How did you meet your significant other?

[Joey Shabadoo]

I don't find that funny in any way but actually find it mildly offensive & I don't even know your wife, strange how perceived humour doesn't work all the time.

Now read it as the Rev IM Jolly

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Now read it as the Rev IM Jolly

Never heard of him but I doubt it will make it any less offensive, but if you both find it funny that's fine, we're all different.

 

[BoldonLad]

It was on a blind date arranged by a friend. well, I say "friend" but he wasn't after that. The Roxy Cinema in Leven, I'd arranged to meet her inside. That suited me because she had to pay her own way in and it suited her because the lighting was exceptionally dim and somewhat forgiving. We didn't talk much on the date, partly because I'd paid good money to see the film but partly because she never stopped eating throughout. Her necessarily large coat concealed a surprising amount of food in it's voluminous folds. I was quite impressed with the unspilled pint in her inside pocket. Afterwards I walked her to the taxi rank, stopping for her to sample the kebab shops on the way. I'd made up my mind by now that there wasn't going to be a second date but, being a gentleman, as I helped the taxi driver lift her into the back of the car I said "That was lovely, I'll give you a ring"

Anyway, the Sheriff said that was a legally binding offer and here we are, 25 years later.

I assume Mrs Joey Shabadoo does not read this forum?

If she does, may I suggest you sleep with your eyes open, from now on

 

[cyberknight]

blind date via dating agency tbh i felt a bit sorry for her given how hard her life had been ( cancer as a kid ) and thought i could protect her.
Turned out she has a chip on her shoulder and is a spendaholic

 

[oreo_muncher]

blind date via dating agency tbh i felt a bit sorry for her given how hard her life had been ( cancer as a kid ) and thought i could protect her.
Turned out she has a chip on her shoulder and is a spendaholic

So you think if it wasn't for the kiddos you would leave?

 

[cyberknight]

So you think if it wasn't for the kiddos you would leave?

yes spent us into debt twice so we had to downsize never satisfied

 

[oreo_muncher]

yes spent us into debt twice so we had to downsize never satisfied

I think you need a hug from mini CK 2. I don't know how you get out of bed everyday. You must be so sad. What's your tip for finding the right life partner? How do you know they're the one?

 

[cyberknight]

I think you need a hug from mini CK 2. I don't know how you get out of bed everyday. You must be so sad. What's your tip for finding the right life partner? How do you know they're the one?

im not the best to advise , the only other long term relationship i had my fiancee and i bought house and she walked out after 6 months as she wanted to go out partying and i was left with a joint mortgage to pay on my own .turned out she was seeing someone rather than doing the pt job she was suppesed to be at

 

[oreo_muncher]

im not the best to advise , the only other long term relationship i had my fiancee and i bought house and she walked out after 6 months as she wanted to go out partying and i was left with a joint mortgage to pay on my own .turned out she was seeing someone rather than doing the pt job she was suppesed to be at

Well where do you think you went wrong? What red flags did you not see at first?

 

[oldworld]

yes spent us into debt twice so we had to downsize never satisfied

My number 2 was like just that. Hid debts from me until court summons started to drop on the mat.
I really never understood what she spent the money on.
When we split up she cleaned out what little money we had. At the time we had a 11 year old so I didn't fight her over the house.
Within a year the house had been sold, the money spent and she was living in rented accommodation.
The only thing she didn't get hold of was my company pension.
Life's a funny thing, you can go from loving someone to hating them.

 

[BoldonLad]

My number 2 was like just that. Hid debts from me until court summons started to drop on the mat.
I really never understood what she spent the money on.
When we split up she cleaned out what little money we had. At the time we had a 11 year old so I didn't fight her over the house.
Within a year the house had been sold, the money spent and she was living in rented accommodation.
The only thing she didn't get hold of was my company pension.
Life's a funny thing, you can go from loving someone to hating them.

I would second that! for similar reasons.

 

[LarryDuff]

The Botanic Inn or the Bot as it's known.

 

[oldwheels]

Late 1970s, early 80s, we used to get gang labour in for the pea processing season. These were normal people, albeit rough around the edges who saw it as quite natural to work the fields, an opportunity to earn cash. The pea processing season was a piece of cake for them.

One farm I was on got casuals in for harvest of grain { setting up stooks} and lifting tatties.. Once at the stooking a strange car appeared at the road leading down to the farm. Instantly all the casuals vanished inside stooks in case it was a man from the bru. They were all on benefits.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

At a casting session

 

[anothersam]

A class at university. Then in the block of flats where we both coincidentally lived. Our first and only date was downstairs to do the laundry, after which we moved in together. It was the same year this was released as a single, which I guess is one for the realisation you’re getting old thread…

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