From: martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO? 
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:30:28 GMT

macleod heather (macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
:Yes, absolutely!!  I'm getting hundreds of theories, let's hear some
:reallife experiences!!

OK...

Serious Girlfriend #1, Karen.

I was on holiday in Bali with some friends.  That particular day 
I was browsing in a tape shop buying tapes when I saw a beautiful
young woman listening to a tape on headphones.... She was totally
lost in the music, grooving away, singing to herself, holding
her hands on the ear-pieces.  I couldn't work up the courage to
approach her and lost her in the crowd.
Later that night I decided to go for a swim in the hotel pool.
It was after midnight, it was pouring with tropical rain, and the
whole place was shut down, so none of my friends came with me.
I dived into and across the rain-turbulent pool and came up face
to face in the darkness with Karen!  After a while we got talking,
and found out we lived within 5 minutes of each other, although
our homes were currently thousands of miles away.  Pretty soon we 
were yakking away like old friends.  A couple of nights later
I wrote her a long letter explaining all my feelings and after
we got back to Perth, we were together for two beautiful years.

Serious Girlfriend #2, Maria.

I was at a wedding of a Scottish friend of mine, and was in charge
of doing the video for a while (having had no experience with cameras
at all!).  I was having fun going around filming people and holding
mock interviews etc when I suddenly spied the most light-footed, beautiful,
carefree and happy-looking young lady I have ever seen, dancing
Scottish wedding dances out on the dance floor.  From here on things
are a little hazy in my memory, but the wedding video is now 80% of her. 8-}
(My friend wasn't impressed.)  Later we were both sitting down at our
respective tables (she was totally unaware of me)... when we happened
to glance over at each other just as a new dance was starting.
She mouthed "Shall we dance?" across the room with a smile, and we did.
I am still impressed with how light on her feet she is.
Afterward we sat together and found we had similar views on almost
everything... we talked for hours and hours.  Eventually we had to go,
and she offered me a lift to my car (some kilometres away).  While
we were in the car she handed me a pen and her wedding invite and
asked me to write my number, saying she didn't want to let me get away.
Before we parted, I hummed the tune we had first danced to and rather
presumptously said, "Shall we kiss?"... and we did.

The next year was the absolute best year of my life, until she went
on working trip to Hong Kong for a few weeks (she's a doctor) and she
met some millionaire and got engaged.  The next year was the worst in my 
life... I couldn't even bear to hear the word "she"....
but that was two years ago now.  I'm still looking for someone even
nearly as perfect as she was.

Hmmm... this has developed rather beyond it's intended length! Or scope!

Take care,
Martin
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