How'd you get your man?

leekelbel · 11-10-2009, 11:58 PM

Just for fun; I'm curious to know how everyone met their significant others? Or if you don't have a significant other now, how have you met/picked up/been picked up by someone?

Any favorite pick-up lines? Favorite spots?

Commander Keen · 11-11-2009, 02:37 AM

I've been single for almost a year, but all of my past relationships have started online. *shrug* What can I say, I'm an internet nerd.

Tania · 11-11-2009, 03:01 AM

Places I've met dudes/been asked out:

The internet. Disneyland. A state political party convention. College club meetings. Period balls. Dance classes. School. Frat parties.

TallFatSue · 11-11-2009, 07:59 AM

It wasn't funny then, but it sure is funny now.

As a student at Ohio State University I became very friendly with a classmate, and she and I even roomed together for a while. When I was 20, I met her younger brother, who was 18 going on 12. He was an immature jerk who kept harrassing his sister, and after a while he decided it was even more fun to harrass me. He must have told me every fat joke he knew.

Finally after one fat joke too many (and it was a singing fat joke) I told him to kiss my ass. Which he did!

After I recovered from the shock, I triple dared him to take me on a date and behave like a gentleman. Which he did!

Art is now serving a life sentence as my husband, 27 years and counting. He didn't like fat girls then, but after careful training, he sure does now!

Ruffie · 11-11-2009, 08:28 AM

I had just gotten out of a "relationship" with a guy I had really like for a couple of years and we had been just friends and I though were moving it to the next level. Apparently I was the fat girl fling, cause he dropped me in November and married a Carly Simon look alike in January. Grant had also been my friend for a while and started coming around the camera store I was managing more, taking me for coffee and lunch. Showing up to eat his lunch while I was in the darkroom(yes in the darkroom) working on University Photography projects. I wanted nothing to do with any man after being stung. But he was persistant asking me out and I would have girlfriends meet me there, for a while Grant thought he had a harem LOL. When we finally started dating on our own( I gave up the protective gals) he took it really slow with me knowing that I had been badly hurt. To the point where one night I finally confronted him about what exactly is going on here. We have been going out for a month now and you won't let me pay for anything, call me all the time jsut to talk, and yet you have never made a move past holding my hand. It was a long speech but broke down to this Are we friends, do you want more or whats going on here? I know I am having feelings other than friendship, but don't want to ruin a good friendship. He simply reached across my lap opened up the door and said I have been thinking about the same thing Good night. Well I went in the house that night and figured I blew it would never hear from him again. But he called on his coffee break mid morning and said I blew his mind cause he had been rehearsing the same speech and was so flabbergasted that he didn't know what to say.
Things moved fairly quickly from there. Within a couple of months we were engaged and married Sept of 1985. We have had a roller coaster ride of a marriage and almost gave up a couple of times cause of the immense pressures and problems we encountered. But still together after all these years as the song goes.

BBW4Chattery · 11-11-2009, 10:59 PM

I've met my ex's in multiple ways though none quite as romantic as young girls hope for in life...

A few online, a few through friends, a few through class/school, none that I can think of where it was just totally random romance. The political event someone mentioned above reminded me of a guy who gave me his number after we volunteered together at an event... but nothing ever came of it for sure.

I'm anti-romance 99% of the time but I admit, I am still hoping for that random star struck love moment... eyes meeting across the room and all that jazz. Fingers crossed. Toes too, maybe.

katorade · 11-11-2009, 11:08 PM

Dims chat. I stood out from the pack in my ability to belch the alphabet.

QueenB · 11-12-2009, 12:14 AM

myspace haha. thought he was fly and hot as hell, so i put the mack on (jk i was a nervous idiot). we've been together for two years :3

Teleute · 11-12-2009, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leekelbel

Just for fun; I'm curious to know how everyone met their significant others? Or if you don't have a significant other now, how have you met/picked up/been picked up by someone?

Any favorite pick-up lines? Favorite spots?

Bear traps work wonders. I recommend using a picture of boobs as bait.

(I actually met my husband online, in a game we both played at the time [Kingdom of Loathing]. Took some chatting and a convention meetup, and then he moved to Seattle from London

)

cinnamitch · 11-12-2009, 01:15 AM

Took a shovel and hit him in the back of the hea.. err i mean i literally bumped into him one day rounding the corner at the apartment complex we were living in. Married 3 months later and lasted 15 years.

Sugar · 11-12-2009, 01:28 AM

Dim chat as well. I, however, cannot belch the alphabet. I make up for that with sarcasm and candy.

MisticalMisty · 11-12-2009, 03:05 AM

Dim chat. Wasn't particularly found of his screen name..but responded to his pm and we are now moving in together next week and engaged

goofy girl · 11-12-2009, 03:39 AM

I met Steve on the bus. My pick up line was "Hi. Hey, did you miss the bus yesterday?"

Tooz · 11-12-2009, 06:57 AM

My first bash, actually. Wasn't looking for anything and yet here I am, living with him 700 miles away from where my place of residence was when I met him.

Neen · 11-12-2009, 09:58 AM

well, it just ended, but i met seth on a blind date, that ended up being a 1 night stand that ended up being a 4 year relationship!

Weeze · 11-12-2009, 02:48 PM

I love all the Dimchat.. Dimchat... Dimchat.

It just gave me little warm fuzzies. I'm single, but I met my last... fling... in a different fatty chat. Hah. It didn't really last though, but... it was something.

Tina · 11-12-2009, 03:17 PM

I clubbed him over the head and dragged him into my cave... er, so to speak.

Right here on the Dims boards, only the old ones. We first met here in late 1998 - early 1999.

Sugar · 11-12-2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by goofy girl

I met Steve on the bus. My pick up line was "Hi. Hey, did you miss the bus yesterday?"

What was so great about Goofy's story is that she called him the busboy for weeks. So I thought for ages she met him at a diner or something where dishes were spilled and she helped pick them up.

goofy girl · 11-12-2009, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Sugar

What was so great about Goofy's story is that she called him the busboy for weeks. So I thought for ages she met him at a diner or something where dishes were spilled and she helped pick them up.

LOL not quite that romantic!! But still a sweet story, right?

Sugar · 11-12-2009, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by goofy girl

LOL not quite that romantic!! But still a sweet story, right?

One of the best sweet stories ever!

StarWitness · 11-12-2009, 07:24 PM

The three significant relationships in my life have been: blind date, lived in the same dorm at college, and met randomly at a fetish club. Hookups have mostly been guys from the intarwebs.

...you know, it sounds kinda sleazy when I say it like that.

ThatFatGirl · 11-13-2009, 05:47 PM

I also met my husband in Dimensions chat. We dated long distance (550 miles) for a couple of years then got hitched. Our three year wedding anniversary is in January.

leekelbel · 11-13-2009, 11:37 PM

I LOVE these stories!!

superodalisque · 11-14-2009, 03:02 AM

i've met S/Os everywhere. at college in the library, bookstore, grocery store, art class, the mall... the person i'm interested in now--well i met him on myspace.

i know--so embarrasssing to say! he had also approached me on a dating site before but i didn't respond. i don't think he will ever quite forgive me for that. but, since we met on the net and we were both involved with other people and he lived so far away, had chippendale dancer good looks and was being chased down by tons of women and was getting over an ex, i tried not to take him very seriously. there was absolutely no reason why he couldn't have found someone who lived closer. we were friends and talked for several years. i got to know him as a person. he's extremely kind, emotionally open, sensitive, intelligent, passionate and romantic. something happened between us and we couldn't say no anymore so we are sticking a toe in. guess you can meet someone anywhere--even the net.

lovelocs · 11-14-2009, 03:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StarWitness

The three significant relationships in my life have been: blind date, lived in the same dorm at college, and met randomly at a fetish club. Hookups have mostly been guys from the intarwebs.

...you know, it sounds kinda sleazy when I say it like that.

...Ain't sleazy at all. It is what it is...

11-10-2009, 11:58 PM	#1
leekelbel Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 24	How'd you get your man? Just for fun; I'm curious to know how everyone met their significant others? Or if you don't have a significant other now, how have you met/picked up/been picked up by someone? Any favorite pick-up lines? Favorite spots?

11-11-2009, 03:01 AM	#3
Tania Disneyland Bobsled Team Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The corner of Small World Mall & Matterhorn Way. Posts: 1,975	Places I've met dudes/been asked out: The internet. Disneyland. A state political party convention. College club meetings. Period balls. Dance classes. School. Frat parties. __________________ You're such a strange girl I think you come from another world ~ The Cure "She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding." ~ Mr. Knightley on Emma, Jane Austen's Emma

11-11-2009, 08:28 AM	#5
Ruffie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Saskatchewan Canada Posts: 1,703	I had just gotten out of a "relationship" with a guy I had really like for a couple of years and we had been just friends and I though were moving it to the next level. Apparently I was the fat girl fling, cause he dropped me in November and married a Carly Simon look alike in January. Grant had also been my friend for a while and started coming around the camera store I was managing more, taking me for coffee and lunch. Showing up to eat his lunch while I was in the darkroom(yes in the darkroom) working on University Photography projects. I wanted nothing to do with any man after being stung. But he was persistant asking me out and I would have girlfriends meet me there, for a while Grant thought he had a harem LOL. When we finally started dating on our own( I gave up the protective gals) he took it really slow with me knowing that I had been badly hurt. To the point where one night I finally confronted him about what exactly is going on here. We have been going out for a month now and you won't let me pay for anything, call me all the time jsut to talk, and yet you have never made a move past holding my hand. It was a long speech but broke down to this Are we friends, do you want more or whats going on here? I know I am having feelings other than friendship, but don't want to ruin a good friendship. He simply reached across my lap opened up the door and said I have been thinking about the same thing Good night. Well I went in the house that night and figured I blew it would never hear from him again. But he called on his coffee break mid morning and said I blew his mind cause he had been rehearsing the same speech and was so flabbergasted that he didn't know what to say. Things moved fairly quickly from there. Within a couple of months we were engaged and married Sept of 1985. We have had a roller coaster ride of a marriage and almost gave up a couple of times cause of the immense pressures and problems we encountered. But still together after all these years as the song goes. __________________ Teach without expecting. Give without wanting. Nurture without possessing.

11-12-2009, 03:39 AM	#13
goofy girl took a sharp left turn Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Providence Posts: 4,216	I met Steve on the bus. My pick up line was "Hi. Hey, did you miss the bus yesterday?" __________________ Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius

11-12-2009, 06:57 AM	#14
Tooz sweet chocolate christ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: shoppin' fuh food Posts: 5,086	My first bash, actually. Wasn't looking for anything and yet here I am, living with him 700 miles away from where my place of residence was when I met him. __________________ let's call a spade a spade: it's porn

11-11-2009, 02:37 AM	#2
Commander Keen Ms. DOS Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Toronto Posts: 31	I've been single for almost a year, but all of my past relationships have started online. shrug What can I say, I'm an internet nerd.

11-11-2009, 07:59 AM	#4
TallFatSue On Timeout Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: NW Ohio Posts: 1,675	It wasn't funny then, but it sure is funny now. As a student at Ohio State University I became very friendly with a classmate, and she and I even roomed together for a while. When I was 20, I met her younger brother, who was 18 going on 12. He was an immature jerk who kept harrassing his sister, and after a while he decided it was even more fun to harrass me. He must have told me every fat joke he knew. Finally after one fat joke too many (and it was a singing fat joke) I told him to kiss my ass. Which he did! After I recovered from the shock, I triple dared him to take me on a date and behave like a gentleman. Which he did! Art is now serving a life sentence as my husband, 27 years and counting. He didn't like fat girls then, but after careful training, he sure does now!

11-11-2009, 10:59 PM	#6
BBW4Chattery Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: SE US Posts: 327	I've met my ex's in multiple ways though none quite as romantic as young girls hope for in life... A few online, a few through friends, a few through class/school, none that I can think of where it was just totally random romance. The political event someone mentioned above reminded me of a guy who gave me his number after we volunteered together at an event... but nothing ever came of it for sure. I'm anti-romance 99% of the time but I admit, I am still hoping for that random star struck love moment... eyes meeting across the room and all that jazz. Fingers crossed. Toes too, maybe.

11-11-2009, 11:08 PM	#7
katorade Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,446	Dims chat. I stood out from the pack in my ability to belch the alphabet.

11-12-2009, 12:14 AM	#8
QueenB zoo-music girl Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 681	myspace haha. thought he was fly and hot as hell, so i put the mack on (jk i was a nervous idiot). we've been together for two years :3

11-12-2009, 01:15 AM	#10
cinnamitch nope Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 3,004	Took a shovel and hit him in the back of the hea.. err i mean i literally bumped into him one day rounding the corner at the apartment complex we were living in. Married 3 months later and lasted 15 years.

11-12-2009, 01:28 AM	#11
Sugar Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,533	Dim chat as well. I, however, cannot belch the alphabet. I make up for that with sarcasm and candy.

11-12-2009, 03:05 AM	#12
MisticalMisty Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 6,362	Dim chat. Wasn't particularly found of his screen name..but responded to his pm and we are now moving in together next week and engaged

11-12-2009, 09:58 AM	#15
Neen Free Spirit Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 700	well, it just ended, but i met seth on a blind date, that ended up being a 1 night stand that ended up being a 4 year relationship! __________________ 'Don't mess up the makeup, I got things to do!'

11-12-2009, 02:48 PM	#16
Weeze Justin Bieber of Dims Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: wouldn't YOU like to know.. Posts: 2,046	I love all the Dimchat.. Dimchat... Dimchat. It just gave me little warm fuzzies. I'm single, but I met my last... fling... in a different fatty chat. Hah. It didn't really last though, but... it was something. __________________ Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

11-12-2009, 03:17 PM	#17
Tina Older and wiser now Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: location, location. Posts: 15,215	I clubbed him over the head and dragged him into my cave... er, so to speak. Right here on the Dims boards, only the old ones. We first met here in late 1998 - early 1999. __________________ "I'm really tired of a fat woman's sexuality being just another fat joke." -- Felicia/Supero "It's my belief that these sheep are laborin' under the misapprehension that they're birds. Observe their be'avior. Take for a start the sheeps' tendency to 'op about the field on their back legs. Now witness their attmpts to fly from tree to tree. Notice that they do not so much fly as... plummet." -- Monty Python's Flying Circus

11-12-2009, 07:24 PM	#21
StarWitness part square, part drape Join Date: May 2009 Location: Sexcriminalboat Posts: 692	The three significant relationships in my life have been: blind date, lived in the same dorm at college, and met randomly at a fetish club. Hookups have mostly been guys from the intarwebs. ...you know, it sounds kinda sleazy when I say it like that. __________________ Oh yeah, like the people of New Jersey have never seen a fat guy and a chick make out. It's on the freaking state flag. --Homer Simpson I've always been a guy with a sweet tooth, and that girl's just like a king-size candy bar... --Sleater-Kinney

11-13-2009, 05:47 PM	#22
ThatFatGirl Why am I still here? Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: I'm lost. Posts: 3,553	I also met my husband in Dimensions chat. We dated long distance (550 miles) for a couple of years then got hitched. Our three year wedding anniversary is in January. __________________ "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti." - Sophia Loren Fleeting Fancies

11-13-2009, 11:37 PM	#23
leekelbel Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 24	I LOVE these stories!!

11-14-2009, 03:02 AM	#24
superodalisque Dimensions Supporter Join Date: May 2006 Location: atlanta Posts: 7,580	i've met S/Os everywhere. at college in the library, bookstore, grocery store, art class, the mall... the person i'm interested in now--well i met him on myspace. i know--so embarrasssing to say! he had also approached me on a dating site before but i didn't respond. i don't think he will ever quite forgive me for that. but, since we met on the net and we were both involved with other people and he lived so far away, had chippendale dancer good looks and was being chased down by tons of women and was getting over an ex, i tried not to take him very seriously. there was absolutely no reason why he couldn't have found someone who lived closer. we were friends and talked for several years. i got to know him as a person. he's extremely kind, emotionally open, sensitive, intelligent, passionate and romantic. something happened between us and we couldn't say no anymore so we are sticking a toe in. guess you can meet someone anywhere--even the net. Last edited by superodalisque; 11-14-2009 at 03:13 AM.