What great stories you all have!
I met my DH at a record store in the late 80's. A mutual friend worked there and we had both dropped by to see her. He had long black hair tied in a pony tail and icy blue eyes.
She introduced us and we said "hi" then went our seperate ways. One Saturday night a few weeks later the same friend, another friend and I went to a local new wave/punk club and there he was there with two of his friends and we joined them for a drink. He had his hair all spiked up like Robert Smith and was wearing jeans and a black leather jacket (drool!)
DH and I started talking and discovered that we had the same sense sarcastic sense of humour. I went up to the bar to get a drink and when I came back he told me the zip was coming down a bit at the back of my mini skirt. I said " oh, checking out my *** were you?", he flushed and said yes and I just laughed.
His friends wanted to go to another club in another part of town and he asked where me and my friends where were goingto be later. I said that we would probably be there later since that's where we usually ended up at the end of the night anyway(me trying to play it cool
)
Later on at the other club we talked more and danced (ah the "80's
) and at the end of the night he left with his friends and I left with mine.
The following Monday afternoon at work (I worked in a clothing/jewellry store), I had just finished serving a customer when I turned around and a white carnation was in front of my nose~he was on the other end of it!
He had remembered where I worked and came to see me on his lunch hour! We chatted a bit and then he asked if he could call me some time, I said yes. The dingbat thought that I was blowing him off and started to leave when I said "hey, if you are going to call me don't you need my number?"
We arranged to meet that day afterwork for coffee. That coffee date lasted 6 hours! I thought that he was just another pretty boy but he turned out to have a brain too-I was smitten.
We were both seeing other people but not in a serious way and so we went out on a few more dates. One night when we were walking home from a date he stopped dead in his tracks and turned to me and said "So what do you want?" I just looked at him blankly ~I didn't know what to say. "Do you want to make a go of this?" he said. "Sure, if you want to" was my reply.
So we broke off with the other people we were seeing and saw each other exclusively.
A year later he bought me promise ring, then a year after that we moved in together. The following year he proposed~total surprise to me and he picked out the ring himself!
We will have been married 10 years in May 2003.
barefootgrrrl , 12-03-2002 11:51 AM
It should be on that cable channel...what's it called TLC - life stories? 
katrinabgood , 12-03-2002 12:15 PM
Started hanging around my desk a bit more than hers. We became friends but within a group that would hang out together and go to football games, parties, out drinking. (SHE did not join us...didn't like our "rowdy crowd!") DH and I discovered that we could talk and talk and talk for hours and hours about anything and everything under the sun...eventually he became engaged to that girl, but I believe it was more out of a sense of obligation to her. They were SO different! We remained friends but it was becoming apparent that we felt more than friendship for each other. When we finally acted on those feelings, I was wracked with guilt, didn't want to be "the other woman" and told him we couldn't see each other ever again...(so sad...so very sad)...It didn't last long. He finally broke thier engagement, but AGAIN I was racked with guilt and didn't want to be the cause so I pushed him away. I must say he was persistent and eventually got what he wanted! ME!
(yeah, ok, maybe I sort of was that kind of girl...) It was all so different with dh, I just knew he was the one.
mauvaisroux , 12-03-2002 08:38 PM
