S/O - "Some guy you met in a bar"

holyguacamole79 · March 2016

There's a post on E where a comment was made about bringing someone that you met in a bar to your wedding. Which got me thinking ... what's the funniest / oddest story of meeting an SO (you or someone else)?

I have a friend who plays tennis. She was going to go to a tournament, but they were all staying at a fancy resort (she had just graduated from college, and cash was tight. The resort / tournament was a 2 hour drive). There were no other women as singles, but there was a guy who was going to the tournament solo and had apparently said he would share his room that had 2 double beds. My friend said they were only in the room at the same time for the hours they were asleep and that nothing happened at all (and I believe her). He called her 2 weeks later and asked her out.

Their 10 year anniversary is this month.

cgss11 · March 2016

I met my DH in a bar. A really divey one. I was there with my SIL to watch her sing karaoke. She actually struck of a conversation with now DH when he was up ordering a drink. Later, he came up to me and asked why I was sitting by myself. I responded that SIL was in the bathroom, but he said no...she's out sitting on the patio with my friends. I was shocked! So I went back there and there she was. He and I had hit it off though, so when I drove her back home, I decided to go back to the bar and hang out with him more, which turned into an all nighter.

cgss11 · March 2016

Oh, my parents were a blind date for a high school prom. I love that story. He went to the vocational school, so his best friends girl friend asked her friend to go with him so she wasn't the third wheel with the boys all night. Married 47 years now!

badbnagdway · March 2016

I met my H in a bar while on a date with one of his friends. Scandalous!

banana468 · March 2016

My BIL met his wife in a bar. He was the bartender.

My parents were set up on a blind date where they went to the circus. My father refers to their first date as "walking through elephant shit together".

jenna8984 · March 2016

Can't think of many. H & I were set up by a mutual friend.

My brother lost power during a blizzard so he decided to go get drunk at a Chinese restaurant. Met his wife there that night, she was doing the same thing lol

emmaaa · March 2016

My brother and his wife met in a bar. Their 10 year wedding anniversary was in October.

thefanciestbeckler · March 2016

I had a huge crush on DH for a long time. He was the butcher at the local Fresh Market.

My mom and I were pretty regular customers of his, but I was really nervous to talk to him (totally unlike me). Mom kept putting pressure on me to give him my number and finally one day I gave in. It was Christmas time, so I went and bought him a Christmas card and included my phone number in it.

I gave it to him and ran out of the store before he'd have a chance to open it. He called me 2 hours later and asked me on a date. Our first date was 2 days later and we've been together ever since

OliveOilsMom · March 2016

A friend and I were on the bar crawl for St. Patrick's Day, the Erin Express. This was in a beach town in the winter, so it was all locals and its very small town. We met two guys at one bar and we just started hanging with each other and getting on and off the bus at the same stops. We get to our last stop and eventually I call for a cab home, so I called the number but the cab company said they don't pick up in that town.

I was very confused because they were an island-wide taxi, so I went back to my friend and told her. One of the guys says, I can drive you home. First, he wasn't drinking, so he was able to drive, but he also went to school with my boss back in the day. So being that it was a small town and he knew my boss, I figured the guy was ok and we take him up on the offer. The guys dropped us off at my house and left, no problems.

Next day, friend and I are hanging out and a car pulls up in front of the house. It is the other guy, who was interested in my friend. He knocks on the door and I try to get him to leave, but he wants to give his number to my friend. Eventually he comes into the house and we are just sitting in the living room. Maybe 5 minutes pass and the other guy shows up at the house! They stayed for 2 hours talking! We barely said anything the whole time.

Eventually, I tell them both they have to leave and they do. But I did give my number to the guy who drove us home and we went on a date later that week. We dated for about 5 months total before I broke it off.

kvruns · March 2016

a friend and her H met on the dance floor of a club in her early 20s (he was mid to late 20s). I still remember at her bridal shower she totally lied about how/where they met and I'm like wait I was with you that night I know exactly what went down!

The comment from the OP about meeting someone at a bar and bringing them as a wedding guest made me remember a friends wedding 1.5 years ago. She invited 3 of us girls as a "girls trip" to her OOT wedding, meaning only we were invited, not my friend's H and not my fiancé (other girl was truly single). We decided to go because we wanted to see her and a girls trip worked out but then all got mad when another friend of hers WAS invited with a +1 and it was truly a guy she had met in the bar 1-2 weeks before. Apparently she got a guest since she didn't have a girls trip to be included with. A year after that wedding was my wedding and my friend's H made a comment about how at least he was invited to this wedding since he was left out of the last one

lnixon8 · March 2016

I brought up my parents in that e-chat because those type of comments REALLY rub me the wrong way.

I walked into my friends 21st bday party thrown by her college friend. 2 steps in the door and this lanky drunk dude picks me up and spins me around (I am not small) shouting "Oh my God! I missed you so much! I haven't see you in years"

Fast forward to us drunkenly making out in a pool, but I go home with friends around midnight and we continue to drink at her apartment.
I think it's hilarious to stalk him on facebook and "poke him" (this is 2010). 12 hours later I sober up, realize how weird that is and friend him. He told his friends he was happy for the poke because he had no memory of my name. 5 years later we're married!

thisismynickname2 · March 2016

I know a girl who fell off the bar (she was dancing on it) and the guy she landed on ended up becoming her husband. Allegedly, they also slept together that night and the dog ate the used condom.
They have a kid now; they've been together, what, at least 6 or 7 years?

charlotte989875 · March 2016

I met my ex at a concert I went to by myself, an hour away from my city. I got the tickets last minute and couldn't find anyone to go because it was Sunday night out of town, I loved the band so I went anywhere. Ex and his friend were standing behind me chatting about something and I turned around and joined in. Hung out the rest of the night and he asked for my number. We dated for four years.

MyNameIsNot · March 2016

My parents met at a family reunion. (They aren't really related, but my mom's family are close family friends of some of my dad's family.) I still think it's funny.

I sort of met DH at a bar. We were set up, but our first meeting was kayaking and then the dock bar for lunch and a lot of beer. The group fell off but he and I made an evening of it.

Gustafson28 · March 2016

My H and I met at a kegger/pig roast.. My friend from highschool invited me to go (it was about an hour and a half away from our home town) and I didn't know very many people, maybe 8 out of 60. I don't eat pork or drink beer but I said screw it and went anyways.

Met H right away but he thought I was dating my friend who drove up with us. The friend and I were the only ones he didn't know before hand so he assumed we were dating.

Ended up together the entire time, made out a little, and we have been married for almost 2 years now

sparklepants41 · March 2016

My parents met in college while separately biking through a state park. My mom's bike was broken, and while she was trying to fix it, along came my dad. He fixed her bike, they biked around together, and this year they will be celebrating their 39th anniversary.

holyguacamole79 · March 2016

H started reading my blog in 2010. When my blog integrated my Twitter feed, he started following that. At the time, his Twitter profile pic was of him with his niece ... but I assumed it was a daughter. He saw on Twitter that I mentioned that I was on Catholic Match. So, he joined and "liked" me there. That's when I figured out that he was single & interested. 3 months later, we were engaged.

I say that I married my internet stalker.

sparklepants41 · March 2016

holyguacamole79 said:

H started reading my blog in 2010. When my blog integrated my Twitter feed, he started following that. At the time, his Twitter profile pic was of him with his niece ... but I assumed it was a daughter. He saw on Twitter that I mentioned that I was on Catholic Match. So, he joined and "liked" me there. That's when I figured out that he was single & interested. 3 months later, we were engaged.

I say that I married my internet stalker.

I. Love. This. I would love to see the looks on people's faces when you tell them that!

holyguacamole79 · March 2016

sparklepants41 said:

holyguacamole79 said:

H started reading my blog in 2010. When my blog integrated my Twitter feed, he started following that. At the time, his Twitter profile pic was of him with his niece ... but I assumed it was a daughter. He saw on Twitter that I mentioned that I was on Catholic Match. So, he joined and "liked" me there. That's when I figured out that he was single & interested. 3 months later, we were engaged.

I say that I married my internet stalker.

I. Love. This. I would love to see the looks on people's faces when you tell them that!

When people casually ask, I say we met online. I'll even say the site. But if they want to hear the whole story, I tell it starting with that punchline. People will ask if I still blog and I say, "what's the point? I got my husband already."

Casadena · March 2016

My H and I met in undergrad when we were placed together in a project group. The day of our first meeting (none of us had met in person before) his first words to me were "oh, I assumed you were a guy" - because I have a very unisex name.

lyndausvi · March 2016

DH and I met at a bar. It was a Sunday during football season and both our respective teams won. We worked at the same place, but the resort was shut-down for renos. He was new so we had not met yet.

We got drunk, he came back to my house. Ended up spending the night.

Next morning he got up called a friend to pick him up and he left. No "what's your phone number? let's get together sometime" Nothing. Which was fine.

I go out to my living room. Apparently during the night he threw up on my sofa. Then I found my laptop charger was broken. Now it might not seem like a big deal, but I lived on an island. It took me 6 WEEKS to get the charger and I had only had it like a week.

Just happened that I had to go to work that day. I see him on the loading dock walking towards the employee dining room. I stormed after him and said

"I can deal with a one night stand. I can deal with you not even pretending I was every going to see you again. I can even deal with you throwing up on my couch. BUT HOW THE FUCK DID YOU BREAK MY 1 WEEK OLD CHARGER THAT TOOK 6 WEEKS TO GET!!!!!!!!"

Then I stormed off.

He went to his boss/best friend from middle school and said "I'm going to marry her"

kvruns · March 2016

holyguacamole79 said:

H started reading my blog in 2010. When my blog integrated my Twitter feed, he started following that. At the time, his Twitter profile pic was of him with his niece ... but I assumed it was a daughter. He saw on Twitter that I mentioned that I was on Catholic Match. So, he joined and "liked" me there. That's when I figured out that he was single & interested. 3 months later, we were engaged.

I say that I married my internet stalker.

wow!

madamerwin · March 2016

Technically I met H on a local dating site, but we met in-person at a dive bar of his choosing half-way between our houses. Pretty sure the first thing he said to me when he walked up was "Wow, this place is... special." We ended up talking for hours, and then seeing each other three of the next four nights (until he had to go back to work on graveyard shift).

The dive bar is two blocks from my work, and I drive by it every day. We have not gone back, but I really want to someday.

MairePoppy · March 2016

My parents brought me to their club on my birthday for a drink. The bartender had just been served his 'walking papers' from his wife by the sheriff. Bartender was in a bad mood that day. I had never met this bartender before, but I felt really sorry for him. I married him a few years after than and we've been married for well over 30 years.

nerdwife · March 2016

FI and I met in high school. Our high school was small (at least to me - it was a magnet school with about 70 people in our class, and I had graduated middle school in a class of 700+) so we basically knew each other since day one.

Problem was, I hated him. In our freshman history class we would fight/argue/debate all the time. One day, our history teacher, after waiting for us to stop arguing, looked at us and said, "You're going to marry each other." This made me genuinely furious, as I actually hated FI.

Welp. Here we are.

msuprincess04 · March 2016

I met DH on a dating site. After a few dates, I asked if he wanted to be exclusive. He said yes, but not with me. He didn't see a future with me, but he did with the other girl he was dating. We casually chat online as friends over the next year. They break up. I had to go to a work function near his school, so I invited him out for drinks. I had had way too many and take him to my hotel. We start hanging out again. A month later, I asked him again if he wanted to try the relationship thing or go back to being friends. He wanted to try the relationship thing. We got married 4 years later.

Jells2dot0 · March 2016

I knew who my H was from work, but really just in passing. He sat two cubes down, but we did completely different things, and he is quite a bit older, so we never interacted. However, I was having marital problems with my now ex and confided in my boss about it. My boss felt that I should keep trying to work on things, as I was young and had only been married for 2 years. In an attempt to save my marriage, he set up a chat with that guy two cubes down from me. Apparently he had a very contentious divorce and his job was to scare me out of getting divorced. He took me to a financial planner and a family mediation agency to help me make an informed decision. I moved forward with the divorce and moved in with him 8 months later. I learned his divorce was something out of a nightmare, but thankfully he was open to remarrying. We'll be together 10 years (married 4 years) later this year!

julieanne912 · March 2016

I joke that my parents met in rehab.

My dad was a former heroin addict who then became a counselor at a rehab facility. It was a live-in facility. My mom came by to visit her friend, who was the cook there. When she got there, my dad was in the kitchen helping the cook by putting hamburger patties in a plastic baggie, and then sealing them up mostly then sucking the air out, sort of like a human foodsaver. He looked at my mom and said "my mom taught me to do that". My mom said she knew then he was it, because he spoke so nicely about his mom, and then they were engaged 2 weeks later and married 6 months after that. Married 25 years til he passed away. Every time I'm putting together hamburger patties to freeze I think of that story.

short+sassy · March 2016

Love this thread! It just goes to show you never know when or how you'll meet "THE ONE".

My H and I met on Yahoo Personals. We did the typical "meet for the first time at a public place" and then headed to the French Quarter (NOLA) where he took me to a fancy 4-star restaurant for dinner. Bonus points for H. We went to two different bars on Bourbon St. Somewhere along the way he bought me a feather boa. Then we went to a 3rd bar on a different street, but still in the Quarter. Surprised me by buying a bottle of champagne that we split. By now, it's 4 or 5 in the morning. Our date had started at 6PM the previous night, lol. WAY too much drinking to drive home so, he got a cab and dropped me off at my place and then continued on to his. Perfect gentleman!

Been together for the last 16 years and married for almost 3.

I've had two friends who dated their bartenders. One of them only went out with him for a few months. But the other friend was from CA and visiting for Mardi Gras. There was a bar in their hotel and many hours were spent there. By the end of her trip, she and the bartender were smitten with each other and a long distance relationship started. 18 months later, she moved to NOLA to be with him. They lived together for three years and got engaged at one point but ultimately, things didn't work out.

OurWildKingdom · March 2016

FW and I met in a 12-Step meeting, on my one-year anniversary. She passed me a note with her phone number and Facebook information. I gave her a ride home, we made plans to go for coffee on the weekend but scrapped them and had coffee right away. That was May 2014 and we've been together ever since.

P.S. We live in the house she lived in when we met, seven blocks from the Starbucks where we had our first date.

ernursej · March 2016

My parents lived on the same street but my Dad is 5 years older. He actually 'babysat' my Mom and her siblings one evening when the usual babysitter couldn't come at the last minute. They've been together for almost 40 years.

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