So how'd you meet your spouse?

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One day in July of 1996, I got a call from scheduling telling me I had R1 the next day (I was on reserve). R1 is the early airport standy/ready reserve, where you have to show up in uniform at 0600 to sit and wait to see if you get to fly that day. Very boring, and at 6 am one of the most hated assignments of reserve.

So I show up for my 6am report. The crew coordinator looks at my funny and askes me why I'm there. I said "I'm the R1". He says "no, the computer shows you as the R2, better call scheduling". I call scheduling. Sure enough, they'd messed up and I was supposed to have been told R2, which is the same thing, just showing up at 11am instead of 6. Now, I'm not a morning person. At all. I slammed that phone down and uttered a string of obsceneties that would make a Marine blush. I look over towards the main room of the crew lounge, and there's a pilot sitting a table with a cup of coffee looking at me like, "What the *bleep* is wrong with you"! I sat down, told him what had happened, and we chatted a while until he had to go do his DBQ turn. I saw him again when he got back later that day, and we ended up talking some more and I ended up asking him out :).

That's how I met Bill. The first word he heard me say was F---. Makes for an interesting story.

That was over 10 years ago, and this March will be our 5th wedding anniversary. We dated for quite a while before getting married, we drifted apart a few times, split up a few times, but always managed to find ourselves back together again. Together we've now been through 4 airlines, 2 furloughs, 2 houses, 2 kids, and more ground schools than I can count.
 
MQAAord said:
That's how I met Bill. The first word he heard me say was F---. Makes for an interesting story.

That was over 10 years ago, and this March will be our 5th wedding anniversary. We dated for quite a while before getting married, we drifted apart a few times, split up a few times, but always managed to find ourselves back together again. Together we've now been through 4 airlines, 2 furloughs, 2 houses, 2 kids, and more ground schools than I can count.
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And I bet you're still using the "F" word:nana2:
 
I'll be second in line for Yahoo. I was on watch and bored. So I got into a chat room, no sooner had I entered the chat room, Winona started chatting with me. We chatted for hours and finally went to IMing. We Im'd and e-mailed for a week and took the plunge an decided to meet. I was a gonner as soon as I saw her. We were married four months later. So after two kids, three trancontinental moves, we celebrated our five yrs anniversary on Thursday.:insane:
 
congrats man that is a great story. they are all great stories for that matter. you are all very fortunate to find someone so compatible and i applaud you.
 
On a ferry between The Netherlands and England.

You start to talk to anyone when you have 3+ Hours to kill!
 
My buddy was hooking up with one of his teachers in college (after the class ended). One night we went to a local bar and she was there. I really didn't want to talk to the group so I started just spouting off about stuff. A girl there engaged my rant and I realized I couldn't really beat her at the whole "be annoying game."

We end up talking, dancing, one night standing......Five years later we're engaged.
 
We lived in the same co-ed dorm in college. The night I first met her, I thought she was someone else (who turned out to be her best friend), and she was drunk. One of our other friends wound up scaling the side of the building to try to climb in some girls window. She didn't have any shoes on, so I wound up carrying her on my back. At some point during the whole wall climbing thing she asked me "Uh, what was your name again?" Been together ever since. :)
 
HS. . . married after spending 5 years and a month together. . . celebrated 6 years together today, and will celebrate our 1 year anniversary on the 18th of December.
 
ChinookDriver said:
No children to be had here, but I'll tell a quick story...

My senior year in HS, I moved from Nurnberg to Heidelberg. Sometime during the first semester, SOMEONE started leaving me notes in my locker. Eventually, this secret admirer revealed herself and we started dating. A short month later, she dumped me.

Eleven years later, after three marriages between us, she asked me to marry her.

We've been married now for just over a year, and I cannot tell you how important it is to be with your soul mate.
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OOhhhh to live in Heidelberg... beautiful city!!! but which one has the best christlkind market????:)
 
H46Bubba said:
I'll be second in line for Yahoo. I was on watch and bored. So I got into a chat room, no sooner had I entered the chat room, Winona started chatting with me. We chatted for hours and finally went to IMing. We Im'd and e-mailed for a week and took the plunge an decided to meet. I was a gonner as soon as I saw her. We were married four months later. So after two kids, three trancontinental moves, we celebrated our five yrs anniversary on Thursday.:insane:
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WOW!!! congrats to you and nona, Howard!! 5 yrs is always a good milestone!!

Amber... are you sure your celebrating your 5th year next year? Doug and I are celebrating our 5th year next May... and we for sure thought you two were married well before us?
 
X-Forces said:
Yes, finding them is the easy part.

Living with them, without tying a sack of bricks to their ankles and throwing them off a bridge is often the real challenge :)
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If you haven't contemplated murder or can sit back and say I wouldn't do it, but I can understand why OJ did it then you truly haven't been in love.:D
 
Kristie said:
OOhhhh to live in Heidelberg... beautiful city!!! but which one has the best christlkind market????:)
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Actually it's the Christkindl market (in case you're ever in a German spelling bee :) )

Nürnberg's Christkindl certainly beats out Heidelburg's, but a close second to Nürnberg is the very little know city of Lübeck, which is about 60km or so from where we are in Hamburg. Second oldest Christkindl in Germany, and the area was not as war ravaged as Nürnberg, so there is more of the original infrastructure in place. Makes for a nice Christkindl!
 
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