Where Were You When You Saw Your Significant Other For The First Time?

[arwalden]

And how long ago was it?

Just wonderin'.

-- Allen

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Work / 8 years (nt)

[HereSince1628]

9. Work, 17 years ago, but

we didn't really get together for seven years (several years after I didn't work there anymore).

[ewagner]

2. In a bar

in Tallahassee, Florida in 1973.

[Mutley]

3. 7 years ago in June

I was workin as a hotel clerk and he was a chef in the restaurant... he would smile at me when he walked by.

[Misunderestimator]

4. At the San Francisco airport

last July. :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Wow! That too weird!

Me too! :D

[Misunderestimator]

15. hehe

:hi:

[arwalden]

19. Weird... what are the chances of THAT happening?

:scared:

[auntAgonist]

5. Airport 6.5 years ago.

[eyesroll]

6. In the lobby of his apartment building/

/last November.

[Beaverhausen]

7. about 10, 11 years ago. He was performing at a coffeehouse

Iguana Cafe in North Hollywood.

I knew him for a while casually, then as friends, then good friends, then 4 1/2 years ago the magic moment finally happened.

I thought he was totally hot back then and of course still do!!!

:loveya:

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. At her doorstep, 4 years ago this May 5.

We met online via a chatroom.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

94. no shit?

[Beware the Beast Man]

105. yep, we met in Yahoo chat.

I never suspected I'd find "the one" online.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

106. Rock, rock on bro and sis!

That's the shit!

[sui generis]

11. 8 years - at "Splash" in Austin

the big lake party on Labor Day weekend with thousands of drunk naked screaming queens snarfing jello shots and flinging beads.

[short bus president]

12. Vestibule C outside of O'Hare

long, long ago... back in February.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

37. It was vestibule 3C... terminal 3...

:loveya:

[Kadie]

13. In the mountains, 20 years ago. n/t

[thinkingwoman]

14. in a college classroom

January, 1994.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. In A Disco! 27 Years Ago

Yep and yep! My wife and i met in a disco. We won a few dance contests over the next year or so. Then, i converted her to the rock thing (the dark side) and started playing in bands again. So, no more disco. We, however, have been together ever since.
The Professor

[MadHound]

26. So Professor, do you still get a sudden urge to Boogie Down

For the most part, I hated disco in its heyday, but as I've gotten older, it's grown on me a bit. Even to the point of admitting the Brothers Gibb were talented, and purchasing a copy of their greatest hits. How about you?

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Nope

I liked the dancing, but never cared too much for the music. (Some notable exceptions, though.)

The most important thing was meeting my wife, though.
The Professor

[Yavin4]

36. Tony Monero!!

So, that's what happened to you!!! Stayin' Alive!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

51. You Can Tell By The Way I Walk

The Professor

[On the Road]

17. Almost Seven Years Ago, in a Single Parents' Meeting

she was walking across the lawn carrying some of her dumplings. I saw her and thought ("hmmmm....").

[MountainLaurel]

18. At an anti-war rally

A little more than 2 years ago, sitting at the Au Bon Pain in Union Station in DC, next to a little cardboard sign somewhat had cobbled together that read "DU."

[hippiechick]

23. Congrats, BTW !

;)

[MountainLaurel]

130. Thanks! n/t

[Jessica]

20. Work ... 2 years ago.

And we succeeded in keeping our office romance a secret for only a month. Then, we were busted at a company softball game cause we had a few beers & were no longer discreet. :o

[tjdee]

91. That's the funniest sig picture!

:hi:

[Jessica]

125. Why ... thank you!

:) I love Ralph ... cute & smarter than you-know-who.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

21. on a blind date

at a bar.

[hippiechick]

22. HippieSlacker WriterDude ....

... and I first met at Rock Bottom Brewery on a Thursday night in January 2002, after exchanging emails for a couple weeks.

I asked a waitress if she knew who <insert name> was and she took me right over to his table (he was a regular before detox). He was sitting there looking perplexed over a document he was editing.

4 hours and a few pints later, he walked me to my car, gave me a huge hug, popped on his headphones and headed to the bus stop with a wave.

I knew then. Sigh. :loveya:

[Corgigal]

24. In his patrol car

No lie.

[Patiod]

25. Rehearsal for a play we were both in 13 years ago

My first semi-professional effort, his last (he went Equity right after that, I started traveling for my real job).

I told him to get out of my chair (my planner was right in front of him). He says he should have known right then what he was in for.

[bleedingheart]

27. Work approximately 12 years and 1 month ago...

this Oct...11 years of marriage...

[RandomKoolzip]

28. Nashville, at my best friend's apartment, six years ago.

[Technowitch]

29. Pulling into her driveway...

...as I was making my cross-country relocation move. Prior to then, we'd only talked on the phone and exchanged emails.

A month or so later, we were all but inseparable.

[luvLLB]

30. 15 years ago, I watched him move into the apt. next door to me.

he moved into my apt. 3 months later, and the rest is history, so they say.

[Worst Username Ever]

31. At my friend's house, after I totalled my car, 5.5 years ago.

[petron]

32. 11 years ago...

...at a night club in Minneapolis. I spilled a drink on her and her friend. Oops....a good oops!

Been married for 10 years now!

[fudge stripe cookays]

33. Saw him?

Or saw him in person?

Saw him first at my duplex in Dallas for the first time when he sent me a picture in late 98 or early Jan 99.

Saw him in person when he walked down the ramp at DFW Airport because he was coming to MEET me for the first time! March 26, 1999.

:loveya:
FSC

[WiltedFlowerChild]

34. On my front porch

31 years ago.

[sniffa]

35. mutuaL friend's dorm room

before going to a rave together.

[qnr]

38. Work, main bar, Winners Hotel and Casino, '94. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

39. The Summer of 1973

at the Bowling Alley, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California. We got married the next year and have been happily together ever since.

[foreigncorrespondent]

40. Looking out the window...

...of a friends San Francisco apartment, when I saw her walking across the street. That was over five years ago now. :)

On edit: typo

[ohiosmith]

41. October 20, 1971. I was sitting on the porch of the war objectors

hostel where I was staying in Vancouver, BC. She was trying to get her Morris Minor started. I introduced myself, reconnected a battery cable and she was on her way. We were married The following January 14.

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. It was 22 years ago, when we were 12. He thought my corduroys

made my butt look big. :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

128. OMG. That just shot me back to seventh grade! (Even though I have ten

years on you.)

:rofl: Nostalgia is an amazing thing!

[mondo joe]

43. At the bar of a coffee shop. He was the barista, I was the customer.

Almost 20 years ago.

Ah, memories.

[cedahlia]

44. The back seat of my friend's parents' minivan

Almost 10 years ago...I was 16. But I remember it like it was yesterday.

He hopped into the van and sat down next to me. He had a shaved head except for a mini-mowhawk of three dyed-red spikes on top of his head. He was wearing some old striped button up shirt of his dad's that he had cut up and stuck safety pins all over. He was carrying an armfull of various punk rock records. I was dating someone else at the time, but I was quite taken by him...we "officially" began dating about 6 months later, and we've been together ever since. Finally decided to make it "really" official and got married last year. :-)

[Blue Diadem]

45. 32 years ago, I was 17, graduating from HS and dating an absolute jerk,

my hubby was his boss at a store at the other end of the mall where I worked. I glanced up one day and saw him, when jerky boyfriend was yet again chewing me out for something. I remember thinking OMG he's so handsome. Within a few weeks, jerky boyfriend told me he wanted to date someone else, so I said OK. Then his boss and I went out. Boy..you should have heard the phone call I got from the ex-jerky boyfriend.

To make a long story short, hubby and I dated and he wanted to get married right away. That scared me since I'd just turned 18. We broke up for 3 months and found each other again and have been married for 31 yrs on April 29th.

[Susang]

46. Working in a bar

Of course! :D

[XNASA]

48. Working how?

[Susang]

54. What do you think?

:P

[XNASA]

61. I guessing that you were peddling flowers.

And that BatBoy picked you up. :evilgrin:

[Susang]

64. Flowers is one euphemism

There are others as well. ;-)

[XNASA]

47. In a nightclub called 'Neo' in 1981

Neo still exists. And we're still together. I didn't have a chance. This image is dated from around 1982.

[Susang]

57. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, couldn't help myself I was laughing at Neo, not at the picture. My sister got dragged there by friends a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't believe that anyone still wanted to go there. :D

edited because I can't seem to form a sentence today!

[XNASA]

60. My picture?

:shrug:

[Susang]

65. The one you posted

Sorry, I realize I didn't phrase that right, since I know it's Cate. English is my second language today. :crazy:

[RetroLounge]

127. I used to go to NEO back then

Started at Octagon down the street, then to NEO, and then to the Exit, before heading back to the burbs...

There used to be a big, muscular, black guy who dressed as a cross between an african wrrior and GI joe, and sometimes had a spear, who danced by himself on one of the big cube risers. Always wondered what his story was...

Knew the bouncer somewhat, Big, real big dude, one of my friends dated him, Kimball, I think.

Once got picked up at NEO by someone with an apartment upstairs. Very convenient.

Did too many drugs in the Womans bathroom there...

Memories...

RL

[johnnie]

49. Yikes

All you people... this is pretty cool
I have yet to meet mine after 40 years. I mean, I have had a few, but it's been a while. Who knows? Maybe I have seen her already :shrug:

[livetohike]

52. College cafeteria

32 years ago :-). I saw him with a friend I knew. Later I asked this friend to bring my now husband to a party I was going to. He did, and the rest is history.

[Magrittes Pipe]

53. At a concert hall in Cincinnati, about 14 years ago.

God, that place was a shithole. And the staff was HORRIBLE.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. At work in a music store 21 years ago

[ImpeachBush]

56. In a restaurant/coffee shop on campus in 1990

15 year anniversary this month!!!

[Left Is Write]

58. Standing near the bar at Bogart's in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

Trying to decide whether to sit at the bar or wander around. He was sitting at the bar opposite where I was standing.

It was very crowded that night. A popular local band was playing.

That was almost eight years ago - May 23, 1997.

[Kazak]

59. Church...ha! About 5 years ago.

It was a UU church, but still.

[Donkeyboy75]

62. Naked. Looking through binoculars. Middle of the street.

:freak:

[arwalden]

108. You nut.

Sometimes I wonder about you. :hug:

[flamingyouth]

63. At the Austin airport in September

I was immediately smitten. :)

[arwalden]

109. That's totally understandable...

... nobody can blame you for that. :loveya:

-- Allen

[flamingyouth]

131. Why thank you

:loveya:

[Hardrada]

66. In the old Sunnyside Coffeehouse at Luther College

in Decorah IA, mid February of 1969. I was playing an acoustic guitar, something radical folkie, not very well. She was amused and I was enamoured but didn't date her until 2 months later since I was in a rather unfortunate relationship with someone in Iowa City. After our first date, we stayed together. Were married August 1972. There I'm the senior one on this list.

[Ellen Forradalom]

67. Sitting on a barstool in The Charleston, Charleston & Hoyne, Chicago

last week of the year, 1995.

[XNASA]

69. I know that place.

I've gotten drunk there lot's of times.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

80. You get drunk? get outta town!

:P

[GOPisEvil]

99. I know that place too.

I had a couple of drinks with some reprobates there a couple of years ago.

[Ellen Forradalom]

111. I know it too well

I have, how shall we say, history there.

[Dastard Stepchild]

120. I live rather close to that place...

Great bar.

[dubyaD40web]

68. 7 1/2 years ago...

She was the front-desk clerk at a Best Western hotel. I was totally hammered and needed a room. Since it was 2a.m. and there were no customers besides myself, she made sure to pay special attention to me.

[GalleryGod]

70. In the cafeteria line at St. Joseph's College in Philly, Sept. 1970

:rofl: almost dropped my tray:rofl:

[arwalden]

71. At A Funeral... Ten And A Half Years Ago

[blindpig]

72. in a bar, 22 years ago

a blind date arranged by my roomate to get some space for himself. It worked for me, but not for him, he's on his 3rd marriage.

[Bouncy Ball]

73. Summer, 1990.

A country and western bar called "The Good Luck Bar and Rodeo." No, really. Not normally my thing but it was that or hang out with my parents, Mr. Drunk and Mrs. Crazy.

I was 19 years old and home for the summer from college. I saw him across the dance floor. He was kind of short, well-built, short haircut, military style. A GI on weekend pass from Ft. Hood.

Tan, almond-shaped green bedroom eyes with long lashes. Roman nose. Full lips and big white teeth. Ruddy cheeks. Forearms the size of Popeye's. Tiny bit of chest hair poking out the top of his shirt. He smelled like candy and earth and skin and me fainting.

His voice was deep and beautiful. He felt like home.

We kissed outside and I got a head rush. Perfect first kiss. No slobber all over my face, we fit just right.

I wrote my phone number on a book of matches he still has.

We went out on our first date a week later. Iraq invaded Kuwait that night...

[NoSheep]

74. Tyler's parking lot in Carrboro NC at a bluegrass festival. Dayum he was

cute!!!! It will be 2 yrs at the end of June:loveya:

[LostinVA]

75. Work, 10 years ago

[deutsey]

76. We were volunteering to tutor illiterate adults to read.

It was at the orientation session for tutors, 12 years ago.

It was :loveya: at first site for me. We've been married for ten years and have three kids. I'm still in :loveya: with her, too.

[mtnester]

77. I came to a garage to get my care repaired, and he out from under a car

hood and smiled a smile at me that went all the way to his eyes. I was nearly speechless.

A few weeks later on St Patrick's day, 1988, we met while out celebrating. We have been together ever since, got married in the fall of 1990...so we just recently celebrated 17 year--first date anniversary this past St Paddy's day.

[kwassa]

78. Dulles Airport ten years ago

We "met" on the Internet, pre-World Wide Web. Remember Unix text readers? then progressed to phone calls, exchanged pictures, and me flying from my home in LA to meet her in DC.

She was waiting at the gate.

[graywarrior]

79. 1968

He was driving a dump truck and his hair was to his shoulders and he had a beard. I swooned.

Next time I saw him, he cut his hair short and shaved. We dated on and off for a while, I married a musician, divorced him and ended up with my first love again in 75, lived with him til 2001, then married him.

[terrya]

81. Union Station in Toronto - 5 years ago.

It was a winters evening...in January. I'd just stepped off the train, nervous as hell...Doug and I were getting along beautifully in emails and phone calls. Of course, we both sent pictures of ourselves, and liked very much what we saw. :-)

But this was when we would meet in person for the first time. I had butterflies in my stomach as I walked off the train. Just...a mild kind of terror. What if...this just didn't work out?

I turned the corner, and there was Doug. Standing there with the nicest smile. Holding up a cardboard sign with "Terry" written on it. I smiled, too...and the butterflies just disappeared right then and there. I knew things would be ok with us. :-)

[arwalden]

82. That's So Sweet!

:hug:

[El Fuego]

83. At the Ale House

He was a friend of a friend.

[Xithras]

84. In my living room.

One of my closest friends came over and introduced me to his new girlfriend. A decade later I'm still married to her, and I have no clue where he is.

[bugslsu9]

85. Barnes and Nobles

We met for coffee a little over 3 years ago. We met online, and I must say, Match.com rocks!!!!

We got married last September!

[dubyaD40web]

86. Sitting in cubicle paradise.

[CO Liberal]

87. At a Halloween Dance in Saddle Brook, NJ

The picture in my avatar was taken that night. I was wearing a Robin Hood costume. As I was walking across the room, I heard a female voice say, "Hey, Robin! Where are your Merry Men?"

I turned around and saw the most beautiflu women I ever saw - The Princess.

We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary in February.

[6000eliot]

88. At a gay wedding about 12 years ago.

This was a full year and a half before we started dating. We sat at the same table and talked a little.

[Nikia]

89. January of 1997 in a college lecture hall

But I didn't really notice him much until September 1997.

[Rowdyboy]

90. Monday, March 7th, 1989 in a gay bar in Jackson Mississippi.....

I kissed him that first night and made a date for the next night. The rest, as they say, is history...

[skygazer]

92. In the grocery store where I work

Probably 5 or 6 years ago. Said nothing but "hi" until four years ago when we started talking in the produce department where I worked at the time and he asked me out (with much prodding from me). Up until then, he'd just been one of several guys who made me think, "Ooh, hot guy" every time I saw him.

It was by the pears. I still have a thing for pears. :loveya:

[TrogL]

93. Meeting

about 10 years ago

[sbj405]

95. Ultimate frisbee game

[JohnnyBoots]

96. Punter's Pub m - Boston, MA almost two years ago

[cmf]

97. over 10 years ago

In my dorm room. He and his friend were going around introducing themselves to other freshmen during orientation week. We didn't start dating until about 3 years later, though.

[elehhhhna]

98. Improv Workshop at The Second City, Chicago, January 1983

Married 20 years on 10/19

[AwakeAtLast]

100. A bar in Broad Ripple, Indy

He was with a guy and they came over to stand by my sister and me.

They decided to do lime races with their Coronas, and when they lifted up their bottles, he shot Corona in my eye! He gave me his number at the end of the evening.

We have now been married for almost five :wow: years. We always say we are gonna buy stock in Corona, but we never have. I will never forget that night!

:toast:

[GirlinContempt]

101. I'm single now, but....

My last partner, I saw him for the first time in communist youth group, about er, 2 years ago?



A match made in heaven, no? :P
(The book is Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution)

[DontBlameMe]

102. 16 years ago, last November.

It was high school, 1st period, Honors History Europe: 1914 to Present.
She liked the way I challenged the teacher about WWII(my grandmother lived through the raid on London, so I had first hand accounts), especially the way I refused to back down when I thought he was wrong, which he was.

We became friends, graduated together, I lost my virginity to her college roommate, I threatened all of her boyfriends I didn't like, finally hooked up 6 years later. The first time neither of us was dating someone else, and whammo!!!!!!! Married now for 8 years, this coming September.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

103. My front porch.

It was a blind date. God, he dressed badly back then. He's started regressing lately, and I've got some work to do.
Duckie

[Orsino]

104. At the south gate of an Atlanta Army post...

...as she drove up, ten years ago. Thank you, match.com! Ninth wedding anniversary coming up.

[fleabert]

107. work, 12 yrs ago (been together almost 11 now, married for 5) nt

[seemunkee]

110. Pizza parlor when we were 16

She started working after me. Boys made pizza, girls made subs and worked the cash register. That was 32 years ago.

[achtung_circus]

112. I honestly don't remember.

We were first in each others company the day my mother brought me home from the hospital. Waiting to meet her was her best friend and that friend's new daughter.

We grew up together, cottage, camping grade school, university, went our ways, married, etc.

She divorced, I separated, I moved back east and she was living across the street.

That was 20 months ago. 9 months ago it became a lot more than two old friends.

[yellowdogintexas]

113. In a cave, probably around 1976 or 1977.

[ldf]

114. at gaytalk, at the "the corner drug store"

in gainesville, right near UF campus, the tuesday before thanksgiving, 1978. we always celebrate that as our anniversary.

that was before the united way insisted that the corner drug store refuse to allow gaytalk to meet there. we then met at the quaker house.

i haven't given to the united way since.

[BuddhaGirl]

115. In the lobby of his hotel in Dana Point, CA 11/13/96

We had been chatting in an America Online chat room and finally met real time.

We've been married almost seven years now :-)

[solinvictus]

116. My apartment 13 years ago..

My SO now was the best friend of a girl my ex-wife was having sex with behind my back.

[eleny]

117. 35 years ago in my mother's kitchen

[regnaD kciN]

118. In church, believe it or not...March 31, 1983...

To add to the strangeness of the whole matter, my first wife had just left two days earlier. I decided I didn't want to go to Holy Thursday Mass at the same parish where we had been known as a couple, so I went in to the Newman Center at U.W.

For reasons too involved to go into with anyone who doesn't know Latin chant, I got recruited into their music group that night and got introduced to the other members, including Dominique.

I should probably deflate any preconceptions by saying that, as far as I can tell, neither of us made any great impression on the other that night. It was only over the course of the next few weeks that we got to be good (and, eventually, inseparable) friends, and finally took the next step into couple-dom in late August of that year.

[grace0418]

119. In my friend's dorm room

Seventeen years ago! I can't believe it.

[Heidi]

121. Writing sabbatical, Zürich, five years ago. (eom)

[FlipFlop]

122. Parking lot of local restaurant 40 years ago.

The lot was a hang-out.

[Maine-ah]

123. we met in 7th grade science class, and we sat next to eachother

that was, 1987, 18 years ago. I was 13 years old, and he was 12. Ah, when life was simple.

[bmbmd]

124. C.R. Anthony department store-summer of '77

I was looking for a swimsuit, she was the sales clerk. She took my breath away-still does.

[bertha katzenengel]

126. Long Beach (CA) Airport. Five years, two months, six days ago.

Hi, Allen!! Good to see you.

Have you seen this thread yet? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3042479&mesg_id=3042479

[RetroLounge]

129. 10 years ago next month

I had a date with this tall russian blond and we were meeting at 10:00pm at a local dance club called Esoteria here in Milwaukee. The Club was 3 blocks from home, so I walked. It was the Anniversary of the club, so it was packed. The line came out the basement door, up the stairs, and down the block. I got in line and waited.

There were two women and a guy together in front of me. The blonde turned to me and said "Hi" and introduced herself, her fiance, and her best friend, The Redhead(tm). I turned to say hi to her friend and fell instantly in love. Wow! It was all over. I was lost in her eyes. We chatted for 30 minutes in line, and once inside they walked away and were lost in the crowd, and I didn't see them anywhere. Panic set in. I had to find her.

I made my way to a table in the back next to the DJ booth and sat down to wait for my date and scan the crowd for The Redhead. I got up and went to the bar for a drink, as it was faster than finding a waitress, and when I got back, the three of them were sitting at my table and invited me to join them. As it turns out, she was looking for me too. So I sat down and started talking to The Redhead, and two hours later, my date showed up, I told her she was late and had been replaced, and the Redhead and I have been married for 8.5 years now.

RL

[JVS]

132. I was watching my dressing-room spy cam 10 years ago

[fluffernutter]

133. Biology college class, a few moons ago.

:loveya:

[Bossy Monkey]

134. Writers' group, probably about 6 years ago nt

[loudestchick]

135. In the University of Missouri cafeteria "smoking section"--September '89

[bridgit]

136. 4yrs ago...

we were performing research work for a firm in: rockville, maryland

[ulysses]

137. dancing on the bottom floor ("Hell") of a 3-level club

13 years and 3 months ago.

[bigwillq]

138. It was four years ago at a nightclub

called Gotham Citi in New Haven, CT. I was dancing and he was standing against a wall near the D.J. booth. I thought he was so cute so I started to dance all sexy b/c I knew he was looking at me.

I was dancing for awhile and was thinking "Hmm, I want him to come talk to me but he needs to make the first move." I wanted to see if he had the "balls" to approach me. After awhile he came over to me and asked me to dance. He then bought me a beer.


Four years later, we're still together.

Many months into our relationship, he confessed that he would always go to that club and just watch me dance. He thought that I was straight b/c I would always go to that club with my friend Jenn and her and I would dance together and no matter who I'm dancing with, I really get into it.

[two gun sid]

139. Methadone clinic. 10 years ago.