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re: How did your parents meet?
Posted on 8/15/26 at 9:17 pm to KingOfTheWorld
Posted on 8/15/26 at 9:17 pm to KingOfTheWorld
I had cousins living in Morris when I was a kid. We used to visit this rink. A classic! Thanks for the memory!
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Posted on 8/15/26 at 9:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
My parents met at a life guard training class.
Posted on 8/15/26 at 9:23 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
My dad worked at a grocery store in Mobile when he was 17 with my grandma (mom's mom). He thought my mom was cute but she was 13 at the time so no dating. A couple of years later they finally went on a date. Didn't go well lol. Dad went into the AF for 4 years. They ended up at the same party once he was back home and the rest is history. Got married at 24 and 20 respectively and they're still together almost 47 years later. They were meant to be.
Posted on 8/15/26 at 10:13 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Dad played piano in a New Orleans bordello...
(Not really. On leave from the army in WWII, Dad hitched a ride in a small plane with a pilot friend who landed it in a small field on my grandparents' farm, as there was no airport in his small community. When they flew low over the house, grandpa threated to shoot them down with his twice-barreled 12 gauge. Mom, who was 17, intervened. Due to his military service, she collected a small pension for 48 years after his death.)
(Not really. On leave from the army in WWII, Dad hitched a ride in a small plane with a pilot friend who landed it in a small field on my grandparents' farm, as there was no airport in his small community. When they flew low over the house, grandpa threated to shoot them down with his twice-barreled 12 gauge. Mom, who was 17, intervened. Due to his military service, she collected a small pension for 48 years after his death.)
Posted on 8/15/26 at 10:16 pm to O
quote:my parents met there.
Like all good Christians - at a bar in Tigerland.
I also met my wife there
Posted on 8/15/26 at 10:39 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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How did your parents meet?
In a parking lot when they were 16 years old, drinking and partying and meeting up with a bunch of high school friends
This post was edited on 8/15/26 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 8/15/26 at 10:41 pm to GreenRockTiger
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My parents met at work, too.
They were both teachers.
Back in the good ol days when teachers were fricking each other and not the students...
Posted on 8/16/26 at 7:10 am to meansonny
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My dad was dating my aunt.
I remember the Sanford & Son episode where a man was giving Fred a hard time about sleeping with Elizabeth when she lived at home.
He described which bedroom was hers to Fred but it was Aunt Esther's room.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 8:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
At Northwestern State in Natchitoches, early 1950’s.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 8:03 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
They were both attending the Baptist student union meetings at the University of South Carolina.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 8:06 am to Jim Rockford
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My dad always remembered what my mother was wearing the first time he saw her.
My wife can do this for me. I was dressed as a mummy at the elementary school Halloween carnival in the 70s. I was in 1st grade and she was in 3rd....
Posted on 8/16/26 at 8:08 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
My in-laws met when she and her friend picked up 2 hitchhikers. The 2 guys were Marines headed back to base in San Diego. My MIL’s friend gave her phone number to MIL to give to the FIL but she gave him her number instead. They were married for 63 years when she passed away 2 years ago.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 8:22 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
In high school.
If my mother's dad hadn't died in an accident when she was 2 I wouldn't be here.
If my mother's dad hadn't died in an accident when she was 2 I wouldn't be here.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 8:26 am to Scruffy
Strip club
Posted on 8/16/26 at 11:50 am to nicholastiger
My mom was a war bride. I found an old advocate article saying she was on a train to meet my dad in North Carolina to get married. Dad was stationed at Paris Island soon to go to Quantico for officer candidate school.
Dad was 5 years older than mom and he started at LSU at 16 but left in the middle of his Junior year. So she would have been in high school. So how did they meet? No one knows. And anyone who did is gone. I was too ignorant to think about that stuff.
Ticks me off to this day.
I always tell folks to sit your parents and grandparents down and talk about the old times. Ask questions before they get to where they might not be able to answer. You’ll be glad you did
Dad was 5 years older than mom and he started at LSU at 16 but left in the middle of his Junior year. So she would have been in high school. So how did they meet? No one knows. And anyone who did is gone. I was too ignorant to think about that stuff.
Ticks me off to this day.
I always tell folks to sit your parents and grandparents down and talk about the old times. Ask questions before they get to where they might not be able to answer. You’ll be glad you did
Posted on 8/16/26 at 4:07 pm to Squid
I grew up about 10 minutes away. My uncle was principal of Mortimer Jordan High School for 36 years. It’s a rock’s throw from the rink on Old US Highway 31. I went a few times before it closed. A true relic of another time.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 7:40 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
At a Tulane frat party. They started dating steady about 3 weeks later. Dad was on a ROTC scholarship and went active duty Navy about a year and a half later. They got married right before that and spent their first year married on base housing at P'Cola.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 11:48 pm to KingOfTheWorld
I think I remember them talking about him. He had hair length rules for guys? I thought that was great.
Posted on 8/16/26 at 11:50 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
My uncle roomed with my dad in college. My mom visited my uncle and met my dad.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:40 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Mom was a DOD teacher at Tachikawa AFB in Japan back in 1958. Dad was working at Osan AFB in Korea. They cut him orders to fly to Tachikawa in search of radar microwave supplies for his job. First night he arrived there he went to the Officers Club for dinner and in walked my mom with a group of other teachers all dressed up in Halloween costumes to attend a party there that night. Dad apparently liked what he saw so struck up a conversation with her. Three months later, they were married, but mom couldn’t let on until that summer because her teaching contract wasn’t up until then - and back in those days teachers were required to be single. So dad went back to Osan and Mom finished up teaching at Tachikawa that school year before they both were able to come back to the states. She actually got back to the states a couple months before he did. I’m not sure my grandfather thought the Japanese marriage was legal, because he made them remarry again when dad finally joined her back in the states! They were happily married 40 years before he passed - despite the fact that she was 11 years older than he was, she outlived him by 13 years. Only marriage for both of them.
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