last week i went speed dating. i had fun, but didn't meet anyone i wanted to see again. it's kind of hard to imagine meeting someone that way. or maybe it's just hard to imagine meeting someone from the physics department. who knows?
i want to know how you met your spouse/partner/significant other/someone else you love. was it on a date? did you like her or him right away? my friends max and leslie have known each other since they were little kids and they didn't like each other at all. he thought she was annoying, and she thought he was mean.
OK, so here's mine:
one day i came home from visiting my cousin and my mom was sitting on the couch. we started talking, and it took me a few moments to notice that between my mom and the navy blue arm of the couch was a little black puppy. he was very quiet, waiting for me to notice him. when i did, i picked him up right away. he was very soft and wiggly and i already knew i loved him. that was rimmy and that happened almost 16 years ago!
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one day i went downstairs to my friend megan's apartment, and there he was, a boy throwing a tennis ball against the wall while reclining on her couch. i was 20, he was 21. (boy do my kids wish this were a better story!!) we liked the same movies and watched a bunch together. he left his laundry money at my apartment one day and i thought, "yay! that means he'll have to come back to get it (it was some 20 pound container of quarters - why? i don't know)." that's when i realized i liked him. liked him, liked him, that is.
On April 15, 1973, I arrived, hot, sweaty and tired in Lome, Togo. I had come to visit my best friend, Geni, who was a Peace Corps volunteer there. She took me to a place to shower and put on something more appropriate for West Africa than corduroy jeans and a turtleneck, and then to a restaurant, which just happened to be the lunch spot for about 31 male Peace Corps trainees. I sat at a table with several of them, including Peter. I thought he was interesting and appealing, someone I'd like to get to know. That evening, Geni and I traveled 170 kilometers north to the town where she lived, and the training group also went there. We went to dinner at a restaurant where the whole training group happened to be as well. I managed to sit next to Peter! Four months later, after I had joined Peace Corps "in field" and completed my training, I was very disappointed to be assigned a town in the north of Togo, because I had hoped to be in the south. However, one thought cheered me up a little: "Peter McDonald is up there--maybe I'll get to know him!"
i love these so far! :)
Rick and I knew each other for a long time before we became what we are now. After Mary died Rick was living across from the high school and I could go visit him sometimes just to see how he was doing. One day he said that we could go to the movies because I didn't have my movie partner anymore. Then maybe I started to think about him differently. For a while we went to the movies and got a bite to eat from time to time and we got to know each other. After i finished my boards we could do things during the day on the weekends when Otis was busy with his friends. One thing led to another and here we are neighbors again but under different circumstances. It's a good story and I could tell it in lots of different ways.
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I went to some silly drum concert at some silly Ivy League school and went out for very strong drinks afterwards with a bunch of people I barely knew--who ended up in our wedding 6 years later! ;-) [oh, and I should mention that I was not very nice to (husband.) for the first month or so that we knew each other...
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