Face's online dating question got me to thinking about how I met my husband, which got me to wondering how you all met your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other.  So how did you?

I'll start with a quick version of my story:
My first remembrance of my husband was seeing him standing on a ladder, up through the drop ceiling of my workplace, with only his bottom half visible.  I'm thinking "nice behind"  (well, not exactly, but you get the point!)  He worked for an electrical contractor, doing some rewiring in my building.  Later I saw him outside, wearing one of those harness things you put on when you go up in a lift.  I told my friend "wonder if they are allowed to take those home"... and he heard me!  He was embarrassed and I could tell he was shy.  Next few days as they are working in the building, we passed a few times and spoke.  Then one day he was wearing a t-shirt with a denim shirt over it.  The t-shirt had printed on the front "you've been naughty, go to my room".  So I walked around behind him.  He looked at me strangely and I said "I thought maybe the directions were on your back".  That really got it started.  Later that day, almost time to leave work, I said its almost time for a cold beer.  He asked what I was doing that evening.  I said I was dropping my son off at a school dance, then heading to this little bar.  He asked what time I'd be there, and said he might stop by.  He was there when I arrived.....  9 years have passed and we are as happy as day one.    

So what's your story??

Pine wrote on 08/27/13 at 06:08:53:


Awww sweet story.  Trend so far... the gal notices the guy first....  

I absolutely LOVE the treehouse cottages!  OMG I wish I was closer.  That would be one awesome 10th anniversary for me and the hubby.  Bad news (well, for that scenario) is that I have to plan a trip or two to AZ to see my mother soon.  Will be good to see her, but doesn't look good for a trip to the treehouses....  Have you seen that show, I think its called "treehouse masters"???  Awesome!  Fabulous!!  Cheap?  I doubt...

*Edit - further investigation.... prices aren't too bad!  Go for it!

Met my Wifey on a 42' Wembley sailboat, we were both part of the crew      
I proposed a year later to the date of our first kiss on the same boat.


Ahhh 5 bliss full years of marriage...........our 12th anniversary just passed  

Living history group. Needed a place to stay after I got out of the Navy in 8/96, we got married 2/97.

I met my second ex-wife at the hardware store. She sold me the shovel I needed for my first ex-wife.

My wife and I have known each other since she was born. I was best friends with her brother. When we became teenagers, her brother and I kinda drifted apart but she had some strange, and to my mind, unexplainable interest in me so she made sure that she was part of my circle of friends. We dated off and on through most of our teenage years then she moved across the country to Toronto. We then courted over the phone for a few months before she came back and we got married.

That was 11 and a half years ago. Being married to your best and longest friend is pretty amazing.

Hheh... met my wife at a biker bar called "Z's Lounge". I was 24 yrs old and in the air force, they named off some of the bars we weren't allowed to go into, so I went. I could throw down a few and played a really good game of pool. One evening I was talking to the bar tender Sue and was telling her about an upcoming Christmas party and I hadn't found a date to go with me to it, when a cute chick at the end of the bar said " I'll go with you!" She didn't look to be drinking age yet but was sippin' a bud in a longneck. I says "really?" you don't know me, to which she replied, "you are a bomb loader out at eglin air force base, get off work at 4pm and don't leave here till about 12ish and play a mean game of pool, and your name is bill".

I later found out she had been watching me and her and Sue had been discussing my hind quarters and who I was...LOL! well I said "sure i'll pick you up here, to which she replied, nope I'll show you where I live after you take me home tonight"  worked for me.

Got an apartment about a month later and she moved in with me, lived together for about 2yrs, then I got stationed in Arkansas, left her in florida for about four months and went back down and picked her up, two months later we got married....that was 27 years ago.

We took a long 4k mile motorcycle trip on our 25th anniversary were she decided that she wanted to get a license for herself, she now rides her savage and wants to do a duo trip on our 30th anniversary, so we are going to plan and save to do so. Hopefully we will both have savages by then.

Great stories, I'm glad some of you wanted to share.  Its nice to see so many who have been happily married for many years!  When my first husband and I divorced, I asked my son (he was 7 at the time) how many kids in his class had parents that were still married.  Unfortunately, we figured it to be a smaller percentage.  But it made him feel better, to realize he wasn't alone.  (Tomorrow would be our 26th anniv, if I had stayed married to the first one... we're still friends, and will probably tell each other happy anniversary  lol)