Where did you find your "significant other"?

[Deja Q]

10 Print "Don't worry, I've none to speak of."
20 GOTO 10

RUN

:rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. 7th grade. He sat behind me.

:hi:

[laheina]

88. I found mine in 7th grade

science class. Today our son turns eleven. How time flies. :)

[zone]

2. Pouring Guiness and making the most killer sandwiches

In a local brew pub / sub shop in our college town.

[miss_american_pie]

3. On route 19

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. In chapel.

It was love at first sight! For me, anyway. It took her seven more months.

[Dave Reynolds]

5. She was the SYSOP of a local BBS.

I was a lowly user who fell into her clutches....

[Deja Q]

14. Damn. SysOp and BBS... I recall the lingo.

[Kathryn STone]

47. SysOp and BBS-what do they mean thx?

[Dave Reynolds]

50. SysOp and BBS.

A Bulletin Board System, like a pre-Internet network. One phone line to the SystemOperator's computer, and one user at a time calling in.

[Digit]

43. If the question had been where did I meet my INsignificant other...

I was the Sysop(ette) and we did have a child of the union who is a terrific child, a senior in college.
Unfortunately, he was abusive and even a marriage counselor could not help.

[Canuckistanian]

45. Met my wife on a BBS

She wasn't a SYSOP, though. It was the first commercial BBS in Toronto.

The same year this new 'internet' thing came out.

People kept telling me it wouldn't last. The internet, that is, not my relationship with my wife.

[Dave Reynolds]

52. If I knew then what I know now,

a local SysOp started a multi-line for-pay BBS, and asked me if I wanted to invest some start-up capital. I declined, thinking "who would pay for something when we do it for free?"

His little 8 modem set-up became Voyager Internet Services. http://home.voyager.net

[Canuckistanian]

65. Yikes!

I'll bet you're :banghead:

[LeftyMom]

6. Here.

:shrug: Life is strange.

[flvegan]

26. !

He's a dead man walking. That little man doesn't want to invoke the wrath of this fella. I've got a pair of 20's (that's right, they're growing) to wrap around his...uh...oh, wait...
Whoops...

[LeftyMom]

40. You're silly.

:hug:

[Deja Q]

111. "Life is strange"? No. I am strange... and people tell me to get a life

Now THAT is strange.

[LeftyMom]

117. But you are life,

(unless your're posting via Ouija from Beyond the Grave) so you're wierdness is not unexpected.

[Shine]

7. We were both on the same board of directors for a non-profit.

:)

[Redstone]

8. All the way across the country. Literally.

I live in Connecticut, and found her in California.

Redstone

[Lilyhoney]

9. I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.

Ok it was a supper club but I was cocktailing.

[Deja Q]

15. Are you a fan of Human League?

:D

[Ptah]

10. Not yet. Maybe tomorrow.

:shrug:

[Kat45]

11. Haven't found him yet.

Still looking.

[Dinger]

12. This IS Gonna Sound Like Jeff Fucksworthy . . .

but I met him at a family wedding. He was dating someone, and she was history within a week. We celebrated our 25th anniversary last month.

[noshenanigans]

13. At a video game company

We were both testers and he hung out with the guy I had a crush on and ate lunch with all the time and he always tagged along. 2 years later I was in a horrible car accident and lost a lot of my friends because they couldn't deal with me being in a wheelchair (I can walk again, now), but he kept talking to me and listening to me and ended up being the best man I've ever known. He saw me through my (hopefully) worst times, and every night when I fall asleep beside him I'm happy to have found him.

God, that's the sappiest thing I've ever said.

[bridgit]

16. we were working for a research firm based in rockville, md; he...

doesn't play but enjoys what he calls 'the kitty cat game', women flocking round straightening his collar in the work place, pda's and such, but we are together now and that is as it should be...he's just such a rock star and so damn personable = yummy

[redwitch]

17. street corner

it's not what you think, really!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

18. I got him in a box of Cracker Jacks

Not really. I met him while he was a resident and I worked in the medical education office of a Wichita hospital, and he stopped at my desk to get candy from a candy jar I kept there.

[WindRavenX]

19. Yankee Stadium

:loveya:

[Gold Metal Flake]

20. The Columbia School of Broadcasting.

I Shit

You Not.

[GalleryGod]

27. Was Cousin Brucie there?

[Gold Metal Flake]

34. Nah.

He wasn't in Houston.

[DS1]

94. Why is that such a big deal that we wouldn't believe it?

:shrug:

[Ariana Celeste]

21. Online, in a religious debate msn chatroom

woot

I knew my SO in that chatroom for a couple years, ended up in a bad relationship with someone in my area, and when I decided to leave the bad one I flew out here and I'm in a great one
sorry if that doesnt make much sense, i've had a couple beers

[FarLeftRage]

22. Hopefully at work

... but hey, you never know.

[NNadir]

23. I saw her across the room. The prof announced the class would break into

groups the next day for a project, so I sat next to her, and casually asked if she'd like to be in my group.

Later, when I talked to her, I asked her out immediately (which was something I didn't do) and she starting telling me all about her boyfriend.

I had to wait through two other boyfriends, and stayed on as a friend, but eventually she came home with me.

We're past 20 years, and I love her enormmously.



Here she is when we were young, in the first months of our relationship. She has the finest heart I can imagine.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

71. She's gorgeous!

You lucky bastard! :toast: :patriot:

[NNadir]

74. She's better than she looks.

She's the most fabulous person.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

75. Icing on the cake.

:toast:

[hunter]

24. In a computer lab. Twice.

I am the luckiest son of a bitch computer geek in the whole wide world.

(Hi mom! :hi:)

The first SO married another woman, and I was devestated, but then wouldn't you know, it happened AGAIN, and it was my turn to get married.

Miracles do happen.

[GalleryGod]

25. Up on " Hawk Hill "

[LSK]

28. WHO?

:shrug:

[EstimatedProphet]

29. We were introduced by a mutual friend

Quite by accident. She was visiting from out of town, I had just come back to town from a meeting, our friend invited me over, and we hit it off immediately.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Across the hall from my teaching studio

almost 25 years ago.

[Dash_Pennystone]

31. A BAR

SAME PLACE I FUCKING LEFT HER.

[Left Is Write]

32. Bogart's Place in Apple Valley.

[swag]

33. Atop me at the height of a magnificent LSD trip.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

35. Steak and Ale

Black Monday, 1987.

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. www.personalpossibilities.com

We even thanked them in our wedding program!

:thumbsup:

fsc

[Missy Vixen]

37. He answered my ad

I wish I were kidding. My boss at the time had met her husband through an ad; she bullied me till I did it, too. I hated dating and would most likely still be single if I hadn't taken the risk.

DH and I met on a Tuesday night after talking on the phone every night for a week (and my very real fear that we'd meet and there'd be nothing there.) We went out again Thursday night the same week, were married 10 months later, and have been together ever since.

Julie

[REP]

49. Same Here

I ran an ad in the local free paper a year after dumping my ex. Our first date lasted four days. That was over 14 years ago.

I ran the ad because such horrible, horrible things were hitting on me. I figure if Fate wanted me to date again, I'd take things into my own hands. I was terribly embarassed about the ad, so of course it was the Ad of The Week and was read on the air every day for a week. I got hundreds of responses. Loved One was caller #2, and the oddest thing was is that he worked about a block from where I lived at the time, but since I walked home on a different street, I'd never seen him (otherwise I'd been on him like white on rice!).

[latebloomer]

79. Same here too!

And, strangely enough, he knew my best friend, had dated a friend of hers who I knew as well, was going to a party after our first meeting at my neighbor's house-- yet we had never met.

We clicked immediately on the phone,and I broke the first rule of blind dating-- Always meet the date at a public place. I let him pick me up at my house, and was immensely relieved to see he was cute-- unlike some of the other very pleasant people I'd met that way.

We were married 18 months later, in 1990, and my personal ad, framed by his reply letter, was the cover of our wedding invitation.

[REP]

93. We Knew Lots Of The Same People

He went to high school and college with my brother; we both traveled in the same arty-farty-band circle; hell, we even vaguely resemble eachother, but without that ad I was so embarassed about, I never would have met him! I'm ultra-super-mega cautious about meeting unknown quantities, but after talking on the phone for 8 hours straight ... well, as I said, our first date lasted four days and we really haven't been apart since.

[TInCanCommunications]

38. I was a dj at a college radio station in Windsor

She listened to our show while working in Detroit.

I gotta pledge some money to station during their next fundraising drive.

[Magrittes Pipe]

39. She just showed up on the doorstep one day like a stray puppy.

I'm a sucker for strays. :loveya:

[Tikki]

41. In a friend's car......

..sitting in the back seat when they pulled up in front of my house to pick me up for a ride....

I spent all night long draped over the seat talking to the cute boy in the back seat.

May 1964...he was 16 and I was 15 years old....



Tikki

[AwakeAtLast]

42. This is so cliche` "In a bar"

Except that I never went to bars, had never been picked up in a bar and
didn't want to even be there.

Well guess what? He picked me up. He gave me his number, I waited 3 days to call it,
and the rest as they say, is history.

5 years and one daughter later, he is the love of my life! :D

[entanglement]

44. That's BASIC, isn't it?

I wonder if anyone still uses it!

[paradox]

46. worked together

We worked tech support together..........we got outsourced together. They can't ship love to india..lmao!

[More Than A Feeling]

48. Church. She's the daughter of the music director. n/t

[cynatnite]

51. In a bar...

I let him tag along for the last 18 years.

[libnnc]

53. At a gay bar. Sounds sorted. It was.

Been together for going on 14 years. She got a friend to get my attention on the dance floor. We danced together, exchanged phone numbers and the rest--as they say-- :evilgrin:

I only gave it up after the SECOND date.

[barb162]

54. school

[BrotherBuzz]

55. Blind date

Three friends independently (no collusion) tried to connect us saying we'd be perfect. Evidently, with such great recommendations both of us got curious and planed to make the call - I called first. She really did have a GREAT sense of humor and much, much more ....

[WCGreen]

56. At a David and David Concert.....

[babylonsister]

57. It will be 24 years on 13 Feb: after

about a year, when I had cancer concerns
Shit! Done! I'll tell you later!
For baysis, 3 Feb is my 50th birthday, for better
or worse.

[Seabiscuit]

58. When it was apple blossom time in Orange, New Jersey,

we were a peach of a pear.

[grace0418]

59. Freshman year in college. In the dorms.

Doesn't that sound so Ozzie & Harriet?

[Robeson]

60. She walked up to me in a bar. Yeah, I know, I'm easy.....

....:shrug:

[auntAgonist]

61. online IRC chat.

we lell in fove and the rest is history :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

62. My then boyfriend introduced us.......

and abandoned me for several months.....

When my former bf returned, it was too late for him.....

I was nearly engaged then......

We've been married over 40 years now......

Every now and then, I wonder about that former bf.....I hope he found his own true love....

[Robeson]

63. His loss, and your gain!....

...:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

64. Indeed, my dear Robeson.......

It was......And I still wonder about him.....:hug:

[Amaya]

82. In NYC Union Square at the RNC in 2004.

nt

[HEyHEY]

66. Deep within the bowels of Hades town

[laylah]

67. I was hitch hiking in

a snow storm, high in the Colorado Rockies, in Nov. '79 when he picked me up. Ever heard the phrase "that's what I get for picking up a hitch hiker"? He coined it :rofl:

Jenn

[Wetzelbill]

68. at Target

She's an extra long pillow that I curl up to every night. :)

[leftofthedial]

69. at the end of my arm

groan

[Robeson]

70. She sounds very receptive to your wishes, though.....

....:shrug:

[leftofthedial]

72. Rosie, you're alright . . .

[SeattleGirl]

73. Where I least expected him

:loveya:

[seemunkee]

76. She made subs, I spun pizzas back in high school.

We dated, broke up, she found me again in the library at college.

[LynneSin]

77. Rooting through the garbage in a dumpster outside of my apartment

We've been sleeping together every since although I did get him a girlfriend!

[Atmashine]

78. AOL Chat Room Freaks, Geeks & Nerds

In 1995. Maybe it was '96.



She'll also shoot me, I think, if she knows I posted her picture.

[supernova]

80. Not yet. Still looking.

:shrug:

[eyesroll]

81. I was recruited to blog for the web arm of his publishing company.

The flagship product was a newspaper. The newspaper folded, but the Web site remained. We got together to brainstorm some projects, discovered we were both at similar places in our lives, and have been together since.

[Lochloosa]

83. At a party for a 7 year old...

I got here number from the host the next day.

[Tom_Foolery]

84. I was the overnight jock at a Top 40 station...

and she called to request Chris DeBurgh's LADY IN RED. I asked her if she was a lady in red. She said that she had red hair. I then asked her if she had painted toenails. She said yes; and she had painted finger nails, too. I asked her if they were painted red. She said yes. The rest is history.

[taterguy]

85. At the dog park

Our pets were compatible. After that everything fell into place.

[In_The_Wind]

86. Which time?

[bridgit]

92. ^_^

:loveya:

[kwassa]

87. On Usenet

Remember newsgroups?

The old unix pine and tin newsreaders?

I was in California, she was in Maryland.

It all started with email probably 11 years ago, we've been together in person for about 10.5 years.

[Callalily]

89. Yes, that is

a good question. Where DO you find a significant other?

[Rowdyboy]

90. A crowded gay bar on a Monday night (March 7th, 1989)

[Orsino]

91. Match.com...and she found me.

She likes to tell people that she picked me off a menu.

[Deep13]

95. We each answered the other's personal ad.

She called and we talked for four hours. We met a few days later at the local pizza shop. Our first date was the art museum and then french fries.

[gollygee]

96. At a party

I heard his soft deep voice and accent and had to find out whose mouth it came out of.

[I Have A Dream]

97. A spiritual group. n/t

[RetroLounge]

98. Well, I met my wife in line going into a club...

while on a date with someone else...

RL

[1gobluedem]

99. In a case of mistaken identity on both sides

We both thought the other was somebody else we were supposed to meet for work.

[KamaAina]

100. In the cafeteria at Moonbase Alpha. She had the tofu sticks...

oh, there I go again, posting from the year 2025!

[jrandom421]

101. It started with a natural disaster and went uphill from there

January 20, 1994 I was living in Canoga Park, CA and had been displaced from my apartment by the Northridge Quake. She was running the only shelter with space for me to sleep quietly in North Hollywood. We lost touch after I moved to the safety of the Bay Area, but reconnected a year and a half later. Still together and life is good and getting better.

[Burma Jones]

102. We did Woody Allen's "Don't Drink the Water" together

At the Silver Spring Stage

She was the ingenue. I was the Comic Relief, actually an emaciated priest - an incredible acting job on my part, I did yo yo tricks.

later, we did improv together

now, we have two and a half kids, she's a Yoga Teacher and I'm a rented brain for the Marine Corps



I have a friend that has the best story of this type:

She was a bridesmaid at a wedding in the DC area. She was living in Iowa at the time and had to fly here to participate. She had her photo taken, as is the custom, with a Groomsman as she was walking down the aisle. A subsequent girlfriend of the Groomsman, in DC, saw this wedding photo at the Groomsman's place, asked who the woman was, and proceeded to fantasize that my friend was the Groomsman's secret lover. The girlfriend then started making threatening phone calls to my friend in Iowa. My Iowa friend eventually figured out who was making these calls and called the Groomsman, who had jettisoned the girlfriend, enraging her even more. My Friend and the Groomsman had to talk on the phone to straighten this problem out. these phone calls eventually blossomed into, ahhhh love. Eventually, my Friend married the Groomsman, but did this stop the crazy ex-girlfriend, no. The Crazy girlfriend was hauled into court, the judge was looking over her phone bill and asked, what does this little printed smiley face mean, next to the phone number, the crazy ex answered, "I put her on my Friends and Family Plan." Eventually, the crazy ex tried to hire two teenagers to kill my Friend, the teens went immediately to the police and the crazy ex was moved from probation and psych care to prison, where she sits to this day......

[Deep13]

103. She was behind the sofa cushion the whole time!

Oooh, there's my other sandal!

[Nikia]

104. At college

Our sophomore year, we were in two of the same classes. Then I saw him at a party shortly after my crush told me that he was only interested in me as a friend.

[The Straight Story]

105. Enron

In tehachapi, California.

[no name no slogan]

106. right here

but, you knew that already :evilgrin:

[Bombero1956]

108. at a convenience store

She was working behind the counter, I was buying a soda and she was being bugged by this weirdo that lived in her building. He kept asking her out and she kept saying no. I asked her to help me at the back of the store. I told her that I would ask her out and she should say yes and that way the creep would get the hint and leave her alone. I asked her out to a movie, she accepted and creepo took off giving me a dirty look on the way out. When it was closing time I was there, she asked me what was doing there, I said we have a date and I'm a man of my word, so I took her to see Superman. Two weeks later I asked her to marry me, that was 26 years ago.

[purji]

107. he was reading my tarot cards.

and just too cute for words.

[scarlet_owl]

109. We met on Yahoo personals.

We've been together for six years, married for five of those years.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

110. Yahoo personals.

That's how we found the other existed. The rest was all us.
Duckie

[TrogL]

112. In a hanger during a parade

Nobody was marching.

[skygazer]

113. In the produce department of the grocery store I work in

He was buying vegetables for a stew and needed a box to put his cat food in. Hmmmm, thought I. He cooks and loves his cat. Good combo.

That was 5 years ago.

[Bzzzz]

114. How Do I Begin...

It started in a gas station and he being an ass...and ended with him coming over and spending the night...the rest has been bliss...20 years going strong.

[friesianrider]

115. After an Eagles game ;)

At a restaurant in Olde City, Philly.

[bigwillq]

116. We met at a club!

That was almost five years ago! :bounce:

[MaggieSwanson]

118. He worked in the Produce department

at my grocery store. No kidding! Married for 13 years now.

[yellowdogintexas]

119. In a Cave.

more or less.

I was heavily involved in a caving group, and was camp cook for a special expedition at Mammoth Cave, involving a group from Michigan State University. Several of the participants ultimately became actively involved with the group I was in and my husband was one of them, and we became friends over a period of years. I think we had been friends for about 5or 6 years when we finally went out on our first date.

I was married when we first met, then divorced and after my divorce we decided to just go out...still together after 23 years of dating and marriage and a 21 year old daughter.

[2bfree]

120. In a classroom.

He was my teacher.

[CanuckAmok]

121. Eighth Circle of Hell.

I took the wrong bus.

[bumblebee1]

122. In the country of Greece

We were both serving in the Navy at the time. We lived in the same state. Our towns were 30 miles apart. (Reading & Lancaster, PA) The running joke in my family is that I went to Greece and met a guy from Lancaster.

[Omphaloskepsis]

123. First..

BASIC has never resulted in sex. ever. Girls flock to Ruby. Ruby is sex. In a OOP way.

I found my true love in 10th grade algebra. We both missed the same day and got put in a small room to take the test we missed. I noticed she was looking at my test. After I was done with the test I erased my name and wrote in hers. I slid the test over to her and grabbed hers. 11 years later.. and she still sucks at math.