Some of you know my story, but for those of you who do here it is.
I met Mike in a bar while in college. At the time I worked for an answering service, and I had gotten off work at 8:00 that night, a friend who also worked there got off at 10:00 and she called me and said, “I had a fight with my boyfriend, I’ll be at your apartment in 10 minutes..we’re going out”, I’m like, “no, can’t do it, got a criminal justice paper due tomorrow, haven’t started it”…so 10 minutes later I’m on my way to a bar. We arrive at the bar, get a table, and a couple of table over I see two guys…one of them so handsome I want to die, my fantasy man….tall, lean, black hair; dark eyes. I say to my friend, “see that guy over there, I wish he would ask me to dance”. A short time later fantasy man comes to our table and says, Hi, would you like to dance? I assume he’s asking my friend (who is a petite cute little blonde) instead of me the shy; not tiny; OK looking redhead, so I sit there and don’t respond, then I realize he’s looking at me not my friend, and I say “are you asking me?”, he smiles and says, “Yes” and holds out his hand. So we dance, he says, “I’m Mike”, I introduce myself, we dance some more, then go back to his table and talk. My friend has since run into a male friend of her’s. After a while, Mike says he has to go, his friend wants to head home, and they are from Battle Creek (about 35 min. away from K’zoo). I don’t want him to leave, so I blurt out I can take you home if you don’t want to leave. He says are you sure? I assure him I am, and he hands his keys to his friend and tells him to park the car out front of his parent’s house. I drive him home, we park in the alley next to his parent’s house, and talk for hours, during which time I discover he gives amazing kisses. I finally leave around 4:30 am, get lost getting back to the highway, and get home at 6:00 am…my roommate is not happy wondering where I am. Anyway, I had to still write my paper, so I sleep for an hour, skip my morning class, write the paper, turn it in (got an A BTW). We see each other as much as we can from then on….2 weeks later, he asks me to marry him, I tell him I have to think about it, and tell him yes on April fools day. We celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary this past April 23rd.
Kelly