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Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

cooby Sep 25 2018 11:45 AM

I will explain my thoughts later Deep thoughts from a shallow mind, as usual

41Forever Sep 25 2018 11:51 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

It's kind of a fun story. I blogged about it once: There are days that completely change the rest of your life. Usually you don’t see them coming – or even realize how important they are until a little time has passed. At least that’s how it was for me on Sept. 12, 1985. It was a pretty decent day for the Mets, too, taking the rubber game of a series with the Cards. It was tough being a Mets fan and going to school in Missouri at the height of the Mets-Cards rivalry. And this game was important because we were chasing them for the division crown and building for an even bigger showdown later in the month. The Mets took this one 7-6, a patented Jesse Orosco vulture win after he let Willie McGee tie the game in the ninth with a homer. But the Mets came back with a walk-off win. I’ll have to ask Mark Simon of the amazing Mets Walkoffs site for the details, since I missed the game. You see, I was a junior at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. And all students working on The Missourian, the J-School’s daily newspaper, had to spend six hours a week in the newsroom for what we called “general assignment hours.” The idea is to have reporters standing by for breaking news – fires, crashes and things that happen that aren’t necessarily on your beat but need to be covered. You were at the mercy of the teaching assistant, a grad student who served as the assignment editor during the shift. Well, this particular night the TA was polishing his brown-nosing skills. Professors serve as the editors for the paper, and they have offices with short, glass walls on the fringe of the newsroom. The top editor’s birthday was the next day, and the TA decided with would be nice to fill his office with balloons. Being the TA, he could actually delegate his brown-nosing to the lowly undergrads, and I was assigned the task of blowing up the balloons and throwing them over the glass wall. I didn’t mind the job too much because he also assigned it to a pretty girl whom I had never met. We started talking between balloons -- and I was hooked! In a bold move, I casually asked her if she wanted to get some pizza after we were done with the GA shift. Shakespeare’s Pizza was across the street and was a de facto extension of the J-School. It was also the best pizza in Columbia, and you know New Yorkers take pizza seriously. Over pizza she mentioned she had a boyfriend. I looked at this as a mere speed bump. Patience and persistence would be the plan. We made it kind of a weekly event through the fall, following the Tuesday GA shift with pizza at Shakespeare’s. By the time we returned from Christmas break, the other boyfriend was no more. As we know, 1986 was a good year for the Mets -- and me too! Yes! Two years and a month later we were married, and remain happily so today. So I’m pretty grateful to that brown-nosing TA. This year I realized it was the 20th anniversary of that big day, but I didn’t know what the actual date was, other than that it was the day before the big editor’s birthday and it had to have been sometime in the early fall. Reporters have a fair number of research tools at our disposal, and checks for this professor’s DOB came up dry. The professor’s still at the school, so I ventured off an e-mail, explaining that I know it’s strange for a long-forgotten student to ask what day his birthday falls on, and told him why I needed to know. He was kind enough to reply, and now I know that Sept. 12 is a day to celebrate. We couldn’t make it to Columbia for some Shakespeare’s, but the owner said he can ship some frozen pies to Michigan this week, making the day complete. The occasion is also a reason to thank the Lord for each and every day he gives us. We never know what his plans are for us. He doesn’t follow our script. If a task as dull as blowing up balloons so someone else can surprise his professor can lead to meeting the love of my life, then I know that each and every day can lead to something wonderful.

Ceetar Sep 25 2018 12:00 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

My line is usually that Issac Newton introduced us. We met in AP Physics.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 25 2018 12:16 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

In an elevator

Vic Sage Sep 25 2018 12:36 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

blind date.

HahnSolo Sep 25 2018 12:45 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

We met a long time before we started dating. TBH, I don't remember the first time/place we met. The dating thing started after we went to a concert with a group of friends.

Lefty Specialist Sep 25 2018 01:18 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

April 5th, 1986 at McSorley’s Old Ale House. It’s all Malcolm Klein’s fault. Malcolm was a friend who’d moved away after college to work in Kentucky. Communication being what it was in 1986, there were no emails, texts or Facebook updates. So he fell off the map pretty much. One of my friends had the bright idea or doing a pub crawl/Funeral for a Friend. We’d drink to the dear departed Malcolm. The only one of my friends who was married at the time had a wife worked at Doubleday Dell with my future wife. She begged and pleaded with her to come. “It’s going to be Peter and all his asshole friends. I’m going to be the only woman there. I need someone to talk to.” So she agreed to go. The best part was she didn’t drink beer- hated the stuff. So there was no chance she was going to be taken advantage of by a bunch of drunken louts and she’d act as a shield for her friend Denise. “You’re going to owe me big-time”, she warned her. My friends and I took the train in from Jersey and Denise, Peter and her friend met us in front of McSorley’s. We went inside amid the sawdust and the cobwebs and the mugs and the Irish bartenders straight off the boat. And who was standing at the bar but Malcolm himself. Someone called him and he drove 12 hours to get there. So things immediately got festive. Took a while, but eventually we got two tables and packed in tightly. I was sitting right across from Denise’s friend. It was April 5th, and she had a great tan. So of course I used one of the all-time great pickup lines. “So where’d you get that tan?” “My girlfriends and I just spent a week at Mets spring training In St Petersburg, Florida.” Ka-ching. It was 1986 so we were psyched for a good year coming off a good 1985. We talked about the Mets for an hour; she was more knowledgeable than most guys. Our friends got up to go to the next stop on the tour and we stayed and talked and talked. Denise was pissed because she was abandoned; meanwhile we made a date for the next weekend in the city. A month later we saw our first Met game together. A little less than four years later, we got married. We raised a Met fan of our own and released him into the wild. And we still talk endlessly about the Mets.

d'Kong76 Sep 25 2018 01:56 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Copy room... I was hired to replace my wife at her job. She was my boss, trained me and then eventually left. Now, she's my boss, trained me well and won't leave! (kidding about the last part, I'd be lost with her)

41Forever Sep 25 2018 02:26 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Lefty Specialist wrote: April 5th, 1986 at McSorley’s Old Ale House. It’s all Malcolm Klein’s fault. Malcolm was a friend who’d moved away after college to work in Kentucky. Communication being what it was in 1986, there were no emails, texts or Facebook updates. So he fell off the map pretty much. One of my friends had the bright idea or doing a pub crawl/Funeral for a Friend. We’d drink to the dear departed Malcolm. The only one of my friends who was married at the time had a wife worked at Doubleday Dell with my future wife. She begged and pleaded with her to come. “It’s going to be Peter and all his asshole friends. I’m going to be the only woman there. I need someone to talk to.” So she agreed to go. The best part was she didn’t drink beer- hated the stuff. So there was no chance she was going to be taken advantage of by a bunch of drunken louts and she’d act as a shield for her friend Denise. “You’re going to owe me big-time”, she warned her. My friends and I took the train in from Jersey and Denise, Peter and her friend met us in front of McSorley’s. We went inside amid the sawdust and the cobwebs and the mugs and the Irish bartenders straight off the boat. And who was standing at the bar but Malcolm himself. Someone called him and he drove 12 hours to get there. So things immediately got festive. Took a while, but eventually we got two tables and packed in tightly. I was sitting right across from Denise’s friend. It was April 5th, and she had a great tan. So of course I used one of the all-time great pickup lines. “So where’d you get that tan?” “My girlfriends and I just spent a week at Mets spring training In St Petersburg, Florida.” Ka-ching. It was 1986 so we were psyched for a good year coming off a good 1985. We talked about the Mets for an hour; she was more knowledgeable than most guys. Our friends got up to go to the next stop on the tour and we stayed and talked and talked. Denise was pissed because she was abandoned; meanwhile we made a date for the next weekend in the city. A month later we saw our first Met game together. A little less than four years later, we got married. We raised a Met fan of our own and released him into the wild. And we still talk endlessly about the Mets. Cool story!

smg58 Sep 25 2018 05:33 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Penn Station. We are both members of an e-mail fan group for the South African singer Johnny Clegg, and a guy in the group from France was visiting New York on holiday and wanted to meet some of the locals. I arranged a get-together for African music at Satalla, a wonderful but short-lived world music club on 26th St. I was living up by Columbia, Donna was living where we currently live in Ronkonkoma. Penn Station was the logical rendezvous point.

Rockin' Doc Sep 25 2018 06:54 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Freshman Biology 101 in the fall of 1978. She sat in front of me in class and took an interest in me. I was rather slow on the uptake, so I didn't fully grasp that she was trying to get my attention until she eventually gave up on me as hopeless. Once she stopped paying attention to me, I realized how stupid I was. It took a while, but I eventually won her over on Valentine's Day 1979, when I sent her a small bouquet of yellow roses (her favorites) with a card asking her out. We went to see Animal House that weekend and we have been together ever since.

MFS62 Sep 25 2018 07:20 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

We sat next to each other in College. The course was "History of New York State". The professor was apparently a frustrated elementary school teacher (Dr. Sidney Pommerantz) who used a Delaney Book to take attendance (Kids, ask your parents). He seated the students alphabetically, and both of our last names begin with B. But we never dated because if it didn't work out, we'd be stuck sitting next to each other for the rest of the term. I asked her out for the first time when we met while picking up our caps and gowns a few days before graduation. I also picked up my college ring that day. Its been 53 years, and I haven't taken that ring off except when I have been in the hospital. Later

Fman99 Sep 25 2018 07:43 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

I was teaching high school in Watertown, New York, right out of college, in a town where I didn't know a soul. I moved there because it was where I got my first job offer. Teachers love to go to bars and drink, not sure if y'all knew that. I went to a bunch of different places with these co-workers and picked out a few favorite spots. Most of them had some common elements -- a pool table, a dartboard, freedom to smoke (this being 1996), and pretty waitresses/bartenders. One of these bars was called "the Speakeasy," and was in fact owned by the mayor of the town. This became my regular spot. I fell in with another crowd of folks all my own age, give/take (I was 23/24 that first year), they were all pool players and I started playing pool and having drinks with them. There were a few guitar players as well, so we used to take the party to one of their homes and jam and play late. This was a fun social circle. One of the gals in this group was still in college - she was living in Potsdam, as a full time fifth year student working on her Masters in Education. She had two roommates, all three of which were on the same academic plan and in the same sorority. She thought I might be a good match for her one roomie. She was, initially, not at all interested in meeting me, thinking me to be "another townie from Watertown," of which she had met several through this mutual friend. She agreed only after being assured that I was from a different part of New York. So we met on a fix up group date, at the Speakeasy, sometime in November of 1998. I thought she was cute, and pleasant to talk to. She thought I was arrogant but also must have liked something about me. I wrote her a note on a Quickdraw slip that said "Do you like me? If so, check this box." And drew a box. She laughed, but didn't check the box. We dated long distance that winter/spring and after she finished her Masters, in May of '99, she moved into my place. We moved to Syracuse in 2000, got engaged later that summer and married in May of 2001. My own parents also met on a blind date fix-up - my dad worked with my mom's aunt.

cooby Sep 26 2018 04:37 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

As the lone gal here... these are dear stories :) Oh and as an edit: I would probably fall for any one of you. I will tell you my story and my reason for asking in a day or so

seawolf17 Sep 27 2018 07:07 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Twenty-three years ago this winter: at the college's annual madrigal dinner put on by the student chamber singers group, I became smitten with one of the girls I saw on stage. One of my residents (I was an RA) was in the group, so I asked her to make the connection. She did, and I invited her to our fraternity winter formal the following weekend; the rest, as they say, is history.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 27 2018 09:45 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: In an elevator We were short-time co-workers but in different departments and on different floors of the same building. This is bizzarre but I might not have taken notice had she not had the same (not so common) first name as the previous gf, so we talked a little, went out to lunch, encountered one another at a party held by a 3rd coworker, one thing led to another etc etc etc

sharpie Sep 27 2018 11:20 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Met at a party in San Francisco shortly before I was moving back to New York. Her first words to me were "I heard you're moving to New York." We had a mutual friend who delights in claiming responsibility for our 30+ year marriage. I did move about 6 months later and she moved here about a year or so after that.

Centerfield Sep 27 2018 11:23 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

We met in high school. I had moved into town recently and was hanging out at a beach party with my buddy Freddy. My wife's ex-boyfriend, real asshole, arrived and started getting in her face. I intervened and we got into it a little bit. I don't know, maybe I made an impression on her then because eventually we started talking more during school. Eventually I got the courage to ask her out and we went to a local carnival. Things were moving along pretty ok until I got into it again with her asshole ex BF. It was at the school Halloween dance. After the dance, him and his asshole friends ran me off the road and I ended up busting up my face pretty bad. Eventually I asked my local handyman to teach me karate and then I beat him in the All-Valley championships. We actually become pretty good friends after that, and he was one of my groomsmen when my wife and I got married.

G-Fafif Sep 27 2018 11:31 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

A college buddy a couple of years behind me -- I was already graduated a couple of years -- was in New York for a several-week program. I went to visit him at his hotel at the outset of his stay. I thought it would just be me and him hanging out on a Monday night. He showed up in the lobby with two girls he'd just met, part of the same program. As we went off on our way into the Manhattan night, he wound up walking with one of them, me with the other. Two marriages resulted. One, mine, remains intact. Neither my wife nor I is any longer in touch with our opposite numbers.

seawolf17 Sep 27 2018 11:34 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Centerfield wrote: We met in high school. I had moved into town recently and was hanging out at a beach party with my buddy Freddy. My wife's ex-boyfriend, real asshole, arrived and started getting in her face. I intervened and we got into it a little bit. I don't know, maybe I made an impression on her then because eventually we started talking more during school. Eventually I got the courage to ask her out and we went to a local carnival. Things were moving along pretty ok until I got into it again with her asshole ex BF. It was at the school Halloween dance. After the dance, him and his asshole friends ran me off the road and I ended up busting up my face pretty bad. Eventually I asked my local handyman to teach me karate and then I beat him in the All-Valley championships. We actually become pretty good friends after that, and he was one of my groomsmen when my wife and I got married. You should make a movie or something. Such a touching story.

TransMonk Sep 27 2018 11:41 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

We hung out in the same group of friends and I knew her from parties/gatherings for years before we started dating. I honestly cannot recall the very first time I met her (and I doubt she would be able to remember the first time she met me).

Ceetar Sep 27 2018 11:52 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

TransMonk wrote: We hung out in the same group of friends and I knew her from parties/gatherings for years before we started dating. I honestly cannot recall the very first time I met her (and I doubt she would be able to remember the first time she met me). Don't want to derail, but I've thought about that second bit a lot. My wife was a year ahead of me in school, but that means we were in the 4th year of going to school in the same building. It's inevitable that we'd seen each other before. But with modern day smartphones and google maps tracking everywhere you've gone, I bet there's a way to develop and app to tell you this stuff. Like for you and your wife, the app would flag all the times you were together at those parties and pinpoint the 'first' time. It's ultimately meaningless but I think it'd be fascinating to find out things like "you both went bowling at the same time back in '94."

RealityChuck Sep 27 2018 01:12 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

It's a complex story. The simple version was that I met her during a creative writing class. I was the only one about her age and I also wrote SF/fantasy, which she liked to read. The complex part was that I was out of work and married to someone else at the time. That was fine with her. She was shy and didn't want to deal with a real relationship. So she developed a bit of a crush on me because I was "safe" and it wouldn't go beyond daydreams. I was pretty much unaware of it -- I wasn't looking for anyone else -- except for one time when I went to compliment something she wrote and realized the starstruck way she was looking at me. I ended the conversation quickly after that. I was married. Then it fell apart. One night, my wife went to a meeting. She didn't come back. I spent a sleepless night fearing something terrible had happened to her. But she showed up in the morning. "I'm not proud of what I did," she said. "But I'm not ashamed, either." And just like that, it was over. I tried whatever I could to fix things up with her, but she shut me off. She had me leave the house and I ended up living with her grandmother and aunt, who thought she was crazy. It was the worst time of my life. But we kept the class going. We'd meet, supposedly to continue, but one day it was just my future spouse and me, and we spend the evening talking (not about my troubles). Finally, I asked her out to a movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (the legal separation had come through). The next week, we went to Superman 2 and I kissed her for the first time. I made sure she knew my situation. Well, things grew from there. After the divorce was finalized, I asked her to marry me, and she gladly accepted. It's been 36 years. Being dumped was the best thing that happened to me.

Centerfield Sep 27 2018 01:17 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

seawolf17 wrote: Centerfield wrote: We met in high school. I had moved into town recently and was hanging out at a beach party with my buddy Freddy. My wife's ex-boyfriend, real asshole, arrived and started getting in her face. I intervened and we got into it a little bit. I don't know, maybe I made an impression on her then because eventually we started talking more during school. Eventually I got the courage to ask her out and we went to a local carnival. Things were moving along pretty ok until I got into it again with her asshole ex BF. It was at the school Halloween dance. After the dance, him and his asshole friends ran me off the road and I ended up busting up my face pretty bad. Eventually I asked my local handyman to teach me karate and then I beat him in the All-Valley championships. We actually become pretty good friends after that, and he was one of my groomsmen when my wife and I got married. You should make a movie or something. Such a touching story. A movie about teenage angst and karate? Who would watch such a thing! (Mainly I was seeing if everyone was reading all the other stories, or just writing their own and bailing)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 27 2018 07:37 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Great story Chuck... and Daniel

Ashie62 Sep 27 2018 07:50 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

I was invited to a dorm party at RU. Another girl, Lisa locked eyes with me 5 minutes into the thing and that was it. r.i.p Leece

metsmarathon Sep 28 2018 02:36 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

i was in my third year of college, mrs.mm was an incoming freshman. we were on opposite ends of the same floor of our dormitory. she was a runner and on the cross country team; i had just that year decided to start running, and had joined the cross country team, with zero running experience. we shared many of the same friends. i crushed hard. she tried hard to mostly ignore the goofy, gangly, geeky guy. she was not smitten with me, to be sure. over the next two years, we drifted farther apart, though still in the same circles. and then, for whatever reasons, the stars aligned, and she drifted closer once more over the summer before my 5th year. she had gone through a bit of a rough breakup, and just needed a friend. and me, i wanted her to have the friend she needed, far moreso than i wanted to have a "girlfriend". cheesily, our friendship deepend, and grew into something more. by mid-december, i struck up the nerve to ask her to a movie. dogma, for the record. two nights later, i was helping her study, we kissed, and she wondered what took me so long. clearly, my devilish plan had worked. i was happy that she was with someone who made her happy, and i was also happy that someone was me. wins all around.

Rockin' Doc Sep 28 2018 08:24 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Centerfield wrote: Centerfield wrote: We met in high school. I had moved into town recently and was hanging out at a beach party with my buddy Freddy. My wife's ex-boyfriend, real asshole, arrived and started getting in her face. I intervened and we got into it a little bit. I don't know, maybe I made an impression on her then because eventually we started talking more during school. Eventually I got the courage to ask her out and we went to a local carnival. Things were moving along pretty ok until I got into it again with her asshole ex BF. It was at the school Halloween dance. After the dance, him and his asshole friends ran me off the road and I ended up busting up my face pretty bad. Eventually I asked my local handyman to teach me karate and then I beat him in the All-Valley championships. We actually become pretty good friends after that, and he was one of my groomsmen when my wife and I got married. You should make a movie or something. Such a touching story. A movie about teenage angst and karate? Who would watch such a thing! (Mainly I was seeing if everyone was reading all the other stories, or just writing their own and bailing) I read virtually every thread from where I had last left off read it (or had last posted) before I post. I'm just sick that way. Consequently, I tend to read far more than I post.

cooby Sep 29 2018 09:57 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Absolutely super stories here!

seawolf17 Oct 01 2018 07:06 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

metsmarathon wrote: for whatever reasons, the stars aligned, and she drifted closer once more over the summer before my 5th year See, kids? Don't rush into graduation. Change your major a few times. You never know.

Edgy MD Oct 01 2018 07:14 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Work. She was in management. I was in labor. So hot.

metsmarathon Oct 01 2018 08:13 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

seawolf17 wrote: metsmarathon wrote: for whatever reasons, the stars aligned, and she drifted closer once more over the summer before my 5th year See, kids? Don't rush into graduation. Change your major a few times. You never know. while i did change majors, that wasn't the reason for the 5th year. actually, i was in the co-op program. alternating semesters of school and real life work experience. kids, if you're going to college, definitely consider it. the money is nice, sure, but its really helpful to get you experience in your field, and in your potential work environments. and it can directly lead to full-time employment after you graduate. also, it gives you more time to hang out with undergrads, for wooing purposes.

Ceetar Oct 01 2018 08:26 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

kids? do we have anyone in here younger than like, 36? ;-) I graduated at a weird time for my field, and am not a good interviewee, but I really did struggle with finding a job. Real work experience/internship/something definitely would've been helpful. (still struggle, different thread I guess) Though I actually graduated college in 3 years, in part because my wife was a year ahead of me, at a different school. Who knows what would've happened if I'd stayed for a 4th.

Mets Willets Point Oct 19 2018 03:22 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

College. We lived on the same floor of the dorm and two classes together in the same semester, and several mutual friends. It would have been stranger if we did not meet.

vtmet Oct 19 2018 05:26 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

I was going to college at SUNY Binghamton, and had come home for the summer break...I started a summer job at a restaurant and she was working there as well...we talked a bit as friends/co-workers, and then one night she needed a ride home, so my shift manager asked me to give her a ride home (I was still working, but he told me it was fine to leave for awhile)...we chatted for awhile on the ride home, lost track of time, and got back to work a little late... She had a small child but she was single, and we hit it off pretty well...I took her and her son to a zoo, and then we started dating shortly afterwards... When the summer was over, I had to go back to college & her step-dad was kicking her out of the house...I lived off-campus anyhow, so I asked her if she wanted to share an apartment since she needed to find a place anyhow... Her birthday was during the first semester that she had moved in with me & she didn't know anyone in the area (she had moved over a hundred miles when she came out to college with me)...so reluctantly, I asked my prior girlfriend from college (that I met at college) to babysit for us...I bring my prior girlfriend over to our apartment to babysit, and find out that my prior girlfriend & my current girlfriend knew each other (different ages, and I didn't meet either one in the town that they went to high school in)...that was kind of awkward, but she actually babysat a couple times for us... We've been together for over 30 years now...and married for the past 26 years...

vtmet Oct 19 2018 05:49 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Mets Willets Point wrote: College. We lived on the same floor of the dorm and two classes together in the same semester, and several mutual friends. It would have been stranger if we did not meet. During college orientation (which I believe happened awhile before we actually started college, I think that they had us come up for a few days earlier in the summer), there was this pretty strawberry blonde, that I never talked to but everywhere that I went for those couple of days, I saw her somewhere in the crowd...never talked to her, she was way out of my league, and she probably never even noticed/saw me because it was a big campus and I am a pretty low key guy... I never dated her or anything like that...but because we were both a little bit older (both transfer students from Community Colleges), both of us were assigned off campus housing instead of living in a dorm...I show up at the end of August to move into my apartment, and the same girl had an apartment in my building 2 doors down from me...We were pretty much best friends for the entire first year there...and when I moved out to get a different place with my future wife, she was one of my friends that would occasionally babysit (not the same girl as in my "how I met my wife" story above)...

cooby Oct 19 2018 07:09 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Vtmet you are a prince! I hope dad-in-law has improved since then :)

vtmet Oct 19 2018 09:23 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

thanks cooby... her step-father mellowed a bit over the years, but he continued to be a jerk for the most part...he passed away maybe about 10 years ago...none of our kids grandparents are with us anymore; I guess that is what happens when both of us were from families of 10 kids, I was the youngest of 10, she was the second youngest of 10..

Edgy MD Oct 20 2018 08:55 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

Centerfield wrote: We met in high school. I had moved into town recently and was hanging out at a beach party with my buddy Freddy. Just a guess here, but I bet that, while you and the ex-BF are now good buds, you and Freddy never hung out again.

bmfc1 Oct 20 2018 07:53 PM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 23 2018 11:53 AM

At a bar in Roslyn, Long Island. I was with a friend as was she. My friend and I went over and I focused on the right one. Her friend later married someone else, a Cardinals fan, and we'd "double" at Shea. They got divorced when the friend, while she stays a Mets fan, switched teams.

Edgy MD Oct 21 2018 10:41 AM Re: Where Did Yiu Meet Your Spouse/Significant Other?

I read that five times before it added up.