zengirl Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 For those of you in relationships, ongoing flings, the beginnings of relationships, marriages, whatevers. . . I'd like to hear some stories of how people met their SOs (or currently potential SOs or whatnot), if anyone is willing to share. And also, even if it's not the current SO, the cutest closest thing to a meet cute you've ever experienced that actually led to a relationship. (FTR, like my last BF, my current BF and I met on OKC. Unlike the last BF, there's nothing unusual or meet-cute about it----the other one we had the whole met before, corresponding for months from different continents story to tell; this guy is just, "His picture was cute, so I messaged him, and we went out." But a good story doesn't = a good relationship of course. I don't think I have any good meet cutes, though I met my HS sweetheart by running into him---accidentally---with my bike and denting his surfboard, but I was 9 and we didn't date for awhile after that.) Stories! I want 'em! Give 'em! (Please.)
sm1tten Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Here's my rundown: Ex () - Match Ex Ex - Work Ex Ex Ex - local online personals Ex Ex Ex Ex - met on the first day of classes in my MA program Ex Ex Ex Ex Ex - met when he was a prospective at my undergrad Ex Ex Ex Ex Ex Ex - met in high school I've dated plenty in between but the closest to a meet-cute was the super hot guy who worked at my little neighborhood grocery -- except I was attached at the time. I think the best stories were the Ex^4 and Ex^5, but I'll wait.
Star Gazer Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 I'm casually dating two guys right now. The first, Skiman2, saw pictures of me at his colleague T's house when they were socializing. T is my best friend's brother. L is T's wife. L and Skiman2 also went to high school together. Skiman2 looked at the pictures of me, my best friend, and L together, and pointed at me and said something like, "That smile could save a soldier." (I don't know what he meant?) Anyway, she set us up...without me knowing about it. The second, sat next to me at a casino in Tahoe a couple weekends ago. When he won a big amount at Wheel of Fortune, we high-fived. Then he said he recognized me, and asked if I knew so-and-so. He then said he recognized me from Facebook, because I'm in so-and-so's pictures from a concert I went to with a group. We wound up dancing to a one-man-band show up there (so fun!) and before we bid adieu (for that night, anyway), he said sitting down next to me at the slots wasn't happenstance afterall... That it was all part of his "approach." Hey, it worked!! My favorite meet-cute though was with a guy I ran into (quite literally) when I crashed into a "merging" sign skiing at Heavenly...
Author zengirl Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 Thanks ladies! Keep 'em coming, folks. Skiman2 looked at the pictures of me, my best friend, and L together, and pointed at me and said something like, "That smile could save a soldier." (I don't know what he meant?) He meant it was 'da bomb! Sorry, bad pun mood tonight! Now, as I said meets don't matter, but I think Skiman2 sounds sweeter (in the meet phase) than the High-Fiver. Hope one of them works out for you! My favorite meet-cute though was with a guy I ran into (quite literally) when I crashed into a "merging" sign skiing at Heavenly... Now that's a meet cute!
Art_Critic Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 I've told the story before a few times but it goes something like this.. We met on match.com.. had been communicating thru match for a couple of weeks and we were getting along famously.. Humors matched and she actually laughed at my jokes. I sent her my work email so we could communicate more easily and she sent me her personal email.. We exchanged a few emails then she says: Something along the lines of "You're Art So&So from whatever company????? To which I replied back.. yes.. She said I'm Blank Blank from So & So company.. I was flabbergasted and so was she... We knew each other in real life thru work.. She was a client of mine and had been for many many years.. I had never met her but would talk to her on the phone on occasion thrrout the years previous when she would send me work. Well.. that was the ice breaker... ahahahaha There are other cute things.. Like she had my name and address on her computer monitor in front of her for the last year as she called couriers all the time. The rest is history.. We got engaged, married and then she got pregnant and we had a kid.. About her 5th month of pregnancy she quit her job and I lost a client.. They didn't like the fact that I took away their lead graphic designer on a national account. It was worth it... I think I told a few more details that I have in the past.. I can't remember how much of the story I have shared before.. it's been years now.. and I might have skipped some that I've told before.. I'm sure the next time I tell it it will include a few more details never shared before..
Author zengirl Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 About her 5th month of pregnancy she quit her job and I lost a client.. They didn't like the fact that I took away their lead graphic designer on a national account. It was worth it... Awesome! That is a super cute story.
Confusedalways Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Mine feels so cliche Most mornings before work, I would head to a starbucks in town. I found myself running into the same guy over and over. Sometimes, we would talk, but only for as long as the line was. Nothing good, just about the line itself, etc. I dreamed up many scenarios where I would just bite the bullet and give him my number in some movie-esque way, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Don't be fooled though: there were days we'd see each other and not chat at all, some days we'd not see each other, and other days where there were too many people between us in line to have a conversation. It shook out to about once or twice a week over the course of a few months that we'd actually speak. I told a few of my friends about 'the starbucks guy' and all of them told me to just go for it. I was too scared though. Finally, I was moving offices and began to panic that I would never see this guy again (different part of town, obviously would not be anywhere near this starbucks). I worked up the courage to do something, anything. I never did anything . About a month later I took a creepy risk and decided to add him on facebook (we both wore name tags, so I knew he knew my full name). He wrote on my wall to ask where I've been, I wrote back. That was the extent of the conversation. 2 months later, he sent me a message asking for my number, saying he wish he had done it sooner, etc. We went out the following week, and almost every night after that, we've been dating for about a year now
somedude81 Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Here's my rundown: Ex () - Match Ex Ex - Work Ex Ex Ex - local online personals Ex Ex Ex Ex - met on the first day of classes in my MA program Ex Ex Ex Ex Ex - met when he was a prospective at my undergrad Ex Ex Ex Ex Ex Ex - met in high school I've dated plenty in between but the closest to a meet-cute was the super hot guy who worked at my little neighborhood grocery -- except I was attached at the time. I think the best stories were the Ex^4 and Ex^5, but I'll wait. I'm curious in hearing how the ones in college started. I keep hearing how college is supposedly a great place to date people. But after a couple of years there...
threebyfate Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 While dropping off presents to my friends' house, I got stuck in the snow. My husband is their neighbor who was sweet enough to help dig me out. So I had my friends invite him to an open NY's party, to thank him and he got my number from them and called. We ended up going to both our NYE parties and the rest is history.
Art_Critic Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 While dropping off presents to my friends' house, I got stuck in the snow. My husband is their neighbor who was sweet enough to help dig me out. So I had my friends invite him to an open NY's party, to thank him and he got my number from them and called. We ended up going to both our NYE parties and the rest is history. Driving into that snow drift on purpose paid off
Woggle Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 I struck up a conversation with her on the boardwalk and he hit it off really well. We spent the day just hanging out and doing stuff and we went on an official date two days later.
threebyfate Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Driving into that snow drift on purpose paid off Great excuse and I'm sticking to this from now on! Yes, yes, it was on purpose. What kind of retard wears high heeled boots in the snow without carrying a shovel in her trunk?
KathyM Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 I met my husband through my sister's bf. They worked together, so he arranged a blind date. My husband had actually been set up on a blind date by my sister's bf with my older sister at first, but that didn't pan out--they weren't a match, so the sister's bf arranged for the guy to go on a blind date with me. It was actually a double date at my sister's bf's apartment, where we just kind of hung out and got acquainted. Been married to him now for many years. My previous bf's were all introduced to me by people that I knew.
tigressA Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Confusedalways, that is a freaking adorable story!! I love it :bunny: I have a few stories, most in college...people who have read my threads consistently know how BF and I met. We met on OKC; he private-messaged me and he asked me out to dinner, I said yes. I started a thread here titled "What color is this flag?" because of a picture of his yellow Corvette in his dating profile and a couple of things he said during our initial conversation . I stuck with the plans though, and I was duly impressed...still am. I met my first boyfriend through a new friend I had made during a school fashion show. We discovered we had mutual friends (I knew two guys who were on the XC team, she was on the team too. I had a crush on one guy and had been hooking up with the other ) and hit it off. One day when I was making my way through the student union cafe/lounge after a math test I hear her say, "Hey, Tigress!" And I stop and we chat for a bit. She's in a big group of people and this one guy is sitting next to her. He's literally GLARING at me like I don't belong there or something, and he says, "So when are you going to introduce this girl to the rest of us?" Introductions were made, I ended up sitting down with them. I started hanging out with them pretty much every afternoon, and the guy with the glare started finding any excuse to sit next to me and talk to me. After a couple weeks he asked me out on a date for the weekend before my birthday. We dated for 3.5 months, broke up over the summer. Bonus: I was horrendously jealous of his then-screwed-up ex, who had cheated on him with his ex-best friend (the two of them recently got married after 5 years together). She and my ex were like best friends at the time and he still came to her rescue any time she had a problem and it pissed me off that he didn't want to understand how I felt. Ironically, a couple years after we broke up, his ex and I ran into each other on campus and talked for over half an hour about everything; I admitted to having hated her, she said "I would've hated me too, if I were in your shoes--I was even more jealous than you when I was with him" and we became quite good friends.
Author zengirl Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 Mine feels so cliche Most mornings before work, I would head to a starbucks in town. I found myself running into the same guy over and over. Wow! Slow and steady wins the race. And you got up the courage to add him on FB, that's awesome. Glad he asked for your number finally and things are going so well. I'm curious in hearing how the ones in college started. I keep hearing how college is supposedly a great place to date people. But after a couple of years there... I didn't date much in college, but I was weird. But I met my college BF on Match.com. And he wasn't in college (he was 24 and worked in a guitar store and thought his band might make it; but I wasn't looking for anything serious). So that probably doesn't help you out there. Hopefully someone will tell you some useful college dating stories! While dropping off presents to my friends' house, I got stuck in the snow. My husband is their neighbor who was sweet enough to help dig me out. So I had my friends invite him to an open NY's party, to thank him and he got my number from them and called. We ended up going to both our NYE parties and the rest is history. That's sweet too. And again, liking the initiative took on your side. (With Confusedalways and you, that's two good stories where part of it required the woman to take some initiative as well to get things going!) I struck up a conversation with her on the boardwalk and he hit it off really well. We spent the day just hanging out and doing stuff and we went on an official date two days later. So you DID pay on your first date! The boardwalk thing was the first meet. What was she doing at the boardwalk? What were you doing? Just chillin'?
Author zengirl Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 I met my husband through my sister's bf. They worked together, so he arranged a blind date. My husband had actually been set up on a blind date by my sister's bf with my older sister at first, but that didn't pan out--they weren't a match, so the sister's bf arranged for the guy to go on a blind date with me. It was actually a double date at my sister's bf's apartment, where we just kind of hung out and got acquainted. Been married to him now for many years. My previous bf's were all introduced to me by people that I knew. Cool! A blind date that worked out. Blind dates always scared the crap out of me. people who have read my threads consistently know how BF and I met. We met on OKC; he private-messaged me and he asked me out to dinner, I said yes. I started a thread here titled "What color is this flag?" because of a picture of his yellow Corvette in his dating profile and a couple of things he said during our initial conversation . I stuck with the plans though, and I was duly impressed...still am. I didn't realize current BF was Yellow Corvette Guy! Haha, just goes to show, you never know.
Art_Critic Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 I met my husband through my sister's bf. They worked together, so he arranged a blind date. My husband had actually been set up on a blind date by my sister's bf with my older sister at first, but that didn't pan out--they weren't a match, so the sister's bf arranged for the guy to go on a blind date with me. It was actually a double date at my sister's bf's apartment, where we just kind of hung out and got acquainted. Been married to him now for many years. My previous bf's were all introduced to me by people that I knew. A blind date that worked.. wow!
Art_Critic Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Cool! A blind date that worked out. Blind dates always scared the crap out of me. hahaha... Coke.. we posted the same thing...
Author zengirl Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 hahaha... Coke.. we posted the same thing... [sends imaginary coke through the interweb]
mortensorchid Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Of all the stories of how I met former bfs, I like this one best if I do say so myself about the most recent one (which was about 9-10 months ago who I posted on). I had known him for a few years, we would see each other once or twice a year and we never said anything besides "Hi how are you" to each other. Last summer, we met up again at this bar to see this band. We exchanged numbers, I was all excited to find out that he lived not too far from me because I am in the suburbs and all / most of my friends are in the city and a 20 minute drive. This guy is/was absolutely, positively GORGEOUS. I figured he had a girlfriend, so we were just going to be friends and I was fine with that. We would get together every few weeks for dinner and things, either he would ask me or I would ask him. I didn't realize until he told me that he had been married once, his marriage had broken up about three years ago. And, like I said, because he was/is so gorgeous I figured we were just going to be friends. Then one night, I asked if he had ever eaten raw oysters before and he said no but would be willing to try them. We went to a seafood restaurant and ate them, we were high as hell and grinning ear to ear. Then when we said our good-byes he leaned over and kissed me. I was shocked and froze for a second. I went home walking on air, both from the oysters as well as the kiss. Then I got a text from him "I would by lying if I said it was just the oysters. Thank you for a lovely evening." Only lasted 2 months, we don't talk anymore ... but it was a nice story still.
KathyM Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 The college thing really does work for some people. My sons are all in college (one now recently graduated). My oldest son (in his 20's now) met his wife in college. They attended the same college, and he is now happily married to her. My youngest son's current gf was a girl he goes to college with.
tigressA Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 I didn't realize current BF was Yellow Corvette Guy! Haha, just goes to show, you never know. Yep. He has since sold the Corvette for a much more modest car. I joked with him the day he sold it that we had to break up because the car was the only thing that attracted me to him. Another college story...this is how I met my LTR ex. I was sitting on a couch in the student lounge by myself when a trio of guys plopped down and started playing Scrabble. I took a mild interest in their game and then they asked if I wanted to play. Two of the guys left after awhile, but the other guy and I stuck around and chatted. We then went back to my dorm to watch silly YouTube vids for awhile and then he left. One of my girlfriends assumed (wrongly) that I had a thing for him and asked him if he liked me. I got pretty pissed at her for that. He did hit on me a few times, and then legitimately asked me out, but I rejected him. I started dating a different guy who dumped me after less than 2 months, and my ex started coming back around, half-seriously saying I could use him as a human pillow if I wanted. We did start hanging out again and eventually it got physical, and I fell for him. I was sort of drawn to him from the beginning--he has a very dry, very sarcastic sense of humor. Hilarious and off-putting, many times *******-ish. There were so many times I wanted to be pissed at him for something he said but I could only really laugh.
Woggle Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 So you DID pay on your first date! The boardwalk thing was the first meet. What was she doing at the boardwalk? What were you doing? Just chillin'? I did pay on our first official date. She was just hanging and enjoying the place on a summer day. At the time she had an apartment in the next town which was over the bridge and she decided to come here something to eat and to watch the waves. I live within walking distance so if I am not inside I am usually here on the summer. When I was a player it was a great pick up spot.
threebyfate Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 That's sweet too. And again, liking the initiative took on your side. (With Confusedalways and you, that's two good stories where part of it required the woman to take some initiative as well to get things going!)Asking him just sped up the process since he already had plans to get my number and didn't get a chance to since as soon as he got me out, I drove away, afraid to stop just in case I got stuck again on the side street. As he fessed up later, he'd seen me before at my friends' home so he knew how to find me, now that we'd met.
Imajerk17 Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 I swear, "meet cute" has got to be the most annoying phrase ever turned... Can't we please call it something less girly? --I met my last girlfriend at work. I was a researcher, she was administrative and started a few weeks before I met her. I thought she was hot, so I asked if she wanted to get lunch. After 4 or 5 really good lunch dates over bad cafeteria pizza--each alternating paying--I asked her out, and she said yes. We dated for 2 years. --I met my current female best friend (we tried dating but it didn't really work) at a coffee shop. She smiled when I took a seat nearby her so I knew it was 'on' so to speak. --I met the last girl I slept with a few weeks ago on the Internet. I have also met women on a plane ride, airports, bars (even though I don't recommend going there), the gym, and supermarkets.
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