BlueThunder
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My wife and I met in 1991 in a very early, crude version of the internet, before the World Wide Web came online later in the decade. There used to be a thing called BBS's, or bulletin Board Systems. They were mainly free as long as you didn't have to pay long distance charges, as everything was dial-up at the time. They usually accommodated around 16 to 64 users online, and the host usually had a computer with that many modems connected to it. This is back in the 1200 baud modem days, unless you were rich and fancy and had a 2400 or god forbid, a 9600! We're talking it taking 45 minutes to download a 750 kb pic or file. But there were chat rooms, and I was all into it when I was in college back in the day. I used to flirt with the chicks in there, but of course back then most girls pictured a guy with tape holding his glasses together. Anyhoo, I often frequented a BBS called ProStar Plus, and there was a girl I used to flirt with that called herself "Flyer" (she was into stunt kite flying). I used to flirt with her, but she always blew me off, and said she had a boyfriend. Well, the bbs decided to start having get-togethers so that the users could meet each other. I went to one of these just for the hell of it, and the girls were right! Dorkville!!! This was back when pretty much only nerds were into it (me being the exception, of course! 
). Anyways, there was only one good looking girl there (Flyer, of course), and she was with someone. After a really boring hour of listening to nerds talk about the future of the site, I decided to leave. Whilst leaving, I felt a "yank" on my coat, and the one cute chick said "Hey, who are you?". I said "I'm Wild" (my stupid handle). And she struck up a conversation that lasted about 5 minutes. One week later, she wrote me a private message that said "I broke up with that guy, and I've got two tickets to the Seahawks/49ers Pre-season game... Do you wanna go with me?". Well obviously, it was instant love right there! I accepted her invitation, and two years later we were married. So here I am now, with our 20th anniversary, and we discussed what the hell to do for our 20th. I came up with a fairly lame idea to go to Anthony's Home Port in Everett, where we've never been, but I could tell she was completely underwhelmed. So I was sitting here re-watching the 49ers game tonight on my DVR (I should mention that we work opposite shifts, with Sunday being our only day to do anything together) and then it struck me! A Seahawks Game would perfectly commemorate our 20th to re-do our first date! Brilliant!! I got on StubHub, and found 2 tix to the Jaguars game, 50 yard line, Seahawks sideline, 4 rows up for 50 bucks over face! I just talked to my wife from work and she is SO excited!!! I joked with her that my tix are as many rows from the field as hers were from the top of the Kingdome! lol And it's true! Those were real nosebleeds! Am I a genius or what? I am SO getting laid tonight! WHOOOHOOO!!!! :lol:
). Anyways, there was only one good looking girl there (Flyer, of course), and she was with someone. After a really boring hour of listening to nerds talk about the future of the site, I decided to leave. Whilst leaving, I felt a "yank" on my coat, and the one cute chick said "Hey, who are you?". I said "I'm Wild" (my stupid handle). And she struck up a conversation that lasted about 5 minutes. One week later, she wrote me a private message that said "I broke up with that guy, and I've got two tickets to the Seahawks/49ers Pre-season game... Do you wanna go with me?". Well obviously, it was instant love right there! I accepted her invitation, and two years later we were married. So here I am now, with our 20th anniversary, and we discussed what the hell to do for our 20th. I came up with a fairly lame idea to go to Anthony's Home Port in Everett, where we've never been, but I could tell she was completely underwhelmed. So I was sitting here re-watching the 49ers game tonight on my DVR (I should mention that we work opposite shifts, with Sunday being our only day to do anything together) and then it struck me! A Seahawks Game would perfectly commemorate our 20th to re-do our first date! Brilliant!! I got on StubHub, and found 2 tix to the Jaguars game, 50 yard line, Seahawks sideline, 4 rows up for 50 bucks over face! I just talked to my wife from work and she is SO excited!!! I joked with her that my tix are as many rows from the field as hers were from the top of the Kingdome! lol And it's true! Those were real nosebleeds! Am I a genius or what? I am SO getting laid tonight! WHOOOHOOO!!!! :lol:
