Mine isn’t that great, but I’ll tell it as best I can. I had just broken up with a girl that just wasn’t a nice person. We were only together for a couple of months, so not too serious. I waited until after New Year’s to make sure not to ruin any holidays. So anyway, at the time online dating services were ‘suckering’ people in with free ‘personality assessments’ that didn’t tell you they were for dating sites. You would fill out a bunch of information and it would tell you that you were some random personality type and that since it had so much information, would you just like to fill out the rest for an online dating profile? I was 25 at the time and newly single, so I thought what the heck. This was also in the day before they had a good system for dealing with shadiness, so I put my AIM name in my ‘description of myself.’ I didn’t even bother with a picture. Anyway, that would have been around January 22nd or so. I ended up getting a wink from a girl who also had her AIM name in her description and the next day I messaged her. She seemed nice and we set up a date for the 30th.
We met at a nice little restaurant. She later told me that she wanted to cancel, but her friend convinced her to go since if nothing else she’d get a free meal at a nice restaurant. I found out she was a fan of a baseball team and I jokingly proposed at the restaurant. She was also a month away from her 21st birthday and I didn’t realize and tried to buy her wine, so almost contributed to her deliquency.
We then went to a one man play about growing up gay in the south. It was a good choice on my part since she was heavily involved in the gay rights movement although I didn’t know it, I just thought the play sounded good. She apparently had fun since she invited me to her church the next week and well, here we are 15 years, 3 kids and a marriage later. She’s the best thing that ever happened to me. The greatest girl in existence.