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Slightly mangled quote but...
“There was a club where I liked to go where I met someone who really loves me...”
At a friends Wedding. Weddings were always awesome for pulling, you might not think so, but I challenge any Women to go to a friends wedding single and not worry about if they're ever going to meet 'the one'. I was always an opportunist shagger.
My Wife however will argue we actually met in the Pub on NYE about 3 years previous, but whilst we were both at the same pub, at the same time in two different groups, who, for a moment or two merged because her friend is my Mate's sister, I don't remember talking to her and if I was told I wasn't actually there I couldn't argue, but she likes to tell people I ignored her because her tall, slim, blonde friend was stood next too her.
Sometimes she actually gets annoyed by this in retrospect, almost to the point of "I can't believe my husband ignored me all night on NYE to talk to my taller, slimmer Blonde friend" which sounds bad until you remember I DIDN'T ACTUALLY MEET, MEET HER FOR ANOTHER THREE YEARS.
In the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter in Plymouth - the stolen glances across the reheated pasta and soup, the slight touch of our hands cleaning the communal toilets and showers.............we both worked for different High Street Banks at the time and had to get involved in community days ....................
2003 T2 Heathrow queuing for check in for same biking trip to the Atlas Mountains
Internet/online dating - I clicked the wrong button...... nearly 10 years later were still together and been married for 6.
Met my missus in Sainsbury's Halifax, the old one on the wool shops before it moved.
She worked on the deli, I worked on the bakery. I used to help clean out her fly tray, and apparently she could see my black boxxers beneath my bakery whites.
I said to my mate that any one who had legs that nice in THAT uniform has to be a keeper. 25 years this year.
I met mine, in a pub, while living a nursery rhyme - there's a verse that goes:
"Up and down the City Road
In and out of The Eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the Weasel"
So, there I was, in the Eagle pub, just off the City Road, drinking money I didn't have and I started making friends with the slightly bonkers Kiwi barmaid. That was 20 years ago, we're still together.
(while there are different interpretations, the one that seems to make most sense is that "pop goes the weasel" here refers to pawning (for which "pop" was a popular euphemism) one's "weasel (and stoat)" = coat in cockerny rhyming slang - that my excessive drinking was at that time largely funded by credit cards, was a reference to popular folk rhymes that I didn't fully appreciate at the time.)
at a Mansun concert in 1998 (while her friend was swapping saliva with my mate).
At a mates party, her chest came in before she did.
Met the missus in a bar, swapped numbers, first date in a pub.
Uni bar though it was also an introduction through a mutual friend. The beer goggles did help though (hope she doesn't read this).
Met Mrs Taxi 35 years ago in a pub. The Poets Corner, City road Cardiff. It wasn't a chance meeting though, all arranged by her sister who was going out with a friend of mine.
I married my mother, college mother that is. She wrote to me when she saw my name on a list because I lived near her. It was a thing at college to write to someone who was just starting college to make them feel welcome.. We met in a pub and things went from there. We also discovered we both had photographs in the same edtion of the local paper. Her for being the first 18 year old to vote in our area and me for my canoeing exploits. We are in our 45th year of marriage now.
I must be doing something wrong as ive spent half my waking life in pubs and am still single.
Surely being part of a group helps? Most women I see in pubs on their own are either alcoholics, just out of the mental hospital or on the game (and sometimes all three).
Met on a Thursday night at the Archer RC club night, then on Sunday went out on the club run along with a 16 year old Bradley Wiggins. After club run we went to the pub and 22 years later here we are.
Back in the year 2000, we met at Heathrow on a skiing trip to Lake Tahoe, California. Got talking on the flight and had our first date in a bar/bowling alley in the resort of Heavenly.
He's been trying to get away from me ever since by skiing faster downhills, mtbing faster downhills, but now we've taken up latin and ballroom dancing and he's stuck.
Met mine in a pub a couple of times, then bumped into her at a party and sort of got together... it was complicated
Yes, Howard Arms, Brampton.
Rather extraordinarily, whilst out riding mountain bikes.
A scuzzy night club in Bristol, the Dug-Out for those with long memories.
What was intended to be a one-night stand went very wrong, it's now a week short of 45 years.
intended to be a one-night stand went very wrong,
A common theme emerges - very few actual 'dates' in this thread. Whatever those are...
In the bar at a Hawkwind gig. We were both a bit out of it, but I do remember Ginger Baker was on drums, and at one point I might have been doing a dying fly on the floor (I know how to impress the ladies😏 ) 36 years, and she’s still putting up with me!
i downloaded mine off the internet.
Krieger?
The beer goggles did help though (hope she doesn’t read this).
Possibly the most unflattering thing she'll ever read...!
Hitchhiking through Australia. Made getting lifts a lot easier when she decided to join me. 8 months living in a tent and walking through national parks for weeks on end. Was a good baptism of fire ....
but now we’ve taken up latin and ballroom dancing and he’s stuck.
That's cos you're standing on his feet.
First met in church 1974 - I was 9 she would have just turned 6 😱
My brother saw her naked about 25yrs before I did & my sister used to babysit her.
But first drunken snog in the Nags Head High Wycombe new year 1997... but another 15yrs passed before we finally got it on ☺️
The Royal Oak, 1984 .
I had a magnificent erection* going on and was spotted as she walked past.
(*A tent. I was pitching a tent. With a pal. Transpires his gf (now wife) was sharing student house with the future mrs_oab. Two pals then set us up without warning at the uni bar a week later...)
She was putting some music on the jukebox in my local. Twenty years later, we are still together...
Met Mrsstu in the legendary Shelleys in Stoke.
No real ale but plenty of MDMA.
Oh how times have changed.
No MDMA these days but plenty of real ale and we're both CAMRA members.
All Bar One, Birmingham 2005. Internet dating.
As it’s been mentioned there is actually a ‘backdoors’ Strava segment at CP Longleat.
The Angel (ex Beer House), Rochdale Road, Manchester.
She insists I was sliding down the bar. I maintain I was just trying to get a better look at her bum.
I was in for after work drinkies, she was in for a climbing club committee meeting.
I gave her my phone number, a week later she turned up at my house and never left. I was too polite to kick her out, so 15 years later here we are. 🙂
I met mine in a pub - the Slug and Lettuce in Cheltenham.
I was out with a mate who was her cousin. The most unlikely Cupid ever.
She walked down the corridor of our office as the new office manager and I was smitten. A few boozy Friday nights after work (Figaro's and Atlas bar in Manchester) and she finally snared me :-).
14years in February married for 10. Still a lucky so and so.
Trof in the Northern Quarter, sat in the upstairs terrace on a blazing hot summers day, while exercising my usual Friday Afternoon self-employed persons divine right to spend it in (or in this case outside) the pub.
As soon as I set eyes on her I knew I was in trouble.
Spent an extremely boozy afternoon together followed by one hell of an evening out round town
Got married last year. Punching WAAAAAAAY above my weight. I still don’t know how the hell I managed it. She’s gorgeous! And ridiculously good fun! 😃
At a political meeting in a freezing cold community centre she's fiery and insightful, I'm.... persistent and very lucky, somethings working though were still together Life is good
Met on a charity walk up Ben Nevis - couldn't walk properly for a week afterwards!
13 hours sat on a bus the day after walking up Ben Nevis, not what you were thinking!!
Aww, thanks, darling Binbins!
Gave up on ‘sh#ggin about’ Landed to many nutters.
chatted to a girl after getting off a train, seen her in a club the following week.
17 years now, she changed my life.
love her and the son she has given me to bits.
im filling up here.😁
@bunnyhop^^^^ that's great because of the transition into ballroom dancing; always wanted to learn and still have hopes.....
Aww some lovely stuff in here ya big softies. No mention of Louise either!
The Old Goa in Ealing on a quiet Tuesday evening in February 1999.
I was working behind the bar and she came in with a friend, said I had a nice arse and gave me her number.
She still gives me grief for waiting 6 days before giving her a call!
I was finally introduced to The Wife on Christmas Eve 1990 in the Jolly Roger Brewery and Tap, Hereford.
We'd been make eyes at each other for a couple of months, either in The Barrels, the home of The Wye Valley Brewery, or in the Jolly Roger. I was the brewer at the Jolly Roger and had moved to Hereford in the October. Anyway, a mutual friend introduced us, we chatted, then her mates wanted to go to The Barrels, she left, I was devistated, but she then came back about 15 minutes later when the queue was too long to get in.
I thought my chance had slipped until she came back. She stayed for the lock-in, I walked her home later, her cat took an instant liking to me, she gave me scaling coffee before kicking me out. Been together 28 years this Christmas.
Old Goa in Ealing
Sexual Ealing? (Sounds a classy joint...)
Met mine at my ex girlfriends birthday party. Which was awkward. We were ex's at the time. I didnt know but she wanted to get back together. And my ex asked for a kiss, i said no i want to kiss her!
Pub was called voodoo lounge and has been demolished now. We were sad when it went.
14 years and 3 kids later, still going strong & yea moment i met is burned bright in my mind like the faithless guy above
Yes, in a pub that her folks owned and she worked behind the bar sometimes. Then they sold the pub and moved to Salisbury. I kept in touch, until she met someone, got pregnant and I lost touch after that. Move on some twenty-two years, and she popped up on Fb as ‘someone you may know’! In the meantime she’d moved to Ireland, had a second daughter, had a brain haemorrhage, broken up with her partner and moved back to Salisbury.
And now Jo has been living with me for a year. Amazing how quickly one’s life can change.
A common theme emerges – very few actual ‘dates’ in this thread. Whatever those are…
Seems to to be “what they do in the US”. Because they can drive themselves around for *years* before they can drink!
The only wife I've had I met in a marquee tent at a cricket club disco ..together for 10 years ..married for five and just wanted different things at the end ..an amicable split but I've never seen her again since the day we parted ..
Second partner was my first real girlfriend at sixteen who I bumped into again 12 years later in a supermarket where she worked in Sunderland while I was a frozen food rep covering that store ..we were together for 13 years and had a fairly acrimonious split ..the hardest part leaving behind my then 8 year old daughter..
My current partner had herself introduced to me in a pub on her 25th birthday ..20 years ago.There is a 16 year age difference between us ( in my favour) ..which I was extremely self conscious of at first ..but over time it now doesn't bother me at all .
I felt flattered way back then that this hot woman wanted to be with me ..and still do now .definitely a case of third time lucky ..we have a 15 year old son who is both a great kid and a little shit all rolled into one ..and life for the most part is good ..
At the gym. I try not to go to the pub, it's full of people and I am not the world's best socialiser.
Bit of a slow burn one, but I met mine at work. I was a chemist in an industrial detergent company, and she came in as a temp through a science agency. Pure chance was that the H&S manager was off sick and due to company rules she couldn't start work until he'd done the safety induction talk with her. She was in danger of being sent home (and no hours = no pay therefore) until my boss took pity and told me to take her out to a field trial site we were trialing some super exciting new rinse aid technology at. I asked her if she had any cassettes to listen to in the car and was surprised when she came back with very similar tastes to mine - so our first 'date' was at the Tower Thistle in London, stuck in pre-congestion charge traffic listening to the Stuffies, PWEI and Carter USM.
There was no real spark at the time, just a shared interest and she was in a relationship at the time so that was that.
FFWD (as you did with cassette tapes) by about 5 months and a mate and I had tickets to see the Wonder Stuff, then he had a sporting injury and couldn't stand or walk. So he asked me to see if i could get rid of the ticket. She, newly single, didn't read the signs that i was crap with girls and i really was just asking her if she could use a spare ticket. I even abandoned her at the back for the delights of the mosh pit part way through. But....she stayed over (separate rooms), the next day we talked and a brief spark sort of flickered.....
That was April '94, so together nearly 25 years, married for 18, 2 kids, and I'm still crap at understanding what she wants*
* particularly that thing about just wanting someone to vent to rather than actually solving the problems. Although..... recently she jammed the zip on her best handbag, brought it to me and when I expressed sympathy at how frustrating it must be to not be able to get into her bag, and did she need a sit down and maybe phone one of friends to talk about it, she then threw it at me and told me to 'just ****ing fix it'. Can't win.
online, then first date was in a Pizza Express in Warwick...
frankconway - go for it.
You don't even need a partner in some dance schools, as there is usually a shortage of male (lead) partners.
We started in January and now manage to do basic dances with little difficulty.
It's a laugh and so good for you. Learning a new skill for the body and brain, while listening to some top tunes.
1982 at a Halls of Residence corridor party in Agecroft was when we got together. Apparently herself had decided a couple of days previously that I was 'the one'. I'm still here, she's my boron rods when the reactor starts to runaway. (Stockholm syndrome has a lot to answer for as far as Mrs S is concerned).
Last two left over at the ballroom dancing club at uni.
Work. I'd been posted to Glasgow, didn't know anyone and we both climbed so we ended up climbing quite a bit together & with a group of us. Neither of us were single at first but both split up with our respective partners and a month or so after got together after a night out with friends.
That was about 7 years ago now 🙂
I met mine in a Vegetarian Cafe, run by a Church.
We are neither Vegetarian or God Botherers.
First met at a friend's house party, brief conversation only. Next met at Wigan Pier (Wednesday "Alternative" night). First proper date in Raffles pub, also in Wigan.
Sadly both the Pier and Raffles are both long gone although we are still happily together 31 years later.
Yes!
My lovely wife worked in a pub near to my parent's house where I was staying mid-house move.
She was doing a few nights a week behind the bar. Having got used to living alone, I found it hard not to nip out for a couple of pints about ten o'clock (get away from the folks). And that's how it started. We were married two years later and have ben married for twenty two years now.
Our first date was a BasqueMTB holiday 🙂
1982 at a Halls of Residence corridor party in Agecroft
Agecroft Salford?
I was a patient on the first ward of her nurse training. 29 years ago and our 25th wedding anniversary next year. I owe her so much more than I can ever give but I'm trying with a brand new VW T-Roc when it arrives at the dealer (currently advised as late December)
First meeting in a pub, had been 'chatting' online for a week or so previous. One of my best mates wedding the day before our 'first date' I arrived with a stinking hangover, overweight (I'd spent a few years enjoying the single life) and probably looking like crap.
That was 3.5 years ago and (although I'd probably never tell her) she's been one of the best things to happen to me and completely restored my faith that there is 'one' for me. Popped the question when she organised a completely surprise 40th party for me earlier this year. She was the more shocked one when I'd already got the ring and dropped to a knee to ask her in front of everyone. I was going to do it that night but didn't expect a 100 strong audience when I did it! She was happy 🙂 The wedding is going to have to wait a bit though as I'm mid house renovation which is taking up most of my cash.
I'm definitely punching above my weight.
She was working as a waitress in a ........................ Hungry Horse Pub and they did free re-fills on coke and cheap burgers, winner. Plus I won a tenner as my mate bet me I wouldn't ask her out, double winner!!!
20 years ago, and been together ever since, married for erm 12 years this year and 3 boys to boot.
1981 Kingswood cricket club Christmas bash, I was new to the village had played a few matches in the summer where she had apparently been eying me up!!
We have been together since then apart from a brief year of me going off and playing the field 😉 Oh I also think I swapped her for a bottle of cider at another Crimbo bash (not my best moment)
Managed to put off getting married for 17 years but it will be our 20th wedding anniversary next April
Online, then first date was a few laps round Cannock Chase, followed by leaving with a sore crotch*
*We went for a walk after the bike ride and I still had my bib shorts on.
EDIT: 10 years in now. Luckily my crotch has recovered.
Our first date was a BasqueMTB holiday
Well, it’s rather strange riding apparel but I can see why it led to romance.
Thurrock Yacht Club. December 31st 1978 or January 1st 1979, can't remember exactly as I was well pissed at the time.
Mrs Z thinks it was after midnight, but cannot be sure for the same reason as me. Never seen her drunk since. Must have learnt her lesson.
First one, work. Amazed that there are not loads who met through work...anyway...that didnt work out, and second (current) one, in a pub. Was getting over the split from number one and number 2 seemed to meet every need as we chatted when she served me !
8 years later, 1 lovely daughter and things are good 🙂
Met my now wife of 15 years in a crappy club/bar. Had a random, pissed-up snog and exchanged numbers. Went on a couple of dates and it sort of blossomed from there. Never really looked back to be honest!
Never had a girlfriend despite spending alot of time in pubs in my 20's.Hey ho
Im off to a pub quiz tonight where a nice teacher caught my eye last month. She is a regular at the quiz apparently so im hoping she is there tonight.
Worked together. For 6 years we hardly spoke and both eyed each other with caution.
She didn't drive. I had a two seater Triumph Spitfire. (Yes it was possible - just!) Only two of us were going to a works meeting 20 miles away, so I was deputed to give her a lift. We hit it off immediately and have never been apart since.
She's far too good for me. I'm the lucky one!
In fairly recent years, I tried to pull in a pub. Very attractive girl sat with all her friends giving me the eye. I was with a mate and my brother... I had to drink so many pints to pluck up the courage to go over, by the time I did I was incomprehensible. Stood there awkwardly swaying and just said "Ok, haveanithenighhtch.."
Met through a sports club. Pulled in a pub. 14 years together, married for 9, with 3 kids is a pretty poor attempt at a one night stand.
DezB...seems ok to me ..so did you pull ? 😂
At a rezerection rave in Edinburgh about 1992 , strange things was we lived about 2 miles away from each other back up in Elgin. I blame the Doves.... 🙂
My wife literally fell for me...
I was working as head chef at the Walkabout pub in Portsmouth, she only second day of her Freshers Week at the Uni.
We'd been to another Aussie pub drinking and were going back to the Walkabout for after hours drinks, my wife and her mate were in the taxi rank outside, and her friend caught our managers eye, so he dragged them in for drinks, they were dancing on a table when she fell off and on to me, been married 12 years now...
when she fell off and on to me
spotted a nice soft landing area 😉
Great Langdale campsite. She heard the rustle of me opening a pack of biscuits in my tent from about 100 yards away so barged in to nick some chocolate hobnobs. I later impressed her by climbing a diff wearing bright green Ron Hills. 28 years together.
I met mine at a nurse's party in Newcastle,she was visiting a friend she trained with.We were introduced by the friend the night before ,at another nurse's party (I was a nurse and lived in hospital accommodation,as did a lot of nurses at the time) I liked the look of her,but her friend had spent the previous 3 weeks trying to get into my knickers ,and failing,and whisked a
her away in a fit of pique.At the party her friend,and the friend I'd gone to the party, with both wandered off,so Jill picked me up,twice!I was very,very drunk at the time.She took me back to mine and threw me into bed,sleeping on the floor herself.The next day she went back to her friend's,who gave her a long lecture on my poor moral state,and she came back to mine in tears.I said I really liked her,and would like her to stay with me,but would understand if she went back to her friend's.She stayed,we commuted between Alderley Edge,where she lived,and Newcastle,then moved to Cardiff together,where we bought a house together,and got married,and are still together,with two kids and a couple of grandkids and celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary this year,she's definitely the best thing that ever happened to me.
Online, fortunately I'd, err, um, mis-typed my year of birth, otherwise T'other Half's search criteria would have excluded me. Our first actual meeting/"date" was a day of trail building at Gisburn forest 😀