too late to jump in...
I met my now-fiance at a springtime "chocolate & champagne" party hosted by the college buddy of one of my co-workers. It was an annual party that I'd attended 2 of the previous 3 years I'd lived in the area. The fourth year was going to be my last chance, as I was moving overseas that summer...so even though I wasn't feeling particularly sociable that night, I decided to go anyway.
It just so happened that the host of the party had recently found another college buddy of his, and invited her to the party. She attended, but since her long-time S.O. wasn't interested in such shindigs, she brought another of her friends--a handsome redhead. Since I'd come to a couple of the previous parties, I knew I hadn't seen him before, and told him so, and we got to talking. (That's how I found out he wasn't "with" the lady he'd been escorting, so I knew I wasn't poaching!) We talked for 2.5 of the 3 hours we spend at the party, and at the end I gave him my number. He called me the next afternoon. I made him wait nearly 3 weeks for the first date, but we've been an item ever since.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Now how did I miss this the first time around?
Megan wrote:
quote: Indeed! ...maybe we're actually the same person!
How do you pronounce your name? Mine is a little odd (with a long e--Meeeeegan
The normal way. Like a million Ns. Mega with an N. In fact I once had a .sig that was just NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN but no one got it =(
Anyway, on this board there's another Megan and another Pixie. I'm losing my uniqueness. (uh oh.. here come the snarky comments...)
Pix
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
*bump*
Cause I like this thread.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
College. It was love at first sight. Well, at least "OMG he's so cute!" at first sight. Twice, because by the second time I met him, the first time had slipped my mind.
Still, I firmly believe we had a crimson thread.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
We sang in the same choir. Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :
Ahem. at a goth club.
No, really. Which means we both have larger-than-average black wardrobes. Neither of us consider ourselves goth at all, mind you. It's mostly the clothes.
Posted by Father Time (Member # 7985) on :
Father Time met Mother Nature in God's house. She was a heavenly vision. Since that moment, time has stood still.
Posted by seespot (Member # 7388) on :
My husband and I were both serving LDS missions in Utah of all places. He went home very soon after I started, so we wrote for a year. I was from Arizona and he, from Miami. We like to say that God had to work very hard to get us together. I was NEVER going to Miami and he was NEVER leaving Florida.
We also like to say that we would date on our Preperation Day and our companions never knew. . .
Posted by Father Time (Member # 7985) on :
Father Time met Mother Nature at God's house. She was a heavenly vision--and time has stood still for him ever since.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I'm confused.
Posted by KPhysicsGeek (Member # 8655) on :
I met my wife in college. We lived on the same floor her freshman (my sophmore) year. She had a Star Trek Calendar and Gummy Bears. It wasn't quite love at first sight but it was pretty close.
Posted by Miriya (Member # 7822) on :
My husband and I met in university. We both were taking Differential Caluclus and when we showed up the lecture was in some sort of computational theory (4th year comp sci.) It turned out the the class we wanted had been moved to a different lecture hall and none of the students had been notified but the ones who took that prof's previous class. There were about 30 of us standing in the hall looking bewildered.
In the subsequent wandering around campus confused we both ended up at the Math dept. office. There was an extremely irate student giving the secretary hell about our situation. It was actually pretty funny so I looked across the hall at my then unknown husband and smiled. He smiled back and the rest as they say is history.
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
i guess this is an appropriate time to post in here since my 2-year anniversary with my gf is this friday (oct 14).
We met at a party i was having at my house when my biggest dork friend said he knew a couple girls he could call (and that he had met one of them on the internet and this was the first in person meeting). the two girls came over right as i had come out of the shower to the laundry room to get some clean clothes on. No i wasnt naked; i had a towel on. This is also the first time my gf ever saw me. The next time i saw her was in the college town of Athens, GA (UGA), at one of my friend's houses. He was trying his best to flirt with her and was failing miserably, and i ended spending the night on his couch with her. We started dating about a couple weeks later and have had a great relationship ever since.
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
i forgot to mention that my "friend" who introduced my gf to me also had a huge crush on her, but was very shy in nature around girls. After it was known that i was dating her, he never spoke to me again and moved from about a block away, to about an hour away from me. before i met my gf he was probably one of my closest friends. i had known him for about 4 years.
Wait, he did talk to me before i was actually dating my gf tho. He kept telling me that she was a big slut, and tell her that i was fat and an asshole. in the end i guess i am happier not having someon like that for a friend anymore, but it definently hurt to have a close friend just hate you and then fall of the face of the earth as far as you are concerned.
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
Earl, - "I found her attached to my wrist when I was 14."
ROFLMAO
I met my boyfriend of 4 years in high school, 14 years ago. We've been off and on for 14 years, wow. This time it looks like it will stick.
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
I met my wife when she came over to propose to my roommate in the middle of winter in a swimsuit and towel.
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kwea: It is, isn't it?
Jenni and I met, of all places, working together at Cracker Barrel, in Holyoke, MA.
I was a PAR 4 server/trainer and she was a part-time hostess.
Kinda funny, as I had always had a thing for keeping my work and my personal life (as far as dating, anyway) separate.
*shudders* I have bad memories of working at Cracker Barrel.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cactus Jack: I met my wife when she came over to propose to my roommate in the middle of winter in a swimsuit and towel.
That story deserves a LOT more telling.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
All right, Beren - stop holding out on us. Who is she? I seem to recall you were on your way out the door to a date a few weeks back. Spill the beans - come on . . .
Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
This was a fun thread to catch up on. I love a good meeting story.
I met my hubby, Tim, on an internet dating site called Matchmaker. I joined after my brother gave me a free trial on the site (which is where he met his wife too).
I sent Tim an email first since I liked the cute pic of him holding his cat and the witty answers to the questions on his profile. He claimed that he was new to town (true) and wasn't really interested in meeting someone serious (true until he met me). We IMed for a week or two and I had met another guy from the same site and would talk to Tim about our dates so he could give me guy advice. The other guy was sending huge mixed signals and I was sick of him after just a few dates; besides the fact that I was smitten with Tim. I didn't have a scanner or a digital camera so I had no way at the time to get a picture on my profile and Tim was afraid to meet me. I am not sure what he was all that scared of, since he is not really that shallow. Anyway, things fizzled out with the other guy in a way that made me want to stop dating for a while so I agreed to meet Tim and his friend "as friends" to play some pool. There was HUGE chemistry and we have been together ever since. We have been married for more than three years now. Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
My wife and I met at BYU Hawaii about 10 months before my mission. It was summer and she was working on the cleaning crew that was cleaning my dorm while it was (mostly) empty. It was love at first sight, for me anyway. We got married 3 weeks after I got home from my mission. 30 years later it's better than ever!
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Shan, I would never cheat on my internet wife and fall in love with some real life woman. Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Beren, dearheart, I would never expect you to remain perfectly faithful to your internet wife. You live much too far away . . .
And what a pity it is, too . . . Such a handsome, well-educated, witty man you are . . .
*sigh*
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
With compliments like that how can I NOT remain faithful?
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#sinfest on the Sorcery server, to be specific. He noticed me because, unlike all the other females in the room, I wasn't attention-whoring around, I just said "Hi" when he came in the room and then went quiet. He PMed me and said "Hey, you awake?" We started talking, before I knew it we were talking for a couple of hours every day, and a few months later I flew up to Wisconsin at my semester break to meet him (I know, I know, immensely stupid in retrospect. But I had a cloth bag full of marbles in my luggage so I could whack him if I needed to). A few months after that, he was no longer happy with his living situation there, so he came down to Indiana to live with me. That was in June 2001, and while we've had our share of rough times, we're doing great now.![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Xavier and I are an offical Hatrack couple.
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