My husband of 15 years and I were fixed up by a co-worker of mine and her fiance who my husband has known since elementary school. Despite some major distractions in the fixer uppers lives at the time, they were quite persistent about making it happen, for which I’m grateful.
My husband and I were set up by a mutual friend playing matchmaker just because she felt like it. Both of us are really reserved, so she had to work hard at it. We’re pretty much ideally suited to one another, except that any time it would be helpful to have a more outgoing person in the mix, it’s just the two of us.
It wasn’t planned or asked for, but Vic and Laura set me up with a schoolteacher on a double date to a Suzanne Vega/Richard Thompson concert. It went pretty well for a month or two, but then she told me that she wanted someone with a purpose in life. A couple of years later, she ran off to be a beachcomber in the Caribbean.
Even though I had a special purpose.
The best I got was a girl trying to let me down easily by saying she’d set me up with a friend. Bugged me more that she never followed through.
I also have a couple girls that claim they are looking for someone for me.
Wait, I forgot about college: a friend tried to set me up with a girl who had an obvious crush on him, so that he could try for her friend.
Had a friend who fixed me up with a guy she knew. We hit it off great. So great that friend got upset because she had a thing for me and I was too dense to know it.
Anyway, stayed with Mr. Fix-Up for 3 years until I broke it off because he thought he could do better and would never get around to making any move to either commit or end the relationship. Turns out he was wrong - he couldn’t do better than me 
He wanted to have Mrs. Cake and eat it, too?
I had an ex-friend give out my private contact info to a total stranger over the internet without bothering to ask me or even tell me that she had… does that count?
(And no, the whole affair did NOT go well. Explosively torpedoed an already-long-dead friendship, is what it did. I never acknowledged Internet Stranger, because, well, fecking creepy.)
No, no one’s played matchmaker, but I wish they would 
Agreed. I wish some of my friends had tried on my behalf. Actually, they probably did, but I was oblivious. My brother’s mother-in-law tried once for me, and that was interesting. Since I hadn’t dated in a good few years, it was best described as a learning experience.
Once, and I have been dating her about two years now. We are both painfully shy with new people so it was incredibly awkward at first. We would have never gone out if we had met in any other circumstances as she would have appeared to me as way out of my league. But my friends were right in how much we had in common and it has worked out great so far.