Met in a bar in Tokyo that had an all you could eat and drink night featuring beer chugging contest and wet t-shirt contest. My buddy was talking to some women I hadn’t taken a proper glance at when I overheard “I’m actually not Japanese, I’m Chinese.”
I turned to Dan and said “sorry dude but you’re toast” then turned to the lady and blew her away as a white guy speaking fluent Chinese in Japan. Got married about 4 months after that, been married 11 years and have three girls.
Put me in the Geek Love Story category. We met at a sci fi/fantasy convention. He was a friend of a friend. The three of us hung out together for a while. He ended up coming to our room later because his girlfriend had kicked him out of their room. We all had some drinks and he had a strawberry daiquiri. We were joking around and he started laughing and strawberry daiquiri came out his nose, my heart went pitter pat. We let him sleep on the floor. We hung around together a little bit the next day but then he had to try and make up with the girlfriend.
Later I ended up running into him randomly at a Subway. I saw him again at another sci fi con and we talked for a while. Then I decided to join my friend’s Star Trek fan club, he was supposed to be in it but he didn’t come to the meetings that often. I liked the other people though so I just kind of put him out of my mind. Months later there was another sci fi con and I had a hotel room to myself. The whole group hung out together and he was there, by this time he had broken up with the girlfriend. I was drinking a little and flirted a lot. He ended up asking if he could crash in my room because he missed his ride back home. So he did, we talked, we fooled around a little. After that we started dating.
After a little more than a year we broke up for a while and saw other people. I had an internet rebound guy that I met a few times. That kind of fizzled and I had a couple more flirtations that never went anywhere. In the meantime he dated an old girlfriend (not the previous one) who was basically the reason why we broke up. She used and manipulated him, they fought a lot and she treated him like dirt. We sort of remained friends and would go out to movies usually every other week. After a while it became more frequent, then we started fooling around again. I wasn’t expecting anything serious this time but he seems to be more serious. He’s almost said the “love” word a couple times and we even discussed the possibility of something more permanent. Well, we’ll see.
I met a guy in karate class and been going out with him for about nine months, when I came to the realization he was an asshole (it took a few months), and broke up with him. I was kind of depressed and another guy in the class with whom I had been acquainted (but had not considered going out with, because he wasn’t my type), noticed I was feeling crappy and depressed, got my phone number, called me up, and invited me to a rednecky party bonfire type of thing. That definitely was not my scene, but he was so insistent that I needed to get out and forget about my former boyfriend, so I went.
I was definitely not expecting anything to happen. He came over to my apartment to pick me up and I wasn’t quite ready. He immediately took to my two cats, petting them and talking to them (an excellent sign. My other boyfriend, and my ex husband in fact, didn’t like my cats).
We went to the party where he stuck with me all night and he introduced me to all his friends. We got sloppy drunk, went back to his apartment where he basically said, “We’re so drunk, just sleep here. In my bed. I promise nothing will happen.”
Heh.
We had wild intoxicated monkey sex that night. When I went home, I never expected him to call me again. I thought we’d just talk at karate occasionally and that would be it. But he called me that day, we saw each other in class, and he asked me out again.
We moved in together in January, and May 17 we’ll have been together two years.
I put up a profile on Okcupid back in November/December. Didn’t get any serious responses for about a month. Contributed to a few dating threads/made some of my own on the SDMB, getting pointers and advice.
Then in January, I get a message from a girl who lived in Fresno. At the time I was trying to meet people in San Jose; I had kind of resigned the fact that I couldn’t make a long-distance relationship work because all my previous attempts failed.
She was responding to a comment I had made in my profile, where I mock-quited Norm MacDonald’s “note to self…” bits he used to say in SNL and the film Dirty Work. It turned out she was a big fan of the film Dirty Work, and mentioned it reminded her of it. We had some mundane banter, but at this point I didn’t think anything serious would really come of it, after all she lived a couple of hours away and it seemed more like she was cruising personals for funny stuff than actually looking for someone. This was reinforced by her profile which had said she had just gotten over a relationship and was just looking for friends. Because I have had a bad experience with people ‘on the rebound’, I kind of took it easy and didn’t think too much into it. In retrospect, I think that really worked to my advantage.
We talked on AIM and on the phone eventually. She lived far, but at that point I wanted to meet her, because I really felt like there might be a connection based on her personality. Her profile picture had a smile that just made me want to smile back, it was so positive. So I drove to Fresno to meet her, went the wrong way, was two hours late, she was still up for dinner despite the delay, and finally met her at 8 that evening. Having dinner with her was when I knew things would really work out well.
We plan on moving in together at the end of summer. 
We met in Sunday School. Honestly.
There I am, the lone defender of independent thought in this room of unmarried fundamentalists. And one day this guy walks in and joins the class. And suddenly I’m not the only one arguing anymore; another independent thinker!! And he’s cute! Our first date was to a Star Trek convention. DeHusband and I will be married for 11 years in June.