~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?FReeper Canteen 1-11-07

[fatima]

~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?

At Last My Love Has Come Along Dedicated to To My Dear Husband, Peter by Anonymous My husband is currently serving in Iraq, and I dedicate our love story to all the soldiers whose love crosses the world this Valentine's Day. At the end of my first date with a man named Peter, I heard a perfect stranger telling him "he had better marry that girl".

The story goes like this.... I was asked out on during summer break by a man with whom I attended college. I was a nervous woman, but we had a fabulous time together in downtown Houston, Texas. Our night ranged from a Chinese restaurant for dinner, to St. Petes Dancing Marlin for strawberry cheesecake, until we arrived at a jazz cafe named the Red Cat Lounge. Peter had been a perfect gentleman all night, and I let him know I was ready to leave the jazz cafe as the night wore on. He kept stalling and saying that we would leave soon. After our agreed upon thirty minutes, I stood up and told Peter "Let's go". Well, that's when the lead singer of the band looked at me and said "You can't leave yet". At that moment, the lead singer looked at me and said "This is for the woman with the beautiful green eyes" and began playing the song "At Last" by Etta James.

Peter knew that was my favorite song and had apparently secretly requested it be played for me. He had never heard the song before, and did not even know it was a love song until he heard the chorus that night. "At Last My Love Has Come Along, My Lonely Days Are Over, and Life is Like a Song" is the chorus, and little did we both know that night the song actually had come true in the beginning of our love relationship. At the end of the song, the lead singer turned to Peter and said "you better marry that girl".

How pleased would that perfect stranger be to know that "At Last" was the first song that Peter and I danced to as a newlywed couple exactly two years later on May 29, 2005. Since we have married, Peter and I have longed to visit Hawaii to celebrate our love and our marriage. The thought of lying on the beach at night, sipping margaritas while lying in a hammock, while feeling the ocean breeze on our faces is a dream. To walk along the beach at night, explore the lushness and the vegetation, and to experience the mystery of the island would be a priceless experience.

I am planning on surprising my husband with a trip to Hawaii when he returns from his tour in Iraq. After being apart, I can't even envision the joy it would bring to be together in a fantasy land "at last".

I used to work as a probation officer in western Washington State. I had one difficult parolee who kept reoffending. I was forever convincing him to go to the eastern side of the state—out of my jurisdiction. Once there, he'd reoffend and another parole officer would get him to move back west! Finally, this other officer and I decided to meet to discuss the problem. "This other officer" is now my wife. We didn't invite the probationer to the wedding. —Bill O'Connor, Anchorage, Alaska

Late one night I heard someone banging around in the hallway outside my apartment door. It was so loud, I finally got up to investigate. When I opened my door, a man fell into my kitchen—passed-out drunk. I tried to shove him back into the hall, but he was too heavy. Instead, I left him on the floor, went to my bedroom, pushed the dresser in front of my door, and went back to sleep. Not long after, I married the lug.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning MountainFlower.

[GodBlessUSA]

It sure was because I know you are not one to take sick days. :) How's the weather where you are?

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I am doing well.
Trying to stay warm.Temps went down into the teens over night and will go up to about mid 30 during the day.Brrr.Shivering here.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Cold,but dry.

[beachn4fun]

No, you are NOT funny!!! I haven't even drank enough coffee to think that was funny

[beachn4fun]

LOL

You sure were in the pancake mood, huh? Dang Pancake thread! LOL

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Wishing you a very........

Crystal!!!!

May all your wishes come true.

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning MountainFlower :) How are you today? I'd love a bagel with the coffee Ma has out ;). Thanks!

[beachn4fun]

OMG! LOL

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning snugs :)
Yum. That sounds delicious. This food talk is making me hungry. I should stick with the cyberfood diet though ;)

[never4get]

...I attended a wedding and my future bride was in the wedding party and was dancing with a friend of mine, he too part of the wedding party. I told him I would give him a half hour and if he could not gain her interest she was going to be my girl...When I went over to introduce myself she was with her two sisters. Her sisters saw me, looked at each other, and immediately made a seat available for me next to my future wife....I eventually got her phone number on a small piece of paper when I took her outside to get some fresh air. Nineteen years later, two children, and having a woman who keeps me sane, I still have that piece of paper folded up neatly in my wallet. How could I ever throw that out?

[GodBlessUSA]

:)
Very Pretty Beachn. Thanks!

[Andonius_99]

My lady and I met at a Coke machine in the Math and Science Building on the UCONN Storrs campus. Funny story about that, actually.

We were both taking a summer math class and met there. Summer classes being what they were (2 hrs a day, 4 days a week), we were given a 10 minute break to go get a drink or snack, go to the bathroom, have a smoke or whatever else. Anyway, we rode down the elevator to the ground floor and being Mr. Slick, I offered to pay for her Coke. I pulled a dollar out of my front pocket and put it in the machine and said "What do you want?"

She thanked me, smiled, and said "Coke, please." I pressed the button for the Coke and handed it to her. Then I reached in my wallet for another dollar - as luck would have it, all I had was a twenty so I turned to her and said "Hey, can I borrow a dollar?" Been together for 6 years now. True story!

[Tanniker Smith]

Good morning, all.

Hmmmm, another day, another thread!

[Arrowhead1952]

I am highly allergic to mountain cedar (juniper) pollen. I normally get a mixture of two steroids. One takes effect within hours and the other lasts over a month. I am scheduled to get my shot tomorrow.

The male trees are almost brown this time of the year and when they spread their pollen, the air looks like it's full of smoke. People new to this area have actually called fire departments thinking the trees were on fire.

We also have high mold counts this time of the year. There are some of those that I am allergic to, and I have to take pills for those.

[GodBlessUSA]

Are you ready? Huh?

[GodBlessUSA]

:)

[GodBlessUSA]

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[GodBlessUSA]

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[GodBlessUSA]

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