Anniveraries are like birthdays!

happy b-day...no congrats on being a teenager again sounds like your tweerpatty alright! How did you meet your wife, where you working there, internet, what???


I meet my husband when I was a teenage. He was one of the gang...people still say gang...I guess gangs are bad now...we weren't bad...mischievious sometimes...but not bad. ANYWAY, we knew each other for a couple of years as part of this group, then one day started dating, a few months later we got married and here we are:banana:

 

Thanks fannie.

July 1995, Microsoft launches Windows 95. I've got corporate clients up the ying-yang wanting it installed. Well, one of them asked me to come to his 13th floor apartment and his Mexican wife would make dinner, while I installed it. He just bought a new computer that he had built for him, but the geeks screwed up and I had to re-install the the hardware properly.

The International Fireworks are coming up at the end of July, in the bay, across from his PRIME view. His wife tells me she has some friends and her sister coming up the next day. So what, I think, got no time for chit-chat.

By 11:00 PM, I'm ready to install Win95, and John, my client, is bagged. Come back tomorrow, OK?

Next evening, I go back and install it perfectly. He's happy, I'm paid, and he wants me to come and install the new Office package, and AutoCad, and, and, and...

His wife calls me at the office, the next morning, and tells me to forget about computers, she wants me over to dinner to meet her friends. I've got no excuse, no out. Gotta go.

Well I get there and theres a young girl in her early teens, another not much older, maybe 15 or 16, and this woman, about 30-35ish. Nice, no english, making dinner 'a la Mexicana'. John has an investor over, and they're suckin' back Tequila and Beer, and smokin' the funny stuff. I can't stand the smell, so I go to the balcony. Holy smokes! What's happening down there? John says they're gonna start the 6 days of this Fireworks display!

Dinner's ready, off go the lights and we all watch this spectacle. Awesome. I'm into the tequila and beer, but I live like 8 blocks away. No driving near there, because the streets are blocked off for the 100,000 people who came to see it, and the 200,000 locals who are cruisng the streets on foot to get different pictures.

I was introduced, and thought how brave she was to chaperone the two sisters, good cook, looks like she's got all the lights on, nice. Didn't give it another thought. His wife calls to invite me again to meet her and see what I think. Ok, Rosario, I'm really busy. She insists. Fine!

Well, I figured crap, I'll take her to see a movie, have some drinks on Burrard street, and walk her home. Remember she speaks no English? How can you see a movie without subtitles in spanish. We'll do the movie the next evening and walk to the Burrard cafes and chat... hmmm. Ah, a good bookstore I know of have all kinds of dictionaries... Bought 2 dictionaries and we went to the Monterrey Cafe on Burrard. Quiet, spanish decor, etc.

I sit her down, and ask her in Spanish if she could just give me a few minutes. No problem. The waitress asks me what we'd like and I picked a Creme Sherry for her and a tequila shooter and beer for me, and some snacks. That was 7:30 in the evening. I went a got some flowers for her, and welcomed her to Canada. We had a blast, yakking with dictionaries until 4:00 AM. They close at 2:00 AM, but the owner was our waitress, and a romantic too! Never enjoyed an evening like that ever.

Walked her home, past the Fireworks show, just finishing off, over the Burrard bridge to John and Rosario's apartment. They were gone to sleep. I go home. Next day, we go to the movies, and back to the Monterrey cafe, AGAIN. This time we left at closing, and the cupid got me! I never saw it coming. Like a train wreck. I proposed. She accepted, on August 4th, 1995, AND we were married in Monterrey, Mexico on September 23rd!

BUT! In a Mexican family, the guy has to pass the family Inquisition and ask her father for his daughter's hand in marriage. 5 sisters and mom, 3 brothers and dad, and 2 brother in laws. I didn't know until 4 days before, after being in a motel for 9 days, if I could marry her. Go figure!

We wrote in each other's dictionaries and we still have them.

 

Wow Norm - that is fantastic.

So romantic.

When you meet someone and have those kinds of memories you can overcome any obstacle in life.

Congratulations.

 

Yep, I got the winning cupid lottery ticket that day, Barry. I think she was as shocked that she said yes, as I was to even ask.

 

Happy Anniversary, Norm! That sure is a wonderful story. My best to you and your lovely bride! David : )

 

Thanks David. She's out shopping in Laredo or central Mexico this weekend or maybe Houston, so I watched the ALAMO flick. I buy the US versions of Mexican historical battles, just to bug her to get me the Mexican versions.

 

Merci, mon ami.

 

Sounds like a happy marage....Where is your wife?....I don't know, she could be here, there, or every where

You do remind me of , me and my honey Norm....100% full trust but niether ever really knows what the other one is up too! Yet your allways there for each other when it really matters

Admit Norm, you miss her Hell I know I do when my honey "galavants" across country 2-3 times a year. I stay home....some ones gata look after the dogs

 

Wonderful story Norm seems like your both very happy. I wish you many more happy years together

 

Jesus, their doberman, and her 5 sisters are watching her.

Do I miss her? Right now, I'm busting my acorns getting stuff done, so ehe doesn't bust my chops! Yeah, I miss her, but I sure like the extra time to work instead of chit-chat over things we can't change, instead of getting the ones we can, done. Hope she gets her 'girl-time' and then some. I make a lousy girlfriend.

 

Fireworks fannie. Stubborn people eventually realize they can't be trained and they can't change the other - mellowing out is more fun.

 

As long as you don't dress the part.............

 

Fear not, I prefer undressing dolls...

 

they named the doberman jesus???