He was looking at my cousin’s Facebook page (was my cousin’s supervisor at the time) and saw my picture. Asked my cousin how he knew someone who was as hot as me (definitely his words, not mine) and my cousin ended up introducing us. Two months later, I’d moved to his state and moved in with him. Eight months after that, we were married.
@jqubed It apparently works on occasion, at least. Of course, it also helps to not have super high standards. Hot chick who’s willing to be chatted up on Facebook might come with two kids and a messy divorce like I did. Everyone comes with some type of baggage.
First met when she was apartment neighbors with my brother when they were attending college (I was already graduated). Re-introduced on a ski trip a few years later after I divorced my first wife. Dated long-distance (2 states away) for a while, then she found a new job nearby and moved in with me. Got engaged 18mo later. We’ve been married just over 19yr.
In a really weird way, I met my wife because of Barry Obama. Basically one campaign worker (in Indiana) from the 08 campaign introduced me to another campaign worker (who was from DC, but we met in Seattle while she was working on a 2010 Senate campaign) who introduced me to her friend. I can technically claim that I wouldn’t be married if Obama didn’t win the Primaries in 08.
We met at a punk show sometime in '05 or '06. We were reintroduced in probably '07 through a girlfriend at the time. They were friends, and neither had cars. I would pick up future wife and give her a ride to girlfriends house. This continued after that girlfriend and I broke up. It eventually turned into me picking her up, and her never calling her friend. We started dating in '08, and were married in '12.
He followed me on Twitter back in 2008. We ended up meeting in person because I had a dream that we were out drinking and he bought me a vodka tonic. I dm’ed him to tell him that I had this silly dream and he suggested that we make it a reality. Been dating since 2009 and married since 2013. The funny part: I thought he found me because he was a friend of a friend. Turns out, the app he was using was able to show him tweets of people nearby and he thought I was cute and funny. So not only did we meet because I had a dream about him, but it was totally random that we connected on Twitter.
Met in HS in 1983, married 25 years next week (there was a lot of long distance dating while in college in different states and i graduated 2 yrs after him)
Through eHarmony, which she still insists I tricked her as I had multiple profiles depending on who i was responding to.
We ended up on the New Newlywed Game show when they had couples who met on the site. Did not win.
Actually combo of work/social gathering/adorable story.
Softball game with people from work - had to catch a ride “from the car in front of us” dropped my wallet in the car and did not notice until it was time to pay for the pizza and beer - had to track down the “girl who owns the Camaro” rode my bike (Bicycle) 20 miles to her place… We have been happily married 32 years (and 32 out of 34 is pretty good)
We met on a local BBS when we were teenagers in 1995, back before the internet really took off and when it was weird telling people we met online. Now we’re like Met-Online Hipsters.
I met my current partner online in a forum. I clicked on his profile when I was looking at locals, and I commented on his picture. He messaged me and we had great conversation right away. After probably a month of talking outside the forum, we met, went to dinner, and watched Return of the King on DVD since he hadn’t seen it yet. We’ve been dating for around 3 years.
We text each other cute animal photos quite often. Otters are the most prevalent.
@narfcake I love that shirt, but I don’t like wearing light colors. I bought the really cute red panda that clings to the back of a green shirt… And I wish I had bought it in a bigger size. The black shirts seem to be sized better… Or the fact that it hides more, lol
@RiotDemon I have a couple copies of Panda Hug and the turquoise isn’t all that light IMHO, though it is bright. I’ll do a comparison vs. the kelly green shirts when I get home tonight.
At a big weekend camping trip in Big Sur in 1989 put together by a friend of mine who worked with her. I remembered seeing her at a party at this guy’s house a few months earlier and being smitten but I had a girlfriend at the time. Our first date was the following Tuesday and she brought her overnight bag. Last week was our 23rd wedding anniversary.
I asked her to be on the company softball team. After practice, we had a drink. She had a recently former fiance AND a current boyfriend. A year later, she moved in with me; seven years later, we got married. 20th anniversary this year…
I was walking my dog in Memphis, and I saw @MrsMoose walking her dog a ways away. I adjusted my pace to make sure we crossed paths but we didn’t, so I walked an extra lap to introduce myself. "haha oh sorry my dog has to talk to everyone haha what’s your name can I have your number?"
I proposed just short of a year later while taking one last walk in Memphis before moving to Dallas the next day.
Some friends of mine brought her to a Super Bowl party I was hosting last year. She was (is) WAY out of my league and knew more about football than the majority of the guys that were in attendance. She was so happy that she cried when the stupid Pats won. But, I was dating someone at the time so nothing happened and we parted ways with no more than a few friendly words and a congrats on the win.
A few weeks later the relationship I was in came to an end. After work one day I joined a coworker for a beverage. We just so happened to sit at the first seats available when you walk in to the bar. And about an hour later she just so happened to walk in with the girlfriend of my buddy that brought her to the party. Since we were sitting right there, they immediately saw us and joined us for a beverage.
The next few hours were a bit of a blur, not from intoxication, but from absolute recognition that something was happening. A few days later we got to hang out 1 on 1 for the first time. I haven’t left her side since.
After 2 days of spending time with her I told her I loved her and she magically agreed. About a month later I told her I was going to marry her and she magically agreed. About a month later we went to pick out rings. A few weeks after that we went and picked up our marriage license. Then in October we flew off to Puerto Rico and got married.
I knew that she existed her for 250 days before we got married. We’ve now been married for 277 days.
Met my spouse online via a Craigslist mutual ad I posted. My sister and I were going to go to Gettysburg to go ghost hunting but she flaked out at the last minute. I was bound and determined not to go by myself, but I was also staying away from dating since I was recovering from a devastating breakup so this presented a quandary (all my other friends had plans).
The week before I had posted an ad in the Strictly Platonic section for someone to be my date to my coworker’s halloween themed wedding because it required costumes and there was no way in hell I was going to go dressed up by myself. I got a lot of great responses and went with a totally hot person who I had a lovely evening with and then parted ways happily the next day I went back to CL and posted the ad for the Gettysburg accompaniment. Got emails from many of the same people the other week asking me why the previous person didn’t work out and I told them that it was only meant to be a one and done thing. I got an email with the subject line “Please ignore my trash can and the fact that I haven’t shaved.” I was immediately intrigued.
My now-spouse wrote this very funny quirky email that was totally my personality in written form. We decided it would be a good time over a series of very succinct emails. When the big day came, I was so not into dressing up for a guy so I just wore jeans, a hoodie and a ball cap. We had some awkward convo on the way to the battlefield but while we were at one of the spots he mentioned he had a son and his son ended up being three weeks older than my son so that’s really what got the convo started.
We spent the rest of the day letting our guard down and getting to know each other. Then we did the ghost tour and we were being snarky which was totally fun. We had decided before we went up that we were going to stay overnight since the ghost hunt wasn’t going to be over until 1 AM so we got a hotel room. They gave away our double bed room so we had to share a king bed room. It was kind of awkward at first but we spent the whole night talking.
Fell asleep around 5 AM and woke up at 8 AM - picked up right where we left off with the convo. At this point I was enjoying his company so much that I didn’t want to take him home so we went to Philly for the day since he’d never had a cheesesteak. While we were in line I was trying to stay close to him because there was a really cold wind - not because I was trying to rub up on him or anything - and he put his arm around me, pulled me close and kissed me.
We’ve not been apart ever since then. This Halloween it will be 8 years together, and in January it will be 5 years married.
I moved to MD from MA as an Occupational Therapist to work at 1 hospital. She moved to MD from MA as an Occupational Therapist to work at another hospital. She lived in the apartment above me and I didn’t even meet her for 6 months. We met at the mailbox.
We were both in drama club and forensics back in high school. At the time, we ran in different circles (and she was a grade higher than me), but we liked each other well enough.
After graduation, we lost touch for a while. She moved to New York for nine years, and then to Berlin for another four. I spent a year away at college, then bounced around the immediate area for a while, finally settling just a couple blocks away from the house I grew up in. Somewhere in there we reconnected through Facebook. When she posted that she was looking for a cheap apartment for (what she thought would be) a few months back in our hometown, I put her in touch with my landlord - and asked if she wanted to go out for dinner sometime.
She did end up living just down the hall from me, and I believe the standard abbreviation here is “one thing led to another.” We hung out pretty much every day, officially became a couple a month or so in, moved to a house out in the country after about a year, and made it all legal about six weeks ago.
1st night of college in '04, she was with a group of people I ran into playing frisbee on the quad. Turned out everyone was in the same major. We all became friends. Two years and a couple relationships later, we started dating. Happily Married 4 years now.
I was living in the UK, in my record producer life (I was about 30), when I got a phone call from my cousin Helena, who I had never met. She said it’s good to have relatives in the UK as a visiting American, and invited me to lunch. We met, she was a woman in her 60s, obviously successful, as she had an entire building in Mayfair for her business.
After lunch we went back to her office, and talked. I noticed the office was filled with attractive, very well-dressed young people - perhaps a law firm, I thought? So I asked, “What is your business?” She told me she ran a large elite “introduction agency” for very wealthy European and Middle Eastern men. Ah. “Did my mother put you up to this??”
“Well you can’t live your life alone.” Shit. “Have a look through the books and see if there are any of my “girls” (almost all wealthy British elites) that you find interesting.”
I open the book and am magically transferred to the Westminster Dog Show. Apparently, wealthy British babies are beaten with the ugly stick upon birth, because this book looked like a catalog you’d see at the dog pound, with the title “Available to Adopt!” Hey, I’m not focused on looks, but if she has to shave her face more than I do, it’s not going to work out.
Suddenly, after page after page of shocks, I turn to a page with a beautiful blonde woman, obviously a model, who was totally out of place in the book. I looked up and Helena says “Oh her. That’s Mitzi. I know many of my girls aren’t that attractive, so we pay Mitzi and other models for head shots to put in the book. She really doesn’t accept referrals from us.”
I had a picture with me of me in the studio after 40 hours, in a grubby t shirt with my huge-sneakered feet on the console, smoking a huge spliff. “Send her this.”
Short version? Mitzi and I are still very much in love after twenty-five years of marriage, two kids and millions of laughs. We moved back to the States in 1995, and once our youngest graduates high school, we’re moving to the Bahamas.
I helped out a contractor friend doing his books in the evening after my day job and that’s where I met him. We started dating Memorial day, got engaged in October and married New Year’s Eve. Thirty one years this year.
We met in 2002 playing EQ. We were both dating other people and when we were both both single in March 2006, he asked me out. He proposed in 2008 and we got married in March 2009. Happy ever since.
Blind date set up by my brother when visiting my parents in Baton Rouge, I lived in Atlanta. Saw her 6 times before we were married 10 months after that first date. I asked her to marry me over the phone (how romantic!) grooms cake had a phone on it with ‘reach out and touch someone’ - that was 3 kids and over 32 years ago - still together, still love her and tell her that everyday.
Blind date. Went to a comedy club and she was funnier than the comics on stage. I figured when I stopped finding her funny I’d stop dating her I didn’t so I married her!
We met at a whitewater kayaking class. Our first date was paddling down a class III run. It was the most expensive first date ever since we both bought kayaks and accessories.
We met on the GEnie information service in 1988 playing Gemstone 2, a MUD, and in the gaming forums. She was big into computer gaming so when the Winter CES rolled around I collected a ton of stuff she was interested in and I asked her for a ‘safe’ address to send it to. She surprised me; she gave me her home address. First trust.
Within a year we were flying back and forth to visit, and calling all the time. Reach Out America plan FTW. We’ve been married since 1990. I still can’t believe how lucky I was and am.
@duodec Hah, I was on GEnie as well. A bit cheaper than CI$, but had to be off by 7AM. I bet there was almost no security between the consumer service and GE’s LAN. Fun times…
Where’s the option for people who are single, wouldn’t mind being married, but are also happy enough being single and aren’t about to rush into a bad relationship just for the sake of no longer being single?
I was walking to class, from the parking lot at the Jr. College I attended, when I heard a loud car coming-up fast behind me. I jumped aside just in time as the passenger mirror on the car just brushed my backpack. The hurled a few angry expletives at the young woman who was driving this primer-black 69 Mustang. She failed to notice what she almost caused (my death) as she sped past, but I noticed she was quite pretty.
I worked at a department store to pay my way through school. I worked in the Men’s Department and went to work later that same day. That night I saw that same young woman walk past my section and saw her begin to work in the Jewelry Department ( I later found out she had just started there a day or two earlier). Still feeling peevish, I went over and asked if she drove a black Mustang. When she answered that she did, well, I told her she nearly killed me at school and she needed to make it up to me by going out after work for a drink. Yes, I caved because, well, you know.
She agreed and so began a friendship that lasted for several years before growing into true love. And we have been married for thirty-three years now.
Many moons ago a friend without a car called me, offering me a ticket to the Roger Waters concert in return for a ride. Well, duh - easy decision. As we were sitting there two girls came in and sat a few rows behind us. Being horny young men we were discussing how they should be sitting next to us. Turns out they were sitting in the wrong seats. When asked to move by the usher we discovered their seats actually were right next to ours. Apparently my friend and the future gf bough their tix at the same record store (yes, this was long ago) and that store would buy blocks of seats together. Just a matter of timing. We started talking, found out my friend and future gf lived reasonably close to each other. They asked us if they could follow us back as they both sucked with directions. (Notice there are now two red flags?) We ended up sitting in the parking lot of a Roy Rogers for several hours. I was talking to her friend when the future gf came over and made her switch cars. I found out much later it was because she thought I was ‘way cuter’ than my friend. I was… A week later I was headed back to school. We stayed in touch, saw each other over the holidays and eventually made it a thing. Never had the desire to actually marry but we’ve been together much longer than most people are married.
Regardless of the outcome, I still love Roger Waters.
I met @humper on okcupid. I made fun of his pictures and asked if he was a serial killer. We spent our second date snowed in. The lesson here is mock people who might look unhinged and marry them.
@Thumperchick Once you marry them the experiment breaks down: marriage (sex?) is known to be a superior lubricant that keeps hinges in good working order.
/giphy good working order
@jqubed Ha, no. That came after we’d already met, and that would’ve been a much cooler story.
We met because of #xkcd IRC. He’s an op; I’m a jerk. He’s a computer engineer; I’m a lapsed physicist/fiber artist. We’ve been chatting for almost a decade. Six years ago he finally hit on me, it was hilarious, and we met up after that. And then I visited him for his internship that summer. And his graduation that winter. And he met my parents, we moved in together five states away, and last year we got married. We have our second pup now.
After a week TDY as a translator/liason between the USN and the Spanish Navy on this beautiful ship, the future mister was asked to stay aboard just a little while longer as it was departing from a port of call in my hometown and headed out of “The Pass” into the deeper water of the Gulf since the Spanish crew could not understand the deep southern drawl of the local harbor captain.
I was out with my parents in their boat along with the flotilla of many other boats tagging along for the send off.
One stacked blonde in a bikini with a pushy mother + a horny Naval Aviator with a pair of binoculars= a fairy tale ending.
35 years this December.
@LaVikinga Congrats (35)!!! TDY? My old military is kicking in. Are you sure I didn’t meet you in the Netherlands? I am sure I would have remembered. Glad the aviator had some binoculars.
@CaptAmehrican It IS! Good eye! @KDemo Turquoise. Looks better with a tan. He was a bit sad when I finally had to toss it out. @mfladd Oh, so I see you’ve been in a Ready Room before. Sometimes, I miss Navy life.
@mfladd My brother went Chair Force, supply/logistics. That man could pinch a penny to get more out of it and get it there yesterday. Very proud of him. He retired and managed to roll back into the same line of work as a civilian contractor.
Underwater=Nukes. Also known as 40 lb Heads. Hard life, better bonus pay. Can’t fathom living underwater like that. (See what I did there? Fathom. Underwater. Neener, neener.)
Husband? NAVAIR. Big watch, big ring. BIG swagger that comes along with being able to land on a pitching deck the size of a postage stamp, on a dark & stormy night, bobbing around like a cork in the middle of God-knows-where. He misses the rush of it almost every single day. I don’t miss the phone ringing in the middle of the night, or the doorbell ringing at odd times of the day. THAT uncertainty of Navy life I will never miss. But those squadron throw-downs…the social life was outstanding.
@LaVikinga LOL Chair Force. It has been a long time since I heard that term. But we so were. We even got catered meals while out in the field. No MRE’s for us. Ok, I think we had to eat them once.
@mfladd My younger sister stocked up on a case or two of MREs prior to Ivan ripping through her world. LOTS of damage to her area. She was simply astounded that even though she was working for hours and hours each day to cut up/remove fallen oaks and clean up the FOD, she was actually gaining weight. A LOT of weight.
We asked her what she had been eating (no power for weeks). Just an MRE for lunch and one for dinner. "…and those little Tabasco bottles are just so cute!"
Well, DUH! The blonde goes all the way to the brain on that one.
@jqubed Ah jeez, sorry. Because military MREs are made for troops in the field, they pack a LOT of calories per pack. We are a family of genetically cursed “easy keepers.” Don’t need a lot of calories to get by, which I suppose is a good thing if we’re ever trapped on a mountain with a football team from Uruguay.
Spoke with her last night. Said she was sometimes eating parts of them for breakfast, too.
Met her in Sociology class in college. First day the professor said that about 75% of us would hook up, 50% of those would get into a relationship, and 10% would get married.
We invited her to our wedding, she didn’t come. After the birth of our son we took pictures in the classroom where we met in the seats we sat during class. We invited her for the pictures, she didn’t respond.
We met at a bookstore, then around the neighborhood. At one point early on, she said, “I don’t want anything to do with you!” We’ve been married 27 years. (I guess she came around.)
I swear I pictured everyone here sitting on a sofa just like all those old couples in “When Harry Met Sally” telling their “how we met” stories.
Wove, twu wove…
We met online and he bragged about his menagerie of women. I told him that he was full of shit and there is no one he’d want more than me. We’ve been together for almost 12 years.
At a Sha-Na-Na concert. On campus. 1969. Details hazy. Or maybe that should be smoky. Married 3 years later. Still very much together. And grandkids have started appearing.
Setting: college
Sequence of events:
Got drunk on $3 big ass mugs of beer
Got cited for a UIP
Went to club
Danced up on a chick
Hooked up with chick and briefly dated
Separated with chick, but still associated with her
Saw another chick while at a party at first chick’s house
Got 2nd chick’s number
Called 2nd chick
Dated
She played hard to get
Hooked up
Shacked up
Married
Had kid
Going on 10 years marriage after 4 years dating. Moral of the story, drink alcohol and hook up with chicks in college, you might meet a roommate of a friend of hers that turns out to be your soulmate.
@jqubed Yup. We decided to get engaged while at a different bar and out the window we saw the jewelry store across the street was having a sale. Sorta like, “Meh, might as well check it out.”
Houston, hometown; 1986. Married a High School admirer who turned out to be Her Luciferessness. Figured it was time to get the hail outta Dodge when it went sour and South.
Hello Nashville ! Been here 1 day when my bro in laws’ secretary invites me to a pot luck dinner at her church on Sunday. Ok, what kind of church? I’d been raised a Catholic, so Protestant churches were looked askance at.
So, I go. Nazarene Church. No evidence of holy rolling, whew. After the service, the singles potluck dinner. I tell ya, as soon as we met the spark was like a lightning strike. Me being recently stung, I was wary.
Now, after 29 years; if you’d told me 31 years ago I’d be marrying a NY Yankee in Tennessee…you’d a been laughed at guffawingly by this 5th generation Texan. 'Fo true, 'fo true.
He was a Marine guard at the embassy where I was TDY secretary. He was the only one taller than me and I was the only secretary with a car. A match made in heaven. Married 47 years.
I gave him a lap-dance.
He tipped well and wore very nice shoes.
Size 16.
@MrsPavlov
/giphy "ohhhh myyyy"
match.com
Our first date was on April 15, 2005.
Summer camp-1993!
At the Rocky Horror Picture Show, November 1983.
OkCupid! Originally as friends, but she had more in mind. She convinced me (erm, made me realise
) I wasn’t straight.
@astromaddie ♡
Playing Team Fortress Classic. We did the back and forth thing for a few years before I moved to the US.
I was born with her
@conandlibrarian woah.
@hollboll Well, you keep turning me down and I had to turn somewhere!
@conandlibrarian Is her name Palmela Handerson?
@conandlibrarian
MySpace -2007
He was looking at my cousin’s Facebook page (was my cousin’s supervisor at the time) and saw my picture. Asked my cousin how he knew someone who was as hot as me (definitely his words, not mine) and my cousin ended up introducing us. Two months later, I’d moved to his state and moved in with him. Eight months after that, we were married.
@PurplePawprints So wait, Facebook stalking the hot people we see on our friends’ posts can actually pay off sometimes?
@jqubed It apparently works on occasion, at least. Of course, it also helps to not have super high standards. Hot chick who’s willing to be chatted up on Facebook might come with two kids and a messy divorce like I did. Everyone comes with some type of baggage.
The boy next door freshman year of college.
Going through a shitty divorce, probably going to lose the house. Thanks for needlessly reminding me Meh.
@haydesigner So you’ll need a new blender for your place? Meh has you covered!
First met when she was apartment neighbors with my brother when they were attending college (I was already graduated). Re-introduced on a ski trip a few years later after I divorced my first wife. Dated long-distance (2 states away) for a while, then she found a new job nearby and moved in with me. Got engaged 18mo later. We’ve been married just over 19yr.
In a really weird way, I met my wife because of Barry Obama. Basically one campaign worker (in Indiana) from the 08 campaign introduced me to another campaign worker (who was from DC, but we met in Seattle while she was working on a 2010 Senate campaign) who introduced me to her friend. I can technically claim that I wouldn’t be married if Obama didn’t win the Primaries in 08.
@jmendenhall Thanks Obama
Met her through organizing a Dr Who fan club back in '84. Started as friends and married 4 years later.
Met in Sunday School in 1964. Two marriages (and divorces) later, met again at church. 16 months later, we married. Almost 12 years ago.
We met at a punk show sometime in '05 or '06. We were reintroduced in probably '07 through a girlfriend at the time. They were friends, and neither had cars. I would pick up future wife and give her a ride to girlfriends house. This continued after that girlfriend and I broke up. It eventually turned into me picking her up, and her never calling her friend. We started dating in '08, and were married in '12.
My father lost a bet with her father.
Single and wouldn’t mind being set up with someone.
@CaptAmehrican Well hello there… oh wait, you are a dude!
@ELUNO No I am a woman.
@ELUNO Who says women can’t be captains?
@CaptAmehrican Well, hello there again then…
@SSteve lol, it wasn’t because of her being a captain. It’s because there are no women on the internet you see.
@ELUNO then I’m super confused, because, woman.
@RiotDemon I’m as confused as you are, believe me
He followed me on Twitter back in 2008. We ended up meeting in person because I had a dream that we were out drinking and he bought me a vodka tonic. I dm’ed him to tell him that I had this silly dream and he suggested that we make it a reality. Been dating since 2009 and married since 2013. The funny part: I thought he found me because he was a friend of a friend. Turns out, the app he was using was able to show him tweets of people nearby and he thought I was cute and funny. So not only did we meet because I had a dream about him, but it was totally random that we connected on Twitter.
Met in HS in 1983, married 25 years next week (there was a lot of long distance dating while in college in different states and i graduated 2 yrs after him)
Through eHarmony, which she still insists I tricked her as I had multiple profiles depending on who i was responding to.
We ended up on the New Newlywed Game show when they had couples who met on the site. Did not win.
Facebook almost 10 years ago…damn that makes be feel old.
At a Billy Joel concert in 1978. Wow, Billy Joel is really old.
Actually combo of work/social gathering/adorable story.
Softball game with people from work - had to catch a ride “from the car in front of us” dropped my wallet in the car and did not notice until it was time to pay for the pizza and beer - had to track down the “girl who owns the Camaro” rode my bike (Bicycle) 20 miles to her place… We have been happily married 32 years (and 32 out of 34 is pretty good)
We met on a local BBS when we were teenagers in 1995, back before the internet really took off and when it was weird telling people we met online. Now we’re like Met-Online Hipsters.
Originally met in high school. 2 math nerds, so nothing happened. Met again years later at a group gathering after we were both divorced.
AT A BAR IN COLLEGE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!
I met my current partner online in a forum. I clicked on his profile when I was looking at locals, and I commented on his picture. He messaged me and we had great conversation right away. After probably a month of talking outside the forum, we met, went to dinner, and watched Return of the King on DVD since he hadn’t seen it yet. We’ve been dating for around 3 years.
We text each other cute animal photos quite often. Otters are the most prevalent.
@RiotDemon
http://www.teeturtle.com/products/my-otter-half
@narfcake I love that shirt, but I don’t like wearing light colors. I bought the really cute red panda that clings to the back of a green shirt… And I wish I had bought it in a bigger size. The black shirts seem to be sized better… Or the fact that it hides more, lol
@RiotDemon I have a couple copies of Panda Hug and the turquoise isn’t all that light IMHO, though it is bright. I’ll do a comparison vs. the kelly green shirts when I get home tonight.
@RiotDemon Mine and I tend to go for kitty pics.
@RiotDemon
/giphy awww
@dashcloud that giphy is perfect. I loved Sailor Moon. Now if I could just figure out how to put my long hair up in meatballs, lol
@KittySprinkles Whattttttt??? I thought it would of been dogs!
@RiotDemon Google “hair rat.” Sounds awful, but it’s a foundation you use to make the “meatballs,” Victory Rolls, and all sorts of hair do’s.
@LaVikinga I have one of those donut bun things… Never really thought about one for the meatballs.
This is what happened when I googled hair rat:
Brings a new meaning to rat tail.
Ron Swanson came to our college, then we spent time kayaking, followed by more time in the back of my car. The rest is history!
We met though an unofficial message board for a now defunct internet humor site.
We were dance partners in a musical. Also made great partners in life.
@poser8 Don’t keep us in suspense! Which musical?
At a big weekend camping trip in Big Sur in 1989 put together by a friend of mine who worked with her. I remembered seeing her at a party at this guy’s house a few months earlier and being smitten but I had a girlfriend at the time. Our first date was the following Tuesday and she brought her overnight bag. Last week was our 23rd wedding anniversary.
I asked her to be on the company softball team. After practice, we had a drink. She had a recently former fiance AND a current boyfriend. A year later, she moved in with me; seven years later, we got married. 20th anniversary this year…
I am very happily single now, but I met my ex on a BBS. An old, 1200 baud BBS…
I was walking my dog in Memphis, and I saw @MrsMoose walking her dog a ways away. I adjusted my pace to make sure we crossed paths but we didn’t, so I walked an extra lap to introduce myself. "haha oh sorry my dog has to talk to everyone haha what’s your name can I have your number?"
I proposed just short of a year later while taking one last walk in Memphis before moving to Dallas the next day.
@Moose I need to get me a cute dog to make me look cuter altogether!
@Moose Big fan of Marc Cohn
Which one of those 2 is you?
Some friends of mine brought her to a Super Bowl party I was hosting last year. She was (is) WAY out of my league and knew more about football than the majority of the guys that were in attendance. She was so happy that she cried when the stupid Pats won. But, I was dating someone at the time so nothing happened and we parted ways with no more than a few friendly words and a congrats on the win.
A few weeks later the relationship I was in came to an end. After work one day I joined a coworker for a beverage. We just so happened to sit at the first seats available when you walk in to the bar. And about an hour later she just so happened to walk in with the girlfriend of my buddy that brought her to the party. Since we were sitting right there, they immediately saw us and joined us for a beverage.
The next few hours were a bit of a blur, not from intoxication, but from absolute recognition that something was happening. A few days later we got to hang out 1 on 1 for the first time. I haven’t left her side since.
After 2 days of spending time with her I told her I loved her and she magically agreed. About a month later I told her I was going to marry her and she magically agreed. About a month later we went to pick out rings. A few weeks after that we went and picked up our marriage license. Then in October we flew off to Puerto Rico and got married.
I knew that she existed her for 250 days before we got married. We’ve now been married for 277 days.
Met my spouse online via a Craigslist mutual ad I posted. My sister and I were going to go to Gettysburg to go ghost hunting but she flaked out at the last minute. I was bound and determined not to go by myself, but I was also staying away from dating since I was recovering from a devastating breakup so this presented a quandary (all my other friends had plans).
The week before I had posted an ad in the Strictly Platonic section for someone to be my date to my coworker’s halloween themed wedding because it required costumes and there was no way in hell I was going to go dressed up by myself. I got a lot of great responses and went with a totally hot person who I had a lovely evening with and then parted ways happily the next day
I went back to CL and posted the ad for the Gettysburg accompaniment. Got emails from many of the same people the other week asking me why the previous person didn’t work out and I told them that it was only meant to be a one and done thing. I got an email with the subject line “Please ignore my trash can and the fact that I haven’t shaved.” I was immediately intrigued.
My now-spouse wrote this very funny quirky email that was totally my personality in written form. We decided it would be a good time over a series of very succinct emails. When the big day came, I was so not into dressing up for a guy so I just wore jeans, a hoodie and a ball cap. We had some awkward convo on the way to the battlefield but while we were at one of the spots he mentioned he had a son and his son ended up being three weeks older than my son so that’s really what got the convo started.
We spent the rest of the day letting our guard down and getting to know each other. Then we did the ghost tour and we were being snarky which was totally fun. We had decided before we went up that we were going to stay overnight since the ghost hunt wasn’t going to be over until 1 AM so we got a hotel room. They gave away our double bed room so we had to share a king bed room. It was kind of awkward at first but we spent the whole night talking.
Fell asleep around 5 AM and woke up at 8 AM - picked up right where we left off with the convo. At this point I was enjoying his company so much that I didn’t want to take him home so we went to Philly for the day since he’d never had a cheesesteak. While we were in line I was trying to stay close to him because there was a really cold wind - not because I was trying to rub up on him or anything - and he put his arm around me, pulled me close and kissed me.
We’ve not been apart ever since then. This Halloween it will be 8 years together, and in January it will be 5 years married.
Thank you meh for reminding some of us that we are single on a Friday…
I moved to MD from MA as an Occupational Therapist to work at 1 hospital. She moved to MD from MA as an Occupational Therapist to work at another hospital. She lived in the apartment above me and I didn’t even meet her for 6 months. We met at the mailbox.
After a two minute conversation, she made me a collage of her cat and left it in the color darkroom. Art school!!
Blind date. 1984. Still married.
She picked me up a at grocery store, I had been working there for a few years and she was on her orientation
One Saturday, I took a walk to Zipperhead. I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead. We married 2 years later.
@jmendenhall Did you have a child and name her Minnie Pearl?
@sanspoint would have, but we had a boy so we named him Milo. Hopefully, he goes to college.
@jmendenhall I bet he likes food. Food tastes good.
@jmendenhall Zipperhead in Philly? If so, that was a great place.
We were both in drama club and forensics back in high school. At the time, we ran in different circles (and she was a grade higher than me), but we liked each other well enough.
After graduation, we lost touch for a while. She moved to New York for nine years, and then to Berlin for another four. I spent a year away at college, then bounced around the immediate area for a while, finally settling just a couple blocks away from the house I grew up in. Somewhere in there we reconnected through Facebook. When she posted that she was looking for a cheap apartment for (what she thought would be) a few months back in our hometown, I put her in touch with my landlord - and asked if she wanted to go out for dinner sometime.
She did end up living just down the hall from me, and I believe the standard abbreviation here is “one thing led to another.” We hung out pretty much every day, officially became a couple a month or so in, moved to a house out in the country after about a year, and made it all legal about six weeks ago.
1st night of college in '04, she was with a group of people I ran into playing frisbee on the quad. Turned out everyone was in the same major. We all became friends. Two years and a couple relationships later, we started dating. Happily Married 4 years now.
A bamboo skewer to the thigh.
@DrunkCat More details, please!
@jqubed It was a response to unwelcomed advances.
I’d like to tell the story of how i met my significant other but I don’t want my wife to find out about her.
Met @dalek summer before senior year of high school, met through mutual friends. :3
I was living in the UK, in my record producer life (I was about 30), when I got a phone call from my cousin Helena, who I had never met. She said it’s good to have relatives in the UK as a visiting American, and invited me to lunch. We met, she was a woman in her 60s, obviously successful, as she had an entire building in Mayfair for her business.
After lunch we went back to her office, and talked. I noticed the office was filled with attractive, very well-dressed young people - perhaps a law firm, I thought? So I asked, “What is your business?” She told me she ran a large elite “introduction agency” for very wealthy European and Middle Eastern men. Ah. “Did my mother put you up to this??”
“Well you can’t live your life alone.” Shit. “Have a look through the books and see if there are any of my “girls” (almost all wealthy British elites) that you find interesting.”
I open the book and am magically transferred to the Westminster Dog Show. Apparently, wealthy British babies are beaten with the ugly stick upon birth, because this book looked like a catalog you’d see at the dog pound, with the title “Available to Adopt!” Hey, I’m not focused on looks, but if she has to shave her face more than I do, it’s not going to work out.
Suddenly, after page after page of shocks, I turn to a page with a beautiful blonde woman, obviously a model, who was totally out of place in the book. I looked up and Helena says “Oh her. That’s Mitzi. I know many of my girls aren’t that attractive, so we pay Mitzi and other models for head shots to put in the book. She really doesn’t accept referrals from us.”
I had a picture with me of me in the studio after 40 hours, in a grubby t shirt with my huge-sneakered feet on the console, smoking a huge spliff. “Send her this.”
Short version? Mitzi and I are still very much in love after twenty-five years of marriage, two kids and millions of laughs. We moved back to the States in 1995, and once our youngest graduates high school, we’re moving to the Bahamas.
I helped out a contractor friend doing his books in the evening after my day job and that’s where I met him. We started dating Memorial day, got engaged in October and married New Year’s Eve. Thirty one years this year.
We met in 2002 playing EQ. We were both dating other people and when we were both both single in March 2006, he asked me out. He proposed in 2008 and we got married in March 2009. Happy ever since.
Blind date set up by my brother when visiting my parents in Baton Rouge, I lived in Atlanta. Saw her 6 times before we were married 10 months after that first date. I asked her to marry me over the phone (how romantic!) grooms cake had a phone on it with ‘reach out and touch someone’ - that was 3 kids and over 32 years ago - still together, still love her and tell her that everyday.
Blind date. Went to a comedy club and she was funnier than the comics on stage. I figured when I stopped finding her funny I’d stop dating her I didn’t so I married her!
We met at a whitewater kayaking class. Our first date was paddling down a class III run. It was the most expensive first date ever since we both bought kayaks and accessories.
We met on the GEnie information service in 1988 playing Gemstone 2, a MUD, and in the gaming forums. She was big into computer gaming so when the Winter CES rolled around I collected a ton of stuff she was interested in and I asked her for a ‘safe’ address to send it to. She surprised me; she gave me her home address. First trust.
Within a year we were flying back and forth to visit, and calling all the time. Reach Out America plan FTW. We’ve been married since 1990. I still can’t believe how lucky I was and am.
@duodec Hah, I was on GEnie as well. A bit cheaper than CI$, but had to be off by 7AM. I bet there was almost no security between the consumer service and GE’s LAN. Fun times…
Meh, she she was the candy dept manager and I was a sucker for dark chocolate almond clusters.
Where’s the option for people who are single, wouldn’t mind being married, but are also happy enough being single and aren’t about to rush into a bad relationship just for the sake of no longer being single?
@jqubed you mean smart people?
@jqubed - This.
I was walking to class, from the parking lot at the Jr. College I attended, when I heard a loud car coming-up fast behind me. I jumped aside just in time as the passenger mirror on the car just brushed my backpack. The hurled a few angry expletives at the young woman who was driving this primer-black 69 Mustang. She failed to notice what she almost caused (my death) as she sped past, but I noticed she was quite pretty.
I worked at a department store to pay my way through school. I worked in the Men’s Department and went to work later that same day. That night I saw that same young woman walk past my section and saw her begin to work in the Jewelry Department ( I later found out she had just started there a day or two earlier). Still feeling peevish, I went over and asked if she drove a black Mustang. When she answered that she did, well, I told her she nearly killed me at school and she needed to make it up to me by going out after work for a drink. Yes, I caved because, well, you know.
She agreed and so began a friendship that lasted for several years before growing into true love. And we have been married for thirty-three years now.
Many moons ago a friend without a car called me, offering me a ticket to the Roger Waters concert in return for a ride. Well, duh - easy decision. As we were sitting there two girls came in and sat a few rows behind us. Being horny young men we were discussing how they should be sitting next to us. Turns out they were sitting in the wrong seats. When asked to move by the usher we discovered their seats actually were right next to ours. Apparently my friend and the future gf bough their tix at the same record store (yes, this was long ago) and that store would buy blocks of seats together. Just a matter of timing. We started talking, found out my friend and future gf lived reasonably close to each other. They asked us if they could follow us back as they both sucked with directions. (Notice there are now two red flags?) We ended up sitting in the parking lot of a Roy Rogers for several hours. I was talking to her friend when the future gf came over and made her switch cars. I found out much later it was because she thought I was ‘way cuter’ than my friend. I was… A week later I was headed back to school. We stayed in touch, saw each other over the holidays and eventually made it a thing. Never had the desire to actually marry but we’ve been together much longer than most people are married.
Regardless of the outcome, I still love Roger Waters.
@cinoclav I saw him perform The Wall in its entirety a few years ago; best concert I’ve ever been to!
@jqubed Yeah, we sort of discussed this back in my MehCartney thread. I saw it too, both indoors and out. Unbelievable show!
Met @metaphore in Azeroth.
I met her on meh.com
…right?
@Lotsofgoats I call wishful thinking
/giphy wishful thinking
fake it til you make it
I met @humper on okcupid. I made fun of his pictures and asked if he was a serial killer. We spent our second date snowed in. The lesson here is mock people who might look unhinged and marry them.
@Thumperchick Once you marry them the experiment breaks down: marriage (sex?) is known to be a superior lubricant that keeps hinges in good working order.
/giphy good working order
It’s Randall Munroe’s fault that I met my husband.
@whiskeyish Did you do that thing with the meeting up at an algorithmically determined location?
@jqubed Ha, no. That came after we’d already met, and that would’ve been a much cooler story.
We met because of #xkcd IRC. He’s an op; I’m a jerk. He’s a computer engineer; I’m a lapsed physicist/fiber artist. We’ve been chatting for almost a decade. Six years ago he finally hit on me, it was hilarious, and we met up after that. And then I visited him for his internship that summer. And his graduation that winter. And he met my parents, we moved in together five states away, and last year we got married. We have our second pup now.
After a week TDY as a translator/liason between the USN and the Spanish Navy on this beautiful ship, the future mister was asked to stay aboard just a little while longer as it was departing from a port of call in my hometown and headed out of “The Pass” into the deeper water of the Gulf since the Spanish crew could not understand the deep southern drawl of the local harbor captain.
I was out with my parents in their boat along with the flotilla of many other boats tagging along for the send off.
One stacked blonde in a bikini with a pushy mother + a horny Naval Aviator with a pair of binoculars= a fairy tale ending.
35 years this December.
@LaVikinga lovely ship is that the Juan Sebastian el canano?
@LaVikinga Congrats (35)!!! TDY? My old military is kicking in. Are you sure I didn’t meet you in the Netherlands? I am sure I would have remembered. Glad the aviator had some binoculars.
@LaVikinga - So the black triangle bikini pays off then?
@CaptAmehrican It IS! Good eye!
@KDemo Turquoise. Looks better with a tan. He was a bit sad when I finally had to toss it out.
@mfladd Oh, so I see you’ve been in a Ready Room before. Sometimes, I miss Navy life.
@LaVikinga MIne was Air Force life. (Zoomies) You were a squid. Squirrelies for the underwater types.
@mfladd My brother went Chair Force, supply/logistics. That man could pinch a penny to get more out of it and get it there yesterday. Very proud of him. He retired and managed to roll back into the same line of work as a civilian contractor.
Underwater=Nukes. Also known as 40 lb Heads. Hard life, better bonus pay. Can’t fathom living underwater like that. (See what I did there? Fathom. Underwater. Neener, neener.)
Husband? NAVAIR. Big watch, big ring. BIG swagger that comes along with being able to land on a pitching deck the size of a postage stamp, on a dark & stormy night, bobbing around like a cork in the middle of God-knows-where. He misses the rush of it almost every single day. I don’t miss the phone ringing in the middle of the night, or the doorbell ringing at odd times of the day. THAT uncertainty of Navy life I will never miss. But those squadron throw-downs…the social life was outstanding.
@LaVikinga Hum fleet week is in October might be to cold for the turquoise bikini I own but I will consider it .
@LaVikinga LOL Chair Force. It has been a long time since I heard that term. But we so were. We even got catered meals while out in the field. No MRE’s for us. Ok, I think we had to eat them once.
@mfladd My younger sister stocked up on a case or two of MREs prior to Ivan ripping through her world. LOTS of damage to her area. She was simply astounded that even though she was working for hours and hours each day to cut up/remove fallen oaks and clean up the FOD, she was actually gaining weight. A LOT of weight.
We asked her what she had been eating (no power for weeks). Just an MRE for lunch and one for dinner. "…and those little Tabasco bottles are just so cute!"
Well, DUH! The blonde goes all the way to the brain on that one.
@LaVikinga Can you explain her mistake for those of us who’ve never consumed an MRE?
@jqubed Ah jeez, sorry. Because military MREs are made for troops in the field, they pack a LOT of calories per pack. We are a family of genetically cursed “easy keepers.” Don’t need a lot of calories to get by, which I suppose is a good thing if we’re ever trapped on a mountain with a football team from Uruguay.
Spoke with her last night. Said she was sometimes eating parts of them for breakfast, too.
Met her in Sociology class in college. First day the professor said that about 75% of us would hook up, 50% of those would get into a relationship, and 10% would get married.
We invited her to our wedding, she didn’t come. After the birth of our son we took pictures in the classroom where we met in the seats we sat during class. We invited her for the pictures, she didn’t respond.
@jml326 Weird, did she give a reason for not coming?
@jqubed Nope. Maybe she felt it was to weird. Maybe she was busy. Maybe she didn’t believe us.
We met on the internet in 2004. I downloaded her. Fucking virus. Couldn’t get rid of, so I just married it. Best mistake I ever made!
We were neighbors in high school. Thought it was a fling; we’ve been together 9 years. Getting married in Marh.
@connorbush Shouldn’t you be getting married in Meh-y?
Congrats
We met at a bookstore, then around the neighborhood. At one point early on, she said, “I don’t want anything to do with you!” We’ve been married 27 years. (I guess she came around.)
@tomvarela “around the neighborhood”
So, stalking?
@jqubed No stalking. But I’m “the convincer” (see Seinfeld’s CCC episode with Brian Regan at 10:00 mark). [Cackle].
At a bar. So?
@Barney
MOAR DETAILZ
@compunaut I was sitting there sipping my tomato juice and in walked this most gorgeous guy and, of course, I swept him off his feet.
The rest? Use your imagination.
@Barney Bow Chikka Wow Wow…
@LaVikinga You dirty minded ol’ broad. We played pinball the rest of the night.
@Barney Is that what you youngsters are calling it now?
@LaVikinga Youngster? Gee thanks, Mom.
@Barney @LaVikinga Tomato juice? What kind of bar was this?
I’m guessing every game ended with TILT!
@compunaut You guys are making me blush.
@LaVikinga I think we’re onto something. She’s not denying it
@compunaut TILT! is a position I’m a bit unfamiliar with.
@LaVikinga It requires equipment.
Bondage is good.
@mfladd You can never tell which chicks have a little kink to their soul.
@LaVikinga True. But I have a radar for that
Yes, I know I am not right in the head.
I swear I pictured everyone here sitting on a sofa just like all those old couples in “When Harry Met Sally” telling their “how we met” stories.
Wove, twu wove…
@LaVikinga I’ll have what you’re drinking.
@LaVikinga
We met online and he bragged about his menagerie of women. I told him that he was full of shit and there is no one he’d want more than me. We’ve been together for almost 12 years.
@metageist I think I followed the @Thumperchick method of mock-and-marry
@metageist It’s a good method, really. Sets up expectations from the jump.
At a Sha-Na-Na concert. On campus. 1969. Details hazy. Or maybe that should be smoky. Married 3 years later. Still very much together. And grandkids have started appearing.
Setting: college
Sequence of events:
Got drunk on $3 big ass mugs of beer
Got cited for a UIP
Went to club
Danced up on a chick
Hooked up with chick and briefly dated
Separated with chick, but still associated with her
Saw another chick while at a party at first chick’s house
Got 2nd chick’s number
Called 2nd chick
Dated
She played hard to get
Hooked up
Shacked up
Married
Had kid
Going on 10 years marriage after 4 years dating. Moral of the story, drink alcohol and hook up with chicks in college, you might meet a roommate of a friend of hers that turns out to be your soulmate.
@medz You make it sound so classy
@jqubed Yup. We decided to get engaged while at a different bar and out the window we saw the jewelry store across the street was having a sale. Sorta like, “Meh, might as well check it out.”
Houston, hometown; 1986. Married a High School admirer who turned out to be Her Luciferessness. Figured it was time to get the hail outta Dodge when it went sour and South.
Hello Nashville ! Been here 1 day when my bro in laws’ secretary invites me to a pot luck dinner at her church on Sunday. Ok, what kind of church? I’d been raised a Catholic, so Protestant churches were looked askance at.
So, I go. Nazarene Church. No evidence of holy rolling, whew. After the service, the singles potluck dinner. I tell ya, as soon as we met the spark was like a lightning strike. Me being recently stung, I was wary.
Now, after 29 years; if you’d told me 31 years ago I’d be marrying a NY Yankee in Tennessee…you’d a been laughed at guffawingly by this 5th generation Texan. 'Fo true, 'fo true.
He was a Marine guard at the embassy where I was TDY secretary. He was the only one taller than me and I was the only secretary with a car. A match made in heaven. Married 47 years.
I ordered mine from a catalog. She cooks, cleans and does laundry!