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Apparently she used to dress like the female character in the film and this brought back loads of memories.

Hmm.

There’s one example. I think my mum had this sort of smart yet extremely casual era in her life… Also, a redux version was the first film that my mum and dad went to see together. Sorta wierd how I evoked all that emotion when all I thought I was doing was buying another funny woody allen film. 

My parents saw Star Wars on their first date.

My parents met in a bank.

Its almost reason enough for me to stay with Jen just in hopes of being able to say to my kids, “Your mom hit on me because I was Indiana Jones and had one too many drinks.”

I met my ex in a pub, the current mrs c through a dating agency….

[quote author=“Clave”]I met my ex in a pub, the current mrs c through a dating agency….

How long’ve you been married, out of interest?

At the time I lived in a tiny cabin up in the mountains.  There were no girls around so I put an ad in an underground hippy newspaper for a wife.  One of my friends had luck with it so I tried my hand at it too.  It worked great, been married for 23 years now.

[quote author=“the Battle Cat”]At the time I lived in a tiny cabin up in the mountains.  There were no girls around so I put an ad in an underground hippy newspaper for a wife.  One of my friends had luck with it so I tried my hand at it too.  It worked great, been married for 23 years now.

Hey hey, that’s two years less than my parents.

Battle Cat, if you’re not making it up, that’s one of the crazier things I’ve heard. I’ve been scared of anything besides meeting people in person. Only GFs I’ve had have hit on me first hence the current GF.

True story.  I knew I was taking a chance, and I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone else.  I got some whackos responding that’s for sure.  One sent me this great letter that ended with “come fly with me!”.  I gave her a call and some guy answered.  I asked to talk to her and she took the phone into another room, probably the closet.  There was a baby crying in the background the whole time.  Our torrid romance ended there with the simple question, “Are you married or something?”

The good one turned out to be the one that turned into a pen pal for a couple of years.  We knew each other for 7 years before we got married.  We would visit, her to the mountains, me to the city.  We even lost track of each other for several years.

I just bought a new worst gift ever.  Duracel Batteries which include a little flashlight. - $5.

We aren’t married in the legal sense, but have been together 16 years….

She actually did well this year, no stupid presents from me anyway :D

[quote author=“the Battle Cat”]At the time I lived in a tiny cabin up in the mountains.  There were no girls around so I put an ad in an underground hippy newspaper for a wife.  One of my friends had luck with it so I tried my hand at it too.  It worked great, been married for 23 years now.

Holy bloody shite, the Battle Cat’s and my life once again overlap.

I met my wife through a newspaper ad (I placed it ... ATC folks working shiftwork in a shitty cold control tower then going home to paint weird abstracts, and read book after book after book don’t have much of a social life) and the instant we met (in a bookstore, natch) I knew I’d hit the jackpot. Been married 13 years this coming March.

Only my sister knows this ... the rest of my family and my wife’s think we met through a mutual friend.

I tell ya, the world’s really only got five people in it and then a bunch of mirrors. Damn.

PS. The oddest gift I bought this year was a box of Graham Wafers for my parents. They winter in Arizona and the graham wafers south of the border are different than the ones here in Canada. Normally I wouldn’t but Christie’s cookies (owned by Nabisco, owned by that giant tobacco company) but it’s what they wanted so ....