How I met my wife

I wanted to share the story of how I met my wife, because this experience never happened to me before.

It was about 3 months after a previous relationship had ended (she moved to California). I spent most of my free time at a local bar North Beach, reflecting on all my previous relationships (there were a few), smoking cigars and drinking the time away. For about a month, I didn't speak with anyone other then the bartenders to order my drinks. Eventually, probably because she couldn't stand me just sitting alone drinking and smoking, one of the bartenders started to introduce me to other people at the bar.

I met quite a few people, a few of which became good friends, some that I would see quite frequently. It was another Saturday night at the bar, what I didn't know was it was Sweetest Day, October 21, 2000. Quite a few friends were there, one of them brought along a friend I hadn't met before.

Of course, this is how it happens, when you aren't looking is when you find whatever it is that is missing. After an introduction, and some encouragement, I bought this friend of a friend a drink. We started talking, sitting face to face, and as we spoke the rest of the universe melted away. No kidding. As I looked into her eyes, everything else around us slipped away until it was just the two of us. It was amazing, something I remember as if it were yesterday, and something that had never happened before.

Needless to say, we hit it off. Within two years we bought a house together, and were married the following year.