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QOTD 8.23.11
How did you meet your FI/husband?
I met mine during detasseling
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Re: QOTD 8.23.11
I met mine on September 7, 2008 on the grass in front of the Washington Monument. We were on the same kickball team, and I joined a week into the season so technically it was the team's second game but my first. We lost - miserably. But FI and I became best friends, and two and a half months later he kissed me over a game of Monopoly!
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I was working at Arby's (I was 19 at the time) until I could find a better job and I had a good friend in drive thru and I was in the back and she told me there were two cute guys in the drive thru so I came up and we were flirting with them - me the passenger and her - the driver. And they were flirting back. So they were getting ready to pull off and I could tell the passenger was interested so I told the driver that my friend wanted his number and I wanted his friends number. I texted him 3 days later and we spent every day together before he left 3 months later for a month of being underway. So.. yeah I picked FI up in the Drive-Thru. lol
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[QUOTE]Sorry detasseling is where you pick the tassels of corn. You get up super early and it's a horrible job but pays well. FI was a team leader and it was like his 3rd year and my first. Each team goes to a plot of rows and you go through and pick the tassels off the top lol. Never thought I'd do that kind of work and never will again
Posted by Zimsgirl[/QUOTE]
Ooo that does not sound like a fun job..but since that's where you met FI, it must have been worth it to you now :)
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[QUOTE]Did anyone else think "detassling" sounded like some kind of ceremony? <strong>Since she always said "during detassling" it sounded liked "during graduation" or something like that. I kept thinking of the tassles on a graduation cap!</strong>
Posted by calindi[/QUOTE]
<div>Same here! Whenever I see the word I think of tassle on graduation. </div><div>
</div><div>And to answer the question, H and I met through my sister. They were best friends in A school and Power school, I met him when my family and I came over for their graduation there. Then they both ended up in NY for Prototype and were housemates. We all took a roadtrip together when they moved from Charleston to NY. That's how we started getting to know each other, we hit it off really well and we never stopped talking since we met even when I lived thousands of miles away. He asked me out a few months later on Valentine's Day(even sent me flowers, teddy bear, chocolates). I know it's not the most conventional relationship and has been difficult but it was instant with us, we knew early on we'd always end up together. </div>
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: QOTD 8.23.11 : Ooo that does not sound like a fun job..but since that's where you met FI, it must have been worth it to you now :)
Posted by YoungDuo[/QUOTE]
Haha yeah. It sucked on my eczema though lol
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[QUOTE]CAB there are a ton of people who meet onilne now. At our Pre-Cana class we went to they had every couple tell the group how they met. There were about 40-50 couples there, and at least half said they met online.
Posted by dnbeach12[/QUOTE]
I knowww =/ but my family and his family are super judgemental. They are always talking bad about people who meet online.
I ran into a friend that I hadn't seen in a while. She introduced me to her fiance and his friend. Hello, friend!! We hung out all night all weekend after that. We've been together for nearly 6 years now.
[QUOTE]CAB, there's no shame in it! I know a ton of very happy couples who met online. FI and I were both on Match.com when we met, but I never saw his profile (he says he saw mine but that he 'wasn't contacting anyone'. He's gotten a hard time from me for that, haha!). We had some striking similarities in our profiles, though - like we both wanted to climb Kilimanjaro some day (we're actually trying to do it for our 1st anniversary). Literally, we both mentioned Kilimanjaro!
Posted by calindi[/QUOTE]
Ha ha, that's funny! I mean, I know it's not a BAD thing now, but when we first met, we totally thought it to be super taboo, and now that we've gone 2 1/2 years without telling family members (my 3 best friends know, who are really the only people I talk to on a reg. basis), and he has gone the whole time telling NO ONE on his side, it's almost like we can't go back and tell them how we really met. Unless we have our officiant say it in the ceremony! Ha ha, that would be funny...
She and I worked at the same hospital I never knew her name nor bothered to ask as she asked for mine. She kept trying to get us to meet. I told her I wasn't interested I had 2 teen agers at the time, and 2 jobs(the one I am still at and the hosp. which was part time) she went as far as bringing in pictures of him, and having her co-workers keep asking if we met yet. So I HATED going out of the lab and running into those pesty house-keepers.
One night I was called to go to a room to draw blood(that's the only thing I can draw, I mean I can't even draw stick people!!, I was known as the artist around there I could get blood from a turnip if I had to per say) So, I walked in this room glanced at the family members while making sure I had the right bed, and there he was! I looked at the pateints name looked at the woman didn't recognise her but the color of red dyed hair gave her away on who she was and she had a massive stroke. I so wanted to run out of that room! Needless to say I had to stick her twice I missed the first I was so nervous!
I politely left went to get the elevator and here he comes, swaying back and forth asking if he could take me out! The elevator was taking forever! I told him my plate was full I didn't;t have time to waste on and explained my 2 jobs and kids, was ready getting on the elevator and he joined, I talked some more about how I never want to date anyone ever again that I have had my mind made up I was going to be single till my last breath and his come back was"Well since your plate is full, I just want you to know that I have an empty platter" What the heck was I to say to that?
So we have been togethr for 9 years, mom passed 2 yrs ago and here we are. I feel guily to a degree that she had to take a stroke to get us to meet, and at times I wish I would have taken a bigger one to get away from his family!
ETA: My ex, we met in HS. He was Army NG, then went into the Air Force.
Then in 2006, I was dating one of his friends and I had a house party that he came to, nothing happened obviously since I was in a relationship. He did say that he thought I was crazy and funny though.
Fast forward to 2007, ex and I broke up however we had a alot of mutual friends and such. He kept hanging out with "my group" to put it that way, so when one of his friends (platonic friend of mine) asked me to go the Streetlight Manifesto concert I accepted. H was there, we got drunk, drinks were spilled, good times were had. He was supposed to be my summer fling.... and now 4 years later we are married.
[QUOTE]which story would you like? The real one or the disapproving family story? The real one: We met on line the family one: we met at the mall. He came in to my work and gave me his number and left
Posted by KendallR10[/QUOTE]
A college friend who I had a falling out with shares the second story with you. No shame in that. Our falling out was over the lying subject we cover here, not how she met her H so that's clear lol.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: QOTD 8.23.11 : A college friend who I had a falling out with shares the second story with you. No shame in that. Our falling out was over the lying subject we cover here, not how she met her H so that's clear lol.
Posted by Sammy0709[/QUOTE]
I hate lying to family but we have very old fashioned family members. that have actually said they would disown anyone who met online. The close family ie parents know