Oh how I love this story about the guy who sent an email to 2 900 people in his department in a bid to track down a girl he met at a party. GOD BLESS YOU STEVE TUCKER. If only there were more romantics in the world.
According to the Canberra Times
Steve Tucker
“ Thirty-year-old Steve Tucker, who works in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship in Belconnen, sent an email to 2900 colleagues in the hope of finding the housemate of a woman he met at the weekend.
Within hours, the heartfelt but awkward message had gone viral, as staff forwarded it to other workplaces across the country.
Mr Tucker directed his broadcast email to the woman’s housemate, who he said worked at Immigration.
He wrote of the woman he met, whose name was Olivia, ”She left a strong and positive impression on me. Unfortunately, people got in the way after we met and I didn’t get to finish our meeting how I wanted to. This has been bugging me ever since.”
He asked the unknown housemate to ”kindly let Olivia know that I would like to get in contact with her or alternatively get in touch with myself, I will be very appreciative.”
He acknowledged his email was ”not the most appropriate channel”, but said, ”I have struggled to write and send this message. It has taken all of my willpower to do so. Life is too short for regret.”
While Mr Tucker was the butt of jokes across Australia yesterday, he may yet suffer more severe sanctions. A departmental spokeswoman confirmed Mr Tucker had sent an ”inappropriate email” and was now under investigation. ”An appropriate action will be taken,” she said, but added, ”It’s not a sackable offence.”
Let’s leave aside, for a moment, the fact that Olivia was tracked down and refused to have anything to do with poor Steve. He put himself out there and I bet there will be a few date requests in his inbox. If he still hasn’t one and isn’t currently down at Centrelink having been fired for breaching some dull company code.
How did YOU meet your partner? Did you contravene any Government Acts?
My story is not that thrilling but it worked. Our close friends had been together for several years and yet we’d never met. They had a BBQ one weekend for all their single friends because they were sick of only hanging out with other couples. Jason and I locked eyes when he walked onto the balcony and that was it. Truly, that was it. He was my One. Still is.
How about you? If you’re currently single, what’s the most interesting way you hooked up with someone in the past?
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I was 41 and having dinner with a girlfriend to whom I declared that I had finally come to terms with single life. That was to be my lot from now on and I was fine with it. We clinked glasses of wine to celebrate my declaration. We then left the restaurant, walked around the corner and passed a pub where a band was playing. I told my friend that although I had lived in this town for 12 months I had never been into said pub. So we entered for one quick drink. I liked the song the band was playing so hit the dance floor. He was dancing by himself and pretty oblivious to all around him. When the song finished, I told him he was a good dancer. He signalled that he couldn’t hear me and suggested a drink – we started talking and have been together ever since (5 years and counting)………
Meanwhile, my younger brother was waiting on a city train station when a beautiful Korean girl nearby dropped her purse and coins rolled onto the platform. My brother helped her pick them up and they got chatting (sort of – as she was newly learning English and he speaks no Korean). It turned out that she was heading home to Korea in a couple of weeks. My brother (who is not known for his good communication skills in any language!!)wrote to this girl in Korea for months and “wooed” her until she agreed to return to Australia. They are now very happily married with two beautiful, bi-lingual little girls. Never imagined my seemingly unromantic bro would end up in such a happy union. Love Rules!!!
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Have you seen the latest?
http://blogs.theage.com.au/executive-style/allmenareliars/2010/11/30/therealsteve.html?page=26#comments
Steve Tucker I think you are awesome!
And I did right from the start of this story.
xx
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I just found out that Olivia is a girl I went to school with and it has really changed the story for me now…
She says she can’t remember talking to him and it was probably just a quick drunken chat….I think it’s a shame that it wasn’t a fairytale romance but I do think she should have at least met up with him to see if there was anything there….
She is recently single…
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I was reading the sports page of the free local paper when on the opposite page an ad in the personals just leapt out at me (turns out his mum, in a sheer act of desperation to find her son a girlfriend after he rejected all the daughters of her friends as unsuitable, made him put it in!). It was exactly the ad I would have written if I was trying to find my perfect mate. If I hadn’t have had the phone right by me I would never have called it, but I did, so I did… I left a message and forgot all about it. About 5 days later I was out shopping when he called me back. Of course I blurted out what I was thinking, which was “oh god, I’m half naked in a change room, this is too much pressure, can I call you back?” Not a good first impression! Anyway, I called him back, we talked for a while and agreed to meet. I went to the pre-arranged cafe, and was sitting there waiting when a tall man with a shaved head walked past. I stared at him dreamily – I love shaved heads and tall men. Anyway it was about 10 minutes past when we were meant to meet and I thought he’d stood me up, when I suddenly realised I was in the wrong cafe. I sprinted around the corner and there was a tall man with a shaved head! We’ve been together ever since (6 years and 2 kids).
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What an awesome story!!
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Thanks Me – it’s a fun story. Another cute detail – I play French Horn but find a lot of people don’t really know which instrument that is, so nowadays instead of saying I play French Horn I just say I’m a musician. So we were talking on the phone for the first time and he asked about me and I said “I’m a musician”. His response was “I used to play French Horn”. Spooky!
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Awww I just want to “like” all of these posts!
I met my boyfriend when I was on schoolies (a cruise). I had a boyfriend at the time who wasn’t there, and my current boyfriend was a ‘toolie’. My bf-at-the-time had mutual friends with the current-bf.
Being a cocky wanker, current-bf said to me “you’re going to cheat on your boyfriend during this cruise and you’re going to cheat with me”. My response? No way, get lost you loser!
Over the course of the cruise, some harmless flirting was had, culminating one night on the dance floor when he kissed me. Then he said “I TOLD you you’d cheat on him with me”. So I slapped him across the face and was done with it. I had his number in my phone as “Fuckwit”. Haha!
5 years later, we were both at a day party type thing (a small festival) and I recognised him across the dance floor. My thoughts were “hey, that looks like that schoolies guy but hotter!”
After looking at him weirdly for 5-10 minutes I decided to go over and say hi – he says he saw me checking him out but he has terrible eyesight so didn’t recognise me. We made out on the dance floor again that night (both single, thankyou!) and he sent me a text message saying “I knew I’d kiss you again” – the cheeky bugger.
And from that day forth I knew that he was the one. I fell head over heels for him. And knew that I wanted him to be the father of my children and to grow old with him.
Isn’t it strange how these things pan out….
Ain’t love grand?
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I worked with my now husband, we had work drinks one Friday and got absolutely trashed, he ended up sleeping over and the rest they say is history, that was 15 years and 2 kids ago. I couldn’t be happier.
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Mine is an arranged marriage. The story of which is extremely boring, and not worth writing anything about. Thats perks for being a Paksitani born woman. Long live tradition!!!
(I am being sarcastic if anyone missed it)
http://maryawrites.wordpress.com/
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I hope you have some happiness in your life
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I met my boyfriend on his couch… he lived on campus next door to a friend of mine, i went over there to drink my sorrows away over a break up, ended up chatting to him till 3am, thought he’d be a good rebound… and almost 3 years later we are now living together lol.
he thinks hes pretty hot stuff that he can “just sit on the couch on a saturday night and the ladies come to him” (his words, not mine!!!)
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My husband was my boss… I told him it was inappropriate to hit on me, lucky he didn’t listen! 9 years & 2 babies later!
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My story is very teen movie cliche. I was little miss popularity/spoiled brat in high school and my partner was the school geek (awkward and unpopular but very cute).
I dated the cliche popular guy in high school and he cheated on me. All the while i was great friends with my current partner. Soon after high school i realised that he was the one for me and we’ve been together ever since (5 years). We have spent most of the 5 years in a long distance relationship as my partner flies for an overseas airline while i’m working here. I’m moving to be with him in November 2011 which is exciting.
But yes it is very cliche.
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My husband and I were born 6,000 miles apart and met roughly in the middle.
It was in 1999. I am British and working in New Jersey (not far from New York)in the US as a nanny. He was born in Washington state and happened to settle in New Jersey because that’s where his Dad ended up after the military. It was in 1999, it was May and my weekend off, so I went to the mall. I stopped in an electronics store (the only time I ever stepped foot in there) and happened to start chatting to a couple of the employees about rock band drummers. Then, a third guy came walking over and I was gone, immediately. His blue eyes, dark hair and smile just melted me. I spent the next two hours in there talking to him. He left at the end of his shift but gave me his number. After a sleepless night and a movie I barely remember because he was constantly on my mind, I called him and we met for coffee. We were in the diner until they closed, then he kissed me. Six weeks later I quit my job (which was awful, another story) and moved in with him. 18 months later we married and we have been happy (mostly) the whole time
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How I met my boyfriend is a rather interesting story. Two years ago, I liked him and asked him out, but I could tell he only said yes to be polite. A day later, I told him we’d be better off as friends and he happily agreed. My friends bagged me out for ages about our ‘one-day relationship’. A year on, we were casual friends in class and me and my friends became convinced that he liked my best friend, X. We tried for ages to set them up, noticing that he kept coming over to talk to our table and stuff. X thought we were being idiots, but we were convinced they would go out together. Then, at last year’s end-of-year excursion, he got asked out by a younger girl he didn’t know that well. I laughed but felt weird about it. Throughout the summer we spent hours chatting online and the girlfriend broke up with him after a week of no contact. A few weeks into the new school year, the online flirting got heavier, until one night on Skype (ironically, the day after Valentine’s Day) he told me he liked me. And that was it…we’re still together now
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I was 18 and my friends dragged me out for the night. I didn’t feel like going. Got to the door of the club saw my other half and thought he was hot. Got into the nightclub we saw each other he came over to dance with me. A kiss later and some poor girl came over and smacked him in the face! I walked away and he chased me. We got to talking outside and gave him my number. We both fell madly in love, had our first son at 19 and another son 3.5 years later. 17 years later here we are, still happy together and in love..
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that is such a cute story
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I met my love walking down the street to go to the Post. He worked for a charity, stopped me in the street to sign up and I did. He looked divine and we had the most amazing spark! I was hoping he would steal my details from my form! He did and texted me later that day thanking me, we met up that night and moved in together 3 days later. He moved to Australia to be with me and I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!
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I met my husband at a black tie charity event in a swanky neighbourhood of London. He was dancing (daggily) with a group of girls who were all fawning over him. He looked over and saw me smiling at the scene. He sauntered over, looked me up and down (deliberately being daggy-but-cool) and asked to buy me a drink.
I didn’t know he was a poor uni student and he likes to remind me that the one drink he bought me, left him broke for the rest of the night. He asked for my number, put it in his phone and then rang it to make sure I didn’t ‘fake number him’. Seems like yesterday but was 10 years ago.
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My husband was a vague acquaintance of my ex boyfriends (my ex was doing his post grad work with with my husbands best friend) and I had met him several years before we got together.
Our ‘how we got together’ story is pretty ordinary but I have a sweet story from a few years before we got together. My ex and I had gone to a terribly hip indie club for an opening party, and my now husband was there. I waved at him in the crowd, and he didn’t see me. I then stood up on the little mezzanine level we were on and shouted his name. He looked around and around, didn’t see me, walked away and looked around again.
After we were married, we were talking about the venue and the opening night, and I mentioned I’d seen him there.
Him: ‘What I remember the most about that night was a girl’s voice calling my name. I looked and looked and I couldn’t find her and I just had this really weird feeling that it was important to find her.’
Me: ‘I was that girl! I was calling you!’
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We met through email too, but the RSVP way
Had a first date and nothing really came of it at first (bad timing) but a couple of months later after a few more outings we had a real “first date” where things really clicked, and I moved in a couple of months after that. It’s now 8 years since that first email and we are coming up to our 1 year wedding anniversary. We’ve bought houses, have two puppies, have travelled the world and plan to do lots more of that, among other things (like babies one day). So yes, RSVP can work for normal people (trust me, we are normal)!
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my bf walked straight up to me at a pub on a busy dancefloor, looked me in the eye and kissed me! I was shocked but he was very cute and so went along with it. I didn’t even remember his name afterwards but we had swapped numbers. 3 weeks later we met up for a drink after a friend of mine bailed on me a the last minute and talked all night. we have so much in common and are still together 4 years later.
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My husband and I met at uni – we were part of a large group of friends that hung out together. Then in third year he and I ended up being the only non-honours students doing third year maths. After a couple of weeks I totally lost interest in the maths and paid a lot more interest to him! That was 16 years ago – we’ve been married for 8 and have two gorgeous daughters.
I failed maths and he had to sit a sup.
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Also love the story of how my sister met her partner…
About 4 years ago he accidentally called her number looking for a scooter hire place, they talked for a while and agreed to meet for a date not knowing anything about one another!
The rest as they say was history and they were married on the weekend
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No way! Now THAT is fate.
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I love telling the story of how I met my now fiance…
I am from SA
He is From VIC
Met in a pub in Darwin – I had moved there after finishing school and it was my first night out on the town, he was there for the week for his friends 21st. We clicked instantly and spent the next week going on dates before he had to go back home to VIC.
Spent the next year doing the Long distance thing (expensive times as this was pre-tiger airways), then I moved to Melbourne for a year to be closer, I then moved in with him and have been living with him for 18 months and have just got engaged.
xxx
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Congratulations on your engagement! Long distance is haaaard, isn’t it! But the pay off at the end is worth it.
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On my 18th birthday (13 years ago) I was taken out to dinner and a club by my friends. My friend had a plan to set me up with a school friend of hers (I will call him Mr Y). She was sure we were perfect for each other (she was right). He ended up not being able to come and I met and started seeing someone else that night (I will call him Mr X). I met Mr Y again year later but I was still seeing Mr X so never thought of a relationship. He on the other hand tells me he was kicking himself for not being at my 18th as he knew I was ‘the one’. Fast forward a few months and my relationship with Mr X ended. I started spending time with Mr Y as friends and got to know him. Pretty soon we were dating, 6 months later engaged and now we have been married 9 years and have two lovely little girls
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My bf was my waiter at a resturant where my gf and i were getting increasingly tipsy from the champers we were having….i had the balls to slip him my business card…(he is a gorgeous brazilian!)……..he emailed me the following week and went from there really……..we are now doing long distance for the past year…and our relationship is better than ever…
:O)
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I was his tour guide. He was this adorable young thing hitting on me from day one of the trip, although I thought it was all in fun. Honestly, who would think an overweight girl from the bush dressed like Steve Irwin and talks with a foul mouth would be appealing to a skinny Dutch triathlete punker with pierced nipple, but each to their own!
We kept in contact, and then commuted back and forth between Scotland (where I moved for a year overseas in 2006) and Amsterdam for a year, before I made the leap. Now I’m half fluent in Dutch, we have a mortgage and were married last month. The only difference is that I don’t have to dress like Steve Irwin anymore. Still talk like a builder though
Oh, and I must note, no funny business happened on tour! It was afterwards. I wasn’t one of those filthy tour guides that sleep with everything with a pulse and a foreign accent!
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I’m 43 and my partner is 48, and we met 2 years ago at the Big Day Out!!! Neither of us really wanted to go but were dragged along by friends… to a race-course full of teenagers. He ended up taking me backstage to watch Neil Young ~ Nice first date! Pretty funny when people ask us where we met. My teenage daughters cringe!
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The girls cringe? Really??? The only person I’ve ever heard carry on about age and the BDO was my friend that I went to the last one with. I’m 36 and he was 43 at the time. We had this big convo about how cool it was that the tribes are a lot more tolerant of each other and their music and there’s lots more crossover in taste than there used to be. Then when I said “lets try for Groove Armada” (whom he said he really liked) he couldn’t do it because he was wearing his old Ramones tshirt from 1994 BDO and that just couldn’t happen! LOL What a goose.
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I’m single but my best hook up would be my only hook up – about 5 months ago – on a contiki tour in greece with a fellow tour member. (when I say “hook up” I mean we didn’t sleep together we just made out for several hours one night)
it was just awkward for the next couple of days. Not much contact now since we live in different states but great guy, wonderful night and I got a fantastic story out of it! 
It was amazing. We were great friends for a couple of days before and we were both totally sober so it wasn’t just a drunken mistake
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In the middle of last year I was cast as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. My now boy was up for Romeo but missed out to his best friend and ended up playing Paris (whom Juliet rejects).
I spent lots of time kissing (the married IRL) Romeo in rehearsal and flirting with Paris during our one or two scenes together. He started following me on twitter, and when his car broke down, I drove him to work for three days. On the second day he invited me in for dinner, and before he’d finished cooking he had asked me to be his girlfriend. We now live together.
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Not a story of mine, but two of my friends were at a bar and one said to the other “I dare you slap the next guy who walks through the door on the arse.” Two years later they are still together!!
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Where is this man? I will date him! Never mind my boyfriend now haha … We met at a party after we started arguing on a point that I don’t remember. I actually was with someone else at the time but the debating continued over a few months until we got together.
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I met my partner over ten years ago in a paddock! It was actually the afterparty for my year 11 formal and he was there with a mutual friend. He said he thought I was cute and happened to be holding a box of chicken crimpys at the time (his favourtite salty treat!), so it was win win for him, I thought he was alright, but not really interested… However we will marry next year finally!! He was my first love and will be my one and only and I couldnt be happier.
We find it amusing when people ask, ‘so where did you meet?’ And we respond, ‘in a paddock, where do you think people from the country meet!?”
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Oh so daggy. A pre-internet-dating personal ad in 1999. A friend and I had put ads in a few months before, where she met her future husband after he replied to both of us. He wasn’t my type (they’re still married), and I ended up meeting someone else on a blind date. Then a few mths later that relationship ended, so I got brave (or maybe it was drunk, can’t remember!) and put an ad in the paper by myself. I asked for mail (& MALE!!) replies only, so I could see how literate they were. Their letters were a huge indicator of their personalities. I met a few of the guys who replied, but knew that when I met THE ONE I would just know he was it. So I rang one of the letter writers and I liked his voice. We arranged to meet at the local Westfield a few days later, and when we locked eyes that was it. I was a gonner. Luckily it was mutual. We’ve been together ever since, married 6 yrs, 2 kids later. His Mum had died only 6 wks before. She’d always been trying to match him up, and I’m sure she was up there arranging it all.
There was a show on TV recently about the science of attraction, and the just knowing when you meet “the one” is recognised as being not too unusual. I was telling my husband about the show and said did he know I was “it” straight away? And if he was still deciding then don’t answer cause I don’t want to know. But he said he felt the same, and that he could also tell that I liked him as much as he liked me which was also attractive to him. Those shows are really interesting.
Good on Steve for putting himself out there. I hope he’s not single for long. Unless his prey felt a bit stalked, which was a possibility I guess.
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I got a call from a friend one night who said I HAD to come to the pub tonight. I really couldn’t be bothered. She said she had a mate, who like me, didn’t like strings attached and that I worked too hard and I should come down and meet him and have some fun.
I didn’t want to meet the bloke, but thought I should go out anywhere. I purposefully left my legs 2 weeks unshaved and didn’t get out of my work clothes.
I went to the pub, met him, he came home with me. And he literally never left. He stayed for 3 weeks, then moved in. 8 years later….
The two most least likely people to want to settle down crashed down one night at the Durham in Canberra and we are still very happy.
Quite funny, we’d actually been in teh same place 3 times in the previous fortnight. We’d gone to yumcha with about 30 people and hadn’t noticed each other at all, I’d seen him at a Medicare rally but hadn’t thought much of him, and he’d seen me at a Budget-reply function and thought ‘you had great tits but were so up yourself’ (he wisely waited til the 6th year to tell me that…)
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Thanks for the cute post – reading that (and the responses from fellow mm’ers) has certainly brightened up what has been a rubbish day! I really hope Steve Tucker finds his lady
My hubby and I met through work and were great mates – although it took us 3 years to get our act together before we realised we might actually like one another more than friends! I can remember the exact moment I started to see him differently; I bought this brand new bed and needed help putting it together, so he came around with his tool belt to help me out.
While we were both busy drilling the bed head on, it hit me. It was literally like someone came up behind me and smacked me in the head – out of no where it was like I was looking at him for the very first time. I don’t know why I had never seen it before, but suddenly my friend had turned into a spunk! Turns out he felt the same way (thank goodness!), and needless to say it wasn’t long before we christened that bed.
Fast forward 5 years and we are very happily married with a gorgeous 2 year old daughter, and another baby due in 9 weeks’ time. So our story isn’t really a love at first sight kind of thing – more a friends who turned into lovers type thing. Cupid has a funny way of working sometimes!
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I met my husband at high school…we were both 14…I was the new girl and he was the most popular boy in the school…it was love at first sight for both of us…got married when we turned 20 and are now both 43…neither of us has dated anyone else…I still think he is the most wonderful person I have ever met.Everyone said it would not last…but they were all wrong. xx
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Awww
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What a dill this man is! I’m all for finding love but don’t risk your job over it. The government agency that I work for has sacked people for similiar abuses of email.
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We used to be housemates… I like to think of him as my last housemate. Four years later, all is still wonderful.
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The love of my life and I met in a bar. We were both there by ourselves on a Sunday night for a sneaky, quiet drink (he was waiting for friends and I was travelling by myself). I saw him sitting at the bar with a newspaper under his arm, I approached him and asked him if I could read his newspaper so I didn’t look like such a loner, he said “no” and started laughing, we started chatting and that was that! I fell head over heels!
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I met my husband at the Supreme Court- we were both on jury duty. Have been together 22 years now. As he likes to tell people, he would have got less for murder.
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Was the verdict Guilty or Not Guilty? You guys were probably too busy playing footsies behind the wood paneling. Dirty Birds
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Ah Bern, how wrong you are! He was wearing a suit (had come from work) and when he took off his jacket I could see he was wearing a singlet underneath it and kept thinking to myself what a dork he was. Meanwhile, I was rocking my chambray skirt, white boots, drop perm and (I kid you not) Ken Done scarf knotted at my neck. What can I say? It was 1987. He opened with the killer first line of asking if the seat next to me was taken, I wittily replied ‘no’, and the rest is a mystery.
It was a heroin trafficking case, BTW, including photos of the bodily orifices where the drug was stored. As first dates go, looking up someone else’s backside is hard to top.
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Wow! I think we’ve just found your next novel. It’s got drop perms, orifices and guys wearing singlets (my brother still does that btw, freaks me out).
You are Hilarious Kylie!!
My first impression of Phil was that he was arrogant arse. 40 pack a day smoker. I was hooked, he was bad boy. Turns out he smoked because he was nervous and just incredibly shy. Judging a book by its cover and all that.
Did your Ken Done Scarf go something a little like this??
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I had Ken Done sunglasses and matching togs in that exact pattern. Oh, Ken Done. Legend.
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Oh Bern… that was my sister’s! No kidding. We had both been given one for Christmas just before I was called up for jury duty (I was only 18 at that one- I’ve actually been called up FIVE TIMES, including once in Scotland, which must be some sort of bizarre record)… mine was turquoise with coloured fish on it- I suspect it was inspired by the Great Barrier Reef. In fact, I just went online to search for it and found the exact one in the POWERHOUSE MUSEUM in Sydney…
My shimmering youth. My legal liasion. In a museum. I feel so old. Sob.
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“As first dates go, looking up someone else’s backside is hard to top”
Awesome.
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what a beautiful idea for a post! loving reading all the stories… hopefully I’ll have one soon…
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My partner and i met on Lavalife! Oh yea, we met on a dating website. sent ecah other a few emails, decided to meet up for a lunch date…. and we’re the proud parents of an 11 month old and are engaged to be married!
All my friends and family thought internet dating was totally weird/creepy but hey…it worked. Sure i met a few Mr Not-so-perfects along the way but doesnt everyone, no matter how they play the dating game?
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I’ll tell the story about how I met my previous boyfriend, rather than my husband, just because it’s funnier.
Was on hols in America, with a girlfriend, and stayed with a friend of hers. His flatmate was lovely. Second night I was there, we kissed. Then I left and flew back to Aus. Two days after I got home, I remembered I had left some steak in his oven and emailed him to tell him to chuck it out (!). And, of course, love was born. Moved over there and lived with him for a year
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I met my husband on ICQ (the precursor to MSN) not sure who of us contacted first. We chatted for ages every day for several months. Then finally decided to “meet” so went to a pub for a game of pool. No chemistry.
But we kept chatting, kept hanging out and 6 months later all the feelings changed and now its been 10 years together.
We still have our best conversations via instant messaging
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English husband to be met some aussie friends travelling through South America. They stayed in touch and when I arrived in England five years later, they sent him a photo of me (thanks boys). Must have been well Photoshopped as he started emailing me, we eventually met, and 14 house moves, 5 cities, 10 years, 1 shortlived but heartwrenching breakup, a wedding and 2 kids later, here we are back in London. kateinlondon x
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I met mine when I pashed him on the dancefloor at a college ball. I knew it was destiny. He didn’t know what had happened.
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My boyfriend used a mate of mine to get my attention. We were at a nightclub and he was wearing a shirt that said I LOVE BEER. he got close to my male mate, as he commented on the shirt earlier, and luckily he did again and that was how Ainsley struck up a conversation!
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Agree, this is a lovely topic to brighten the afternoon…
No 10 years+ to rave about just yet but my story always makes me smile.
Boyfriend is my old housemate’s sister – we met overseas when he occassionally stayed at our flat. After a bit of time spent together he upgraded and no longer slept on the couch
Shame he moved back “home” to the other side of the world the next day, but before we said goodbye (and the end of what i had originally thought was a fun “fling”) he asked if he could call me. There was also the most unexpected gesture i had ever received – when i got home from work he had left flowers and a card for me (we had only spent about 4 days together).
What followed was really getting to know each other over email, skype and text for the next 4 and 1/2 months and his continual assertions he was moving to the UK again. He did but my visa ended a couple of months later anyway. Following another goodbye that didn’t end up being a goodbye, quite a few more airport greetings and seeya laters, and overall a successful long distance relationship, he moved to Aus and is loving it. I sometimes still can’t believe from where things started that we’re now here living together
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Your post made my heart smile! xo
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I made a bit of a typo there- boyfriend was my old housemate’s BROTHER! I lived with boyfriends sister.
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Does that mean you believe in “love at first sight” Mia? Is that what it was for you and Jason?
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god bless steve tucker!!!
good on you.
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I don’t have a story.. I am 30, single and clearly have terrible taste in men. So if anyone knows any commitment shy, tall men who are over 30, in Melbourne – send them my way.
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Ditto Single Girl, except i live in Sydney
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My partner knew me before i knew him…he says he use to perve on me in my short skirts..
2 years later i was a receptionist in an office and he walked in. As soon as he started talking to me i knew he was the one. He later on told me that when he walked in & saw me there he thought “ah, here she is.” He was shy, so a few days later i rang him on the pretence of work and then asked him out. 8 years later still happy as ever!
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