The original poll and results from Tumblr.
This is an interesting question because of the poll’s possible answers. First of all, there was no Internet, so no online or websites or anything like that. I met my ex… At a Christmas caroling party, thrown annually by a friend I knew from school, who invited her coworkers from work. We were not a barhopping/clubbing kind of group, so it feels weird to include “party“ in that same category. I mean, I already knew probably 30 of the 35 people who attended, And there might have been beer available and probably some alcoholic Christmas wassail. No one was There to get drunk.
My friend said to this guy, “hi, thanks for coming, introduce yourself around“ and then dashed off to do something else. He went to the refreshments table and stood there nibbling and I thought, he doesn’t know anybody else! And I was right (no one else from their work showed up). I introduced myself just to be polite. And somehow we kept chatting and then I introduced him to my closer friends in the room. And then – –
22 years later, when we divorced, I couldn’t help rethinking that decision, or really all relationship decisions made During those years. As one does. We had a lot of good times though.
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