Imajerk17 Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 the people you date/have dated? Myself: Online, Grocery store, coffee shop, wherever I'm out and about running errands (I don't go to bars often at all).
carhill Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 The zoo was my most prolific 'meeting' spot for potential dates IRL back when I worked there. Other than that, most have been online. I've met some interesting women while traveling but none who progressed to 'dating'.
denise_xo Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 The university bar. While travelling. At work.
KathyM Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 I met my husband and past boyfriends all through mutual acquaintences. That was before the age of the internet. My sister met her second husband and all subsequent bfs online.
Cee Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 Through friends. A bar. A family trip on a cruise. College Meetup group Tried online. Didn't work for me.
torn_curtain Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 The guy I'm seeing now I met randomly on a common interest forum, but he's the only relationship I've had where we met online. Actually, I take that back. There was one six month relationship I had with a guy I met on a forum for my university. We chatted a bit through the forum and then met up on campus. But that relationship was such a ridiculous failure that I rarely think about it. All of my other relationships I met through college, mutual friends, at parties or activity clubs.
Stung Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 I met my husband and one other really serious live-in boyfriend (previous, obviously) online. Otherwise, I have met dates and paramours through friends, at concerts, at events like lectures, book readings and gallery showings, in school (including night classes as an adult, after college), at bars, at cafes, while traveling (on the trains, poking around various districts being lost and approaching the hot guy for directions, etc.). I once met a really interesting pretty woman while we were both out and about dressed up in the Castro for Halloween, when I lived in San Francisco. I have always had a policy against dating anyone at work, but once a coworker called me after I had quit my job to go somewhere else, and we ended up dating for about six months. Also I have met people from "the neighborhood," after I had settled in somewhere for a while and gotten to know the regulars in a particular area and started establishing local hangouts etc. You know, people start looking out for you and getting interested in introducing you to their friends, or you see the same people around a few times and it becomes natural to introduce yourself.
grkBoy Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 I used to just meet women in my walks of life, generally women who knew people I knew. At first it was in college, and then in the bars/clubs (usually met them through friends). From the late 90s on, it was the internet...although not on dating sites. Did two stints on dating sites with little to no success. I'd meet women instead chatting in online chat rooms, message boards, and even a few from Myspace (when I used to be on it). Usual story was I'd just talk to them in a friendly tone. No intentions. I'd think they're pretty, but would assume they either were in a RL or were not into me. Weeks to months later, she's wanting to date me. I met my fiance through friends. She was the coworker of my friend's girlfriend.
FitChick Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 Online. My friends have already fixed me up with any singles they know and got tired of hearing me say, "What were you thinking?!"
iris219 Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 In the past: Mutual Friends (this worked when there were still a number of quality singles left. It doesn't work now that I'm over 30). Work (This worked in the past, but now Every man I work with is married except for one 50 yr old alcoholic who has a crush on me) Currently: Bars, concerts, and other nighttime activities seem to be my only options.*(I won't do online because it won't work where I live). I've never met anyone at a coffee shop, grocery store, or gym. I wish I could think of other places to meet people. *
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