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My best story is actually the one of how I met my first serious girlfriend: I was in high school-- a shy, geeky kid who was learning to shed his shy geekiness by acting. She was the only girl in my life I have ever "picked up," as in, having never met her before, I randomly struck up conversation with her for the intention of getting a date with her.
True story: my friend and I went into this coffeehouse, and I spotted this fearsomely hot redhead, reading a huge book (nothing turns me on more than hot smart chicks). My friend, hearing me remark on her, pushed me, cajoled me, and dared me to go to talk to her. I went to get more coffee, with the real intention being to see what she was reading-- maybe we had a common interest.... Turned out, she was reading from a complete works of Shakespeare, and she was on "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which-- no joke-- I had just done! I had picked up most of the lines, so I just went round to the front of her table, and gave her Oberon's line to Titania when they meet. She picked up the cue, and we played out half the scene before my memory failed me, and I introduced myself. She invited me to sit, and we ended up sitting there talking until the place closed. We spent the next six months in a scorching relationship, until it ended when she had to leave (she was an exchange student, and had to go back to Scotland). But we keep in touch. Still exchange a few e-mails every year....
My current honey (who might just be The One) actually used to be a student of my mom's. My mom is a professor at one of the Jewish seminaries out here, and my g/f used to be one of her favorite students. We'd both heard about each other from my mom, but I only met her after she (my g/f) got ordained. We went out on one date, and then I left to do my year of study in Jerusalem. She e-mailed me, and we corresponded for months, then began IM'ing each other every day, and finally that kinda descended into cybersex, at which point we figured she might as well come out to visit. She did, we hooked up, it rocked, and we dated long distance until I got back this past July. We've been happily seeing each other ever since, and are starting to talk semi-seriously about getting married.... A good how-we-met story, although I don't know that I'd necessarily tell it that way to the grandkids..."Yes, Johnny, your grandma once said the filthiest things to me online! Grandma was quite a randy little minx in her day...."
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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