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So where did you meet your bloke?

141 replies

charliecat · 01/06/2006 22:12

Internet, pub, out on the street, bus stop???
I met mine as I was on the way out to go to the cinema with someone else...never dreamt we would be together all these years later
What about you?

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vitomum · 02/06/2006 20:02

clubbing. very cool club, but i wasn't one of the cool people. i was one of those people who had been out drinking all day and didn't want to stop when the pubs shut. DP worked there and had stayed on after work for a few. I was totally steamboats and telling his brother off.

ShowOfHands · 02/06/2006 20:13

Sitting in the college common room:

Me: (to male friend) Can I have one of your Pringles?

Male friend: Yeah sure

Me: If I ever meet a man who can fit his whole hand in a Pringles tube, I'll marry him

Cue, guy across the room who I've never seen before, runs over and puts hand in Pringles tube

Weird guy I've never met: So?

We dated for six years and then he got down on one knee (ring in Pringles tube)

Oh God, it's ridiculous isn't it? Written down, we sound like a pair of strange 'uns.

Mazzystar · 02/06/2006 20:16

Boozer

swedishmum · 07/06/2006 00:43

St Tropez in 1983 in a club.

mrsbang · 07/06/2006 00:50

He sort of fell on me p*ssed in a nightclub while I was talking to a mutual friend, back in 1984.

Lots assume we met through work though because our work can interlink.

fairyfly · 07/06/2006 00:51

up my own arse

Somanykiddies · 07/06/2006 09:58

Met mine at 11 in secondary school. Dated from 14-18 then split. Married in March this year after meeting again two years ago with 20 something years in between!!

dublindee · 09/06/2006 07:14

Showofhands - I love your story!

beansontoast · 09/06/2006 07:26

work........zzzzzzzzzzz

of course it was actually very exiting

giddy1 · 09/06/2006 08:01

Best mates wedding!!!
She had tried to persuade me that she knew someone far more suitable for me than the loser I was living with. I asked about this "lovely guy" but thought he sounded really boring.

I split with the loser days befor her wedding then whilst in the church I noticed a really good looking guy and later at the reception!
phwoarrrrrrrrr
married him 12 weeks later.
Deffinately not boring and better than I could have hoped nearly 10 years later.

giddy1 · 09/06/2006 08:01

edam · 09/06/2006 08:21

Met dh at the Comedy Store in London. Set the tone for the relationship!

MeAndMyBoy · 09/06/2006 08:33

At a BBQ at Ex p's parents house while still with ex p. Got together 10 years later. Moved in 2 months after first date, he proposed 6 mths later. Been married 4 years and have 2nd baby due Nov :)

jamese · 09/06/2006 08:43

Hockey training. He was the coach and I wanted to get in the 1st team......

Got in, best mate captain, boyfriend coach. no problem....

Married him 11 years ago.

april74 · 09/06/2006 15:04

Dh were part of same circle of friends, we actually didn't even like each other, he was married to someone else, 2 years later we got together and hit it off.

LucyJones · 09/06/2006 15:05

university

LucyJones · 09/06/2006 15:06

knew him for a year but was with someone else. When that someone else dumped me (arse!!) got together with dh

nailpolish · 09/06/2006 15:06

at school

ProfYaffle · 09/06/2006 15:08

In a nightclub, it was a proper pull he came home with me and didn't leave for 2 days!

psychomum5 · 09/06/2006 15:12

Mine was a blind date set up by my cousin when I was sweet 16( at the 'sweet')

spangles · 11/06/2006 07:34

I had known DH for 6 years before we got together.
I was with someone else at the time but when that relationship fell apart one of his mates shouted out of a pub window as I walked past "He fancies ya" (dead romantic)
Something just clicked and 10 years later we are still happy and have 3 children.
The thing is I had absolutely no idea he liked me and we always had a good laugh together when we saw each other... thank god his mate shouted out of that pub window.

harrisey · 12/06/2006 11:47

Uni
We were in opposite halls of residence, with the same room number so we were exactly opposite. He waved to me ......
Became very good friends and almost didn't get together as we were worried about ruining our frindship, but eventually decided that friends who snog are much more fun.
Been together for over 16 years and married for almost 12 of those. Cant imagine it any other way.

buffythenappyslayer · 12/06/2006 12:14

i was seeing his brother!we'd just had dd1 together and werent getting on,dh came to visit from germany and whisked me off my feet!

dh's brother said it was for the best as it just wasnt meant to be with us two.

Nicola63 · 12/06/2006 12:29

I was in the middle of a divorce, visiting Cape Town for New Year 2004 and kind of seeing a guy there. The day after a two-day binge of a New Year party was supposed to meet the guy for lunch but he failed to turn up, so I ate oysters alone then went to my best friend's house (best friend for 20 years, has holiday home in Cape Town) for a hair of the dog.

Lovely long boozy afternoon on their verandah by the sea, then in walked one of her husband's work friends, tall and very yummy looking. Flirted with him outrageously, we left (making totally pathetic and tranparent excuses about having to be somewhere) and checked into a hotel for the night...

Nine months later, having never even been to Europe before, he arrived in London, called me from the pub at the end of my street, said he was staying a few weeks, and then never left.

JackieNo · 12/06/2006 12:32

University. He shared a room with a friend of mine, and he had a coffe machine. I only wanted him for his coffee at first, then friendship, and then one evening our knees met under a crowded table, and we've been together for 20 years and married for 17.

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