@bookworm His loss.
@bookworm, is your 55 year old you neater than your 16 year old you? (I am combining this thread with the kid’s home, 21 year old isn’t neat thread) 
“My wife and I worked on a stock exchange floor. My wife saw my name on an employee list and she told a friend she was going to marry me. My last name was similar to the name of her cats growing up so she was going to marry me.”
Dstark, I like your wife’s logic. 
I just went through 9 pages of posts looking for your story. I didn’t see your story. Do you need a written invitation to post your story?
Consider this your written invitation to post your story. I am going to sleep. I expect to see your story tomorrow.
Signed,
Dstark
Is there a rule that only people who posted their story can comment on other people’s stories? Just kidding.
Anyhow, mine is not that interesting. We met in the lab. The end.
It must have been the chemistry. I’m so sorry, I couldn’t stop myself. 
@BunsenBurner Was she another student or was it a Weird Science moment ?
MNK, lol, that sounds exactly like Mr. B’s “dad joke.” Both science students, so no, neither of us was the product of a science experiment gone wrong.
@BunsenBurner, I think you have just been outed. 
Met in the hospital doctor’s lounge. Talked a couple of times, including in the parking lot. It was several months before he asked me out. I mentioned how two guys from college were coming to visit one summer day and he thought one was a boyfriend (they were not, both came to our wedding). He volunteered to help me when I moved from one apartment building to another but I declined and paid a neighbor. He finally asked me out in the fall and it was for a Friday night because he had the weekend call for his group. I nearly blew it as I made a post op (anesthesia) round to not have to go in on the weekend- I got back to my apartment after he was to arrive and just before he gave up. Fast forward through a year of dating while trying to keep it a secret- gossipy medical community where everyone knew everyone else back then.
One year to the day he was on call again and made a telephone proposal. Of course I said yes, being in my early thirties and deciding what the heck, go for it, then double checked to see if he was serious. He later said it was an impulse- over 30 years together now. I still remember how my older sister asked if it was infatuation, grrh. She stood up for me at our wedding. We planned a small wedding only five months later- based on vacations and when his partners could make it. Chose to go small instead of inclusive because would have ended up inviting all of the physicians in town to avoid slighting anyone, and some I did NOT want at our wedding, plus they would have socialized with each other and not us.
Ended up being friendly with the decade or more older partner’s wife who had invited me to join the ladies auxiliary of the local medical society- at the time I told her I would join the physician group, not the wives’ group. Also, married a cardiologist- had hated the subject in medical school (boring to me back then- I recall so many rule out MI/heart attack admissions that were nothing). We were both outsiders- he from India and I no longer in synch with religion as the vast majority seem to be. My mother was long deceased (heart attack) and there was dead silence when I told my father it was not going to be a Catholic wedding. He came, inlaws couldn’t because their son didn’t delay so they could get visas. Have had those delightful inlaws at our house for weeks at a time, getting past the cultural and language barriers over time.
If our son ever gets married I figure it will be at least another ten years, knowing his parents. I look back now and see how we were a generation ahead. Married an Asian-from a different culture, in our 30’s like some nieces and nephews seem to be doing now.
My sister met her H on a summer college geology field trip going out west. He’s four years younger, she had gone back to the same state U after graduating to add school library science to her elementary ed degree. I seem to remember their special song was “Strangers in the Night”. Knowing how straight laced they are I’m sure they did nothing much more than kiss before marriage.
@AboutTheSame & @TonyK - sorry to post unrelated on this thread- but thought you might like this link if you had not yet heard about USA Rugby coverage. 
Can’t wait- love 7’s
http://www.rugbytoday.com/international/olympic-rugby-watching
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Thanks bookmom7 I’ll be checking that site out. The Olympics should kindle an interest in rugby 7’s in the US. I watched some of the last two televised tournaments and agree with you about the sport.
Many guys and gals met while playing on college rugby teams. At my son’s school they shared the same dorm, had joint parties, and watched each other’s matches and supported one another.