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Uni bar though it was also an introduction through a mutual friend. The beer goggles did help though (hope she doesn't read this).
Met Mrs Taxi 35 years ago in a pub. The Poets Corner, City road Cardiff. It wasn't a chance meeting though, all arranged by her sister who was going out with a friend of mine.
I married my mother, college mother that is. She wrote to me when she saw my name on a list because I lived near her. It was a thing at college to write to someone who was just starting college to make them feel welcome.. We met in a pub and things went from there. We also discovered we both had photographs in the same edtion of the local paper. Her for being the first 18 year old to vote in our area and me for my canoeing exploits. We are in our 45th year of marriage now.
I must be doing something wrong as ive spent half my waking life in pubs and am still single.
Surely being part of a group helps? Most women I see in pubs on their own are either alcoholics, just out of the mental hospital or on the game (and sometimes all three).
Met on a Thursday night at the Archer RC club night, then on Sunday went out on the club run along with a 16 year old Bradley Wiggins. After club run we went to the pub and 22 years later here we are.
Back in the year 2000, we met at Heathrow on a skiing trip to Lake Tahoe, California. Got talking on the flight and had our first date in a bar/bowling alley in the resort of Heavenly.
He's been trying to get away from me ever since by skiing faster downhills, mtbing faster downhills, but now we've taken up latin and ballroom dancing and he's stuck.
Met mine in a pub a couple of times, then bumped into her at a party and sort of got together... it was complicated
Yes, Howard Arms, Brampton.
Rather extraordinarily, whilst out riding mountain bikes.
A scuzzy night club in Bristol, the Dug-Out for those with long memories.
What was intended to be a one-night stand went very wrong, it's now a week short of 45 years.
intended to be a one-night stand went very wrong,
A common theme emerges - very few actual 'dates' in this thread. Whatever those are...
In the bar at a Hawkwind gig. We were both a bit out of it, but I do remember Ginger Baker was on drums, and at one point I might have been doing a dying fly on the floor (I know how to impress the ladies😏 ) 36 years, and she’s still putting up with me!
i downloaded mine off the internet.
Krieger?
The beer goggles did help though (hope she doesn’t read this).
Possibly the most unflattering thing she'll ever read...!
Hitchhiking through Australia. Made getting lifts a lot easier when she decided to join me. 8 months living in a tent and walking through national parks for weeks on end. Was a good baptism of fire ....
but now we’ve taken up latin and ballroom dancing and he’s stuck.
That's cos you're standing on his feet.
First met in church 1974 - I was 9 she would have just turned 6 😱
My brother saw her naked about 25yrs before I did & my sister used to babysit her.
But first drunken snog in the Nags Head High Wycombe new year 1997... but another 15yrs passed before we finally got it on ☺️
The Royal Oak, 1984 .
I had a magnificent erection* going on and was spotted as she walked past.
(*A tent. I was pitching a tent. With a pal. Transpires his gf (now wife) was sharing student house with the future mrs_oab. Two pals then set us up without warning at the uni bar a week later...)
She was putting some music on the jukebox in my local. Twenty years later, we are still together...
Met Mrsstu in the legendary Shelleys in Stoke.
No real ale but plenty of MDMA.
Oh how times have changed.
No MDMA these days but plenty of real ale and we're both CAMRA members.
All Bar One, Birmingham 2005. Internet dating.
As it’s been mentioned there is actually a ‘backdoors’ Strava segment at CP Longleat.
The Angel (ex Beer House), Rochdale Road, Manchester.
She insists I was sliding down the bar. I maintain I was just trying to get a better look at her bum.
I was in for after work drinkies, she was in for a climbing club committee meeting.
I gave her my phone number, a week later she turned up at my house and never left. I was too polite to kick her out, so 15 years later here we are. 🙂
I met mine in a pub - the Slug and Lettuce in Cheltenham.
I was out with a mate who was her cousin. The most unlikely Cupid ever.
She walked down the corridor of our office as the new office manager and I was smitten. A few boozy Friday nights after work (Figaro's and Atlas bar in Manchester) and she finally snared me :-).
14years in February married for 10. Still a lucky so and so.
Trof in the Northern Quarter, sat in the upstairs terrace on a blazing hot summers day, while exercising my usual Friday Afternoon self-employed persons divine right to spend it in (or in this case outside) the pub.
As soon as I set eyes on her I knew I was in trouble.
Spent an extremely boozy afternoon together followed by one hell of an evening out round town
Got married last year. Punching WAAAAAAAY above my weight. I still don’t know how the hell I managed it. She’s gorgeous! And ridiculously good fun! 😃
At a political meeting in a freezing cold community centre she's fiery and insightful, I'm.... persistent and very lucky, somethings working though were still together Life is good
Met on a charity walk up Ben Nevis - couldn't walk properly for a week afterwards!
13 hours sat on a bus the day after walking up Ben Nevis, not what you were thinking!!
Aww, thanks, darling Binbins!
Gave up on ‘sh#ggin about’ Landed to many nutters.
chatted to a girl after getting off a train, seen her in a club the following week.
17 years now, she changed my life.
love her and the son she has given me to bits.
im filling up here.😁
@bunnyhop^^^^ that's great because of the transition into ballroom dancing; always wanted to learn and still have hopes.....
Aww some lovely stuff in here ya big softies. No mention of Louise either!
The Old Goa in Ealing on a quiet Tuesday evening in February 1999.
I was working behind the bar and she came in with a friend, said I had a nice arse and gave me her number.
She still gives me grief for waiting 6 days before giving her a call!
I was finally introduced to The Wife on Christmas Eve 1990 in the Jolly Roger Brewery and Tap, Hereford.
We'd been make eyes at each other for a couple of months, either in The Barrels, the home of The Wye Valley Brewery, or in the Jolly Roger. I was the brewer at the Jolly Roger and had moved to Hereford in the October. Anyway, a mutual friend introduced us, we chatted, then her mates wanted to go to The Barrels, she left, I was devistated, but she then came back about 15 minutes later when the queue was too long to get in.
I thought my chance had slipped until she came back. She stayed for the lock-in, I walked her home later, her cat took an instant liking to me, she gave me scaling coffee before kicking me out. Been together 28 years this Christmas.
Old Goa in Ealing
Sexual Ealing? (Sounds a classy joint...)
Met mine at my ex girlfriends birthday party. Which was awkward. We were ex's at the time. I didnt know but she wanted to get back together. And my ex asked for a kiss, i said no i want to kiss her!
Pub was called voodoo lounge and has been demolished now. We were sad when it went.
14 years and 3 kids later, still going strong & yea moment i met is burned bright in my mind like the faithless guy above
Yes, in a pub that her folks owned and she worked behind the bar sometimes. Then they sold the pub and moved to Salisbury. I kept in touch, until she met someone, got pregnant and I lost touch after that. Move on some twenty-two years, and she popped up on Fb as ‘someone you may know’! In the meantime she’d moved to Ireland, had a second daughter, had a brain haemorrhage, broken up with her partner and moved back to Salisbury.
And now Jo has been living with me for a year. Amazing how quickly one’s life can change.
A common theme emerges – very few actual ‘dates’ in this thread. Whatever those are…
Seems to to be “what they do in the US”. Because they can drive themselves around for *years* before they can drink!
The only wife I've had I met in a marquee tent at a cricket club disco ..together for 10 years ..married for five and just wanted different things at the end ..an amicable split but I've never seen her again since the day we parted ..
Second partner was my first real girlfriend at sixteen who I bumped into again 12 years later in a supermarket where she worked in Sunderland while I was a frozen food rep covering that store ..we were together for 13 years and had a fairly acrimonious split ..the hardest part leaving behind my then 8 year old daughter..
My current partner had herself introduced to me in a pub on her 25th birthday ..20 years ago.There is a 16 year age difference between us ( in my favour) ..which I was extremely self conscious of at first ..but over time it now doesn't bother me at all .
I felt flattered way back then that this hot woman wanted to be with me ..and still do now .definitely a case of third time lucky ..we have a 15 year old son who is both a great kid and a little shit all rolled into one ..and life for the most part is good ..
At the gym. I try not to go to the pub, it's full of people and I am not the world's best socialiser.
Bit of a slow burn one, but I met mine at work. I was a chemist in an industrial detergent company, and she came in as a temp through a science agency. Pure chance was that the H&S manager was off sick and due to company rules she couldn't start work until he'd done the safety induction talk with her. She was in danger of being sent home (and no hours = no pay therefore) until my boss took pity and told me to take her out to a field trial site we were trialing some super exciting new rinse aid technology at. I asked her if she had any cassettes to listen to in the car and was surprised when she came back with very similar tastes to mine - so our first 'date' was at the Tower Thistle in London, stuck in pre-congestion charge traffic listening to the Stuffies, PWEI and Carter USM.
There was no real spark at the time, just a shared interest and she was in a relationship at the time so that was that.
FFWD (as you did with cassette tapes) by about 5 months and a mate and I had tickets to see the Wonder Stuff, then he had a sporting injury and couldn't stand or walk. So he asked me to see if i could get rid of the ticket. She, newly single, didn't read the signs that i was crap with girls and i really was just asking her if she could use a spare ticket. I even abandoned her at the back for the delights of the mosh pit part way through. But....she stayed over (separate rooms), the next day we talked and a brief spark sort of flickered.....
That was April '94, so together nearly 25 years, married for 18, 2 kids, and I'm still crap at understanding what she wants*
* particularly that thing about just wanting someone to vent to rather than actually solving the problems. Although..... recently she jammed the zip on her best handbag, brought it to me and when I expressed sympathy at how frustrating it must be to not be able to get into her bag, and did she need a sit down and maybe phone one of friends to talk about it, she then threw it at me and told me to 'just ****ing fix it'. Can't win.
online, then first date was in a Pizza Express in Warwick...
frankconway - go for it.
You don't even need a partner in some dance schools, as there is usually a shortage of male (lead) partners.
We started in January and now manage to do basic dances with little difficulty.
It's a laugh and so good for you. Learning a new skill for the body and brain, while listening to some top tunes.
1982 at a Halls of Residence corridor party in Agecroft was when we got together. Apparently herself had decided a couple of days previously that I was 'the one'. I'm still here, she's my boron rods when the reactor starts to runaway. (Stockholm syndrome has a lot to answer for as far as Mrs S is concerned).
Last two left over at the ballroom dancing club at uni.
Work. I'd been posted to Glasgow, didn't know anyone and we both climbed so we ended up climbing quite a bit together & with a group of us. Neither of us were single at first but both split up with our respective partners and a month or so after got together after a night out with friends.
That was about 7 years ago now 🙂
I met mine in a Vegetarian Cafe, run by a Church.
We are neither Vegetarian or God Botherers.