How I Met Your Mother

Today is my 15th wedding anniversary, to think that I could find anyone who would actually put with me that long is kind of mind boggling. I tend to be wierd, selfish, and sometimes down right difficult to live with. Just to give you the story if you're interested. The year was 1991, I had transferred to a new school where I knew no one. I had a friend that attended there a year before me but he was kicked out due to an accident in which he and some friends vandalized a building on campus. Really he wasn't that bad of a guy I swear and as far as I know he never ended up in jail. It's just the people I used to hang with had a strange idea of what was fun to do. Any way, when he found out I was transferring he called up his friends and they were on the look out for me. These were essentially my friends for the next two years although I added a few to the mix and moved in large circle that had different smaller circles inside of it. Confused? good. My first two weeks were pretty lonely I had yet to hook up with my friends friends, we just hadn't ran into each other so to speak. Any way my wife, doing something very out of the ordinary for her, came over to the dorm I was in to meet a guy who had randomly dialed her and her roommates room number (if you were dialing a room on campus you only had to dial the four digit room number like calling from one hotel room to another in the same building accept it worked all over campus. This little liner note went a lot longer than I thought it would...). I happened to know the guy and passed through the lobby as they were getting ready to go to Taco Bell. They asked me to go with them, so I said ok, it just happened that my future significant other drove a 1977 Buick (I grew to love that car, it's story all it's own.) that would easily hold all of east Texas. The first Iraqi war had just started so I questioned her as to when this boat was to set sail for Iraq. To this day she loves to tell this story. This was not a love at first sight type of thing, more like she hated me and I barely recognized her. Skip to mid-February of the same year. I had invited three friends to come home with me for the weekend, this somehow grew into a caravan of 3 car loads of 20 - 21 year old college students. My wife's roommate had married a couple of months before and moved out, her other best friend didn't like to do much of anything. So one of the girls that was going home with me asked if I knew L.A. and I told her I vaguely recalled our run south of the border. This friend said that L.A. didn't have many friends and was kind of lonely and wondered if it would be OK if she tagged along. At this point my group of three had turned into a group of 8 or more, so the more the merrier. We became friends after bonding that weekend (still one of the best weekends of my life) and she became a regular in my smaller circle of friends although I still didn't hear wedding bells or me even asking "would you like to go out?". Cut to the next year of school, L.A. was a senior, I was failing miserably at just attending school, but there was a tradition of Sadie Hawkins, since I had as many girlfriends as guy friends we decided it would be cool to do the Sadie Hawkins thing as a group of paired up friends. I paired up with L.A. I thought she was fun and a little different and pretty easy on the eyes too. So I asked her out again, we dated off and on over that year until she graduated, I was going home and not returning and so we were at a cross road. I thought it would just kind of drift away until luck would have it that her first job was about 40 miles away from my hometown, great! We kept dating and eventually it became evident to me that I really didn't want to hang out with anyone else. So we got hitched, although we like to tell people that we aren't really married we just live together, this is always quite fun for us to see their reaction. That's my story of how I met my wife, I'm leaving out drama and some other things just because it would take too long. Anyway, happy anniversary Baby!