Romance Lovers for the Challenge-Impaired discussion

Thanks ,I love this idea ! so Gisela are you going first?

After you!

I mentioned it in the other thread...with ShoSho's H.O.T. power nozzle guy. ☺

We want the details LK ;)

LOL!

Well...we lived in the same apartment complex. I had seen him around and thought he had a great body. His best friend actually hit on me, but I wasn't interested because I didn't want to...I believe the expression back in the seventies was "sh!t where you live"...

Want more?

Yes!

Lisa Kay wrote: "Want more?"

yes please get to the power nozzle part , I was wondering if he meant what he said or he meant something else?! heeeheee

**snortsnort**

Well, as I said, I definitely noticed his body. That and he would occasionally wear his toolbelt. Man-oh-man! Anyone who knows me, knows I love a hunk in a toolbelt. **sigh** I know, it was an apartment building, right? What was he doing with a toolbelt on when he lived there? But, he was very organized. I remember once, he was working on his car and his cute little tushy was sticking out. **sigh** Man-oh-man! I can still see it today.

So, I would say, "Hi!" occasionally, but he was really shy and would barely acknowledge me.

So, I bought a new car and was really proud of it. My very first new car! A bright blue Honda Civic with "racing stripe." I saw him walking home from work one day and offered him a ride. He said, "I think I can make it." But, that didn't deter me. I encouraged him to get in and he did. And then PROCEEDED TO DISMANTLE MY GLOVE COMPARTMENT! Totally freaked me out. LOL! My new car! (Typical engineer!)

Of course, Lisa Kay!!

I met my husband while I was bartending at this small bar across from the University we both attended. He didn't normally come in during my shift. I thought he was kind of a jerk. One night I was out at another club and he was sitting at the bar and the only empty bar stool in the entire place was beside him. I sat down thinking I would just chat until something better came along. We ended up talking till 4am and then he picked me up the next day and we spent the whole day together. Here comes the bad part (cover your ears, LK) - he was living with a woman that he had been dating for 8 years. He broke up with her later that week and she moved out that month. We were married a year and a half later. I was 21 and he was 27. We've been married for 32 years.

LOL! That's okay, Leslie. I understand. As long as he didn't sleep with her after he slept with you, I'm fine with it. Sounds like the previous relationship had run its course. It happens.

*peeking in*

Lovely little thread :D

Anyway, it was pretty near Thanksgiving and my parents came up to visit me, for a change. (I usually went to them. I can't remember why I wasn't coming home for that holiday that year.) Of course, I had to wash my new car. While I was out there in the parking structure, my dad was working on his car. Then my husband offered me his power-nozzle and my dad was walking by - back in to the apartment. Now, my dad was a very quiet, gentle man with an I.Q. of 150. (He and my husband would get along like a house afire in later years.) Still, when he heard this offer, he could help laughing out loud. Even he understood the sexual innuendo of that line!

Lisa Kay wrote: "Well, as I said, I definitely noticed his body. That and he would occasionally wear his toolbelt. Man-oh-man! Anyone who knows me, knows I love a hunk in a toolbelt. **sigh** I know, it was an..."

I'm loving your instalments !

I'm typing mine in one post !it's long :P

Despite the blatant innuendo, I really don't think my (future) husband did know. I mean...he was always one for, "the right tool for the job." LOL!

Okay, I'll pick mine back up tomorrow. LOL!

Leslie wrote: "Of course, Lisa Kay!!

I met my husband while I was bartending at this small bar across from the University we both attended. He didn't normally come in during my shift. I thought he was kind of a ..."
It's not bad , I agree with Lisa Kay

9 years ago My BFF invited me to her fiancé's house for a party , she told me before that there was this friend of her fiancé that she wanted to introduce to me that he was so romantic , sensitive and handsome.

I was there early and when he came later my friend showed him to me but I wasn't that interested (he wasn't my type) . My sneaky friend said OK and asked me to dance with her a bit later . I don't know how she did it , one moment I was dancing with her the next she swapped me with his partner and I was dancing with him . It was love at first sight for him !!! hahaha

He asked for my number , brought me lasagna (my favourite food on that buffet table) left the party with me and dropped me of at my door and asked me what time I'd get home the next day ,he called me at exactly 8pm while I was walking in my room.


He made me fall in love with him , we are nothing alike , he is this sensitive artsy kind of guy he reads poems and loves classic music ,and he is clean ,organized and pessimistic . We can't be more opposite
but that's the way it is.

Something I love to tease him about is our first date a couple of days later.I still can get a response out of him by telling him about that day!!!I'm so bad.

He was waiting for me on a corner close to where I worked and he wanted to look better so he wasn't wearing his glasses , (he can't see clearly without them ,1 meter is his limit), so he didn't recognize me until I was right in front of him . I kept telling him that you forgot how I looked like and you wouldn't have recognize me if I hadn't talked to you and he kept swearing that he didn't see me clearly because he wasn't wearing the glasses.

I'm loving your installments, Lisa Kay. And too funny, my husband is an engineer as well. But I never saw him wearing a toolbelt LOL!
As to his girlfriend, that relationship had definitely run its course! And I was very clear about my expectations of him. I was crazy in love - I told him 2 weeks after I met him that I wanted to marry him. I was soooooooo young!

**snortsnort** Too, cute! Love that he wasn't wearing his glasses for you.

Leslie wrote: "I was soooooooo young!"

Oh, man! So was I. **sigh**

I'm loving this thread!

Love your story, ShoSho - sometimes the people we least expect are the right ones. My husband is definitely the opposite of me in many ways. But his strengths are where I'm weak and my strengths are where he's weak. And it works! Somehow.

Glad you are, Vi! **heehee*

I used to tease my husband that he hit on me in front of my father! LOL! He always played innocent.

Leslie wrote: "Love your story, ShoSho - sometimes the people we least expect are the right ones. My husband is definitely the opposite of me in many ways. But his strengths are where I'm weak and my strengths ar..."

Yes exactly like pieces of a puzzle
if he was as optimistic as I am or I was as pessimistic as he is we would never have been where we are now

Very true!

Oh this is lovely thread!
Real-life romances are so much cuter than books （・∀・）

Ladies I have enjoyed your stories but feel bad because mine was totally not love or even like at first site. I could not stand my hubby. See we actually grew up together as we have some of the same kin folk (NO we're not imbred rednecks! LMAO --- his aunt married my uncle so we share some of the same cousins just he and I are no kin) Anyhow as I said he was always so annoying when we were kids.

His family moved away and we lost touch for many years and in the meantime I graduated highschool and got married to a conniving scoundrel but I was young and dumb so what can I say? He turned out to be an alcoholic and loved his women on the side and just made my life miserable so obviously that didn't last to long. (3 years) Then low and behold I started dating and moved in together with a friend of a friend and he wasn't much better so that lasted another year or so and I just was so broken and fed up with men I said hell with it I'm going back home to mom n dad and ya'll that's where I stayed for the next 2 or 3 years perfectly happy and not even looking to find another rotten man! LMAO

I answered the phone one day and it was Bobby (my hubby now) and he was living with his uncle who helped raise him after his mom passed away and he was calling for his uncle to ask my mom about something or other and instead we ended up chatting and talked for about an hour catching up. He had never married only dated a few girls here n there but nothing special he said and said he'd like to come down one Sunday and visit. I told him same as the family always told folks come when you can never expecting him to show up bright and early the following Sunday!!!

My dad opened the door to him and it was so funny cause he thought he had come to sit n visit with him and Bob had been there for an hour or so before daddy realized any different and he just grinned and made himself scarce after a while. It was different than when we were kids..it felt like I didn't know this guy sitting beside me playing board games at the table holding my hands secretly under the table. I don't think I had ever blushed before in my life until he leaned in to sneak a quick kiss on the cheek! I thought to myself who is this guy and what did he do with that annoying little boy I grew up with?

As he was leaving Sunday night (he spent the whole day!) he asked if I'd like to catch a movie with him the following Saturday and I said sure that would be cool. So I let my mom know that he and I was gonna go to the movies but just "as friends". I made that point very clear to her because I had vowed off men and she just rolled her eyes and said yea..sure ya'll going just as friends. How she knew we'd wind up together before I did I will never know but don't they always say Mama knows everything?

We dated for a few months as there was no rush and eventually we got a place together and have been together for twenty something years now. We've had our ups n downs and I've seen him at his best and worse as he has me and yet we've made it this far together and Lordy I can't imagine my life without him in it. He's my bestest friend and I thank God every day for him.

Leslie wrote: "Of course, Lisa Kay!!

I met my husband while I was bartending at this small bar across from the University we both attended. He didn't normally come in during my shift. I thought he was kind of a ..."

Oh Leslie, I love it!!!! Married for 32 years?! That's wonderful!

Leslie wrote: "Love your story, ShoSho - sometimes the people we least expect are the right ones. My husband is definitely the opposite of me in many ways. But his strengths are where I'm weak and my strengths ar..."

That's it exactly Leslie! For all that I moan about how different my husband is *grumble grumble* and how much easier it would be if he'd stop questioning every single decision I made *more grumble grumble* the truth of the matter is that we balance each other out. I make him playful, and spontaneous, and optimistic, and he makes me responsible, and look-before-you-leap, and grounded. It works wonderfully... except when it doesn't :-p

Oh and I met my husband when he put an ad in the paper, literally, LOL!! Except it was for a housemate not a girlfriend, but I still like to tease him about it. I loved his English accent over the phone when I called up to enquire about the room, but was shocked and turned off when I met him and he was bald. "Ugh!" I thought. "No hair to run my fingers through!" Still, it was probably for the best, right? Who wanted to complicate matters by being attracted to the guy you lived with.... It turned out that the girl who'd moved out had owned a tv and being the impoverished youngsters we were, neither Iain or I owned one at the time... it would be two months before I'd saved up enough to buy one, and in those two months, we got into the habit of gathering in the living room after dinner for a talk about our day... then it became making dinner together while we started the chat early (just to save money of course, it's cheaper to cook for two)... then it became waking home from work together during the warmer evenings... and we'd chat and chat until well after dinner... I often found myself looking less at his bald head and more at his lips when he talked. Lovely lips, he has. Anyways, one night we had a full moon and were well into our wines and I was lamenting that I couldn't see the moon from my bedroom window.. he told me he'd show me the moon from his room and the rest, as they say, is history. But every so often when we meet new people and they ask how we met, I like to make him squirm by telling people he found me through an ad in the paper and then he mooned me. It makes him go a gorgeous shade of red, all over that beautiful bald head :-D Don't feel too bad for him ladies, he gets me back in other ways ;-)

JenniferJ wrote: "Ladies I have enjoyed your stories but feel bad because mine was totally not love or even like at first site. I could not stand my hubby. See we actually grew up together as we have some of the sam..."

That's beautiful Jennifer!

JenniferJ wrote: "Ladies I have enjoyed your stories but feel bad because mine was totally not love or even like at first site. I could not stand my hubby. See we actually grew up together as we have some of the sam..."

I met my hubby when I vowed off men too. Well, I had decided to use and abuse them along with vowing off em. lol

Guess I'll tell my story directly.

CaroB and JenniferJ- I love your stories! I didn't like my husband when I first met him either. And then something just clicked. I love the part about holding hands under the table and then kissing your cheek. So sweet!
It's funny when you talk about his bald head, CaroB. I think bald headed men are so sexy. My kids laugh at me all the time. But my husband didn't look like people I normally dated. I tended to date very well dressed men. And my husband was definitely not! It drove me crazy.

@ CaroB Ohhhh girlfriend bald men are sexy! I almost spit my soda on my monitor when I read "He found me through an ad in the paper and then he mooned me." That's too funny!

This was a great idea! I am loving all these stories!

Okay, my story. Once upon a time... Oops! Sorry, that was the fictional version of it.

Okay, I was 23 years old and stationed in Rota Spain. I was very shy and my job was one that kept me from having to deal with a bunch of strangers. I can't tell you what it was. Hehe. Anyway, I had gone back to the states to meet up with this guy that I really thought might have been the one but wasn't. Truly, I believe my pride was hurt more than anything when I came back to Spain and it was over. So I swore off men. They were dogs and I wanted nothing to do with them. Well, I took on a use them and abuse them attitude. When the powers that be were asking for volunteers to go work at shore patrol, I volunteered. Yes, ME! Anyone who knew me knew that wasn't me. I was too timid and shy to do it and I think I hoped they would pick someone else but they didn't. I went.

And that's where I met my honey. I worked the same days he did but opposite shift. So if I was on days he worked nights. But without fail, since I was the newbie I always got the last minute calls that made me stay on after my shift was up. And there were times he had to stay after his shift was up and sometimes he traded shifts and we worked together.

Our first date he stood me up. Now the second date is just too funny. We have been married now for 26 years.

CaroB wrote: " .. I like to make him squirm by telling people he found me through an ad in the paper and then he mooned me. ."

Lol that's so good I've been laughing the last 20 minutes or so, just thinking about this.

Pamela(AllHoney) wrote: "Okay, my story. Once upon a time... Oops! Sorry, that was the fictional version of it.

Okay, I was 23 years old and stationed in Rota Spain. I was very shy and my job was one that kept me from hav..."

You get the best things in life when you least expect them. I really believe this;)

My husband and I met 30 years ago at work. It was raining and when I passed him he commented on my bent umbrella. We started chatting after that. A few weeks later I was in the hospital and he came to see me. We dated after that for 6 years and then got married.

Bent umbrella! I'm going to have to tell my daughters that one. They should start carrying a bent umbrella.

My kids always laugh that I picked my husband up in a bar. And now my oldest is engaged and she met her future husband in a bar as well. And there are other weird similarities as well!

I love all these stories!!

Oh, CaroB! You are just too, too bad, aren't you? Your husband must think you are a pistol. LOL!

Love your story, Jennifer. Very sweet.

Pamela, I've heard most of yours before - but not all! What do you mean he stood you up?! Explain.

Drz, that bent umbrella was just a golden opportunity.

Leslie, be sure to tell your daughters to bend the umbrella. LOL!

Yes, loving these stories.

Lisa Kay wrote: "Pamela, What do you mean he stood you up?! Explain."

I was going to ask about that too :D

Ok my turn!

One of my childhood friends started dating this guy that lived in a town about 40 minutes away from ours. He didn't have a car so he had to ask his older brother to drive him. His brother didn't want to because he didn't know anyone in town and didn't want to be a fifth wheel. So she asked me to go on a blind date with him and I turned it down. I was still recovering from breaking up with my high school sweetheart and boyfriend of 3 years.

She kept asking and I kept saying no. One day I went to a party and met this really cute guy but because of something he said I thought was a jerk. A week later I went to another party with some friends and saw the cute jerk arrive! I tried to avoid him and asked a friend to dance. Well I didn't fool my friend, it wasn't until he leaned into my ear and practically yelled, that I realized that I hadn't paid any attention to what he had been saying. Our conversation went something like this:

Him:"What are you looking at?!
I:"Nothing!"
Him:"Really?! Then you really must be careful, you're going to injure your neck!"

I got caught staring at Cute Jerk! So I confesed, I told my friend about Jerk guy and what he had said. My friend thought I was being to harsh on him and said I should go and ask him to dance.

I was nervous but I walked up to Cute guy and said:
Me:"Hey you want to dance?"
Cute guy:" "No, thanks."