How did you meet?

casualmadness · #1 01-25-2008, 09:52 AM

Inspired by the pics of SO's thred; I was thinking about my girlfriend and the way that we met. And I realzie that people meet in all kinds of interesting ways. So how did you meet your SO?

The way I met mine: Here in DC, millions of people are plugged in on Craigslist.com. There is a section called "Rant's and Raves." It's just a bulletin board where discussions take place, much like on TB. Anyway, I replied to a post on R&R one day. Within a few minutes I received a personal email from someone saying that she aggreed with my stance (I forget the topic). Anyway, we began emailing and pretty soon we agreed to meet. When I met her, I was very surprised to see that she was not at all troll-like. We hit it off and now we're an item.

So how did you meet yours?

middy · #2 01-25-2008, 09:55 AM

Wow! I'm sure your girlfriend would be flattered to be described as "not at all troll-like", you Casanova you.

casualmadness · #3 01-25-2008, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by middy

Wow! I'm sure your girlfriend would be flattered to be described as "not at all troll-like", you Casanova you.

Hey, you take chances when you meet people from the internet. I've met plenty of troll like creatures from places like craigslist. I was jsut saying that I was happy to see that she was very pretty...staggering actually.

Matt_W · #4 01-25-2008, 09:58 AM

I met my SO as she used to go out with my best friend. I had become friends whilst they were going out, and when they broke up she remained in contact with my social group. We hung out occasionally, and things just went from there. Now we have been going out for just over three years, and are planning to move in together towards the end of the year.

Obviously I checked that it was OK with my best friend before I made any moves. He is actually kind of proud of introducing us to each other. Hehehehe.

i_got_a_mohawk · #5 01-25-2008, 09:59 AM

Sitting on a doorstep with one of my friends. They knew each other and were looking at flats.

The later on, I was getting the bus home, and she was on it, and looking quite ill, so i tried to be comforting

We hung out quite alot, then just sort of went our other ways, she started going out with someone, and i started seeing someone. Then about a year later, she started coming into the pub i worked at with her friends, and we started talking again

After a few months, she started working at the pub, as we were needing new staff, ended up working christmas day (2005) with her, and after we finished the shift, i walked her home, and, bam

, just hung out quite a bit for the week after that, then asked her out on the new years.

TallLankyBastyd · #6 01-25-2008, 10:02 AM

Walked into a bar & dance club... had my ususal quick three shots of tequilla to take off the edge. Notice a table of four (two guys... two gals) and realize that one of the guys is a guy I had gone to high school with and assumed that the gal with her back to me was his wife whom I'd known (and partied with) in college...

I walk up to the table and give everyone (but his "wife") the "shhhh..." sign and then proceed to pull this gal's head back by the hair and plant a kiss on her lips. When I pull my head back I see that... this is NOT the person I thought it was!!

I'm thinking "oh great... another slap to the face by a female and the night hasn't even begun to reach my obnoxious standards yet" and quickly apologize to her. But...

...my wife to be (and still together after 22 years) looks up at me and says... "Hey... no problem... you can do that again!"

And I did...

Matt_W · #7 01-25-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by TallLankyBastyd

Walked into a bar & dance club... had my ususal quick three shots of tequilla to take off the edge. Notice a table of four (two guys... two gals) and realize that one of the guys is a guy I had gone to high school with and assumed that the gal with her back to me was his wife whom I'd known (and partied with) in college...

I walk up to the table and give everyone (but his "wife") the "shhhh..." sign and then proceed to pull this gal's head back by the hair and plant a kiss on her lips. When I pull my head back I see that... this is NOT the person I thought it was!!

I'm thinking "oh great... another slap to the face by a female and the night hasn't even begun to reach my obnoxious standards yet" and quickly apologize to her. But...

...my wife to be (and still together after 22 years) looks up at me and says... "Hey... no problem... you can do that again!"

And I did...

Wow, that could have ended up a hell of a lot worse than it did, hooray for happy accidents.

casualmadness · #8 01-25-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TallLankyBastyd

Walked into a bar & dance club... had my ususal quick three shots of tequilla to take off the edge. Notice a table of four (two guys... two gals) and realize that one of the guys is a guy I had gone to high school with and assumed that the gal with her back to me was his wife whom I'd known (and partied with) in college...

I walk up to the table and give everyone (but his "wife") the "shhhh..." sign and then proceed to pull this gal's head back by the hair and plant a kiss on her lips. When I pull my head back I see that... this is NOT the person I thought it was!!

I'm thinking "oh great... another slap to the face by a female and the night hasn't even begun to reach my obnoxious standards yet" and quickly apologize to her. But...

...my wife to be (and still together after 22 years) looks up at me and says... "Hey... no problem... you can do that again!"

And I did...

Wow, what a great story. But the way my luck goes, if I would have tried that, it would have turned out to have been a dude.

Vince S. · #9 01-25-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TallLankyBastyd

Walked into a bar & dance club... had my ususal quick three shots of tequilla to take off the edge. Notice a table of four (two guys... two gals) and realize that one of the guys is a guy I had gone to high school with and assumed that the gal with her back to me was his wife whom I'd known (and partied with) in college...

I walk up to the table and give everyone (but his "wife") the "shhhh..." sign and then proceed to pull this gal's head back by the hair and plant a kiss on her lips. When I pull my head back I see that... this is NOT the person I thought it was!!

I'm thinking "oh great... another slap to the face by a female and the night hasn't even begun to reach my obnoxious standards yet" and quickly apologize to her. But...

...my wife to be (and still together after 22 years) looks up at me and says... "Hey... no problem... you can do that again!"

And I did...

LOL! That is awesome.

disenchant · #10 01-25-2008, 10:33 AM

He saw me at a church event and he thought I was cute. So he asked around to find out who I was and discovered that I was a bassist and I was a volunteer at our local mission and starting up an open mic for artists to come showcase their talents called Arts Alive. This was something he had also been wanting to do.

So he contacted the mission and said he wanted to volunteer for the arts open mic and that's how he got my phone number. He called me and we agreed to meet at the mission to discuss running Arts Alive. He also suggested we jam together one night as he's a guitarist. We met on a Monday to jam and ended up talking for hours. I went on our first date with him and his daughter that Saturday, we put on our first Arts Alive show that Sunday and we were both in love. We now run Arts Alive together and he also volunteers at the mission.

We're getting married in May!

jwbassman · #11 01-25-2008, 10:36 AM

met my SO in college at the smoking gazebo of all places. That was about 8 years ago. The gazebo was tore down to build a new addition on to the college...but, that is the addition where they host the NH Bass Fest

not a bad trade off if you ask me.

we still smoke though

.....although we're workin' on that

Techmonkey · #12 01-25-2008, 10:39 AM

well... she's not exactly my SO yet... we're just seeing eachother...

but I met her at a party about a year ago... things got a bit out of hand and the police got called, and actually started arresting people (this *never* happens around here, so everyone started to panic)... most of the people split, but there was this one girl that completely froze in panic... instead of running off with my mates I took her into a cupboard and we hid as best as we could.

ah man. seems surreal looking back...

disenchant · #13 01-25-2008, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Techmonkey

well... she's not exactly my SO yet... we're just seeing eachother...

but I met her at a party about a year ago... things got a bit out of hand and the police got called, and actually started arresting people (this *never* happens around here, so everyone started to panic)... most of the people split, but there was this one girl that completely froze in panic... instead of running off with my mates I took her into a cupboard and we hid as best as we could.

ah man. seems surreal looking back...

I'm refraining from making a joke about coming out of the cupboard together...

Stu L. · #14 01-25-2008, 10:42 AM

We met at church. She thought I was cute, I thought she was taken and didn't pay much attention. Then, being the flirt I am, I found out she wasn't taken and liked me. Then, more flirting, lotsa time chatting after various church services, I got her number. I didn't have any paper or a pen, so I wrote her number in the dust on the dash of my truck

. Couple of years later we were married, and just had our seventh anniversary in November

MJ5150 · #15 01-25-2008, 10:44 AM

Seattle chat room on AOL.

-Mike

P. Aaron · #16 01-25-2008, 10:49 AM

I met my wife of 16 years at a 7-11 in Troy. The gym was closed so I started riding my bike about Troy, MI. Stopped at the store, got a Coke, and there was another bike parked there. She came out, I started chattin' it up.

We clicked...it seems.

NJL · #17 01-25-2008, 10:57 AM

at a mini HS reunion thingy..

vbsurfer3001 · #18 01-25-2008, 11:07 AM

Blind Date

In Boise, Idaho

With a Danish girl??? Highly improbable, but awesome results

Buddy's wife got sick of me always dragging him out to the bars and set me up with a co-worker of hers. Who was moving back to Denmark in 30 days, she had already given up her lease & paid her airfare.

Long story-short, dinner, dancing, wine & a hot tub in 4 ft of snow and she canceled her plans, moved in, and 2 years later we got married

jady · #19 01-25-2008, 11:10 AM

We met at church. She walked into a small group I was in and at first sight we were both smitten. Married her Almost a year later, we just had our 3rd anniversary!!!

tink9975 · #20 01-25-2008, 11:23 AM

match.com

neither of us had any luck on the local dating scene, both joined match.com around the same time, we each had 2-3 dates with other people before we met.

When we did meet, we both had the same unimpressed reaction to each other: "well, at least I'm getting a drink out of this". One drink turned into two, which turned into going to the pool hall next door for pints and some really awful pool playing, then she gave me her number, and before I hopped on the metro I kissed her. we had 2 more dates, and after that we were just together all the time. we were engaged in less than a year, married 6 months after the engagement, and have been married for 3 years.