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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Poll: (for the "relationship involved" 49

Journal by Em Emalb

Where'dja meet your wife/husband/partner/lover/significant other?

A) church

B) bar

C) blind date

D) restaurant

E) School

F) Star Trek convention

G) House of Ill repute

H) Other--and feel free to explain.

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  • Sadly (Score:2)

    by anto ( 41846 )
    At a boxing class - and I don't understand why she bites me occasionally...

  • H) Other (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 ) *
    I'd just staggered out of the bar at University, and was grabbed by a friend and dragged into a game of Talisman, as they didn't have enough players. My future other third was one of the other players in the game (which was in her then boyfriend's room). About six months later, she'd split up with her boyfriend, and we ended up together. That was 15 years ago...
  • High school debate tournament. I never did lose to him, and I haven't since. :^)
  • No comment :-p

  • H: (Score:2)

    by Abm0raz ( 668337 )
    Saddly, I met jointly through a friend who was meeting her from an online game. He played an online game and so did she and they found out they went to the same University in Pittsburgh. I was visiting from Penn State to see an NHL game and tagged along (in case she was a psycho-killer that stalks victims online like you hear so much about in the news). We ended up hitting it off and were together for over 3 years before eventually breaking it off because we were moving to different halves of the country
  • A)
  • I think I wrote about this once in a previous poll... (man, /.'s search function suXX0rz...) here it is [slashdot.org]...

    "The Kindergarden Teacher who Loved a Geek"

    The timeless romantic saga of a man who thought he would never find love in the world, until fate and an ex-love brought him to an anusement park log ride where he met a beautiful woman who fell in love with him despite his geeky quirks.

    Even the miles could not separate the two. He was attending a big-city university while she was in a small cow-town in Wis

  • Where's the IRC option? Yes, we did, via a mutual friend. But it took a while before we actually got together.

    I'm also surprised that one of the options wasn't /. :-P

    • Ya, Em is so fucking lo-tech. I met my wife in a chatroom in 96, she hated me then (No seriously, I am the only person she's ever actively disliked online). I left the community, came back to the chatroom in 99 or 2000 with a new handle, she fell for me instantly...later found out that I was in fact the person she remembered hating before... aaaah memories.

  • I met her at church, started talking to her at church, asked her out at a class at church, our first kiss was at church, then we worked together at the church... etc.

    Our wedding will be in that building. :-)

    • Our wedding will be in that building. :-)

      No shit? I thought most people planned that at the local Wallmart ;-)

      • As opposed to outside, or at another church... :-)

        Many people don't get married in their church building, for various reasons.

        • I understood that, there are also people that just get a civilian marriage (or whatever that is called). I must however admit that I didn't understand that you meant *exactly* that building. I thought you meant "churches" in general. My bad...

          Besides, I always like to smartass comments that have no value at all to the discussion ;-)

  • I met Tracy online -- but not like you'd think. The year was 1995, I was an AOL member (yeah, go ahead an laugh).

    One night, in May, I was in the Comedy Central chat room, chatting with this guy about MST3K, and the discussion somehow got on to what we did, at the time I was a graphic designer. When I said that, this other user chimes in and says "hey I'm a graphic designer too!"

    So, I chatted with this person for a while, and we actually forced everyone out of the room because our discussion on design was
    • that is a cute story.

      i met my wife in school. we were both art majors and we both worked in the mail room. when we met we were both dating other people, so we were just friends. neither of us thought of dating the other until we were single. i do remember telling her ex that i thought it was stupid of him to dump such a great girl, but i didn't realize my attraction yet at that point because i was still involved with someone else. i'm glad we finally caught on. she knew we were going to get married t
  • I got invited to someone's 21st birthday dinner/party by a mutual friend. The meal was at a restaurant/bar that sold itself as being a place to pick up people: it had phones on every table and elsewhere, and if you liked someone you saw you were encouraged to call them up.

    The mutual friend and I spent most of the evening talking to a group of a dozen girls on another table who were celebrating an engagement and I went home with a couple of phone numbers in my back pocket. I remember one of them was an aupa
  • Right. Or you could stop pointing out my glaring lack of a date on friday nights, and i could stop sending the trained wombats by with the dead skunk-o-grams. Deal? *sigh*
    • Wombats? Dead skunk-o-grams?

      Sol, you shouldn't have!

      How sweet! ;)

      BTW, I have a lovely bruise from your last bricking. It's weird though, cause there's a sparkly peeble imbeded in my left frontal lobe. Kinda cool when I sit in the sunshine.

      • i know- i brick everybody in sight, and then i wonder how come i'm home by the phone on a weekend. Go figure! Hence, my free time for wombat-training. The skunks didn't make it through training, and that's all we'll say about that.

        Ya, but you should see the dent your skull left in the poor brick!!!
    • Don't feel bad, I'm in that boat as well, as I have been all my life, but could have gotten out of last night. I could have started dating the girl I've liked ever since high school, and she was all for it, but she has a fiancee that she also wasn't giving up, so I turned her down. Driving home, I felt like the biggest loser on the face of the Earth. When I woke up, I felt considerably better about myself.
    • It might have something to do with living in a cold, stuffy, cranky, uncool town. If you were living some place warmer, ummmm cooler, and friendlier, you'd probably have more dates than you could handle, even with all the bricking. I think there are quite a few people around here who'd be into that.
  • Irish Pub. St. Paddy's Day.

    'Nuff said...

    (-:

    Pixie
  • knew each other in high school, started dating our senior year, stuck together while going to different colleges, getting married in June.
  • On luxsingles.lu Which is really kind of odd, because she doesn't like computers.

  • That other option. (Score:3, Funny)

    by bethanie ( 675210 ) * on Wednesday April 28, 2004 @10:34AM (#8996062) Journal
    Can't believe you didn't make one for INTERNET!

    Specificially, match.com.

    Love at first date. Never looked back. Can't believe how lucky I am. Yadda yadda yaddda.

    ....Bethanie....
  • We are still members there - BBC [bethanybiblechurch.org] (for the curious).

    We did not get married there- got married in my in-law's back yard. Very nice. Spent all the money on a week in Cancun instead of the ceremony. I highly recommend it.

    • See . . . now that is the way to go. All these expensive weddings are just to "keep up with the Joneseses" and is a waste of time and money. Hell, some weddings for normal people (not the fabulously wealthy mind you) can run into the $19k range and that is nuts. It seems that most of the cost is soaked up in flowers / photographer / ($1,500) and cake ($500 - WTF? for a cake? even if it is several layers, what cost so dang much?).

      jason
      • Anything associated with a wedding costs more than the same item not associated with a wedding. Throw away kodak camera - 3 bucks. Throw away wedding kodak camera - 6 bucks. (I made up the prices but they do cost more.) Cake, dresses, and so on.

        But I will say this - a good photographer is worth it. This was the most expensive part of what we did for the ceremony itself. We were glad.

        Some folks want to spend the big bucks- and more power to 'em-- but I have fond memories of our simple wedding and e
  • That's none of your god damn business. Go back to church and think about it.
  • College marching band. Both trumpet players.
    • d00d band geeks! How awesome is that!
      I was a band geek... percussion section -- oh man, yeah total outcast.

      I was in marching/concert and some jazz band. I look back now and realize how much that sucked, but hey, I learned how to read music. Oh happy joy.

    • Gotta love bandtrips eh? My wife and I met in Highschool Marching Band. I'm a drummer, she played clarinet.
  • At a summer camp affiliated with my church. We had both been campers there for a long time - me from practically birth, her from middle school. After HS we both worked on staff there and one night she played the old "my cabin mate and I are having a fight, can I crash here for the night?" trick.

    That will be TWENTY years ago this summer, and she will be again working there as the Assistant Director. Unfortunately, though I'll be up there for about half the summer (primarily as househusband to watch the
  • Well, I met Jen in a bar.

    She was bartending, I was giving her something to do. Ok, so I was emptying my glass for her to refill ;)

    Anyhow...I never hit on her, even though I was smitten. Just was nice to her.

    She invited me out one night to hang out with some mutual friends, and I jumped her..oops, I mean at the chance.

    We had a great time and have been inseperable ever since.
    • Egads, do you realize you just gave hope to potentially thousands of mal-adjusted geeks - hope that the bartender MAY actually be attracted to them?

      Hopefully they'll focus on the 'I never hit on her' part... ;).

      I hearby propose that a week after Mothers day, we begin a new holiday - Bartender Appreciation/Apologization day. They sure deserve it.
  • We met last Halloween at a mutual friend's party, though didn't start dating until a month after that.
  • Yeah - I met my wife in high school. She played clarinet in the band, I was a drummer (cuz you know the drummers get more action). She dated one of the drummers a year older than us, but came around the next year when I helped her pass Geometry.
    • Yup, met me wife when I was an exchange student in Germany a little over ten years ago.

      Our first conversation of any length was an argument. (Over whether Sting could be considered a musician at all -- IIRC she insisted on pronouncing his name "Stink". This went on for some hours.)

      We had a strong dislike of each other for some months. She thought I was an arrogant ass with no sense of taste, I thought she was a nitpicky little pain.

      But we kept seeing each other frequently, because she was a roommate o

  • A. Yep. Church. Not actually IN church, but at a small group that we wouldn't have mutually been at were it not for church.
  • In fact we met about 2 years ago when I first started going there. At the time I was interested in one of her best friends. But after a year when that didn't work out and I had some time to recover from it, I started noticing her. After a few months of putting off a decision, I finally asked her to court (basically the same thing as dating, except you are up front and honest with the fact that you are both looking for a permanant relationship.) One good book that tells the difference (which isn't much)
  • We met when she went to the church on a saturday night to watch her brother play in a band. I was lead guitarist in that band. And we all know how attractive lead guitarists are...

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