~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.

[fatima]

Wow your number 5 match.com,thanks Ax.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi, never.....what a neat story about how you met, and married, your wife.

[fatima]

Isn't that great.Thanks righthand man:)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi, GB and Booboo.

[fatima]

Nooo:),Thanks for stopping by GoMonster.

[fatima]

Love at first sight,thanks darkwing104.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, nonliberal.

[E.G.C.]

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MARY!!!!!!

We're getting ready for a major ice storm here in Oklahoma. They're saying we could get an inch to an inch and a half by the time it's over.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cool...any idea if it will be covered live? Time? I'm sure it will be on Around the Services and Reloaded.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Warming up, MM...hope you are having a good day.

[GrandEagle]

WHEW! What a DAY!

A great big THANK YOU to the troops for protecting us!

How did I meet my Love....

OK, I know I’m a bit later jumping in today, but here goes.
I met Mrs. GE on a blind date. I had a night class with a friend of hers – Betty.
The entire semester Betty kept trying to get Mrs. GE and me to go out with her and her husband. We could never get our schedules together. Finally she asked me to just call her. At the time neither of us was interested in a relationship at all. I called her and said something like this: “Betty wants us to go out. Do you want to just so she will shut up?” We talked about it for a bit and finally we decided to just go out and eat somewhere safe. If I wanted to take her home after that I would, or if she wanted to go home after that I would take her home. No pressure, no risk, no hard feelings either way. I suggested that she take her car and just meet me there, but she said no to that. We were rally just doing this to get her off our backs.”
Well we decided to go out this once. I made reservations at one of the finest places I could find in Gulfport, MS for that night. Well, when the night came, it was the tail end of a tropical storm, but we decided to go through with it anyway,
I met her at a crossroad out on the country (they lived in the boondocks), and followed her to her home. I met her, her Dad and her Mom all at the same time. (They were a bit concerned because I was 33 and she was 22). We sat and talked for a bit and left. It was storming so bad that we couldn't get into Gulfport, so we had to head north to Hattiesburg – about 40 miles away.
We had a great time. We ate at a local steak house and just talked and talked, then went by a couple house whe were friends of mine. I got her back home around two or so in the morning. Both her Mom and Dad were up so I went in and we all chatted until…must have been 6 or so in the morning when I finally went home.
That was 1988 – we married in 1990 – and the rest….as they say, is history.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon, acad. Snow still coming?

[fatima]

Thank you E.G.C..Better stock some food in fast.

[Kathy in Alaska]

What a cute "wedding" photo.

[fatima]

The men that are posting are so romantic.i love it.We were Feb 16th-1961

[Tamar1973]

It's my birthday today. 34 years old. That picture is just too cute...

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, TomSmedley, for sharing your story. Happy almost 29th anniversary.

[Soaring Feather]

hat trick for me.

[Soaring Feather]

hat trick for me.

[Soaring Feather]

hat trick for me.