How did you meet your significant other?

[Mrs.Alchemist]

The Alchemist and I met while on a high school exchange with AFS to Hungary in 1996. Some how, 10 years later, we ended up married...

[fly4food84]

I was a fueler at an FBO and she was a Customer Service rep at the FBO.

[SoCalAprch]

Worked together in college, I was a bouncer and she was a dancer.
I kid, we worked at a hotel together, I was the pool bartender and she was a poolside server. She asked what I was doing and I said Im gonna go drink some beers and she could come if she wanted to. We moved in 8 months later and the rest is history....

[alphaone]

We were both in Air Force ROTC. She asked if I was a pilot, I asked if she wanted to go flying. Been the best relationship ever sense.

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by alphaone

We were both in Air Force ROTC. She asked if I was a pilot, I asked if she wanted to go flying. Been the best relationship ever sense.

Awesome to hear Wes. Glad things are goin' good and you're over that last girl who played all the head games!

[minitour]

High School Sweethearts..........for the most part.

-mini

[Coop-814]

I met my wife while waiting in line for the bathroom in a restaurant in northern Japan.

[alphaone]

Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius

Awesome to hear Wes. Glad things are goin' good and you're over that last girl who played all the head games!

True that. How are you doin my friend?

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by alphaone

True that. How are you doin my friend?

Doin' good my friend, doin' real good!

PM me your celly number again, I lost it and we'll maybe catch up sometime!

[frequentflya]

Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan

Wierd story really.

In autumn of 1998 I had just been furloughed by AirTran. I had only been there for a few months and had only just completed DC9 IOE when they furloughed me. I had absolutely no money whatsoever, but managed to get hired flying for Chautauqua (for the second time in my career...)

Anyhow, I had no money so rather than get an apartment I found a nice parking garage near the Pittsburgh airport and began living in my car. I'd fly trips with overnights whenever I could, but when I couldn't I would shower at the YMCA. Yeah, it was that bad.

I managed to talk the company into giving me a cushy TDY gig in CAK and I was excited that I would have a hotel to live in for a month. Hot showers, cable TV... i'd be living like a king!

So i'm dedheading from CAK to PIT (in 98' that pair was flown by a DC9) and happened to be sitting next to a gentleman who wasted no time telling me that he was a brake salesman. He was talking my ear off and I happened to notice across the aisle this attractive business woman was eavesdropping and laughing at me trying to be polite and listen to this yahoo.

When we arrived in PIT I followed her off the jetway, got her attention, and joked that I was glad she found my seatmate amusing. I followed her to her gate and we chatted a bit, finally exchanging email addresses.

Over the next few weeks we dated a bit. I'd fly or drive to Akron and take her out... really cheap dates like walks in the park, going to the humane society to look at dogs... lol

Finally got the guts to tell her I lived in a car.

And she still married me.

(Of course she didn't AGREE to marry me until I had been hired by US Airways, and was a lineholder DC9 F/O making over $90,000/yr)

(then in 2002 came the furlough and anybody who tells you that furloughs don't breed marital problems is a liar...but that's another story entirely)

Cheers!

Sounds like a Hugh Grant movie

[cfii2007]

Sounds like real life........

[sargeanb]

I met my wife at Riddle, with it's 8-1 guy/girl ratio, believe it or not. Met her in one of my MBA classes while I was flight instructing there. She had just arrived from Bulgaria a few days earlier when I first saw her, and we hit it off right away. We saw each other often in the computer lab at night, and I helped her out with several projects (her spoken english was good, but written needed some work). Eventually we started dating, and I found out she used to be a flight attendant in Europe for 4 years, and she knew the pilot lifestyle very well. Even after I thoroughly explained the potentially rough schedule and low pay I'd receive in the coming years, she was unphased. We lived together for about 6 months, got married, which included working through all of the immigration issues (INS documents, interview, etc.), and 3 years later we are both still very happy

[vladi34]

I know this is going to sound weird and far fetched by I swear on my kids that this is the God's honest truth: I was managing a gentleman's club for a guy I knew she was a dancer. 6 years later we are still happily married and have two beautiful kids!

[N826AW]

Originally Posted by vladi34

I know this is going to sound weird and far fetched by I swear on my kids that this is the God's honest truth: I was managing a gentleman's club for a guy I knew she was a dancer. 6 years later we are still happily married and have two beautiful kids!

Who knew you could go from a regular job to being a pilot and have the view from your office get worse.

[modernicarus]

I bought her at Russianbridesforlove.com (Very nice!)

Just kidding!

I met her on a blind date at a local dance club on August 22 1987, it was a Saturday. I was supposedly "jumping on the grenade" for my friend, Melissa, while she met up with her boyfriend (my future brother-in-law). Some grenade, my blind date was a smokin'-HOT brunette!

They only lasted a year, but we continued to date and eventually married on August 26, 1989. We will celebrate our 19th Anniversary this year and she still is still a beautiful brunette with a sweet body, even after four kids!

[vladi34]

Originally Posted by N826AW

Who knew you could go from a regular job to being a pilot and have the view from your office get worse.

Actually I went from that gig to actually using my degree and became a structural engineer, the view from that office has sucked for the last 4 years so now I am trying to upgrade

[Clearblue]

Originally Posted by cptwife80

I met my husband while he was flying my mom and I off our family's island in April of '99 up in Maine. I only saw him at the airport whenever I dropped my parents off to go back out. Then I got a call July 1st of '99 and it was him. My relatives gave him my number and he called. To make a long story short we started dating that day, got engaged 8 days later. I found out I was prego two weeks before I was supposed to go to boot camp and we got married Sept. 22 '99. We have been together since. We now have two cute kids. I absolutely love the pilot wife lifestyle even the ups and down.

Family's island? Ahhheem.... Do you have a niece or younger sister?

[cfii2007]

Originally Posted by sargeanb

I met my wife at Riddle, with it's 8-1 guy/girl ratio, believe it or not. Met her in one of my MBA classes while I was flight instructing there. She had just arrived from Bulgaria a few days earlier when I first saw her, and we hit it off right away. We saw each other often in the computer lab at night, and I helped her out with several projects (her spoken english was good, but written needed some work). Eventually we started dating, and I found out she used to be a flight attendant in Europe for 4 years, and she knew the pilot lifestyle very well. Even after I thoroughly explained the potentially rough schedule and low pay I'd receive in the coming years, she was unphased. We lived together for about 6 months, got married, which included working through all of the immigration issues (INS documents, interview, etc.), and 3 years later we are both still very happy

So you found a woman that would marry you, even after admitting that you'd essentially be living in poverty?

Does she have a sister?

[FlySooner9]

well i met my girlfriend on facebook believe it or not. We were both browsing through the incoming freshman class the summer before we started college and she ended up adding me. Well we talked for a little then didn't talk for a while. Well when school started we kept randomly seeing each other around campus. After this went on for a while she ended up asking me to one of her date parties. We ended up hitting it off that night and have been together ever since.

[Boris Badenov]

Met her in college. I don't think she had any idea that I was an aluminum tube driver till I asked her to move to CPS to shack up with me. She still hates airplanes, God bless her. I uh "unofficially appropriated" an airplane once and took her flying. Her reaction was an immediate "TURN AROUND AND LAND". She's wonderful, and not least of her wonderful traits is that she thinks pilots are lame (except of course for all of those JCers she met in The CPS Hangar...site of many misadventures). She LUVS ME 4 ME and stuff. Besides, aviation chicks are creepy.

Apologies to all of my lovely aviation-chick friends, you're obviously the exception to the rule.

PS. It's sort of hilarious to come home and start to tell her about my day only to see her eyes glaze over at the first mention of an acronym. Normal people are a nice counterbalance to us nutcases.

[KLB]

Originally Posted by Boris Badenov

Besides, aviation chicks are creepy.

Apologies to all of my lovely aviation-chick friends, you're obviously the exception to the rule.

I'll have to agree with you to a certain extent. I won't say that all of them are....that would be stereotyping. I would say that I've associated with too many nutso pscytsophrenic types that come close to ruining the barrel for me.