Mine added me to Yahoo Messenger by mistake.
SWMBO and I first met when we were both married to other people. She signed her son up for Taekwondo lessons in the school where I was teaching. About four months later, her marriage cratered. About a year after that, my marriage cratered.
We “knew” each other in an instructor-parent mode already, but in April of 1993, we had our first extended conversation in a non-Taekwondo situation and a week later, I asked her out. I consider that first “date” as our anniversary date and on the 17th of this month, we will celebrate our 216th anniversary (I do them monthly to keep her on her toes 
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216!!! how do you keep track? Unless you cheat and do it by math
There’s some message board I was on…something about Cecil Adams…ignorance…I can’t remember what it was called, though.
Anyway, I met her there.
Met her at a beer chugging contest in Jimbocho Tokyo. Billy’s Bar I think was the name of the place. One of my buddies was chatting her up with “where are you from in Japan.” She replied, without my having set eyes one her at this point, with “I’m not Japanese, I’m Chinese.” I told Dan, “sorry dude but look elsewhere” and turned to the lady and said “小姐， 你好吗?" We were married about 5 months later and moved to Hong Kong.
We do monthly anniversaries too, and also on the 17th of each month, as we were married on a 17th.
I met her through a friend in Eugene, OR, back in '94 - she used to be his manager at the deli where he worked, and I used to hang out at lunchtime because he could get me free food. We’d met casually, and while I though she was cute, I didn’t have the stones to ask her out. One day she mentioned that she’d like to see Pulp Fiction again, and I said “I haven’t seen it yet, you know, um, if you want to go see it.” Like a huge dork. She kind of blew me off.
Anyway, New Year’s Eve rolls around, and I was holed up in my favorite dive bar (Max’s Tavern, if you must know), pissed off because it was snowing, and my bad knee (messed it up a couple years before) was bugging me, so I couldn’t go bar hopping or walking round looking for a party. In the bar she comes, with a couple co-workers - she had come looking for me for some reason (I just now asked her and she said “Because I was bored and wanted some attention, and I knew you liked me” - mystery solved).
Anyway, she and her friends helped me gimp down to a local brewpub over snow drifts and icy sidewalks, where we got hammered on really good beer, and ate pizza bread and fries and made lewd jokes to each other all night. We went back to her place and spent that night together - but not in a biblical way, just talking - and as I left the next morning, I went to kiss her, and she gave me her cheek. I told her I’d keep trying every time I saw her until she kissed me back, which I did, and she eventually did. On January 15th of 1995, we told each other “I love you”, and here we are, 16 years and three (soon to be four) kids later.
Translation please?
I just took two weeks of Chinese lessons, so I can handle this.
“Young lady, How are you?”
OKCupid. And that was after all the times I’d trashed OKCupid for the quality of its members. Oopsie.
Thank you. Now I’m trying to decide whether the appropriate response would be “good enough to eat” or “I’m a very, very bad girl…”
Back in 2004 I was a senior at san jose state. Ran to get coffee and a bagel before class, only to my dismay see a huge long line. Realizing I would be food and coffee deprived I bellowed, I DONT HAVE TIME FOR THIS! and bellowed louder than howard dean. When I realized what an ass of myself I made, I scrambled off.
Later, I met my fiancee on eHarmony (of all dating sites!) And told her the story of my meltdown. She looks surprised and says, oh, you were that guy in line?
Turns out she was the young lady standing ahead of me during my caffeine meltdown. She was a freshman at SJSU. Fortunately she doesn’t hold it against me!
In 2002 I transferred in my sophomore year to art school from a small liberal arts college, and I was determined to find new friends and hopefully a boyfriend.
Transfers and freshman all got to move into the dorms on the first day, so my roommate and I (living in the only female triple room in the house) decided to go meet the boys downstairs in the other triple. There were two shy punk guys and one guy on his computer playing a batman game (He had moved in that morning and had already set up his gaming rig). The five of us all became friends and started hanging out after classes, and the gamer and I realized we had a ton in common. By the time Halloween rolled around we were close friends and we all roamed the neighborhood in costume together.
The next night, we all watched Fellowship of the Ring together and after everyone else went to bed he and I stayed up talking. At one point we just looked at each other and something just… changed. Though I kept my stuff in my room I ended up staying in his room almost every night (the others were cool with it), and continued to do so until we both graduated.
We got married in 2007 and had our first kid in 2010. We still watch the LOTR trilogy together and laugh about how it brought us together.
March 1997, in alt.callahans. Yes, we met in a bar, albeit a virtual one. His first line to me: “Hi! I’m 28 and single!” My response: “Hi! I’m 32 and single!” We stayed up all night that night talking to each other online. Then it went to phone conversations, then in April 1997 I came down here to visit him. I never used the return half of that round trip ticket: I found a job down here and stayed.
October 1997, he proposed: December 1997 we married. We’ve been together 14 years now and are still as happy as can be.
Funniest thing: we were on the same D&D BBS years before that, and we missed each other by about a week on a visit to Corbin, KY.
alt.callahans! I remember that place. IIRC, that’s where I first used this username.
On a Friday night in 1987, in a place in NYC where gay men had anonymous sex. There was a group of about a dozen guys surrounding a very striking, very tall guy. He was exactly my type, tall and thin with dark features, and I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Eventually he caught me staring . . . and stared back. After a few seconds he put away his junk and made his way through his admirers, to give me a kiss that literally took my breath away. We spent the entire weekend in my apartment, and have been together ever since.
We met on Yahoo! personals. After many chats on-line and late night phone calls, I was pretty sure he wasn’t crazy and decided to meet him in person. He didn’t live too far from me, so I drove down and we went for a really long walk along the lake. The next day he called to tell me that he thought the night went great, and I told him I was disappointed that he didn’t kiss me. The next night, I drove down there again and we spent an hour in the car making out like teenagers. A few weeks later, we moved in together and the rest is history!
When were you on? Hubby was on before I was: I got on about January 1997 and still peek in occasionally.
I met my wife in a AOL BBW chat room .
I was playing a softball tournament when I noticed this cute guy playing on another field. I went to scope him out and he hit a homerun. I hung around that whole weekend, but I never spoke to him. Fast forward to sometime that week and me playing co-ed league. I met up with him again and this time he was checking me out. I waited until it was his turn to play and he intentionally hit a homerun in my honor.
We dated for a bit, but broke it off fairly early. He got married and had a baby. I got engaged. More time passed and I broke it off with my fiance. He divorced. And then one night I had scorekeeping duties at the field where he’d subbed in a league. He said we should get together and I agreed. We’ve been together ever since and that’s been 19 years ago.