How did you meet your significant other?

[strandinthewind]

At a photo shoot where we were both modeling by sitting at a bar drinking - AND they paid me for that and the booze was free

[madformac]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I've been wondering about how people meet lately too - as it seems to be so damn hard for me. Of course I also realized that I'm a lot less social than I used to be, a lot less out-going and a lot less "free-spirited" and I can't figure out when I lost those things

The net is an especially good place to meet people if you don't go out much I would think. In the old days before computers, people that didn't go out sat at home on their own. Nowadays people that don't go out talk to people that don't go out online. Some of my best friends I met online.

I would think eventually it will overtake all other forms of people meeting. I still believe 95 times out of 100 if you meet somebody in a bar it isn't going to work out. Supermarkets work. Or so I'm told. If you hang around the "meals for one" section you can take your pick of the people that come in..

Thats my tip of the week girls.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by madformac

Supermarkets work. Or so I'm told. If you hang around the "meals for one" section you can take your pick of the people that come in..

Thats my tip of the week girls.

Gee - I better stop going grocery shopping in my gym clothes and/or grossest clothes I can find.

[sara1998]

Originally Posted by madformac

Hang on..... I'm not gay, or married for that matter. That makes me the minority I know but...

I'm still a member on here!!

p.s. I forgot I'm "virtually" married to Suze if I recall??.

I'm sorry, honey.... You're right. The majority of them are gay.

Suze, why are you trolling around looking for a date when your married to this guy???

[madformac]

Originally Posted by sara1998

I'm sorry, honey.... You're right. The majority of them are gay.

Lindsey B thought Seteca and I were gay during a gig back in 2003 (I was expecting him to tell us to go stand in front of Stevie). Then he realised we were more interested in his playing skills than him and he chilled right out. The next night he was cool, grinning and messing about with us. I don't think he's comfortable with male attention.

Originally Posted by sara1998

Suze, why are you trolling around looking for a date when your married to this guy???

I'll leave the Mrs to answer that one..

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by madformac

Lindsey B thought Seteca and I were gay during a gig back in 2003 (I was expecting him to tell us to go stand in front of Stevie). Then he realised we were more interested in his playing skills than him and he chilled right out. The next night he was cool, grinning and messing about with us. I don't think he's comfortable with male attention.

No, I really don't think he is. You know that face he made in Pattie's old signature with her quote about the solo album? Yeah, that's the face I think I remember him making one night. LOL

Every dang time Lindsey looked at me or pointed at me...I nudged Seteca. He probably had sore ribs.

[madformac]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Every dang time Lindsey looked at me or pointed at me...I nudged Seteca. He probably had sore ribs.

I wondered why he kept moving sideways during the gigs.

[Villavic]

Thre has been 3 signifcant others in my life. The last (adn current) one was while I was traveling, at a rain forest 4 years ago. It begun like a fairy tale, though fairy tales of course don't exist. So right now, after few separations and reconciliations, it is very nice but not magic. There's no magic anymore when you are 40.

[jannieC]

This is a cute thread. I met my husband when we were both working at a Marriott Hotel. Not very original, but we had fun.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

At a photo shoot where we were both modeling by sitting at a bar drinking - AND they paid me for that and the booze was free

You know, I can't visualize what you look like- I know you've had pictures of yourself up here but I can't remember. I think you should share your hotness once more.

Originally Posted by Villavic

So right now, after few separations and reconciliations, it is very nice but not magic. There's no magic anymore when you are 40.

Don't say that!

[amber]

I'm just dating someone, but I guess exclusively, so...all I can tell you with this one is get a best friend who has a brother... Yes, I'm dating my best friend's brother. He lives in Chico, though.

Let's go through my list, shall we?

First semi bf for one month - He was camping next to us the month we spent working in Alaska.
First real bf - met him where we worked. I believe when he first saw me, I was walking up the stairs away from him, and he was down below, and he said "who's that?!"
He was a butt man. Great guy.
Second bf- sadly, cheated on my first with this one, he was my roomate. We went out for a couple years, though, it was fun.

Third, fourth, fifth, sixth? - I met them all at the bar I worked at here in Berkeley when I first moved here, though went out with 2 of them way after I stopped working there.

The fourth one that i met there was my favorite bf ever - he was playing bass in a band that was playing there, I didn't work there but had just driven back from Chico and stopped in. I went up to him after and said "good job" or something, not fawning at all, because I just thought they did a good job, I wasn't trying to meet him. So, he came up a few minutes later and said he was intrigued by my nonchalance or something. We traded witty banter for a few minutes, and he said he must go out with me. So, I gave him my number, because he was magical and his eyes were mesmerising and he was funny and cute.
Our first date was - my best friend rented a big nice house for her engagement party up in...fort bragg or something? On the beach. He drove up after I had been there a day. He was charming, he charmed everyone else, and when my friend's mom asked him what he was doing there, he said "I came to meet the most beautiful girl I've ever seen" But it actually sounded sincere.

It appears I'm all about convenience, convenience, convenience. A couple of those people wanted to marry me, but I didn't wanna.

It's harder to meet people up here, though, in Chico it's simple.


There've been others, but I would hardly call them boyfriends.

[foxyluva]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

I met my boyfriend at a highschool formal dance. We were both asking about some girl that everyone hated, and who she was, and it turns out she was sitting between us. So we were both so embarrassed, we just kind of went off and hugh out away from her.

So cool! I couldn't even imagine being out at high school - and its only been two years since I graduated. I don't think I knew of any other gay guys at all, let alone meeting a boyfriend

[bretonbanquet]

I am happily wedded to my little van - we're at it for 12 hours solid every weekday, and on weekends we leave each other the hell alone. I met her on eBay - £2000 and she was all mine

Vans are more reliable than girls, and less likely to cheat on you, although it is not unknown. Reproduction is an issue though - we haven't figured that one out yet.

Seriously though, I don't get time to go out much and I don't know anyone around here, so meeting my significant other is a long way off, if she exists at all. Maybe I'll bump into her next time around

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by jannieC

This is a cute thread. I met my husband when we were both working at a Marriott Hotel. Not very original, but we had fun.



You know, I can't visualize what you look like- I know you've had pictures of yourself up here but I can't remember. I think you should share your hotness once more.



Don't say that!

Here we are in the ad where we met last year. I am in the green shirt.

[amber]

Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

I am happily wedded to my little van - we're at it for 12 hours solid every weekday, and on weekends we leave each other the hell alone. I met her on eBay - £2000 and she was all mine

Vans are more reliable than girls, and less likely to cheat on you, although it is not unknown. Reproduction is an issue though - we haven't figured that one out yet.

Seriously though, I don't get time to go out much and I don't know anyone around here, so meeting my significant other is a long way off, if she exists at all. Maybe I'll bump into her next time around

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It doesn't sound like you even care. I remember a long time ago there was one of those questionnaire thingies on here, and one of the questions was like "what do people not know about you?" (I think) and you replied "that I'm rubbish in bed"

So maybe you don't care???

[amber]

What sign is your mega hunky boyfriend, Strand?

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Here we are in the ad where we met last year. I am in the green shirt.