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 Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:03 pm
rofl does your lady wife trot that story out at family gatherings then?
i know i certainly would 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:55 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:03 pm
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:19 am
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:55 pm
Yeah. That's tough for a boy. Moving out. But it has to be done or else you just sorta fold up and dissolve.
My folks put it to me this way:
"You have until you are 18. Then you are expected to live on your own. If things go bad, you can always come back here, but, all the while, we will be waiting for you to move out. This is not because we do not love you, on the contrary, it is precisely because we love you, the you you are, the you you have been, the you you will be - and we want you to be yourself - that we hope you will move out. Soon. Also, you're eating all our food."
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:06 pm
Actually, now I think of it, internet dating might be safer that IRL dating... which I don't do either. Besides, it's about the only place I get "hit on". Although I did get hit on the other day, IRL... scared the spit outta me...
Guy was in line behind me at the mini-market, and starts talking to me, and I'm just trying to be polite and pay for my damn smokes. Finally the clerk hands me my change and I start leaving, and this guy is like, "Hey, you can't go yet, I haven't got your phone number." gonk
"And you're not getting it, either," Crazy drunk in the middle of the day fool. Who hits on a woman in the mini-market in the middle of the damn day? Needless to say, after telling he wasn't getting my number, I scurried out the door and damn near ran all the way back to work. eek
Perhaps I should go places other than work/home/store and get hit on more than once every few years. Don't know how to take it these days. rofl
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:15 pm
And don't none of y'all start laughing at me like my co-workers did. Bustin a gut, they were. Told me I really needed to get out more stare
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 2:02 am
Well... I don't have an internet story. But I can never resist a chance to tell ours! Hubby and I got together because someone bet me I couldn't get him to ask me out. lol Kind of a long story....
You see, we were complete opposites and a few years apart in school. He was the typical bad-boy, trouble-maker - known for cheating on his girlfriends (when he had one,) getting in (and winning) fights, and for being the star of the football team. I was the typical nice-girl, cheerleader, blah, blah. So, we knew OF each other, but had never spoken.
I had returned home from college and was riding with a couple of friends. I saw him step out of a vehicle and made some kind of comment as to how good he looked. That comment was greeted by shocked surprise from the two friends I was with. One of them asked, "Do you know who that was?" to which I replied, "No, who?" When they said his name I nearly gagged - begged them to forget I'd ever said anything good about him. The male friend then replied, "Well, that's good because he wouldn't have anything to do with you anyway." Indignant, I asked, "Just what makes you think that?" He said "Because just the other day he told me you were nothing but a stuck up b***h, so there's no way he'd ever go out with you."
Of course, that was too much of a challenge for me to resist, so I replied, "Wanna bet?" The bet slowly increased - "I'll bet ya $10 I can get him to go out with me." "I'll bet you $20 you can't get HIM to ask YOU out." "I'll bet you $30 that I CAN get him to ask me out AND I'll make sure YOU are there to see it!"
Well, it took me a week and a half, but I managed to get the two of them together and he asked me to a street dance that weekend. I gave my friend a quick glance (to make sure he had heard,) then replied that I had already planned to go with some friends, but I might see him there. He left just before the friend completely lost it - he said "I'll be damned. You did it. You actually did it." shaking his head, "But did you have to prove you were a b***h by getting the guy to ask you out then turning him down!?" Of course, I laughed.
Well, the night of the street dance arrived and it wasn't long before we ran into each other. I ditched my friends and rode home from the dance with him and we started seeing each other daily afterwards. I was stunned by what a gentleman he was and he was stunned by the fact that I wasn't a "stuck up b***h." We were married less than 8 weeks later - yes I said EIGHT WEEKS! lol And have been happily married for 17 years now. 3nodding
About a month and half after we got married, we got a surprise visit from the friend. He brought a bottle of Crown Royal (if I remember right) and handed it to hubby. Then he threw $30 in cash down on the coffee table and said, "That's for her. I owe her." Then turned to me and said, "I never would have dreamed you'd go and get him to MARRY you too!"
Of course, after I finally managed to stop laughing, I had to explain a little bit to hubby, but he got a good laugh out of it too. We both love telling the story now. biggrin
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 4:28 am
aw!!
that's lovely, and fills me with hope...for a short while at least rolleyes
Lil, i know exactly where you're coming from! i'd have given your co-workers a clout round the ear, you really should be safe in the supermarket in the middle of the day, i get nervous if someone starts making advances on me too, and that's because i'm not used to it anymore, but i really don't feel the need to get any practice in gonk
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:59 pm
supRNurs, that was a good story...
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:05 pm
Lil Brat And don't none of y'all start laughing at me like my co-workers did. Bustin a gut, they were. Told me I really needed to get out more stare Sorry, but I did. mrgreen I have a funny "hit on" story that you can regail them with. It was several years ago and I was standing at bus stop in downtown Memphis.... this homeless guy with a shopping cart goes by - stops - then backs up (not turns around, just walks backswards) - looks me up and down, and then says "Heeeeeeey Baby - ya' know, I haven't always been homeless"... then gives me a little wink, and a leer. stare Yep, that was one smoooooooooooooooth pick up line. rolleyes
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:24 am
eek i'm not sure how i'd have reacted to that, either wanted to run away or just about died laughing, was there anyone else stood at the bus-stop at the time or did you get away with this being unobserved?
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:18 pm
Oh, it was across the street from where I worked... so not only were there people there, I knew most of them. rolleyes All I could do was laugh. THe guy wasn't at all scarey, so that helped.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:39 am
one thing to be grateful for, that it was several years ago, if that happened now all your work colleagues would have captured the moment on their camera/video phones stressed
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:24 am
Ain't technology great... stare Although my phone actually does have a camera... xd
And thank you for the support Jelly... no, I am not used to getting hit on - first time in years, by a drunken bum no less... *sigh* And no, I'm not thinking I'm in a big hurry to start practicing the flirting thing, either. sweatdrop
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