New Years giveaway

[ray1970]

Winner announced in post #41. Thank you all for participating.



Mods, if this isn't the proper place to post this I apologize and feel free to move it. Didn't want to clutter up the trading post with everyone's s posts.


I am giving away a like-new Magpul MOE SL stock with a like-new six-position mil-spec buffer tube. (Will get a picture up later)


Now the catch.


Rather than the usual "pick a number" type giveaway, I want to be entertained. So..

Tell a brief story about how you met the love of your life (sorry, single guys) or maybe an amusing or heartwarming moment about your significant other that made you realize he or she was that special one.


I will pick a winner this Friday based purely off of who's story I find the most interesting.


Good luck and happy New Years.

[wyome]

Coed city rec volleyball game...I spiked this really nice looking girl in the head with the volleyball, she couldn't block me! Then I went under the net to help her up and introduced myself...been together ever since

[Great-Kazoo]

My friends sister. spring of 74, Got in my face over something one of her friends said i said. Who knows what it was due to me consuming a few Carlsbergs (or what ever the beer of the day was) and tequila. As she's ranting the law rolls in to the park with intent to cuff everyone at the party. She grabs me and says lets GTF out of here. Run to the area behind another friends house. Too hammered to get over the fence, she grabs my feet as i'm floundering on it. Gives a good heave and throws me over.

That was 45 years ago.

[cstone]

I had gotten off active duty about six months earlier and gone back to college to finish my degree. Sitting in a PoliSci class and I had learned to always sit up front and not in the back of the classroom. Almost no one ever sat in the front because no one wanted to be noticed or called on. It was a PoliSci class and I was a History major so the reading for the class was easy and almost every answer was simple to BS, so I had no problem being called on or participating when asked. About the third or fourth class and I noticed a very cute red head sitting next to me in the front row. I had never seen her before and we had an assignment to do some evening so I asked her if she was interested in working together.

Turns out she moved to the front of the class because she liked the sound of my voice...almost as much as I like hearing myself talk.

30 years, three kids and two grand kids later and she still listens to me talk...at least I think she is listening.

[Robb]

Texas panhandle, Picked up up a senorita in a bar, didn't have a damn thing in common. This past Sept 5 was our 30th anniversary.
Still don't have a damn thing in common, but we're making it work.

[Double00]

Introduced by a mutual friend at a country bar. 20yrs. of awesome!

[Tim K]

My mom met my wife on a job interview. Mom was overqualified and didn't get the job, but came home pretty impressed with the girl. She taped my future wife's business card to my desk with 6" packing tape and harassed me for a month to call her. I finally did call just to shut her up.

We went on a blind date and were engaged four days (3 dates) later. We've been married now for 27 years.

My mom has to go to the chiropractor periodically for the pain she suffers from constantly patting herself on the back.

[bczandm]

In college there were 40 guys on our floor in the dorm. Each night someone would head out and pickup fast food for the group, bringing back orders that were placed by other dorm residents. My roommate and I always chose Arby's because we could use discount coupons and get free food for ourselves with the BOGO offers. We walked into Arby's at 9 or 10 PM one night and ordered 30 or so sandwiches which seem to catch the attention of the entire staff, but especially the people waiting behind us. We received our order, but instead of heading back to the dorm we sat down and began to eat. The two girls behind us ordered and sat down right next to us. I thought the taller one was pretty cute and talked with her briefly, but shortly thereafter we packed up the remaining food and headed back to the dorms. A few days later I noticed the cute blond at the dorm. I spent the next several weeks going to the floor parties on the girls’ side of the dorm trying to find her, but had no luck. After failing to find her for several weekends I was sitting in the lobby area feeling sorry for myself, waiting for movie night to start in the adjoining atrium. I figured I might run across her there, plus I could see if she passed through the lobby area. So, I am sitting in this large area, likely 100 seats with 15 or 20 other people. Lots of empty seating. Someone sits down right next to me....yup It seemed that she was going to the parties on the guys side looking for me. That was 38 years ago, 1980. Best thing that ever happened to me.
Twenty-three years later I took my wife and several couples out for our 20 year wedding anniversary dinner....to the same Arby's of course!

[Bailey Guns]

We were stationed together at Offutt, AFB. We worked in the Special Projects Branch...aka "The Vault"...but on different teams. I was on the rebound from a divorce. She had never been married.

She'd caught my eye but I didn't have much chance to talk to her except at shift change. Just whatever small talk I could manage intermixed with a shift-change briefing...and you can't really get to know someone too well 5 minutes at a time. I was very interested in her but wasn't getting the "I'm interested in you, too" vibe. I'd learned a few details about her...she was stationed in the Springs at the Academy prior to coming to Offutt and she bought her first car there...a Subaru sedan. That's what I had to work with.

One day after the end of my shift I bought a card and a flower...maybe a carnation or something like that. Now, imagine a parking lot the size of Mile High Stadium (or whatever it's called now) and full of cars. I started near the building where we worked but knew it wasn't likely she was able to find a space that close in. I drove up and down aisles in that lot for about 45 mins looking for what might be her car. Finally I found a little, brown Subaru with a Nebraska tags...but it had a Colorado Springs dealer sticker on the back. Nothing inside shed any light as to the owner. I took a chance and wrote a clever little note on the card asking her out for dinner. I said something like, "and if this car belongs to some big, hairy guy, nevermind."

Next day she came in to work carrying the flower with a big smile on her face. Now she was interested. That was 1988. I can still make her smile, but not like that...I think all of my material is getting old and that was pretty hard to top.

Wedding Day, Oct 22, 1989...1 year anniversary of our first date:

[20X11]

Damned hard to top some of these, but here is the story....met my wife at work... car dealership in Brighton...she was a "greeter"... her job was to greet people on the lot and then find a salesperson to help them. I was a salesman, but preferred to pick and choose my own customers. She literally went to the GM and tried to get me fired every day for the first 4 months of my employment because every time she told me it was my turn, I had something else to do. She was married at the time, but he was a dirtbag and treated her like shit. Well, the company Christmas party came around, and her dirtbag husband wouldn't come to the party, so she brought her grandmother. I spent most of the evening entertaining and dancing with her grandmother (lovely woman, god rest her soul, who loved bourbon...ordered bourbon and water with a shot on the side...Jim Beam). Just after the new year, she filed for divorce, and we started dating. Been together ever since...29 years. I'm her 3rd husband, she is my first...only...and last wife.