i hope im not upsetting any one by this post but i thought it would be nice simply to remember how couples came together and for many led to a lovely married life,
so to start the ball rolling i was asked to play a piano at what became my late mother in-laws second marriage having lost her husband a year or so before,
and so i turned up and met other family members and before i began to play i was offered a large drink being green and i suppose not street wise then my future brother in law as he became spiked my drink with several spirits and i drank most of it straight down being thirsty,
minutes later i passed out and suffered a very severe head ache and hang over all in one go ,,,, yes youve guessed it i was well beyond playing anything , the brother in-law took a lot of stick but that was the beginning of how i met my wife being one of two daughters of my future mother in law, and she was a lovely lovely lady ,.one of the best.
Q; now its your turn that's if assuming that you want to tell us about it,( i very sincerely hope I'm not upsetting any one by writing this post) as i thought it might make interesting reading as to how couples meet and the circumstances that made it happen.
Met my future wife at the Victor Silvester School of Dancing
in Chelsea, London in 1960.........
Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.
In 1963, I frequented a coffee bar with my friend. We got chatting to two young men and they asked if we'd go to the cinema with them. We'd no idea which one we'd end up with at the time, they decided between them. My friend only went out with hers a couple of times, but four years later I married mine, and we're still together.
I met Sam when I was an usherette taking tickets at the door.. This tall blond guy walked towards me across the foyer..
I met my hubby walking along the prom in Blackpool, it was Glasgow Fair Fortnight, :grin: :grin:
Both Veronica and I, unknown to each had, had a couple as mutual friends - we met at their house and, both recently divorced, somehow hit it off immediately
. Sadly, that couple also divorced a couple of years later, we lost touch with both of them
Mike
I wrote this, over 6 years ago, on the other side. Guess it will stand another airing....
From the end of WW11, I lived with my parents near Brighouse, in Yorkshire. Though the rest of the family were here, near Chesterfield.
Once I became mobile, in the 1960's. I travelled monthly, the 50 miles, to stay the weekend at my Auntie's.
First job, after my arrival. Was to collect my lovely little Cousin, as she finished work, at the local Co-op store.
Always making time, for a quick cuddle.......
One afternoon. A voice called. "See yer later!".
I came up, for air. And saw, a vision. Nice legs. Knees, under a neatly fitting black skirt. Grey top, full of health and vitality. And, the biggest, brownest eyes imaginable......
Cor! Who's that? Your date, for tonight...... By 'eck!
We had a lovely foursome, down town. At the end of the evening, I took her home. In my side-valve, Reliant van.
Next evening, we had a twosome.
Shortly afterwards, I didn't go back to Brighouse.
We married, early 1969. Bought a house, 1970.
All these years on, we're still married. To each other. Still living in the same house.
Lovely tale Dayo. I missed the first outing.
so did I - lovely to hear
Mike
Paul and I met, totally by accident, by reluctantly helping out friends. My friend met a man at a night club, gave him her address and told him that he could come round next evening. Next morning she realised she had been a bit daft but knew where he worked so phoned him and said that he could still come round if he brought a friend. Then she phoned me and asked me to come as well.
I was at the start of a divorce and the last thing I wanted was another man so I said that I wouldn't go. 'Please, please, please - I'll be your friend forever etc.' so I agreed to go but said I would leave immediately I thought she was ok. The four of us went to the local pub and Paul and I made polite conversation. He told me later that he was trying to work out my age from the age of my children. He must have realised that I was older than he was. He hadn't wanted to go either.
That was about thirty years ago.
My wife and I met in the office, but a good friend of mine gave a showstopper answer when on the Captain's table on a cruise.
As a ice breaker the men on the table were asked ' What made you book the cruise, and how did you meet your wife?
His response was ' We are celebrating our 40th anniversary, and we met when her husband introduced us...............'
Follow that!
:rolleyes: :smiley: :grin:
Dayjo... You and Christine are a great example to us all..
1955Vintage. :grin: :grin:
i was mostly brought up by my Granny, her youngest daughter wasnt much older than me... my future wife lived just over the road, she became my aunty's best friend [because my aunty was after her big brother] mmmm... my aunty married him, making my future wife my new aunty... [1140]... so when my son gets smart i call him cousin.. [1120] [1120] [1120]
Met my husband Chris on New Years eve 1965, I was 16 and going out with John friend of his, I think I gave Chris a kiss at midnight like I did to quite a few others. Some months later John and I got my friend and Chris together they went out for quite a while. Fast forward a couple of years I was going out with somebody else who was mucking me about, I met Chris one day when I was heading to the bus stop, he offered me a lift, we went out a couple of times, Chris went on holiday and I got back with the old boyfriend, silly girl, wrong choice. I met up with Chris again I can't remember how and the rest is history been married over 50 years.
crabbyob - you Hogmanaying all over again?
I can't get my head around that one. [2040]
Quote from: Jacqueline on January 01, 2022, 05:09:12 PM
Met my husband Chris on New Years eve 1965, I was 16 and going out with John friend of his, I think I gave Chris a kiss at midnight like I did to quite a few others. Some months later John and I got my friend and Chris together they went out for quite a while. Fast forward a couple of years I was going out with somebody else who was mucking me about, I met Chris one day when I was heading to the bus stop, he offered me a lift, we went out a couple of times, Chris went on holiday and I got back with the old boyfriend, silly girl, wrong choice. I met up with Chris again I can't remember how and the rest is history been married over 50 years.
well done
Mike
It's amazing how often pure chance changes the route of people's lives.
If Susan hadn't walked out on me - totally out of the blue as far as I was concerned - to take up with someone else, I would never have met Veronica - which was the best day of my life
Mike
Quote from: klondike on January 01, 2022, 05:13:29 PM
It's amazing how often pure chance changes the route of people's lives.
How true, I accepted a brief for a fraud case defence at very short notice, to help a colleague in chambers out and read the notes on the way North in the train. The lady who was to become my wife and partner for over twenty years I had to cross examine on the third day - can you imagine that conundrum? I was bursting to get to know her, but of course professional protocol precluded that until after the case was decided. Very cool in the dock She'd however told another girl she worked with after our exchanges - "He's mine" - the rest was history of course.
We were strangers sitting near at a Sunday-lunchtime music jam. She had a lovely red and white summer dress on that looked as if it had been stuffed in a drawer for a month. I really wanted to say hello but my mouth wouldn't link with my brain. What should've been "That's a lovely dress", came out as "Haven't you got an iron"? We married some 6 weeks later. :grin:
Quote from: zoony on January 01, 2022, 09:01:32 PM
We were strangers sitting near at a Sunday-lunchtime music jam. She had a lovely red and white summer dress on that looked as if it had been stuffed in a drawer for a month. I really wanted to say hello but my mouth wouldn't link with my brain. What should've been "That's a lovely dress", came out as "Haven't you got an iron"? We married some 6 weeks later. :grin:
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Cassandra.. Loved your story.. So interesting..
Same here.
All by chance your future is set.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies
Deeply buried from human eyes;
And, in the hereafter, angels may
Roll the stone from its grave away!
It's a thought that if everyone had met a different wife or husband
all by chance, then overall, if happiness can be measured
it would all work out about the same.
Some not happy now with the their chance would have been happy now and others, happy now, would not have been.
Summed up, as swings and roundabouts of life. Snakes and ladders.
Interesting thought FB. :hmm:
then we look at our offspring, and know it was worth it.. :cowboy: