How did you meet your partner?

My wife and I literally bumped into each other in the hallway in high school. I was a senior and she was a junior. I found out later that she was a good friend of one of my cousins and I think my cousin felt we would make a good couple. So maybe was some prior planning to arrange an "accidental" meeting.

I remember our first date was going to a high school football game and out for pizza after. We went to the Pizza Hut and I asked her what type of pizza she liked and she said a cheese pizza. I told her I was rich enough to afford a pizza with some toppings on it. Anyway, 4 years later, a month after graduating college we were married. That was over 51 years ago.

We still have a laugh about that first date. She always said she didn't want to order a pizza that too expensive because she didn't know how much money I had to spend. I joke back that that is the reason I knew she was a good match for me. She knew the importance of money management. She says I married you because you told me you were rich.
 

Della said:
A Puerto Rican blonde? You proposed that same night? Did she ever teach you to salsa or have you just been slow dancing for 63 years?

{I love these stories and want to get them right.}
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Yes blond. Even way back then hair dye was used. Didn't propose the same night took until early Feb. I had to be approved by her mother & other family members. We were never able to really be alone. Our dating consisted of meeting at the place we met or on the balcony of her home. Mother had the blinds open & her brother or her brother's friends were at the place we met, we did manage to sneak in a kiss or two while slow dancing. Watchful eyes at all times.

As for salsa. Tried but always looked like a one legged man in an a$$ kicking contest.
 
Jazzy1 said:
How did you meet your partner?
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We met in Jail...not what you think. We both worked for the County Sheriff's Dept.(she-medical records clerk, me-correctional maintenance mechanic). I spotted her over at the salad bar in the officer's dining room, I struck up a conversation...she mentioned something about her "boyfriend"...oops, never mind. Some time later, while completing a maintenance repair request in the Medical Clinic, we spoke again. this time she was more receptive....
 
Nathan said:
We met in Jail...not what you think. We both worked for the County Sheriff's Dept.(she-medical records clerk, me-correctional maintenance mechanic). I spotted her over at the salad bar in the officer's dining room, I struck up a conversation...she mentioned something about her "boyfriend"...oops, never mind. Some time later, while completing a maintenance repair request in the Medical Clinic, we spoke again. this time she was more receptive....
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Boyfriends come and go.
 
I met my husband at an ice rink where I was taking lessons and had become good friends with my coach. He expressed to her an interest in me, and she became the liaison for us until he asked me out to one of his hockey games where he was goal tender for an armature league team. Marrying him was the best decision of my life. We've been married 36 years.

I met my boyfriend online, gosh, ten years ago this November. We were friends for about six-ish years before our relationship changed into what it is now. He is lovely and I'm so fortunate in having him in my life.
 
I met my current girl friend 3 years ago at a Salvation Army senior social group that meets weekly, with a $2 lunch afterwards. I had my eye on her for a while, thinking she was too hot for me, actually, with those long legs, long brown hair, and her graceful cat-like walk. It was when I saw her walking through the parking lot toward the building one day, so cool and casual and breezy, that I decided I wanted to ask her out.

She said yes. Still together and liking it.
 
At a night club when I was in the Army at a temporary location doing some training. As I walked to the bar I noticed a very gorgeous woman. I told the bartender how to make my signature drink that glows in the dark and ordered two. Took one and had the other sent to my table. As I walked pass her again she stopped me and asked what kind of drink I had. I pointed to the one across the room clearly visible at my table and told her hers was right there. We got married a year later.
 
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Met my missus in the Bull & Gate pub in Kentish Town, London, on Nov 15th, 1981. I was there with my flatmates doing a musical pub crawl, and Juice on the Loose were playing in the back room of the pub. This was our third or fourth pub, and I was getting a bit pissed (drunk) and had lost some of my normal shyness.

My missus (Shirley) was there with her tall blonde buxom friend (Nicki) because her other friend (Angela) was the girlfriend of the saxophonist (Nick) in the band, and it had been Angela's birthday the day before.

So there I was staring this tall blonde beauty squarely in the boobs and trying to chat them up when someone sidled up next to me. I looked round and fell into the most beautiful dark eyes that were smiling at me with a wicked glint through the glasses of a girl who was slightly shorter than me, with long dark hair and a pleasant figure.

I was just about sober enough to ask her out, but she told me she didn't have a phone, so couldn't arrange a date. However, Nicki later gave me Shirley's phone no. and the following week I called her up and asked to take her to the cinema. She reluctantly agreed and we met up on the Friday night to go and see "The French Lieutenant's Woman" at Barnet cinema.

We both found the film rather tedious, so after half an hour or so we adjourned to the pub next door, only to witness a fight in the bar, complete with a fallen chandelier!

So that was our first date, a bit of a disaster, but then again, now that we'd been pre-disastered so to speak, we found that we both had the same sense of humour and since then we've managed to laugh (and cry) our way through 41 years of marriage.
 
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My friend and I went roller skating several times a week on the 1 night the DJ got everyone of the rink and started a partners only.
I noticed 2 girls standing doing nothing so we went over and took 1 each onto the rink.At the end on the night 1 drove them both back to their houses and arranged to meet the girl I had skated with again.
We have now been married 53 yrs 1 son 2 grandchildren and 3 great grand children.
 
Oldeagle66 said:
At a night club when I was in the Army at a temporary location doing some training. As I walked to the bar I noticed a very gorgeous woman. I told the bartender how to make my signature drink that glows in the dark and ordered two. Took one and had the other sent to my table. As I walked pass her again she stopped me and asked what kind of drink I had. I pointed to the one across the room clearly visible at my table and told her hers was right there. We got married a year later.
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THAT is probably the best ā€œpick up lineā€ of all timešŸ˜‡šŸ˜‡
 
squatting dog said:
Me and my buddy Jake were standing at the counter of a junkyard waiting for them to fetch a fuel pump for my 49 Pontian hearse. (I was living in it at the time). Looking out into the yard, I see a red primer 57 Chevy convertible setting up on blocks. Then, crawling out from under the rear comes a pair of purple hot pants and white go-go boots followed by some long blonde hair.

I nudged my buddy and said... "Jake, if that's a guy, I'm asking him out". It wasn't a guy, and 3 weeks later, we were married in
a simple ceremony at city hall on my lunch break. A week after that, the hearse went down the road. :)
That was 53 years ago and although the convertible is gone, we still own and cruise in a 57 Chevy and other fast cars. šŸ‘©ā€ā¤ļøā€šŸ‘Ø


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That's a neat and unique story!
 
KSav said:
I have to add, I love this thread! I love hearing how-we-met stories.
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If you ever get bored, type in "Clay Cooper Swingin" on the search bar of You Tube. It's a riot. Clay Cooper gets these married women up on a swing and coaxes them to give their dating/marriage history. Some of the ones crack me up when they tell of some unconventional ways they "hooked up" with their spuose.
 
TeePee said:
I didn't get married until I was 66 years old. Although he passed away this year, he was one of the best decisions I ever made. We met through e-harmony no less.
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It was good to hear that you were able to find your love. While I was in the service, I meant a few women that I considered to marry, but they had children at home yet and I didnā€™t want to upset a family to move as often as I did.

I have found love here in Pensacola. I hope it continues as it is now.
 

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