James and I met at a local gay bar on $1 drinks night. He claims to have seen me from a distance because I was wearing a golden flannel and a fedora hat. The bar was mildly crowded, so he saw me from about 20 feet away. My back was towards him and I was [...]

My cousin had tried on multiple occasions to set Lydia and I up. However, we had both dismissed the idea as ridiculous because Lydia lived in Madison, Wisconsin and I in California.
It took a few years for us to meet in person. I was visiting my cousin in Madison, WI who had brain surgery in [...]

Background info:
Julia was born in southern California but is a norcal girl through and through, raised in the bay area from the tender age of 10 months. The San Jose Sharks and San Francisco Giants are her obsessions, and will curse any southern California team no matter the sport. Julia earned her B.S. [...]

Jeremy and I were high school sweethearts. We met in geometry class. Jeremy came on to me in class, but he had a reputation for being a “bad boy,” so I handled the situation by constantly trying to get him in trouble with the teacher (most often successfully. He found this love/hate form of [...]

Keir took a job as a Resident Assistant through the Housing Agency at a local university to save money by living and working on campus. The transition to a major city was a challenging new experience for him. The workload of balancing his new job and the responsibilities associated with it were demanding. middle management [...]

in 1981, david had gone sailing with his chief resident for the day and was having dinner with him and his wife. i lived in the apt across the hall and unexpectedly knocked on the door to visit with the wife. this couple started to have a huge fight with amazing cursing(not unusual for them), [...]

It was a normal Sunday night at the skating rink and I was busy getting my “skate on”. I have been going to this rink since 1985 and have made a lot of good friends over the years. I did, however, have a strict policy of not dating anyone from the rink. (Seeing a former [...]

I met my wife to be three years ago. It almost didn’t happen.
I had been divorced for about 3 years when I met Pari Livermore. Pari is a wonderful woman who runs the Red & White ball, an annual singles party that she organizes for us generally older singles. She asks those who seek her [...]

I was drunk at a friends party and i thought i’d do the normal thing people do when they get drunk. Hide in bushes and throw a dodgeball at people i didnt know to knock their beer out of their hands. Well, i hit christina dead on, and she laughed and began to chase me. [...]

Erik, known as “ERO“, was a scraping young college student athlete, a baseball player at Azusa Pacific University. Stacey was a ambitious college student at the same university. At night, Erik was starting his 16 year career in the television news broadcasting field by working as an assignment assistant at KTTV Fox 11 News. [...]

I was managing a professional women’s cycling team and Sandra was racing for Australia. We met at the biggest women’s race in the world - in the stairwell of the race hotel in Boise, Idaho in 1997. Sandra was the only racer who chose the stairs rather than a long line at the elevator to [...]

As so may do these days, we met on the internet. (Though it was not always this easy for me to admit this.) I should have known I would be in for a wild ride because we first contacted each other on 9/11 of last year. We chated on-line for several weeks until [...]

This is the story of how Dan and I first met…
When I first spotted Dan across the Bar that night, there was a voice in my head that wispered, “He looks like a really sweet guy. You should get to know him.”

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Cindy and I met in 1984, 26 short years ago. At the time, we were both working at the same high-tech company. Cindy was a Marketing Programs specialist, and I was a technical sales and marketing instructor.
On this particularly sunny and beautiful day, (actually it was overcast and drizzling) I [...]

We were in the same high classes for two years, not knowing each other existed. We met our junior year of high school and still acted as though we didn’t exist to one another. Finally, senior year rolled around and we just hit it off! Been together for 4 years since =)

I was halfway through my one year internship with the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force in San Francisco when Jyoti started as a new intern. I was living in San Francisco at the time, but she was living in Gilroy and attending San Jose State. So, whenever I tried to ask her out, [...]

It was early November, 2009…
I don’t know that I’ve told her this, but for a moment I wasn’t going to let her sit down. It was the annual bash for a local cycling club. Jennifer and her friend approached the sofa looking for a seat, just as two guys I’d been trying to talk to [...]

I had traveled to Kyrgyz republic years earlier to meet another woman and it did not work out but while there I met a translator (Marina), that worked for me and she remembered me. Years later she was working for a dating agency and Irina was trying to find a suitable mate. So Marina [...]

This may possibly be the only “How we first met” story written by the guy, so it probably won’t be very sweet.
We were both 21 and out at the bars. I was with the guys and Kim was out with one of her girlfriends. The guys were ready to move on to the [...]

We are both in our late forties and we met last spring.
We were both in a yoga class at Harbin Hot Springs. I felt him staring at me but I pretended not to notice. However, out of the corner of my eye I could not ignore his big strong legs in his tight black [...]

It all started in 2000 with a glance across the women’s retreat circle. Electricity filled the air as their eyes locked on each other. They were friends first and only saw one another once a year at the retreat. They both had crushes on each other, but had kept it secret. What made the situation [...]

“Beauty and brains, looking for the Prince . . .” That was the first line enticement of my SF Chronicle personal ad, back in the era when newsprint was the mode for the lonely of heart. That come on, plus the fact that I described myself as a voluptuous Ann Margaret look alike led to [...]

Jen’s version: Brian and I met on March 8, 2008…it was a Saturday morning and I was almost done with my workout at the gym when he passed me and smiled at me at the same moment I spotted him and smiled. See Brian and I had smiled at one another for months, when I [...]

Ricky and I met 1 year ago - on Valentine’s Day.
We connected on a dating website, and my first thought was – why is he interested in me?? He’s a tall, country music lovin’, snowboarding, four-wheel-drive-truck type of guy. I’m short, like hip hop, drive a gas-friendly car, and detest cold weather and snow! [...]

We met at Bally’s Manhattan Beach. In Spin Class. 5:30am. I sat next to Alan in spin class while he was speaking to somebody else about food - low fat apple cake, to be specific and I had to know more. And so we had our first conversation. We saw [...]

Solio and I first met in an AOL chat room back in the day when it was cool - during the beginning stages of meeting people on the internet. He approached me first asking the usual A/N/L/P (Age/Nationality/Location/Picture)? I sent him my picture; of course I made sure it was the best looking one of [...]

I was a junior, he was a sophomore in high school. I was dressed like a clown, he was a trumpet player in the orchestra pit. It was an annual high school theater production, known as Valley Vaudeville, and my role was to act as the comedic transition between each skit. His [...]

Gala opening at a Community Center in San Francisco. “I have a table just for you!” exclaimed the organizer, as I showed up late to pick up my ticket. And she seats me next to Faina. This was on Apr 3rd 2004. I’d like to think that I have really impressed [...]

Ten years ago, during my freshman year at college, one of my girlfriends gabbed about this older, computer-geeky guy (Tom) who was trying to date her. She didn’t know if she was interested in him. One night at a party, my friend introduced the guy to me. She promptly left with him to take shots [...]

How We First Met: Glen and Denele April 17, 1977
“Man down on International!”
And with that I stormed toward my first accident “victim” on this bright sunny morning. The flag men were directing the other motorcycles away from the “man down.” I could see that he was trying to get up but appeared to have no [...]

Myla story
I signed up with Table for Six in October 2008 just to get out and meet new people. All my friends were either married or divorced so I wanted to join a group where I could meet other single people. I told myself to just have fun and to lower my expectations. [...]

We first connected at a family camp in the mountains above Sonora. Ev would win the waterslide contest for who could go the furthest. I would “flirt” with her by holding her under the water - almost drowned her she contends. Then Ev dated a guy visiting from Georgia for a few [...]

We both played on a coed community soccer team. Kevin couldn’t help noticing Meredith because she is an aggressive player, often getting yellow-carded for being rough or yelling at players. They were going to be part of a carpool, but Kevin backed out. What’s up thought Meredith?

Emily worked at a temp agency which Lloyd was using to get work. When they first talked, he being a naturalist was talking about the salmons. Emily referred to him as the salmon guy. He e-mailed her about a date, but she was going to South Africa for a month so couldn’t go. [...]

We met in front of the Los Gatos Community Center. We were both attending a meeting of an anonymous group to which we both belong. I was out front smoking a cigarette with three of my friends, and up walked Jill with her friend, Lynn, whom I had previously met. Lynn introduced [...]

My husband planned on “accidentally” meeting me at the elevator of the Saul Zaentz Film center in Berkeley where we both worked. He rented an office in the building and I worked for a documentary producer who also was a tenant in the building. He noticed the pattern of my arrival to work [...]

How Mary Met Mark: A Daughter’s Interpretation. What’s a mere 3,000 mile commute to star-crossed lovers? Or should I say continent-crossing lovers? Mary, a beautiful, fiery-haired TWA flight attendant based in New York City, decided to get away for a weekend of skiing. And with the fabulous advantage of working in air travel, she hopped [...]

We met at a mutual friend’s party because we kept running into each other at the snack table. We would go off and do our own mingly thing and then tuck back to the chips & salsa table for a reload. After running into each other about 3 times there (and feeling so embarassed [...]

Michelle is very much a bar person, preferring to soak in conversation and laughter surrounded by friends, while making new ones. For nightlife, Jess, is a polar opposite, interested more in going to dance clubs and losing himself on the dance floor. It was a dark and stormy night when Michelle was persuaded by her [...]

We met 10 years ago– literally– February 18, 2000. We had both moved to San Francisco recently from the East Coast. My girlfriend had invited Bob to join our group dinner. By the way, she and Bob had dated years ago. From that group dinner, consensus was that Bob still held a torch…

We met on October 21,1995. We met at a dental office. Jason was my patient and I was a dental assistant at the time. We fell in love on our first date. We went go-kart racing and dinner at Max’s Opera Restuarant. He told me the first night that we were going to get married [...]

Marc and I met in in Middle School. We had a class together, however, he doesn’t remember this but I do. He sat behind me, and incredibly bugged me. He was a know it all and I just simply was annoyed with little boys. Ten years later, we ended up working at the same summer [...]