Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihldt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihldt!ladtmc From: ladtmc@ihldt.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: How my (great grand) parents met Message-ID: <1705@ihldt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 11:47:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ihldt.1705 Posted: Wed Jun 22 11:47:25 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jun-83 21:43:02 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 29 My great-grandfather and great-grandmother got together because he was homesteading out west and she was the only single woman around for miles... (She was sent out there to take care of her sister who had TB.) Another set of great-grandparents met coming over on the boat from Germany. My father met his fiancee in an elevator. She was wearing a wide-brimmed hat which he tilted up to see who was under it. As it turned out, they were on their way to the same party. I met my boyfriend at a party where I didn't know *ANYONE*, but went around making idle conversation anyway. I went to the kitchen (to pour myself a drink of course--isn't that the first thing people always do at parties). He was talking to two women (I assumed he was taken) and showing them some photographs. I looked at one of the pictures and said, "Oh, I know these people!" He said (somewhat shocked) "Really?" I giggled (by this time the drink was getting to me) "No. not really." Then I went along my merry way. I ended up going out with *someone else* I met at that party. Even though he had been told (by the host of the party) that I was already going out with someone and that I was not looking for anyone else, he wanted to get to know me better. So the host called me to say, "How would you like to join me and my friend Chris at Pancho McGee's (a local bar/restaurant)?" I said, "Chris WHO??" I talked to Chris quite a bit after that, but after trying to ask me out for a whole *month*, he was just about to resign himself to having just a "friendly" relationship with me. I'm glad he was persistant, because i finally said "yes".