Remenising the first date with the wife and how times have changed!

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I picked her up in my dad's Standard Ensign, smoking Capstan Full Strength fags. I was wearing a Levi jacket (still got it) Ben Sherman shirt and a kipper tie, she was wearing a Maxi dress. We went to a themed pub called The Wrecker in Blakley, Manchester. The pub was designed as a shipwreck with ships mast running through holes in the floor, it had live Alligators swimming around the seating area (that you could touch quite easily) and every 1/2 hour it would go dark and projectors would turn the place into a tropical thunder storm. I drank Brew Ten Bitter (quite a lot if I'm being honest) and paid for it in shillings and punce, and then drove to a chinese restraunt for supper and more beer. I finished up driving ( yes driving ) her home to the wrong house, as it turns out she wasn't the local rich guys daughter I thought she was, and didn't live in the big house with the speedboat in the drive but round the corner in a semi. We've been married 41 years. Ah! Memories
 
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Love that story....a real smiler :-)
 
i first spoke to my OH in august 2003... online.. a mutual friend was away and asked my OH to check her messages on MSN .. i messaged and said hi and she said it wasnt who i thought it was and we got chatting.
we met up a week later when she came over to my parents place ( where i was staying at the time having not long come back to UK after a year in the US ).
She did plan on driving over ( from croydon to Harlow ) but halfway across London her car died. so she abandoned it and carried on by train and then taxi.
having arrived we spent 5 hours pretty much just chatting and and polishing off a bottle or two of wine. 2 days later she went home!
this was end of august.
by early septemeber we moved in togather. and got married in the november that same year.
now almost 11 years on we are still together ( no parole yet :P ).
 
ok and? or am i mmissing something...
 
After getting myself suitably self anaesthetised for a tattoo, I discovered that the studio was full of marine recruits getting themselves tatted up so I went to visit a colleague. After polishing off a 1.5l bottle of plonk, we retired to the local hostelry where we started drinking black Russians... Not the namby pamby ones with a load of cola watering them down but the full blooded 1:2 Tia Maria:Vodka recipe. When we had drained the Tia Maria we left and staggered the 50 yards or so back to her flat. 28 years later, here we are! Absolutely no idea what happened after we got back to hers but we haven't lived apart since that night so I must have been good!!!
 
I met my to be wife 23/07/1999 in a nightclub, she was out celebrating her birthday which was the day before(22/07), we had some drinks, danced and chatted and end of the night I asked for her number and nothing else, didnt try anything which later on in the relationship she said that was one of the reasons she gave me her number, we started going out and march 2000 we were in a Paris and something just felt right so I proposed and we married 22/07/2000; a year after that 22/07/2001 we had a daughter.. 22/07 is a very expensive day
 
strumstrum said:
I met my to be wife 23/07/1999 in a nightclub, she was out celebrating her birthday which was the day before(22/07), we had some drinks, danced and chatted and end of the night I asked for her number and nothing else, didnt try anything which later on in the relationship she said that was one of the reasons she gave me her number, we started going out and march 2000 we were in a Paris and something just felt right so I proposed and we married 22/07/2000; a year after that 22/07/2001 we had a daughter.. 22/07 is a very expensive day
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But you love it :-)
 
71 when I met the missus, if I told her about my first date she would probably kick me out the house ':):):bat::naughty:
 
My mother was South African and met my father during the war when he was on leave from the RAF in Durban. He was posted back to the UK but they stayed in touch, got engaged by letter, and married in Scotland in 1947. I was born and grew up there.

Jump forward to 1971. I was at university and met a lovely girl when we were both 18, it was actually on the day after her birthday. We were together for about a year, then we broke up for some reason and didn't have any contact for about 3 years, apart from bumping into each other once at a folk concert. I graduated shortly after that, moved to Hong Kong, my old man retired, and my parents started packing up to move to SA. My old girlfriend wrote to me, right out of the blue, a week before they left and they forwarded her letter. We wrote to each other for about a year, then we found that she was planning to visit her aunt in Rhodesia (this was before it became Zimbabwe) at the same time as I was going to SA to see my parents, which was completely coincidental. Anyway, I flew to Salisbury, we spent a week together, and got engaged. I gave her my signet ring, because we couldn't afford an engagement ring and they weren't too easy to come by in the sanctions era anyway, she flew back to the UK and I returned to Hong Kong. We got married 6 months later, lived in Hong Kong, and then SA.

That was nearly 40 years ago. No regrets, she's still lovely, and the memories are a bit crazy and good. We have two kids - both grown up - and one grandson, all born in SA. The little guy is James Donald, after his great grandfathers, rather Scottish names for a South African child with South African parents, and a Scots/South African grandfather, as my bemused SA friends say.

A lot of chance events and coincidences, or were they? I can't help thinking that things were meant to work out this way. I'm looking forward to the future too!
 
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My wife was the girl next door and we first met in 1974 she was playing badminton in her garden. I asked if she wanted a walk in the woods and I spent the whole day trying to kiss her but she wasn't having any of it. Still something must have clicked cos we married in 1980 and 24yrs & 4 children later where still together.
 
How me met:
In a nightclub on hogmany (new years eve)

First date:
Drinks at a bar in town, had a few drinks and a chat. Needef the toilet so used my favourite line "gotta go, seels broken".
The rest is history and we have been happily married now for 6 years
 
Met my OH in 2006 whilst working for Pearson Education in Harlow. We worked in the same office but never really had the opportunity for much interraction. I was a smoker then, and one morning took my coffee to the roof garden for a ciggie. Tina was up there having a smoke, and we just got chatting. Our meetings up there seemed to get more and more frequent. As our office was on the ground floor, we used to get the lift up to the roof, so we would walk in, wait for the doors to shut, then grab a sneaky snog on the way up :D These workplace liaisons were followed by little secret (because she was married at the time, although going through a Divorce), meetings at the weekends in quiet little country pubs and restaurants. The following year we moved in together, and had our first child last year. We were Married this April.
 
jakeblu said:
My wife was the girl next door and we first met in 1974 she was playing badminton in her garden. I asked if she wanted a walk in the woods and I spent the whole day trying to kiss her but she wasn't having any of it. Still something must have clicked cos we married in 1980 and 24yrs & 4 children later where still together.
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Were the other 10 years the fun ones then? :naughty: :whistle:
 
Met mine 30 years ago at 1.45am in a nightclub, she approached me, and i thought as last orders have already gone i must be on a banker here
 
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