Foo - How did you meet your significant other?

Just curious.... Id like to hear stories!

The other SO: On a month long island hopping cruise/vacation on my buddies sailboat. We were arguing by the third day...

First day of work; went to lunch with receptionist and her friend. I thought the friend worked a couple floors down, instead she worked with us. Had a crush on her ever since. Since I don't normally date work people it was a year later that we ended up going to the movies and dating and courting and getting engaged and getting married and all is yippee yeehaw still.

I met my better half back in the summer of 1988 when I was juggling in the park with a local juggling club. Gail (my now wife) was unicycling across the road, with one broken arm in a cast and the other carrying her juggling equipment. It was love at first sight ... at least from me. I think it took a bit of time for Gail to warm up to me. We started dating in 1989 and were married in 1991. Secret to our success is to find things that we both enjoy. Biking is a natural!

Wait....you have to tell us first, Ranger. *wink wink*

She picked me up at a bar.

Haven't had a girlfriend since high school (class of 04). We met in science class.

Helping a mutual friend move. A few manly displays of strength and a quart of margaritas later...:love:

We were married 22 months later. :eek: You women folk sure sneak up on a fella.

My significant other? Which one??

:D

Haven't had a girlfriend since high school (class of 04). We met in science class.



Ahhh. so THAT's the problem, huh? :D

My significant other? Which one??

:D
Tell us about all of them. One at a time. :D

Wait... them is third person plural. I mean all of us. :lol:

No girlfriend at the moment. But if history is any guide, my future relationship most likely will be (A) someone who caught my attention at first sight--most likely in some sort of nerdy setting (school, research, science competition, etc)--and (B) someone whose affection I don't pursue until quite a while later. There's been one exception to (A) where two years of subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) flirting finally got my attention. (Still took two years after that before I did much about it.) And one exception to (B) where someone simply seduced me.

Well, I ordered Olga online. Gave my credit card and she's apparently being shipped right over. That was 3 months ago. ****ing DHS. They always lose my packages. Oddly, my credit card was maxed out soon after that. I keep meaning to get around to finding out why. Oh well. C'mon, Olga, when are you comming home?

I was flipping through the catalog, sizing up all the choices, trying to decide which one I wanted the most. I knew this was an expensive proposition, a decision not to be made lightly. I gazed upon a slim, black beauty and knew that my choice had been made for me. Carbon fiber it would be...



Oh wait, you were talking about something else, weren't you? (sound of hand smacking forehead)


(Edit: The really sad thing? I didn't see explody pup's post before writing my own. I guess truly warped minds do think alike.)

I'm not putting a response in this thread...even from afar. Nope.

I'm not putting a response in this thread...even from afar. Nope.
Maybe in a few weeks? :p

Summer school at University of California at Santa Cruz. (Go banana slugs!)

I'm not putting a response in this thread...even from afar. Nope.

Aww, come on, boyfriend! Tell them about you and me!

:love:

ninja250.net forums. Was thinking about getting a bike, posted a few times, then made that fateful click on the "classifieds" link. Hmm: close, right age, low mileage. Met Ryuu a few weeks later and brought him home. If only he didn't need a valve adjustment I would have ridden him long and hard as soon as I got home.

I am currently enjoying a fling in Hawaii. His name is Scott Tinley Tri-lite. I've always been partial to yellow.

took one look in the mirror, and it was downhill from there. damn stalkers...

On BF. Whoops.

On BF. Whoops.

OMG, me too!!!! :eek: PM me, and we'll exchange stories!

The world is a freaky place, sometimes....

We met in the San Diego State University Band. We were friends for about a year before we started going together. I always say that our "official" beginning was when I brought her a cupcake with two candles in it for her 20th birthday (hey, I was broke back then, and cakes don't fit on motorcycles!). Interestingly, our paths had crossed many times before, but we never met.

As a matter of fact, today is our 25th wedding anniversary! :)

I wa riding my bike when I tried to avoid a banana peal someone carelessly left on the road, it came too quick and I slipped, which had me landing over my handle bars.. out of nowhere was this very tall, dark and handsome runner who in slow motion put his arms up and catch me right before I landed on the sand, I was chewing gum that day and I had choked on it by all of my surprise, he slide his finger down my throat to retrive it but his finger was too big ( he was such a huba huba big men) therefore leaving him no choice to used his tongun to retrive the gum, once retrived he continued this technique once or twice just to help me regain conciousness.. I open my eyes and he was carrying me now fisinhing his run so I could see the beautiful trails.... awwww love....

I met her in a club... down in old SoHo. Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola

We met from TrailCentral.com we were just going to ride with eachother, he pursued me for like 8 months cause I was seeing an IDIOT and was BLIND. I allowed him to take me out to dinner and it was like magic. We clicked so well. We both had the love for the same thing etc. Its almost been a year now and its been great. We have traveled to lots of new places, I've been able to experience things I didn't think were possible. :)

Aww, come on, boyfriend! Tell them about you and me!

:love:

Shhhhhh! We met under a bridge.:p

I met her in a club... down in old SoHo. Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola

C-O-L-A, Cola?

Here's my tale of romance and wooing....

Met the future Mrs CyLowe97 through mutual friends back in 1999. Quite random. My buddy and his wife were heading down into Chicago to meet up with friends of hers from college. I was along just to keep my friend from getting bored to death as three college friends were going to hang out. My wife, who went to high school with one of the college friends, was along, as well. We didn't really talk much, but she mentioned she was looking for a place in the city, where she had found a job in the Loop. I mentioned she should check out Ukrainian Village (where I was living at the time) and I gave her my number in case she wanted a walking tour of the 'hood. A few weeks later she called me and we met up to walk the area on up to Wicker Park. Chilled out on the patio at the Pontiac Cafe, browsed around at Myopic Books, and then walked home. We hit it off pretty well, so met up for a cheapo dinner/movie date (Portillos/"The Sixth Sense") a week later and have been together ever since.

BTW, I do know a few people who have met their spouses through eHarmony.

Wrong number. Yes, I know - so stupid and yet I live. :lol:

It was 1967. I was 16 years old and had just gotten kicked out of a Catholic seminary. I was at a dance when a friend told me that he had met a girl he wanted to dance with but she had a frend with her and he didn't want to leave the friend alone.

I helped him out by entertaining the friend the rest of the evening. I found out that she lived just a couple of blocks from me. I walked her home that night and we have been together ever since. We will celebrate our 36th anniversary this December.

BTW, I do know a few people who have met their spouses through eHarmony.

I work with a guy whose ex-wife met the guy she left him for on E-Harmony.

I work with a guy whose ex-wife met the guy she left him for on E-Harmony.

YIKES, thats alittle weird.

I work with a guy whose ex-wife met the guy she left him for on E-Harmony.

BTW, I've never been on eHarmony's site. It seems wrong for a married person to be posting personals and filling out profiles. That's like playing with fire.

I work with a guy whose ex-wife met the guy she left him for on E-Harmony.


Wow.

There was this little sister of a friend in high school. Tall, thin, waist-length wavy blond hair. She was a babe. Twenty years later I had been married and divorced. A friend knew of her and told me she was divorced too. The friend set up a dinner at their house for us to see each other. She was still tall, thin and had halfway-down-the-back wavy blond hair. Still a babe. We'll be married ten years next May. Going to celebrate it in Key West.

SB

I used to volunteer with a Stranded Marine Mammal Network. They needed help with a fundraising/awareness both. My wife was the first one to show up, and the only one that was on time. She was about to leave when I finally showed up. During the course of the day I added to my wonderful first impression by spilling... excuse me, launching her drink from the table. And I almost fell alseep once, but someone woke me up. My wife asked why I was so tired. When I told her that I just came my beach house in Sargent.... Her eyes lit up. From there we actually had something to talk about.


And it still took me about 4 weeks for me to figure out that she was flirting with me.

As a matter of fact, today is our 25th wedding anniversary! :)
Happy anniversary!

Well, I ordered Olga online. Gave my credit card and she's apparently being shipped right over. That was 3 months ago. ****ing DHS. They always lose my packages. Oddly, my credit card was maxed out soon after that. I keep meaning to get around to finding out why. Oh well. C'mon, Olga, when are you comming home?
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Ask me in another 1/4 of a century and i might have a story to tell.
Aww who am I kidding. I got nothing.

I work with a guy whose ex-wife met the guy she left him for on E-Harmony.
The grass is greener on the other side of the fence?

Happy anniversary!
Yep. Several people celebrating long term anniversaries. Congratulations to all of them :)

My dad's group at work was having a happy hour at a bar in Northern Virginia and he told me I should show up because there was someone he thought I might like. I showed up and went to their table and everyone was drinking crappy yellow beer except one person. She was drinking dark beer. I said, "Whatcha drinkin?" I got what she was having. We were engaged 6 months later. Married 9+ years now. Funny thing is my dad said he didn't really expect us to last more than a week or two.

Beer. Getting people together since 1997. ;)

Beer. Getting people together since 1997. ;)
:roflmao:

Happy anniversary!

Thanks jschen!

I hear the first 25 years are the hardest...

:D

The grass is greener on the other side of the fence?

She left Paul with two little kids and moved in with the guy in Ft. Rucker, Alabama. He and the kids are much better off without her. He should have known better than to marry a stripper... er, exotic dancer, anyway.

Whoa... a million posts since I have been back! Such diverse stories!

Anyone ever met at a grocery store? I always heaard whata great place to meet people it is, but have never known anyone to actually meet there.

Whoa... a million posts since I have been back! Such diverse stories!

Anyone ever met at a grocery store? I always heaard whata great place to meet people it is, but have never known anyone to actually meet there.
I have met many a fine fruits and vegetable at the super market. Grocery stores are for wimps.

I went to a meeting of the International Club at the start of the sophmore year because free food was offered. I noticed three freshmen girls huddling in the doorway. At a school with ~2000 men and 43 ladies all women are noticed. Even when 95% of the men thought they should not be there. I went over and invited them in. They decided not to so I suggested a tour of the local brewery (Coors). Two passed and one said yes. Much later she told me she had called home on the weekend and told her mother she had met the man she was going to marry.

.... At a school with ~2000 men and 43 ladies all women are noticed. Even when 95% of the men thought they should not be there. I went over and invited them in. They decided not to so I suggested a tour of the local brewery (Coors)....

Colorado School of Mines?