Reply With QuoteHavana Bar, Bukit Bintang, KL, December 1999
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May Day 1992 - Plumstead Taplow rave club. What a glorious night. Danced till dawn.
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How did you meet your partner in life?
“ Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.” HHGTTG
Havana Bar, Bukit Bintang, KL, December 1999
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Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
On the Caterpillar at the local fair 1963, I haven't visited a fair since :)
In a night club in 1994, happy days.
At our mutual place of work in 1979. We were both married to other people back then!
Nearly killed her when I crashed a Landrover when we were in the Army :-).
Those were the days.
My Mrs is Thai yet boringly I met her in the Bunghole Cellars on High Holborn
https://www.davy.co.uk/wine-bar/bunghole-cellars/
Oxford Polytechnic Geology department Jan ‘88. Set up on a blind date although I hasten to date was not at the Poly. Cowley Road “Penultimate Picture Palace” where we saw a highly inappropriate art house movie. Despite that celebrating 30 years marriage in August this year!
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It can only have been Salem.
On The Love Boat - the cheesy American sitcom was filmed on Princess cruise ships. We both worked on board - she as a dancer and I called bingo. Caribbean 1992.
My Rugby Club
Thankfully she was not a player
@work
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
At work.
Taking part in a dragon boat race in Canary Wharf in 1993.
MG owners club, summer of 1988.
I had a 1970 B roadster, she a 1978 rubber bumper midget.
The courtship involved new 3 piece sills and half floors.
Still got the wife, both cars are long gone.
At school 1974 age 14,married at 20....64 in October....a long time together!.
When mentioned,Woman go aww how nice,blokes don't!.
1995.
She was friends with the drummers wife in a rock band I joined as a singer.
Been married over 25 year's now.
Started out as a groupie and ended up as my manager in life!
At college, early 90's.
It was my first day, I happened to enter a hall (probably looking lost), she offered some friendly guidance - I was so taken back that she actually talked to me, that I blurted out a rather abrupt and mildly rude response.
She's been making me pay ever since!
At a club Dec 2001, once we got chatting I realised I knew most of her friends but somehow never met her before.
Locals bar in Baku.
Moscow 2000, we both happened to be working there at the time.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Both volunteer helpers for people with Multiple sclerosis at Horton on Sea during the summer of 1975 , we were both from different parts of the country and poor but wanted to help out others who needed a break and have a holiday ourselves … married August 1978 .
44 years later 2 children 4 grandchildren, plenty of grey hair and no regrets .
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In 1999 my wife and I separated.
At 47 I was never going to meet anyone in pubs or clubs.
Bit the bullet and advertised myself in the style of a second hand car in our local weekly paper. I was surprised by how successful that was.
scooter
On the internet.
No, not like that! We were both active on the Porsche e-mail list. She was having a problem with the local main dealers, and I knew the Service Manager there, so offered some advice. Started emailing each other and found that her family lived in a small village in Ireland that I knew quite well.
Eventually arranged to meet up (pizza + live band) - that was almost 25 years ago.
She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
Face it, she doesn't want you ahhhh...Originally Posted by numberjack
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Hardly in the same League, then
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
It's not his fault, he's only...................Hardly in the same League, then
Can't believe how many people have met the OP's wife...
Single.
But reading this with interest.
Fave comment so far!
Early days of the internet I signed up to Tesco’s online dating site, ended up with a bag for life.
Hahaha, very good!! Or not as the case may be...
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In the bar of the Falstaff Hotel, Newquay, in 1969. She worked there, and the fine upstanding members of the Constabulary (which at that time included me) used it as an after-hours watering hole, the old nick being just across the road.
She said that she would only serve me drinks if I went out with her.
Single as well and hope those you are still with their partners are having a ball.
Love a good, happy news thread
Her version of the King's shilling, then
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
We met on a campsite in France in the loire valley in 95. I was working for eurocamp, she for eurosites. Finally got together on bastille day at the village celebrations in the Square outside the local auberge. 🙌
Met my ex wife at work and my current partner at work.
Something tells me that over the years I could have worked harder.
At secondary school, but I didn’t like her then.
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
Early 90s. In an office/staffroom of a sailing school. She had passed her RYA Yachtmaster Offshore exam and arrived back in the Netherlands to go out with a group of people who wanted to learn the first thing of 'blue water sailing' during the Ascension Day weekend. I was there to pick up people for a weekend on an open boat, sailing Dutch lakes. To this day, sailing is very important in this household.
I have never reached the RYA Y/O level. You can easily guess who's the captain when we're on a yacht.
At secondary school but hooked up later when we were 18 in 1990. Went down the local with my mate and bumped in to her, here we are 33 years later, married 28 of those….jeez
At a karate club in 1999.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Similar story here!At college, early 90's.
It was my first day, I happened to enter a hall (probably looking lost), she offered some friendly guidance - I was so taken back that she actually talked to me, that I blurted out a rather abrupt and mildly rude response.
She's been making me pay ever since!
I met my partner on my first day at secondary school after our family had moved 275 miles from Sunderland to Shiplake. Starting a new school as a 14 year old over halfway through the academic year wasn't the most comfortable experience, especially when I had a strong mackem accent which made me stand out, but she was the first person to speak with me after I'd been introduced to my tutor group. We didn't go out with each other until many years later but it's nice we have that connection going back to the beginning of 1976, and it's even nicer that we know all of each others oldest friends.
at school in the early 90s didn't start dating until after uni in 1997
I met my wife the old fashioned way... on match.com in 2007. Our first date was at a Christmas Panto (oh yes it was etc.).
12 years married, 2 kids and increased mortgages later, I sometimes wonder what made me click on the dating website ad. I was having a lovely time looking for some new injectors for a Cosworth. With today's modern AI infested targeted adverts, perhaps we would never have met. Who knows. I'd probably have been clicking on adverts for bigger injectors.
I'd suggest that with 2 kids, your injectors are just fine.
After a chance meeting with a mate I hadn't seen for years, I moved into his shared house back in 1995.
She was one of the housemates, had a shaved head and I naively assumed she must be lesbian. She was also the only one still up and about when I used to get back from work/gigs/clubs, and seemingly the only one willing to listen to my chemically-enhanced manifesto.
27 years and two kids later, she's not so willing to listen to the manifesto anymore, but we are very happy
A singles bar. Our eyes met across the dance floor and we both exclaimed “what the f*** are you doing here?”
Old, but still tickles me (the joke more than the other half)
Crossing the road with my brother and a friend (after just getting off the Isle of Man ferry to Liverpool), when a car pulls up with three attractive girls in, asking for directions to a nightclub. A club that we were also going to. We agreed (well our cheeky friend agreed) to give them directions if they give us a lift there too.
My brother married the girl in the front seat, and I married the poor girl that had to seat on my knee on the back seat.
2 children and a divorce (or two if you include my brother and the girl in the front seat of the car) later, here we are…
Morale:
Don’t go marrying random women asking for directions.
I later had a long term relationship with an Australian girl that I met over here in a bar/club called the Outback.
Current Ms O, I met at a bar after a Fat Boy Slim concert.
It's just a matter of time...
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