How did you meet your SO?

[MommaFox]

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I always love hearing stories so I thought this would be neat. 🙂

Here is mine:

I was in theatre and stagecraft in highschool. We had a lot of mutual friends but never seemed to formally meet. Senior year he and a close friend of mine took stagecraft with me. The class was awesome. A bunch of unsupervised high schoolers with drills, saws, plywood, paint and props. We started socializing about class things and I noticed he would always want to hop in and help hold something up for me/ teach me how to do something. We happened to get paired together for a project where you had to design the perfect room for someone. We talked about our interests and he designed me a pretty baller room. He got up to present it and got my name wrong......lol. I didn't correct him but our mutual friend did. He was super embarrassed. It was adorable. Our mutual friend must've seen the flame flicker between us so he "just so happened" to "accidentally" invite us both over to hang with him and his gf one night. We walked around downtown for hours and goofed off. At the end if the night we came home and all watched a movie. He was so nervous that he was shaking when he went to hold my hand for the first time.

It will be 5 years in November. 😀 He is still just as awkward.

 

[wildcatj]

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

 

[dalmatiandoc17]

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

👍👍👍 Dogs*

 

[felinelvr44]

High school. AP english class. Alphabetical seating. 😳

In September we will have been together for 10 years. We just celebrated our two year wedding anniversary 😀

Also - I am a crazy cat lady regardless of the spouse. 5 cats!

 

[MarxistPreVet]

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

seconded with my dog.

 

[LetItSnow]

I met mine playing volleyball. I played on a variety of teams - competitive men's, bar-league coed ... my captain and I were out scouting for some new bar-league players and I spotted my wife. Made him invite her to join our team. Worked out pretty well for me.

But our best 'meeting and marrying' story is getting married. We eloped. Bought tickets for a cruise. Dropped a bunch of invites to our reception in the mail to family/friends on our way to the airport. Had a judge and our best friends meet us at the gate our plane was departing from. By the time the little ceremony was over, we had a nice wedding crowd of our two best friends and a few hundred strangers all waiting for planes to depart. Was tons of fun.

Called our parents from the plane. Mine were thrilled (mostly in that "thank god you married her before screwing it up" way). Her parents were less thrilled, but finally sent us champagne for one of the dinners on the cruise. 13 years later, they only remind me about eloping once or twice a year. Really truly not my fault - my wife was the one who wanted to do it. I just went along with it.

 

[DVM882029]

love these threads, although i'm pretty sure i'm gonna be a crazy dog lady.

 

[MommaFox]

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

I didn't anticipate this response! Sorry! I thought I would be forever alone with a bunch of cats, too!

 

[wildcatj]

I didn't anticipate this response! Sorry! I thought i would be forever alone with a bunch of cats, too!

Edit! This made the wrong face!!!!
😀😀😀😀 is what I meant. Stupid.

 

[Trilt]

Every year my school does an event called Shackathon, where organizations build, well, shacks in the main thoroughfare (the "brickyard") of the school and harass people passing by for money to donate to Habitat for Humanity. (People also sell drinks, do root beer pong, whatever, just to pass the time). It ends up looking something like this:

Well, the catch is that at least one person has to be in your shack for the entire week that it's out on the brickyard - even overnight. So as a freshman, I volunteered to spend one night in the shack for a student organization I had recently become involved with. There I had a conversation with someone that lasted for about four hours into the night... then we met for lunch a week later... and now, almost five years later, we're committed partners and live together. 🙂

I'm a crazy ferret lady, so I can understand that, though...

 

[Filly Bay]

In 4th grade! 🙂 We went to different elementary schools but they combined to form the same middle school/high school. We were both in gifted and met on a gifted field trip to learn about the coal barges in Pittsburgh. We weren't friends until 6th grade when we started middle school together. I had a crush on him from 6th grade until we started dating between 10th & 11th grade . I actually asked him out in 8th grade, but he was "talking" to someone else and I didn't know it at the time. 😡 I dated some other guys but always had a thing for him. Finally July 4th after sophomore year we went to the same party, hung out all day, watched fireworks, talked all night...and the rest is history! 😍 Dated for 6 years and got engaged this summer - Planning to get married summer of 2015! 😀

 

[HorsesRLife]

Met in reproduction class in college. He sat across from me and one of my good guy friend's and he thought we were dating so he didn't ask me out. I finally got the courage to ask him to study for the final together. After that we didn't talk for about 3 months and happened to be at the same bar one night and danced, drank, and talked all night. 2 years later to the day we got married and have been for over 2 years!

 

[kernel]

My SO and I actually met while we were both trying to branch out and try something new post-break-up with our respective exes. The whole "branching out" thing is pretty significant since we're both fairly anti-social, and we each took the break-ups rather poorly. Anyway, I had recently moved from my hometown to this state, knowing no one, and signed up for summer classes at my new uni's biological research station. Before my now SO left for the same bio station that summer, his mom bet him 10 bucks he would meet someone while he was there (he was in a pretty bad way/depressed at that time and had to move back in with his parents)...It might have been love at first sight. After our first evening together, making tasteless jokes and gazing at the stars in a canoe on the lake, I knew I wanted him

He has yet to cough up the $10 though, in case you were wondering.

 

[BlackDog17]

Met in reproduction class in college. He sat across from me and one of my good guy friend's and he thought we were dating so he didn't ask me out. I finally got the courage to ask him to study for the final together. After that we didn't talk for about 3 months and happened to be at the same bar one night and danced, drank, and talked all night. 2 years later to the day we got married and have been for over 2 years!

I hope you guys have kids just so you can mortify them by telling them this.

 

[ABgirl1990]

A pirate party at a friends garage...best looking pirate there, hands down!
We were both at pretty low points in our lives, but now we have a 3 year old and couldn't be happier.
Although on certain days I would like to trade him in for a litter of puppies. 🙂

 

[MysteryCat]

In a college cultural geography class. I was 17 and in running start (senior year of HS), he was 21 an had no idea. We sat together after someone stole my usual seat. We talked/texted for a few weeks, and finally he asked me to go to lunch with him at a little Russian restaurant (eating ethnic food was extra credit in the class if we provided a receipt). Well, we did go have dumplings, but we never turned in the receipt! I guess the rest is history (or geography?) We have been together for 4 years, and married for 1 year on August 4th!

 

[nickyfdoc]

0000 pick me! Pick me! Lol

I had left my ex for serial cheating and just being an all around douche and had left town. When I came back I really didn't have any friends or anything so I joined plentyoffish.com (POF) to meet people for friends. I really wasn't planning on dating anyone till I was dead since I had such a bad taste in my mouth. I was seriously sifting like 40+ messages a day and actually messaged my boyfriend. I saw he was a med student so I hit him up saying I was a pre-vet blah blah blah. He ended up responding, we facebooked then I gave him my number and we were non-stop talking for 2 weeks (he was on rotation 4 hours away) and when he came back I went out to the bar that night with some friends lol.
Well, I drunk dialed him at like 1am and begged him to come meet up with me. He met me at waffle house and I was gonnneeee (Tequila, oh you!) and oh boy! What a first impression I made.

First, I like ran and jump hugged him (first meeting!) and after we were done I was trying to convince everyone I wasn't drunk so started walking on a parking line... my brothers friend shoulder tapped me and I literally rolled into my brothers car head first and left a huge dent in it. My SO thought I Had a concussion and checked me... I proceeded to um, release my stomach behind a dumpster... I don't know why he called me back! Lol!

2 weeks later it was official! We hit 8 months together on Sunday

Honestly, it has been the best relationship ever! We are so happy and stable. We rarely fight. It's super loving and just amazing! We really understand each other and our time constraints and push the other to do their best in their respective fields (he's a 4th year med student!)

😀

10 points if you recognize the fairy! 😀

I love this pic of us! Any others I have of us are either me studying while he plays video games (so common lol), or me with chop sticks in my mouth and him looking at me with weird faces. XD I'm weird.

 

[MommaFox]

Although on certain days I would like to trade him in for a litter of puppies. 🙂

👍

 

[bold text]

He was on the jury of my capital murder trial. He thought I was cute so he persuaded the other jurors to vote not guilty. I owe my man my life, literally.

 

[Emiloo4]

My story involves a stripper... 😏

Looooong story short, it was spring break, I was visiting a new guy I was dating, but I was staying with my cousin who was in Navy. The night I got there, the guy got a DUI. He was dumped immediately.
The next day my childhood best friend called and asked me to join her, her hubs, and a bunch of their friends at the beach. On the way, they kept telling me about a guy who was gonna be there. I said hell to the no, I just dumped someone the night before.
So we met and hit it off immediately, but there was a problem... he was with a girl. This girl was WEIRD! Karaoking into her cell phone with headphones in, refused to speak to anyone, and just kept giving crazy looks to everyone. This girl was rode hard and put away wet. You could tell he was mortified, but he was still being very respectful of her.
Turns out...
When he had gotten back from Iraq 2 months before, his friends threw him a party with a few strippers blah blah blah. He told the party that everyone should come visit him in FL, they were always welcome.
Well the stripper thought he was hot, and 2 months later she called him from her layover. She said her friend and her were visiting FL and just needed a ride to their hotel from the airport. SO being a nice guy said sure.
Well... she was alone... and had no hotel
So he told her she could sleep on the couch. All night long she banged on his door and begged him to come into his room. He said he was legit freaked out. So the next day she came with him to the beach where we met.
Every time he tried to talk to anyone she would hit him, threaten him, I mean weird shiz. He kindly explained that he didn't know her and had no affiliation with her. (None of us could get past how patient he was with this whack job. It was something I actually found endearing about him. He could have been a totally arse but he wasn't.) I pretty much gave up on him and laughed it all off.
So after a night of hell, he called me the next morning as he was leaving the airport from dropping her off and insisted he take me out to start over. He came to pick me up at my cousin's house, walked in, and my cousin screamed, ran over, and leaped into his arms... 😏
Turns out they were great friends in the Navy for the past 5 years and she hadn't seen him since he got back from Iraq. (He was also the guy she **** talked about for a few years prior because he got an early promotion over her haha. I had heard so much about him already )
So we had our first date, I went back to college 3 hours away and just figured that was that. Nope. He called me a few times that week and I went back the next weekend. He had planned a really fun night with all of our friends (we had a few mutual ones by this point) and I ended up puking in his toilet all night while he held my hair Great second date, Emiloo 🙄
Thought for sure that was the end, but he was a persistent little ****. Here we are 5 years later engaged and happy 😍

 

[devyn]

great stories all, but this makes me realise how truly hopeless it is......


so yeah....

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

but dogs.....

He was on the jury of my capital murder trial. He thought I was cute so he persuaded the other jurors to vote not guilty. I owe my man my life, literally.

👍

😆

 

[Lab Rat83]

Seven years ago I was living in the same residence with his sister. Me and his sister became friends and alas one day he came to visit. I remember teasing her that I found her brother was hot (before I even knew what he looked like). Anyway, long story short a bunch of us girls and her brother went out that night. I felt bad that he was the only guy among 7 girls, so I went over to talk to him because he was sitting by himself. At this point, I wasn't even hitting on him I was just being genuinely friendly and didn't want to leave one from our group sitting by themselves. Besides, drunken dancing isn't my thing anyway. So we talked for a long time and really hit it off. We drunkenly kissed that night and voila......seven years later we have a wonderful relationship and he truly is the man I will marry. He is the most considerate and supportive person in my life. Without him, I would have never got into vet school because it was him and his sister-in-law (who is a vet) who convinced me to apply in the first place.

It's funny because I was supposed to go home to visit my family that weekend but because of a fluke coincidence I did not.

 

[abbercadaver]

I love this pic of us!

Look at you with all your tattoos. Super cute. You'll have to tell what they all are (or show close-ups, yaknow). 🙂

I'm always itching for new ones, so seeing others' tats kinda satiates me. A little.

 

[that redhead]

He moved up here from Texas to live with his grandparents. They went to the same church that my parents (and by extension me) went to. They brought him to the church picnic and asked the youth group minister if he knew anyone going to [my high school] because their grandson needed some friends. It was my high school, so we were introduced. Everyone in YG thought he was totally hot but I was already dating someone at that point so I was just like 'kay guy, whatevs. And we were friends for a couple of years before we started dating and now we're married and it's glorious. Eight years in September for us.

Kind of funny to say we met at a church picnic since neither of us are religious at all anymore

 

[nickyfdoc]

Look at you with all your tattoos. Super cute. You'll have to tell what they all are (or show close-ups, yaknow). 🙂

I'm always itching for new ones, so seeing others' tats kinda satiates me. A little.

Lol thank you! I did post pics of them in the tattoo forum 🙂

But leopard print on top half left arm, evanescence tattoo inner left arm with Amy Lee's actualy signature in there (I've loved that band since I was 13... jeez, 11 years now)
🙂

The man and baby are my dad and I and the pumpkin is cause that was my nickname growing up, my gir tattoo on my hand, and vampire bites on my inner wrist.

The chest tattoo is something I drew up, an anatomical heart, key with chains on it and spider webs (I was feeling super morbid about love at the time lol)

I want to finish out my sleeve for sure 🙂 I'll probably nix doing another hand tattoo (till I own my own practice and I can tell clients I own the practice if they have a problem with it 😛 lol)

 

[macita183]

I moved back home to Wisconsin after several years in Colorado due in large part to breaking up with my crazy ex. We lived together at the time and it was just a really bad situation so I midnight moved on him.

5 months after I moved back, one of my childhood friends invites me to a Halloween party. I went and got ridiculous drunk. I started talking to one of his friends that he went to college with. I don't remember it but I guess I leaned in a kissed him. A bunch of us passed out in my friend's apartment and the next morning the boy walked me back to my car and asked for my number. He texted me about a hour later and said it was nice to meet me and hoped that I got home safe.

I've never been someone that asks out a guy, but I really wanted to see him again so I invited him to go to a Bucks game a couple days later. I remember being really nervous calling and asking him. He couldn't go but asked me to dinner a week later. We will have been together 4 years in October.

 

[Bearby]

Put me on the list of future lonely spinsters with too many cats

 

[WelshCob]

Put me on the list of future lonely spinsters with too many cats

Ditto! I did have a long 6 year relationship with the biggest A-hole ever but have been single for a year and am collecting cats.

 

[allieh8607]

I don't have any cute elaborate story. 🙁 My ex was in a fraternity and after we broke up I still liked to hang out with the guys. They were trying to recruit my boyfriend into the fraternity so I just happened to be around when he started coming around to their events. I noticed him staring at me a couple of times and after some encouraging and help from one of my girlfriends, we exchanged numbers and the rest is history! Will be 3 yrs in October.

 

[MommaFox]

Thought for sure that was the end, but he was a persistent little ****.

👍 This made me laugh. My SO, too. I remember on Halloween he didn't bother to make plans with me. We were, Idk, semi exclusive. I didn't ask him if he was talking to others because it wasn't my business at that point. I had someone else persueing me so I made Halloween plans with him. I figured future SO had different plans. Well fast forward to Halloween morning and future SO is telling me about what he has planned for us that night. Lol. When I told him I already had plans the butthurt from him was just adorable. I went out with the other boy for Halloween. He got drunk and hung out to talk about how much he liked me with the friend who set up our first date all night. I felt bad because I dismissed his lack of planning as him not caring or not wanting to hang out. But I think that was the turning point where he realized he better be proactive and lock that ish down. He was very persistent. Made sure he made plans with me everyday. About 2 weeks later I finally said yes.

 

[tuckervet]

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

👍👍👍 Dogs*

👍👍👍👍

( and I'm a sucker for the large breeds dogs, which will really help the crazy dog lady image)

 

[adams30]

I met my fiancé the first week of college in 2 places. the first being a student musical group (we were both in high school theatre tech crew, him doing primarily set building and lighting and I did scenic design and painting) and the second place being our dorm building.

We eventually got to know each other more and became friends from working together and living in the same place. We developed mutual friends as well.

towards the end of the semester I got up the courage to ask him out myself (he was a little shy but I was certain he liked me too). He said no at first but later reconsidered a couple days later. He was shy and had to think about it for a couple of days.

3 and a half years later we are still together and recently engaged! We couldn't be happier! We both graduated college this past May, he is starting a new job next week, and I'm starting vet school in fall (as well as scrambling to plan a wedding for next summer - trying to get as much of it done before vet school starts).

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

I don't have any cute elaborate story. 🙁

Neither do I.

Online. That's it 😳



Although...on our first date, the door on my apartment broke as JUST as I was turning the knob to open it and leave, locking myself inside the apt. I didn't have his phone number and was freaking out thinking he was gonna assume I stood him up.

I climbed out the window and was right on time. 😎

I live on the second floor. 😎😎

Take THAT hobgoblins.

 

[StartingoverVet]

My story is ultra-embarassing for me..... and long.
Need alcohol to tell it truthfully.

 

[dyachei]

My story is ultra-embarassing for me..... and long.
Need alcohol to tell it truthfully.

then start drinking.

 

[MommaFox]

(we were both in high school theatre tech crew, him doing primarily set building and lighting and I did scenic design and painting)

Ermahgerd. Theatre tech is seriously a great matchmaker.

then start drinking.

👍

 

[Hotfillyky]

So, we met at the end of my freshman year of college. I was dating someone from home as a LDR. He had been out of the army for about a year. I was filling in for an acquaintance at her work (on horse farm). I was reaching in to my truck for a baseball cap when he drove up with farm manager so he saw my posterior first....lol

We started talking and I tried to hook him up with a friend at college but it was a no go. He came to my dorm one night (with alcohol), I got drunk, and we got together. I felt horrible! Called the LDR, confessed but didn't break up. He asked me questions and I answered them truthfully. Basically, it boiled down to I was attracted to them both. One that I had basically just met and one that I had known since middle school. They both knew about the other. I went home for the summer to the LDR and we spent alot of time together. But the noob sent me letters. I went back to school in the fall and well, the rest is history.

I regret that I hurt the LRD. He is a really great guy and had been a very good friend. I carried that guilt with me for a very long time. I finally talked it out with him. We both realized that we were young and didn't know each other much less ourselves.

The noob and I got married after being together for 2 years. We just had our 19th anniversary last week. Yep, we were married young. I love this man.....we have been through so many things together -a major car accident, kids, buying a first house, job changes, and more college. And, he wants me to succeed. 🙂 I can't say enough good things about him.


BTW, sometimes I still want to trade him for puppies. 😉

 

[DVM882029]

i love that all of you are happy but seriously PRINCE CHARMING WHERE ARE YOU???

(oh wait, his name is juan pablo, and maybe he'll be the next bachelor)

 

[Hotfillyky]

i love that all of you are happy but seriously PRINCE CHARMING WHERE ARE YOU???

(oh wait, his name is juan pablo, and maybe he'll be the next bachelor)

Believe me.........I wasn't looking. I had a plan for my life that did not include a husband and kids right away.

I was over kids.....I have 3 younger brothers ( youngest was under a year old at that time).

 

[DVM882029]

Believe me.........I wasn't looking. I had a plan for my life that did not include a husband and kids right away.

I was over kids.....I have 3 younger brothers ( youngest was under a year old at that time).

Give me a year and you can see me on The Bachelor competing for Juan's heart. 😍

I figure at this point I'm still strung up on douche guy, so I'm gonna work my ass of and go to school, and WHO THE HELL CARES. 👍 (yay beer happy)

 

[twelvetigers]

Hmmm... I was talking to a guy on the internet (AIM! Hah!) back in highschool. He had a friend that was over a lot. He would want to chat with a mic, but then he would never say anything - he just wanted to play Simon and Garfunkel songs... but the other guy wasn't shy about speaking up. I ended up chatting with the other guy separately.

At one point, my parents were away to help take care of my grandma for about a week. The original guy came over one night and we had pizza... he brought over a game console (PlayStation?) and tried to make me play Need for Speed or something like that. I kept on driving backwards because I was terrible at it (I didn't grow up with any video games ever, so the controllers are just so awkward for me) and he just got ticked off that I wasn't playing right. Was awkward.

The next night, I pestered the other guy (the friend) to bring me food. Not like I didn't have food... or a car to drive myself... but yanno. He fell for it and went to Sonic for me, brought me a burger with mayo no pickles and a cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper. It was like 11pm. He probably stayed until 1am or so... we just chatted. Next day, I sent him a message after school:

TT: "Hey... is the El Camino standard or automatic?"
DF: "Automatic. Why?"
TT: "I WANNA DRIVE IT."

So he let me drive the love of his life, his baby, the 1970 El Camino SS. Haha. I was hugging the white line because it was so wide... I'm sure he was clenching every muscle in his body and praying I didn't hit a mailbox. (I didn't.) We parked near the airport where planes come and go right overhead and talked, maybe made out some, yanno. Then a cop came and told us we had to leave... lol. He didn't make a big deal, just said it wasn't okay to park near airports since 2001 and stuff.

The next day, he told me he loved me - I was like 'btchplz'. Told him I was fond of him too. but c'mon.

That was March 2003 - I was 17 and a junior in HS. Married in 2007. It's been 10 years now. We may go to our 10 year HS reunion next year just to... this is gonna sound a little snotty, so I apologize, but just to show all the preppy or snotty or whatever people that met people AFTER highschool and then already divorced them that, neener neener we're still together despite whatever you had to say at the time, plus we both have good careers (or at least I hope I do, but they won't know any better). I only have a D.O., a pharmacist, and an optometrist to compete with - lol.

Anyway. Who knows. I know I missed out on a lot of dating and stuff, but... I can't really imagine anything much better than what I got right here, so meh. I'm happy.

 

[wolfspeaker]

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

Right there with ya, sista!

I'm moving from my hometown(I've left and come back at least 3 times in 11 years ), and going across state to a "city". Some people I work with, I've been friends with for 10+ years. They keep trying to find bachelors and trying to set up dates so I will meet "the one" and stay here the rest of my life.

It's kinda cute. I guess. They mean well.

 

[that redhead]

Hmmm... I was talking to a guy on the internet (AIM! Hah!) back in highschool. He had a friend that was over a lot. He would want to chat with a mic, but then he would never say anything - he just wanted to play Simon and Garfunkel songs... but the other guy wasn't shy about speaking up. I ended up chatting with the other guy separately.

At one point, my parents were away to help take care of my grandma for about a week. The original guy came over one night and we had pizza... he brought over a game console (PlayStation?) and tried to make me play Need for Speed or something like that. I kept on driving backwards because I was terrible at it (I didn't grow up with any video games ever, so the controllers are just so awkward for me) and he just got ticked off that I wasn't playing right. Was awkward.

The next night, I pestered the other guy (the friend) to bring me food. Not like I didn't have food... or a car to drive myself... but yanno. He fell for it and went to Sonic for me, brought me a burger with mayo no pickles and a cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper. It was like 11pm. He probably stayed until 1am or so... we just chatted. Next day, I sent him a message after school:

TT: "Hey... is the El Camino standard or automatic?"
DF: "Automatic. Why?"
TT: "I WANNA DRIVE IT."

So he let me drive the love of his life, his baby, the 1970 El Camino SS. Haha. I was hugging the white line because it was so wide... I'm sure he was clenching every muscle in his body and praying I didn't hit a mailbox. (I didn't.) We parked near the airport where planes come and go right overhead and talked, maybe made out some, yanno. Then a cop came and told us we had to leave... lol. He didn't make a big deal, just said it wasn't okay to park near airports since 2001 and stuff.

The next day, he told me he loved me - I was like 'btchplz'. Told him I was fond of him too. but c'mon.

That was March 2003 - I was 17 and a junior in HS. Married in 2007. It's been 10 years now. We may go to our 10 year HS reunion next year just to... this is gonna sound a little snotty, so I apologize, but just to show all the preppy or snotty or whatever people that met people AFTER highschool and then already divorced them that, neener neener we're still together despite whatever you had to say at the time, plus we both have good careers (or at least I hope I do, but they won't know any better). I only have a D.O., a pharmacist, and an optometrist to compete with - lol.

Anyway. Who knows. I know I missed out on a lot of dating and stuff, but... I can't really imagine anything much better than what I got right here, so meh. I'm happy.

This is my favorite story so far 🙂 That last part is my view, too. But you forgot the naked proposal part!

 

[felinelvr44]

Hmmm... I was talking to a guy on the internet (AIM! Hah!) back in highschool. He had a friend that was over a lot. He would want to chat with a mic, but then he would never say anything - he just wanted to play Simon and Garfunkel songs... but the other guy wasn't shy about speaking up. I ended up chatting with the other guy separately.

At one point, my parents were away to help take care of my grandma for about a week. The original guy came over one night and we had pizza... he brought over a game console (PlayStation?) and tried to make me play Need for Speed or something like that. I kept on driving backwards because I was terrible at it (I didn't grow up with any video games ever, so the controllers are just so awkward for me) and he just got ticked off that I wasn't playing right. Was awkward.

The next night, I pestered the other guy (the friend) to bring me food. Not like I didn't have food... or a car to drive myself... but yanno. He fell for it and went to Sonic for me, brought me a burger with mayo no pickles and a cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper. It was like 11pm. He probably stayed until 1am or so... we just chatted. Next day, I sent him a message after school:

TT: "Hey... is the El Camino standard or automatic?"
DF: "Automatic. Why?"
TT: "I WANNA DRIVE IT."

So he let me drive the love of his life, his baby, the 1970 El Camino SS. Haha. I was hugging the white line because it was so wide... I'm sure he was clenching every muscle in his body and praying I didn't hit a mailbox. (I didn't.) We parked near the airport where planes come and go right overhead and talked, maybe made out some, yanno. Then a cop came and told us we had to leave... lol. He didn't make a big deal, just said it wasn't okay to park near airports since 2001 and stuff.

The next day, he told me he loved me - I was like 'btchplz'. Told him I was fond of him too. but c'mon.

That was March 2003 - I was 17 and a junior in HS. Married in 2007. It's been 10 years now. We may go to our 10 year HS reunion next year just to... this is gonna sound a little snotty, so I apologize, but just to show all the preppy or snotty or whatever people that met people AFTER highschool and then already divorced them that, neener neener we're still together despite whatever you had to say at the time, plus we both have good careers (or at least I hope I do, but they won't know any better). I only have a D.O., a pharmacist, and an optometrist to compete with - lol.

Anyway. Who knows. I know I missed out on a lot of dating and stuff, but... I can't really imagine anything much better than what I got right here, so meh. I'm happy.

Love this! And I couldn't agree more with the bolded part. Sometimes I feel the need to stick up for us since people sort of roll their eyes when I say we met in high school but whatevs. We're happy. And I totally hear you about the high school reunion thing. The only reason I would go would be to rub it in other people's faces as awful as that sounds.

Our "getting together" story actually had some lame high school drama involved that I didn't mention... I asked him to go to some friday night school function with me (that I helped plan - I was on student council) and a day later his cheating ex-girlfriend told him she wanted to get back together. He said, well, I can't right now because I have this thing to go to with felinelvr44. She said, "if you go with her, you can forget about EVER getting back together" and husband said, "uh alright!" and we went on our little date and got ice cream afterwards and sat by this little creek next to the dairy queen and talked for hours 😀. I kissed him because he was a big chicken. 🙂

When he proposed... oh boy. We went to a fancy shmancy dinner (21 club!) to celebrate 5 years of dating. Afterwards we went to one of our favorite places in Manhattan and he popped the question. I said yes, emotions! crying! Then we started calling our parents to tell them the good news and I realized, oh ****, thanks to all that champagne at dinner, I really have to pee. So 3 minutes after asking me to marry him, the guy of my dreams got to act as my lookout as I hiked up my dress and peed on the streets of Manhattan. (FWIW we were in the Financial district so everything was closed and there was barely anyone on the street).

 

[MommaFox]

So 3 minutes after asking me to marry him, the guy of my dreams got to act as my lookout as I hiked up my dress and peed on the streets of Manhattan. (FWIW we were in the Financial district so everything was closed and there was barely anyone on the street).

Hahahaha

 

[Kpowell14]

I wanna sit and read this thread.. And post my 😍 story....... Must continue packing....

 

[OSUPreVet]

Erm, he was the super hot young professor and I was the swooning student. I messaged him a year after I had finished his class - we went on a date and hit it off immediately and have been inseparable since. Oh and we're now married. A little more scandalous than the usual but eh 🙄

 

[orcagirl]

Hmmm... I was talking to a guy on the internet (AIM! Hah!) back in highschool. He had a friend that was over a lot. He would want to chat with a mic, but then he would never say anything - he just wanted to play Simon and Garfunkel songs... but the other guy wasn't shy about speaking up. I ended up chatting with the other guy separately.

At one point, my parents were away to help take care of my grandma for about a week. The original guy came over one night and we had pizza... he brought over a game console (PlayStation?) and tried to make me play Need for Speed or something like that. I kept on driving backwards because I was terrible at it (I didn't grow up with any video games ever, so the controllers are just so awkward for me) and he just got ticked off that I wasn't playing right. Was awkward.

The next night, I pestered the other guy (the friend) to bring me food. Not like I didn't have food... or a car to drive myself... but yanno. He fell for it and went to Sonic for me, brought me a burger with mayo no pickles and a cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper. It was like 11pm. He probably stayed until 1am or so... we just chatted. Next day, I sent him a message after school:

TT: "Hey... is the El Camino standard or automatic?"
DF: "Automatic. Why?"
TT: "I WANNA DRIVE IT."

So he let me drive the love of his life, his baby, the 1970 El Camino SS. Haha. I was hugging the white line because it was so wide... I'm sure he was clenching every muscle in his body and praying I didn't hit a mailbox. (I didn't.) We parked near the airport where planes come and go right overhead and talked, maybe made out some, yanno. Then a cop came and told us we had to leave... lol. He didn't make a big deal, just said it wasn't okay to park near airports since 2001 and stuff.

The next day, he told me he loved me - I was like 'btchplz'. Told him I was fond of him too. but c'mon.

That was March 2003 - I was 17 and a junior in HS. Married in 2007. It's been 10 years now. We may go to our 10 year HS reunion next year just to... this is gonna sound a little snotty, so I apologize, but just to show all the preppy or snotty or whatever people that met people AFTER highschool and then already divorced them that, neener neener we're still together despite whatever you had to say at the time, plus we both have good careers (or at least I hope I do, but they won't know any better). I only have a D.O., a pharmacist, and an optometrist to compete with - lol.

Anyway. Who knows. I know I missed out on a lot of dating and stuff, but... I can't really imagine anything much better than what I got right here, so meh. I'm happy.

This exactly. We met when I was 13. He was one of the taekwondo instructors at the school where I was taking classes. He spent nearly four hours at that school five nights a week. (Disclaimer: he's only 6 months older than I am). I was impressed with how tall he was at that age. I always felt so much taller than any of the guys at that point. I'm only 5' 6", but that was at 13 and the guys were really not much taller. I would say I developed a crush on him probably within 6 months. I waited for about a year or so, talking to my friends about how much I liked him, before finally working up the nerve to find him on MySpace. We then began talking on AIM. We'd sit on our computers for hours talking. I think I spent 12 hours talking to him one day. He's not one to ask girls out, never has been. It took a few months before I was even brave enough to think about asking him out. I was all ready to ask him to my homecoming dance (we went to difference high schools). Then he didn't even show up at the taekwondo school. Apparently Acutane had given him a major migraine and he slept through all his classes. This was after the nerves made me vomit that morning. I've got a really weak stomach when I'm nervous.

However, we kept talking and my dad started calling him my boyfriend. We even talked about being in a relationship, but he wasn't allowed to date until 16 (he was only about two months shy of that). He came over to my house a few times and I went over to his. Of course neither of us could drive, so our parents had to drive us there. I ended up asking him to my school's winter formal. It was three days after his birthday, so we counted it as our first date. We've been together ever since. This December will be 8 years together and a year and a half of marriage. I can't imagine being with anyone else. Like TT I may have missed out on a lot of dating, but I'd rather not go through that heartbreak when I've got such a good thing.

 

[variegata]

I am boycotting this thread because I am going to be alone forever with my cats.
That is all.

Yup, me too.

 

[Skids]

I met my wife at a dorm meeting. She was a friend of a friend and sat across the table from me. My buddy didn't have anything going on with her, so I asked her out the next night.

We had to walk 5 miles each way to go see a movie on our first date. My motorcycle didn't have a back seat and she didn't have a car yet. The movie was horrible and we were so tired at work the next day, but we were inseperable.

10 months later she was wearing overalls and flip flops, I was in cut-off jeans and a t-shirt and we were both getting chewed out by the Alabama justice of the peace for not taking getting married seriously. 🙂

It has been 13 and a half years now, so I think we are doing pretty good.