I saw a guy I once went out with at the local grocery store last night

[Missy Vixen]

My husband and I stopped in at the local grocery store at 1 AM this morning to pick up a few things. (We went to the Mariners game, then we got invited to our friends' house for a drink or two, which is why we were out so late!) We were making our way to the cash register when I spotted a guy across the store restocking shelves and thought, "That's Dave." I haven't seen him in probably 20 years, so I was fairly surprised to even recognize him. I didn't try to engage him in conversation. It was weird enough to see him. Of course, I had to tell the DH when we got back in the car and his response was a shocked, "You DATED that guy?" :rofl:

For those who have been either married or in a LTR for awhile, what happens if and or when you've run into someone you used to date? Did you attempt to talk with them?

Julie

[hfojvt]

1. we usually go out for drinks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhjYbfK9vrk


But I've never been in an LTR (and I have not dated that much either - my first date ever used to smile and wave whenever she saw me. Now I am several states away from anybody I've ever dated.)

[Skittles]

2. I usually don't remember them

they always remember me though :7

[Missy Vixen]

3. Absolutely

They know that if they don't, you'll KICK THEIR ASS! ;-)

Of course, I'm also sure you're unforgettable for many other reasons. :hug:

Julie

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. We see guys I was involved with some how at the mall all the time...

Of course a couple of them are employees because they're such disappointments to their wealthy families for whatever reason (Mostly being assholes). They work at the gap so they can keep up appearances. :shrug:
Duckie

[China_cat]

5. My favorite ex-husband came to visit once with his

next wife. My present (and current) husband welcomed them. We even went with them on a tour around Charleston and to the beach. The ex embarassed the hell out of me by pointing out to his wife and my husband the places where we had lived together, etc. My husband took it a lot better than his wife did.

When the ex died, my husband expressed regrets.

You don't find them like my dh very often.

[Bombero1956]

6. My first girlfriend

Her father didn't want a Puerto Rican son-in-law so she broke it off. That was 30 years ago, I recently ran into her at the mall. She married a guy that had gotten in trouble for exposing himself to a bus monitor in his school bus. She divorced him and was single again. She told me she had made a terrible mistake and if she had to do it all over again she would've married me. I felt badly for her and didn't know just how to respond. Needless to say it was an awkward moment.

[SPKrazy]

7. I Have

over the last 20 years though I haven't lived where I dated anyone and was married.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. We ran into a guy I used to date at Best Buy in Wichita in 1997

Both Mr. DTBK and the guy are doctors and knew each other from either hospitals or from musical programs (my husband sings traditional Pakistani music, and this guy was at a program or two). I kind of wandered around while they exchanged pleasantries. The guy had really broken my heart, and frankly I was so stunned to be near him that I couldn't stand it and walked over to look at the TVs. We had broken up in 1991, and Mr. DTBK and I were married in 1995. I was surprised that it bothered me so much. I saw him at other musical programs a couple of times years later and was fine - that encounter got me over the hump, as it were.

[skygazer]

9. We met up with one of my exes when we went to Vermont last summer

A guy I've known since I was a kid, dated briefly when I was 18 or so and hung out with off and on before I moved out here 9 years ago.

He was in a bar we went to and looked like hell - he always drank too much be he'd gone downhill since I'd moved and looked about ten years older than he is. Made me feel bad because he's a good guy - he's never been the same since the woman he was going to marry died in a car crash. :(

But I was happy to see him and introduced him to my SO. Who of course, was shocked that I'd gone out with a guy who looked like walking death. :)

So anyway, it depends on the situation but most of the guys I've dated have been people I knew for quite a while before and after and I'm on good terms with all of them so unless it was going to embarass them, I'd always say hi and introduce them. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

10. We never run into anyone either of us ever dated, 'cause none of them live out here.

All of our former flames are in Minnesota. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. Land of 10,000 mistakes.

;)

[Left Is Write]

13. Not quite, but nearly.

:P

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. There is little I love better than seeing former classmates working shit jobs.

especially the jocks and those who teased me with the school's tacit permission (usually because they were jocks, and therefore heroes).

Always makes me smile!

"Hey there, star quarterback, worshiped by the community - I see you're fat and stocking shelves 3rd-shift at the Kwicke-Mart. That's hilarious! Me? I got an education. Yeah - turns out that knowing how to read actually is more valuable than knowing how to throw a football. Jackass. Well, enjoy your life on the bottom rung, douchebag."