North Idaho / Eastern Washington

[UGLYFOOT]

I did, funnily enough I was good friends with his older and younger brother into and through my teen years but he and I didn't actually hang out much. By the time I was self aware enough to realize he was amazing he was across the country in the Navy. Probably for the best though since I was 16 and he was 19, we "met again" a few years later when he moved home after he broke his back and after each of our respective first marriages ended we got together and haven't looked back since. May will mark 6 years together

Great story!

 

[CGilbert]

I did, funnily enough I was good friends with his older and younger brother into and through my teen years but he and I didn't actually hang out much. By the time I was self aware enough to realize he was amazing he was across the country in the Navy. Probably for the best though since I was 16 and he was 19, we "met again" a few years later when he moved home after he broke his back and after each of our respective first marriages ended we got together and haven't looked back since. May will mark 6 years together

Awwww

My hubby and I met at a pool tournament (i won). He normally kicks my butt, but that game I played amazingly well.

 

[Hawk12]

Great story!

X2

 

[gimmie birdies]

My story of how I met my husband was funny..

I grew up on Bainbridge Is. every year in the spring they would have a parade when ths scotch broom bloomed. I borrowed a gorilla mask from a friend (I was 9) and while in the parade someone said, "look there is another gorilla." I turned to see a boy on a bicycle wearing a gorilla outfit he was about 11 years old. The boy rode his bike by me and said, "you are a gorilla, too." and rode off. I wanted to wave him down and walk in the parade with him, but he was gone.His parents at the time had a cabin on the Is., but in late middle school he moved to Bainbridge, but he was a year older so I didn't meet him till a dance his Sr. year, my Jr..a few days before the dance even though I had a perfectly nice BF and didn't have any prospects locally I broke up with my out of town guy and had to go to this dance. (If you saw the movie "Practical Magic" it was like the scene where Sandra Bullock was gardening and suddenly felt the urge to go to town. At the dance we saw each other, and didn't ask eachother to dance just started to dance together, he said..."my name is Todd..." I said "I know" I didn't... he just looked like a Todd to me.

Many years after being married I saw the movie "Serendipity". I thought to myself after if that movie was real, I would have married the gorilla on the bicycle. More years went by and I was flipping through a family photo album at his mom's house. and there was the boy on the bicycle wearing the gorilla outfit. I asked him if he was in that parade, he said "yes" I told him I was the other gorilla in that parade, he said..."oh you were standing by the corner by that one store."....

Funny thing is when he was a little boy and his parents asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said a "gorilla".

In May we will have been married 30 years.

 

[UGLYFOOT]

My story of how I met my husband was funny..

I grew up on Bainbridge Is. every year in the spring they would have a parade when ths scotch broom bloomed. I borrowed a gorilla mask from a friend (I was 9) and while in the parade someone said, "look there is another gorilla." I turned to see a boy on a bicycle wearing a gorilla outfit he was about 11 years old. The boy rode his bike by me and said, "you are a gorilla, too." and rode off. I wanted to wave him down and walk in the parade with him, but he was gone.His parents at the time had a cabin on the Is., but in late middle school he moved to Bainbridge, but he was a year older so I didn't meet him till a dance his Sr. year, my Jr..a few days before the dance even though I had a perfectly nice BF and didn't have any prospects locally I broke up with my out of town guy and had to go to this dance. (If you saw the movie "Practical Magic" it was like the scene where Sandra Bullock was gardening and suddenly felt the urge to go to town. At the dance we saw each other, and didn't ask eachother to dance just started to dance together, he said..."my name is Todd..." I said "I know" I didn't... he just looked like a Todd to me. 

Many years after being married I saw the movie "Serendipity". I thought to myself after if that movie was real, I would have married the gorilla on the bicycle. More years went by and I was flipping through a family photo album at his mom's house. and there was the boy on the bicycle wearing the gorilla outfit. I asked him if he was in that parade, he said "yes" I told him I was the other gorilla in that parade, he said..."oh you were standing by the corner by that one store."....

Funny thing is when he was a little boy and his parents asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said a "gorilla".

In May we will have been married 30 years.

That is an awesome story! I got goosebumps reading that..

 

[UGLYFOOT]

Did anyone realize the 19th is the date of the Monroe show? Was anybody planning on going?

 

[gimmie birdies]

Monroe has the best feed store with 84 breeds of chicks to chose from it is just west of the 524 over pass on the right if you were going to drive to Snohomish.

 

[CGilbert]

Did anyone realize the 19th is the date of the Monroe show? Was anybody planning on going?

Oh crud, really? I was hoping to go but probably couldn't make it anyway

 

[Saris]

My story of how I met my husband was funny..

I grew up on Bainbridge Is. every year in the spring they would have a parade when ths scotch broom bloomed. I borrowed a gorilla mask from a friend (I was 9) and while in the parade someone said, "look there is another gorilla." I turned to see a boy on a bicycle wearing a gorilla outfit he was about 11 years old. The boy rode his bike by me and said, "you are a gorilla, too." and rode off. I wanted to wave him down and walk in the parade with him, but he was gone.His parents at the time had a cabin on the Is., but in late middle school he moved to Bainbridge, but he was a year older so I didn't meet him till a dance his Sr. year, my Jr..a few days before the dance even though I had a perfectly nice BF and didn't have any prospects locally I broke up with my out of town guy and had to go to this dance. (If you saw the movie "Practical Magic" it was like the scene where Sandra Bullock was gardening and suddenly felt the urge to go to town. At the dance we saw each other, and didn't ask eachother to dance just started to dance together, he said..."my name is Todd..." I said "I know" I didn't... he just looked like a Todd to me. 

Many years after being married I saw the movie "Serendipity". I thought to myself after if that movie was real, I would have married the gorilla on the bicycle. More years went by and I was flipping through a family photo album at his mom's house. and there was the boy on the bicycle wearing the gorilla outfit. I asked him if he was in that parade, he said "yes" I told him I was the other gorilla in that parade, he said..."oh you were standing by the corner by that one store."....

Funny thing is when he was a little boy and his parents asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said a "gorilla".

In May we will have been married 30 years.

That's awesome!

 

[firedragon1982]

Man my "how I met my husband" is not that cool... We both had a night history class in NIC. It was in a teeny tiny room in one of the outskirt buildings before they started expanding the campus. We were literally rubbing elbows in there. He was one of my neighbors I was elbowing. After the first 2 weeks of class it really emptied out, so I moved a row behind. He kept asking why I moved. And apparently I kept kicking his chair inadvertently. A bunch of the class got together to start a study group that were both joined, and after a couple weeks it dwindled down to just me and him that would continue to go. So instead of studying it wound up being more like dates because we would go to Sharis and get coffee and dessert and talk.

Funny thing is we shared some friends in school, and he went to some of their bday parties I attended, and we didn't ever think twice about each other (i thought he was really weird... But then again so am i).

I wasn't even looking for a relationship at that time either, I was about 6 months single from a relationship I thought was "the one" that really broke my heart and didn't want anything serious. He was going thru something similar. That was almost 12 years ago. Didn't officially get married until 2009.