Jo Whiley tonight reminded me when she mentioned being at the same Sugarcubes gig as her husband, who she didn't actually meet till years later.
Around 1990/91, I used to regularly go raving at Shelleys Laserdome in Stoke-on-Trent, 35 miles away from where I live. Late '92 I met Mrs STR, who lived 15 miles away from me, in a different (cheesier) nightclub - turned out that all the time I'd been gurning away on the stage in Stoke, she'd been sat 10ft away smoking weed with the black dudes in the corner.
Pointless story, but a nice little anecdote - I think, anyway.
Not my wife, but several people I've met recently. I used to go to both Club UK (Wandsworth) and Lazedrome (Peckham) in the 90s and a few of our new friends used to do the same. God knows we probably crossed paths countless times...
Oh the good old days 😀
Me and my wife joined different police forces at the same time and were at the same training centre for 12 weeks, along with several hundred other new recruits. We met 6 years later and I remember some of her friends but even when I saw photographs of her from that time I don't ever recall seeing her, nor her me.
Like the OP I was bang into the rave scene in the early to mid 90's. Met my wife for the first time on Bowlers car park, Manchester even though we lived less than 1/2 a mile from each other in Garstang. 19 years later we're still together 🙂
were we at the same sugarcubes gig at the Academy?
I used to go to Shelleys in the early 90s! I notice that I didn't get an invite to your wedding.
Got chatting on the way back from a peaks day out. Comparing best gigs we had been to - turns out one guy who I had known for a couple of years had been at the same Queensryche gig as me back in the early 90s.
Small world
Yep met a girl when travelling, 18 years later we hook up and had 6 great years then 18 months ago she broke my heart. Life is weird like that.
My parents were introduced to each other at work, thought nothing of it, met again some years later and it went from there.
Ex colleagues of mine got married.
Few years later at one of their nan's house saw an old wedding photo extended family b shot- they were both in as nippers
Norfolk, eh....
Yup, met MrsBouy whilst doing a RORC Cowes/St Malo race years ago. I thought she was a tensed up snob with an attitude that made you want to leave her on the dock rolled up in the spare .75oz kite. 4 years later and in a different race in Dinard she made my knees wobble, became partners after that.
Sometimes she is still a tensed up snob who I'd like to leave behind 😆
S'pose you could call that "ships that pass in the night" 😛
Kind of. I got on a busy commuter train in Manchester last summer and realised I was stood next to a woman I recognised. Then I remembered why - the last time I'd seen her she was dropping me off at my house the, ahem, 'morning after' and my parting words were "I'll call you". That was about 20 years previously and, obviously, I hadn't.
She also, it became clear, recognised me. Nothing was said, but it was an awkward train ride...
I should have called her too, she was lovely. Aren't teenage boys dicks?
I worked in a record shop around 1997 a guy came in who was visiting family (he lived 70 miles away) and commented on my Nintendo wristband (I was young back then) and we talked games for about an hour. Never saw him again then I was working in a games shop 5 years later and called a few people up after reviewing CVs, dude walks in and it's wristband guy who had moved to be closer to family. Found out in interview he likes bikes, same music and films. He's going to be my best man this year and we both remember the record shop meeting 🙂
I knew a girl from 13yrs+, we were inseparable. Years later we bumped into each other 300miles away at the same Uni. Maybe one day we will meet again.
I was more in to Entropy around the corner from Shellys, always had the opinion Shellys was more of a meat market, appears my opinion was correct!! Early 90s in Stoke as a student, all a bit of a blur really,the good old days.
Mrs_oab just saw me putting up a tent on front lawn at uni, in 1992 purple fleece and basically went 'fwoaar'. Friends were contacted, and I found myself in the uni bar that Friday with the soon to be Mrs_oab.
It's our 19th wedding anniversary this year.
Not ships that pass, more a tug that would not give up.... 😉
[i]more a tug that would not give up[/i]
Sounds painful
I was on holiday in Tenerife with my girlfriend at the time.
We met another couple and we hung around with each other a bit but didn't keep in contact after the holiday.
About 12 months later I was in the Velvet Underground in London and someone sat down next to me - turns out it was the couple we had met on holiday.
We kept in touch from then on and it later transpired that I had shaken hands with one of his best friends a number of years earlier, as we had been opposing captains in a school county cup football match.
We're still very close friends over 20 years later and I ended up marrying and having children with another of his friends......that didn't end so well!
Met my partner about three years before the meet proper - she annoyed the **** out of me TBH.
The best one's always start like that, apparently...
[i]I hate you; you make me feel...something[/i]
🙂
I used to regularly go raving at Shelleys Laserdome in Stoke-on-Trent
Me too.
It's where i met Mrs stu. 😀
Never had a "ships in the night" moment, but sometimes wonder what happened to ex-girlfriends and what might have been if I'd still been with them.
However, you cannot change the past and so there is no point thinking about it.
My wife and I first met at work about a year after I'd finished uni. Turns out we had both been at the same uni together, both doing engineering degrees (different disciplines, one year year apart), and shared a number of mutual friends. I had even been round to her house a few times (visiting my mates, who were her housemates) but we'd never laid eyes on each other until working together later on.
Early 90's S-O-T ... great days.
10 years ago we were on a large military exercise and I was based at Bicester with the recovery truck to help keep the A34 clear. We were camped alongside a workshop next to the prison and I slept under the wagon for 2 weeks. My my missus is from brill and drove past occasionally and even today she can remember the wrecker wagon with the basha on the side that I was sleeping under. We met 5 years ago in Bournemouth and get married next fri!
My previous 3 girlfriends were all design students. Two of them had been to the same uni (mutual friends) and the other was supervised by one of them. It felt almost inbred
IHN wins
I met my OH in a nightclub in Preston.
I said, "what the bloody hell are you doing here?"
My wife's mother is friends with my parents. I'd never met her though, when I was 17 or so she sent a postcard that was a pic of her and her daughter. The pic was on our pin board for ages and I always thought she(the daughter!)was beautiful. 4 years later I met her in totally unrelated circumstances and hooked up. 17 years on we're married with 3 kids!
I met my OH in a nightclub in Preston.
I met mine in a nightclub in Huddersfield in 91. My bestmate at the time introduced me to her. I lost contact with him in 98. Last month I went on a bike ride with him 😀