How did you meet your SO? (Significant Other)

[MiddleFingerMom]

35. My ex-wife? In Germany (she was German adopted by an American sergeant when she was about 5 or 6)...

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... while she was on a blind date. The date was horrible. The guy's sergeant had fixed him up with her and told him
some places to go (and some to avoid) and asked if he had enough money.
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The doofus took her to one of the places "not to go" (where, naturally... I was) and had not had enough money to
pay for a fraction of the cost of the dinner he took her out for (she was able to cover it).
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We didn't hook up that night, but made arrangements to meet the next evening. Married in less than a year.
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An unfortunate, yet GLORIOUS mistake.
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The one I think of as "the one that got away"? My boss' wife wanted to fix me up with her best friend (who I had
never met nor seen) -- thought we'd get along fantastically. She finally stopped by the local rural bar near my
boss' wife and I at their Halloween party on her way to a private party.
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She was dressed as a devil -- bright red catsuit (and she was MADE for a catsuit). horns, pitchfork... the works.
I was dressed as a full-body papier-mache-and-chicken wire lifelike 7-foot penis (my normal costume for about
10 years... and one in which I NEVER lost a costume contest until I moved to Arizona -- you shoulda SEEN the
special effects).
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Later, the wife asked us both separately what we thought of each other.
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I thought she was HOT, sweet, bright, witty, interesting, etc., etc., etc.
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She thought I "was a bit much".
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Didn't happen -- 'til the wife set us up about three months later at a live rock-n-roll club in town. For whatever
reason, we BOTH hit it off that time. My boss and I went to the (very crowded) bathroom at the same time and,
when we were standing side-by-side at two urinals, told me that he thought "if you play your cards right, I know
someone who's going to come back to my house tonight for some wild animal sex".
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You coulda heard a pin drop.
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But he was right -- and we were together about 4 years until she told me it was time to make a commitment
decision and I wasn't smart enough (STUPID STUPID STUPID) to realize that she was, indeed "The One".
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