How did you meet?

[Svenskaflicka]

I'm watching the Jay Leno Halloween special (time difference..!), and Cuba Gooding Jr just told the world about how he met his wife.

Apparently, they were friends, and they were playing around, boxing, just for fun. His wife is a strong and tough woman, (and she's also white), and they were boxing and being a little rough on each other.

Anyway, they started dating, and then, one day, she takes him home to meet her family. She introduces him, and her mother yells:

"Is that the guy who's been giving you all those bruises???"



A white girl brings home her black boyfriend, who's been giving her a lot of bruises... CGJr said: "I almost ended up in jail!"


How did you meet your Love?

 

[Guest]

My first husband was my best friend's brother. My second husband was my professor (sociology). My last husband was my brother's friend. The love of my life was another brother's friend.

boringly,

Perdita

 

[Master_Vassago]

I met my beautiful wife while working at a summercamp for mentally and physically handicapped children. She's a bit younger than I but later before leaving for the military I ran into her and started dating. Many years later we are still together, celebrating our five year anniversary in January and have two beautiful daughter as well.

 

[Master_Vassago]

I added a picture above that is about six months old. Yes, I'll give you all a glimpse of my family lol.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I met Hubby at Match.com. We e-mailed each other for a couple of months, then he came over to see me for one weekend in November. It was the coldest November in many years, the snow went over your knees, and we missed 3 buses going home, because we were sitting in a coffee shop chatting.

When the weekend was over, we were in love. That was 2001. Now we plan to buy a house together and have kids.

 

[Guest]

Vassago, you have a beautiful family. A good 2004 to you all.

Perdita

 

[Icingsugar]

She shot me.

I had been talked into a paintball tournament thing two years ago. Reluctant, I agreed to fill out the vacant spot in my friend's team. Well, we actually did pretty well, won two rounds, and then we were up against yet another team. Nothing special, but there was this one gorgeous Norewigan chick who I couldn't get my eyes off.

Anyway, during the match, we ran into each other out in the woods, and she managed to aim and hit me before I even had time to react.

So, I died dramatically in her arms. Then we went for coffee.

 

[Master_Vassago]

Vassago, you have a beautiful family. A good 2004 to you all.

Perdita

Thank you Perdita, and the same to you dear.

 

[gauchecritic]

The wife

When I was 19 (re-taking 6th form A-levels) I was going out with my then girlfriend who I met whilst in a production of 'Hello Dolly'. I helped out part time at a local nursery school when I didn't have classes and unbeknownst to me there was a girl of about 14 who also helped out and who was worshipping me from afar.

Flash forward 5 years after college and a number of other girlfriends and lovers I was sat in my local WMC and noticed a tall dark haired girl with an amazing pair of.. erm.. anyway, I took quite a fancy to her but she was with another guy.

Later that year, sat alone (as usual) in a disco, I saw someone I thought was familiar, long dark, wavy hair and very flat hips. Now when I say flat hips, I mean a lovely arse which only protruded to the rear, if you can picture it, but flat from the hip bone to the thighs.

So I stood and walked forward and placed my hands on those hips then leant forward and asked if she'd like to dance.

One year later and we were married. A few months after that my wife revealed that when she was at school she had helped out at the nursery school and had had a crush on me. And the rest, as they say, is 24 years of history.

Gauche

 

[Lovepotion69]

I love hearing how people met...

I'm such a sucker for hearing/reading these things.

Hm...ok boyfriends...
1) Was an RA at my Uni. It was the third day of orientation week, and he began to hit on me during the pub crawl. We ended up in his room, I slept over. Lasted two months. LOL

2) Knew from Uni, ended up in a Truth or Dare session. The questions got steamier. I dared him to strip for me. He did and had a hardon. He dared me the same. I did. Went out for 8mths.

3) Introduced by a common friend. First conversation was in the laundry room after I had caught him checking out porn sites in the school comp lab. My first love. Hopefully not my last.

4) Not a boyfriend, but casual relationship for 8mths. Met through Match.com. Absolutely adorable bloke and we just clicked mentally.

I'm still waiting for my prince though...

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Master V,

I agree with Perdita (always a reliable move); that's a fine bunch of young 'uns. I'm just glad they got their looks, and hair, from their mother's side of the family. Hope all four of you have a good '04.

The way the wife unit and I met is: a cliche', a stereotype, hackneyed, trite, or maybe just a totally unimaginative plot which Hemingway handled better many years ago.

I was a patient in a VA hospital (see my Holiday Contest story for some slightly altered background). It was 1970. She was halfway through nursing school, had been hit on the head working in an aide station during the anti-war, "Wall St. Riots" and attended the funeral of one of the kids killed at Kent State. She had a summer job on my ward as a Nurse Tech. At the time, she was also engage. No, I'm not making any of that up.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Master_Vassago]

Thank you Rumple, I'm blessed that they only resemble me. The older ones attitude rivals mine lol, and she is too smart for her own good but we'll have to see just how evil she and her sister turn out. They'll either be evil like daddy or angelic like their mother. Thanks again MV.

 

[raphy]

I could tell you, but y'all already know

 

[Mhari]

(An attempt to be semi-coherent while really really drunk.)

Hmm. First husband I'd known all my life. He chased me till I finally gave in. I regretted making him work so hard when he was killed three weeks after we were married.

Second husband doesn't exactly count as a "love", but we met in grad school.

As for the third...I'll let you know when I know.

 

[Madame Manga]

We lived in the same dorm freshman year, but I don't remember him from then. I do remember his roommate. I had not yet been kissed.

Sophomore year, there was a giant storm during the winter. Power went out to the whole university. We huddled in the dorm stairwells wearing pajamas and overcoats, reading everyone's comic book collections by emergency lighting because classes were canceled. He brought me his X-Men. We sat together to watch the Super Bowl (Niners vs. Bengals). Our team won; we rejoiced.

In February, we had Secret Valentines. I drew some guy I knew nothing about. Another girl on my hall said, "Hey, you want to trade?" I got Hubby. It took a while for him to get the message. Twenty-two years, two kids.

MM

 

[smartnsassy]

His room-mate had company who apparently liked me, and kept calling me during the comercial breaks for Xena. For some reason I decided to call the guy back and ended up talking to L. instead. We were chatting away, exchanging playfully rude comments when the guy walked by and said, 'can I talk to her' and I said, 'tell him I said no,' thinking the guy would realize that I was just kidding. He just kinda said, 'oh" and walked off. So I ended up talking to L. most of the night and we got to be friends, and eventually- well you know the rest!

 

[snooper]

First wife: At University; I had a wide-carriage typewriter and she wanted to borrow it.

Second wife: When I interviewed her for a job.

Third wife: At University; I had a wide-carriage typewriter and she wanted to borrow it. (Yes it was the same woman.)

Present Lady: We both sheltered from the rain in the same (almost deserted) bar a week after My first-and-third wife and I broke up.

Thinks: maybe this should be posted in story ideas.

Thinks again: maybe this whole thread should be on story ideas.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Thinks again: maybe this whole thread should be on story ideas.

Awwww...

 

[oggbashan]

We were both on a committee running Youth Hostels. We had seen each other at the committee meetings but not actually spoken to each other.

Then we went for a committee weekend to examine a particular Youth Hostel that needed money spent. We had to decide whether it needed spending now or next year. It was February and the snow was six inches deep. That is unusual in Southern England.

I was standing behind her in a queue waiting to book into the hostel. There was some delay about alloting beds in dormitories so the Warden asked if there was anyone in the queue who didn't need a bed.

I announced that I was camping in the field alongside the hostel so I didn't need a dormitory. She turned round to see who this idiot was who would be camping in six inches on snow and came face to face with my chest. We got talking and ...

Og

PS. I was warmer in my mountaineering tent that she was in her dormitory. The money was needed for draught-proofing.

 

[destinie21]

I married my high school sweetheart

 

[destinie21]

I met my wife in high scool
predictably (all girls catholic school)

 

[Wills]

Hi to all and Happy New Year.
Computer threw an end of year wobbly I've been out of contact for 3 or 4 days.

We met in Covent Garden, London. I was working in a Architects office above the Inigo Jones Restaurant opposite the Garrick Club. My future wife came to work as a receptionist/translator, the company had a project in Portugal and no one could speak Portuguese.

She ignored me.

Weeks went by. She used to wear a simple green dress made from a crepe? material that clung to her body.

Covent Garden at that time was the market for London's fruit and vegetables. In the spring I pelted her with strawberries from the balcony above her desk until she was forced to work under an umbrella.

Finally she agreed to a date.

We married six weeks later, that was the soonest we could get a marriage licence, that was 29 years ago. We have just returned from a seafood lunch and strolling hand in hand along the beach near here planning our next year together.

Will's

 

[Svenskaflicka]

From des' sig line:

"When was first born I was so shocked I didn't speak for a year and a half."

So, the shock is what has made you wanna crawl right back..?

Just teasing, des!

 

[Guest]

(An attempt to be semi-coherent while really really drunk.)

Hmm. First husband I'd known all my life. He chased me till I finally gave in. I regretted making him work so hard when he was killed three weeks after we were married.

...

Mhari, that's so sad, honey.

Lou

 

[snooper]

... It was February and the snow was six inches deep. That is unusual in Southern England. ...

Actually it isn't unusual. It is just that whenever it happens, everyone, especially the authorities, is unprepared.