How did you meet your SO?

[Tokie]

I went riding with a new girlfriend who lived in another town - 18 miles away (met her on a Lung Association Bike Trek). We started in her town & rode to breakfast on a popular local ride. In the middle of the ride, she saw an old biking friend and his buddy. They chatted and decided to have breakfast with us. Over breakfast, (now) DH memorized my friend's phone # when her old friend asked for it. (now) DH then called her and dated her a few times, but no chemistry. Months later, I was finishing the same ride when (now) DH rode by the opposite direction and said "Hi tokie!" - I had on sunglasses,helmet and a bandanna over my mouth and nose to keep blowing sand from Santa Ana winds out. At that point, I was about to call ex-BF for ride home, it was really nasty! I said to (now) DH "do I know you?" and turned to his direction. He gave me a lift home in his pickup truck, but never asked for my phone #.In the following weekends, while his friends ate b'fast on their ride, he would ride 12 miles further and leave notes on my front door(I was out).Finally, I called my GF to ask what to do. She gave me his phone # & told me to bring him cookies to thank him for the drive home. I did- and the rest is history! We married approx.6 months after our first date!

[Koronin]

I actually met my husband at work. We were not co-workers but worked at the same place. I was working at AT&T (a site in Charlotte, NC that no longer exists). I ran the mail inserter machines. Basically the machines that cut, fold and envelope your bill. My husband worked for the company that did the maintenance on the machines. We ended up getting married a bit over a year after we started dating. (27 when we got married). He's also the only person I ever dated. Yep went through college without dating anyone, no getting set up by friends or anything either.

[sfa]

I'm loving reading some of these stories!

DH and I met at Pennsic, a huge medieval re-creation event. We were at a party and he was trying to pick up my sister while a guy he was with was trying to pick me up (we found out later they had discussed this in advance and planned their strategy) but it was pretty clear early on in the conversation that he and I were the ones really getting along well. FWIW, the other guy was WAY better looking and was the reason I had gone to the party to begin with--I knew he was going to be there.

My sister and the other guy ended up dating on and off for a couple of years. DH and I have been together ever since. That was 23 years ago. Now I feel really old!

Sarah

[channlluv]

This really is a great thread. What a bunch of romantics we are!

Roxy