Crazy ways to meet

[tamawrite]

I just met with a pair of elderly clients in their home. They sat me down on the couch and we talked for about an hour -- I learned about the husband's escapades in the war, their eldest son's spinal cord injury, and how they met.

In high school, the husband's girlfriends broke up with him one after another. He finally figured out that his future wife was threatening them until they called off their relationships! He asked if he dated her, would she dump him too? Never, she said...and 54 years later, they're still married.

Awwwww.

So, what're the best or craziest ways to meet your true love (or not-so-true love!) stories you've heard?

[Jessica]

My cousin is an actor in New York. A couple years ago, he was in a musical and a young woman in the audience really enjoyed his performance. She bought some roses and tossed them onstage, and when my cousin picked them up he pricked his finger. She noticed he was bleeding and she felt terrible. After the curtain call, she went to the stage door and apologized. My cousin invited her out for a drink and now they are planning a November wedding.

[stefania4]

A friend of mine was in a car accident. A firefighter was doing the basics to make sure she was OK - move her right arm, move her left arm, etc. He said, "OK, now look at me." She did. He said, "Am I cute?"

They've been married for 10 years.

[LaraW]

My grandparents met because my Grandpa had been in a motorcycle accident and my Grandma was his nurse at the hospital.

I've always loved that story.

[hannah_phi]

I met my DBF 7 years ago on July 17th (his birthday) and we've been together ever since. We met when he picked me up hitch-hiking, the only time I've ever been hitch-hiking.:D

[stefania4]

As DH says, the more entertaining story is how we didn't meet.

1989 - I had been a missionary in Liberia for 6 months and was coming home through Amsterdam. It was the 200th anniversary of Bastille Day; I stayed in a Christian youth hostel (I was 20 years old). Eighteen-year-old DH was there, too. We didn't meet.

1991 - I move to Atlanta with a friend, and we live in her Mom's house near Emory University. DH was a junior at Emory and lived 8 houses away. We didn't meet.

1998 - A friend invites me to a NYE party benefitting the arthritis foundation. DH was there, too. We didn't meet.

We finally met at church in '99.

[BarbaraL]

In high school, the husband's girlfriends broke up with him one after another. He finally figured out that his future wife was threatening them until they called off their relationships!

Wow! I think I'd be afraid of her instead of dating her! Were they at least dating when she threatened the other girls? Or was she some kind of stalker? To each his own . . . glad they're happy!

Not unusual or exciting, but DH and I met when we had lunch in our company cafeteria with a mutual friend.

[kwormann]

In college, I met DH in a bedroom of his fraternity house....:D:D:D

[Leisa M]

I met my DH at the computer store where he worked in 1989. I had gone in to see what computers looked like (did not intend on buying or finding a date:D ). He asked me out for dinner when he realized I did not even know what he was talking about.

[SandyM]

Originally posted by LaraW
My grandparents met because my Grandpa had been in a motorcycle accident and my Grandma was his nurse at the hospital.

I've always loved that story.

Jim's parents met the same way. His dad was a paratrooper, was badly injured, and his mom was a WAC - she took care of him in the hospital. :)

[Vicanddi]

Stefania, your story sounds like one you'd hear at the end of "When Harry Met Sally".

I was doing traveling nursing for 3 months in a small town, population 6,000. At my going away party, my friend invited Victor, my now DH. I was sitting outside the club, on a bench, getting some fresh air, and he came walking across the street. Another guy I had been talking to said "Hi Vic". I knew that my friend had called a guy named Vic 3 different times to get him to come to the party. So, I said, "So you're Vic. We've been waiting for you all night." He said later, that it was as if I was just sitting there waiting for him. He sat by me and never strayed from my side that night. We stayed up all night talking, I stayed there a week longer than I had intended, and he took me on a wonderful little vacation up the coast of Oregon. I think he was trying to get me to stay up there. I already had my next job set up, so I had to leave and come back to Fresno. I cried in my car as I drove out of town. I didn't know if I would ever see him again. H he drove down to see me (10 hour drive) a week later, and he never left! We got married a year and a day after the day we met.

[aggie94]

My dad was a college professor in China in 1969. My mom, 15 years younger, was a student and also his teaching assistant. He left for the U.S., having barely spoken a dozen words to her, and wrote her a letter a few weeks later asking her to move to the U.S. and marry him. :eek:

Against the advice of her family, she said yes. They got married a couple of months later and have been together for almost 34 years.

[MKSquared]

My parents met in a bar. :) My mom saw my dad walking by her table, so she stuck her foot out and tripped him. :)

[mbrogier]

LOL, MK! :p

I met DH in high school on my first day. I was one of 3 juniors that had their lockers in the building where the seniors did. DH was a senior, and his locker was 5 down from mine. The school put everyone's registration papers in their lockers, but mine wouldn't open. DH helped my get into my locker. Since I was new, he didn't know my name, and he looked for me for a week. I was placed into a class he was taking. He almost fell out of his chair when I walked in. We started going out soon after, dated through college and have been married for 3 years.:D

[dulcecoeur]

Well in honour of the Internet Age, I met my DBF online :-) I was on there just to meet new people and for fun after my BF of five years passed away last year (I met HIM at Boot Camp and he ended up moving to my city for school ;-) ). DBF had signed up on the site just for fun as well, and to say hi to a girl he knew before.

We talked a few times online, and on the phone a couple times as well and we decided to meet. We were going out exclusively before the end of the night and both of us had to cancel a few dates with other people in the next few days. We knew from the start it was meant to be..it was like we were best friends before we ever even met :p Sappy I know...but true!

[HejazSunKat]

I had a crush on a guy I worked with and he asked me to join the company softball team. In my befuddled state of mind I thought this indicated he actually liked me and had more in mind than asking me to join the softball team. WRONG! Over post game beers and pizza after the first game I find out he has a girlfriend in another state. Well, I was going to be d@mned if I let him know (by not showing up at any more games) that I joined the team because of HIM and decided I was going to stick out the entire season (even though I think softball is booooorrrrrinnnnng). The following week I met my future DH who was playing on an opposing team. To this day my husband does not know the back story to our meeting and we've been together now for 19 years! :D

[colleency]

I met my DH while I was building a fence before an out-of-town Rennaisance Faire. He rolled up as the passenger in a truck playing very loud music. I didn't say much until he picked up my rolling pin, which was laying nearby.

(We were reenactors of English military. All the women had rolling pins for crowd control - no, we didn't hit people with them. Many of us had come up with fun names for our rolling pins and carved them on the handle. Mine said "Gay Deceiver," the name of a character/car in one of my favorite books.)

He picked up my rolling pin, and said, "Great name for a car, but a rolling pin?" We spent the rest of the afternoon discussing books. And he spent the rest of the weekend following me around.

We traveled home in a caravan of cars, and the one that I was riding in was in a bad accident. While I was in the emergency room, he told my friends that he was going to marry me. (He didn't let me know til later.)

We've been married 13 years.

[wallycat]

I spotted DH at work. I knew he was older, but didn't know how much older. I didn't care :)
I asked a mutual friend if he was with anyone. No.
Great I told her, fix me up.

Today is our 10 year wedding anniversary :D

[Kayaksoup]

I met my DBF in a bar:o We were playing pool and I knew from the moment I laid eyes on him... but it took 3 months before we even went on a date, because I had to convince him that the 20 year age difference didn't mean anything....3 years later, we are ecstatically(sp) happy!:D

[yorkshirepud]

I met my DH online in a chatroom. We were both just there hanging out and starting talking. Eventually we started exchanging e-mail, then the telephone calls began (still have fond memories of out HUGE phone bills :eek: ), we exchanged gifts on occasion, and eventually we decided to meet. So, I flew to Canada a few days after Christmas and never returned home. We were married 6 months later and we've never looked back.

[yorkshirepud]

Originally posted by wallycat


Today is our 10 year wedding anniversary :D

Congratulations for yesterday! :)

[yorkshirepud]

Originally posted by dulcecoeur
..it was like we were best friends before we ever even met :p Sappy I know...but true!

Not sappy at all, I can totally relate. I felt like I knew DH better than anyone in my life. Over the 8 months we chatted (either via chatrooms, email or telephone) we discussed everything. There were no secrets, no holding back ... at times I felt I knew him better than he knew himself ...

[dixie]

My mom and dad met on a blind date, a college friend of hers was dating a fraternity brother of his and set them up. My mom took the train from South Georgia to North Carolina for the first date (a football weekend) and she sent a postcard home to her parents that night that she'd met the man she was going to marry. They saw each other three more times (long distance romance!) and got engaged and were married a couple of months later...and it was 45 years in January.

[krispy spo]

I interviewed DH for a position and thought he was cute but he mentioned his girlfriend so that was that. Almost a year later we were both at the company picnic. He was with a friend/co-worker, who I happened to be casually dating but much to my chagrin it wasn't going anywhere. He was still dating the same girl (had been since the 8th grade), but she was away on vacation. He thought I was cute and arranged to be introduced. At the time, neither of us remembered that we had met previously during the interview. It turned out we were both headed to the beach for the weekend and he offered to give me a ride. He ended up staying at the beach house for a big party we were hosting the next day. We've been together since that day 13 years ago and we will celebrate our 10th anniversary next month.

Incidentally, the day we met at the picnic was Friday the 13th so that is a lucky day for us now.

[tamawrite]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BarbaraL
[B]

Wow! I think I'd be afraid of her instead of dating her! Were they at least dating when she threatened the other girls? Or was she some kind of stalker? To each his own . . . glad they're happy!



Nope--they weren't dating at the time. She had a crush on him before he knew she existed. She's such a sweet old lady, too!

[Beth]

DH loves to tell people how his company hired my law firm -- against his recommendation, and we met -- across 1700 miles -- because of it. :D

Long ago, I had a guy call me -- he tracked me down after he saw me on the freeway. I think that would scare me more now, but he was related to a couple of attorneys I knew. The same year, a different guy who was stopped next to me at a stop light called me (lived in the next apartments -- didn't require as much detective work). Those were fun stories, but neither turned into much more than that.

[jazzcat]

Met while on vacation, dancing with my friends, and then he joined us, and then I. He held my hand, and we connected then.

Of course through time and many, may conversations, and another visit, we know we're connected. Strangely, or not, we sensed it then, and still do now...


Love is a unique thing all on its own!

[colleency]

I love this thread!

I just wanted to add that my great grandparents met in the elevator shaft of a coal mine. My great grandfather said that he could only see my great grandmother's eyes, and that's what he fell in love with!

[SusanL]

I truly enjoyed reading everyone's stories!!
For about a year a friend kept telling me she wanted me to meet her co-worker, he was wonderful. Every time I saw her a a party, she reminded me that we had to meet, I was dating someone at that time. Eventually, I gave in, she and her husband brought him to a restaurant during a snowstorm to meet me and another couple. I decided that if I didn't like him, at least I had the other couple to help with any awkward moments. We met and didn't talk to either couple all night. That was 15 years ago, we have been happily married 13 years. Gosh, what if I hadn't finally given in to Linda:eek: ! I still thank her to this day:) !!