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John inspired me to write this instead of another bit of history.
I saw the lady who has become my wonderful wife for the first time in church in Wickenburg. There was a brunette I knew but thought was boring but she was sitting with 2 cute little blondes I didn't know. After church the cutest one w/ red blonde hair introduced herself as "Linda from Phoenix". I think I said something clever like, "DAAAHHH". We talked a little & met again @ a young peoples get-together in Phoenix & later still @ a mutual friends wedding & she seemed nice. I asked a friend whose brother had dated her sister for a phone number because there was over 30 people in Phoenix with the same last name (in 1985 Phx was 1/4 the size it is now). When I called her the conversation went something like this:
Angel: "Hello"
*****: Hi, Linda this is Irvi-
A: "Who?"
I: "Uh, Irv-"
A: "Do I know you?"
I: "Uh, I... we met @ church in Wickenburg and-"
A: "What do you look like?"
I: "Um, well I;m 5'8" dark hair and-"
A: "I don't remember you"
I: "uh-"
A: "How did you get my number?"
I: "A friend, Vern gave-"
A: "How do you know him?"
I: "We go hiking & camping sometimes-"
A: "How come no one ever takes me camping?"
I: "Wanna go camping?" (what the heck, she doesn't have any idea who I am I can't screw up any worse now no matter what I do!)
A: Laughs, "no... why are you calling me?"
I: 'I... uh... was going to ask you out to dinner on Saturday but-"
A: "ok"
I: "Huh?" (Did she just say YES?) "er, I'll pick you up around 11 ok?"
A: "You mean in the morning?"
I: "Uh yah... I... Oh! Where I'm from dinner is @ noon, supper is-"
A: "Ok"
I: "Where do you live?"
A: "You have my phone number but not my address?"
I: "uh yeah I-"
A: "never mind it's________" Do you hang out w/ Vern Duane & John?"
I: "Uh, yeah-"
A: "They're boring! Are you boring? Oh never mind I'll find out Saturday. Bye."
I: "Whew!"
When I went to pick her up I rang the doorbell & a middle aged man came to the door & looked @ me balefully. "What?"
"Is Linda here?"
"I'll see" - he shut the door in my face.
A moment later a beautiful lady w/ red-blonde hair opened the door.
"Dad! You could @ least let him in!"
"I didn't know who he was, you said you had a date for dinner not lunch!" (to me lunch is something you pack to take w/ you).
A: "Want to meet my mom?, where is Mom?"
Dad: "I think she's working in her garden."
I: "Uh, you hungry?"
A: "OK, let's go eat, bye Dad"
I: "Where would you like to go?"
A: "I don't care, what are you in the mood for?"
I: "I feel like a steak"
A: "You don't look like one!"
I: "A little overcooked maybe..."
We went to Bill Johnsons Steak House & she ordered a sandwich because she couldn't eat a whole steak (later accused me of marrying her because she was cheap to feed).
I discovered for the first time in my life I was with a girl I could actually talk to. We discussed everything (not just shoes & clothes like all the other girls I'd met). We spent the whole afternoon and evening talking, driving around in my old Jeep, sat beside the river for a while, ate cheeseburgers when suppertime came around. She could talk intelligently about anything but listened well also.
On the way home I thought to myself, "I'd like to see her again every day... wait a minute did I just say that? I was never going to get married!"
2 weeks later we were engaged.
2 months after the first date we were married... We've been described as "2 opinionated pissheads who just happen to agree on almost everything & seldom argue." It's been 25 wonderful years so far...
I saw the lady who has become my wonderful wife for the first time in church in Wickenburg. There was a brunette I knew but thought was boring but she was sitting with 2 cute little blondes I didn't know. After church the cutest one w/ red blonde hair introduced herself as "Linda from Phoenix". I think I said something clever like, "DAAAHHH". We talked a little & met again @ a young peoples get-together in Phoenix & later still @ a mutual friends wedding & she seemed nice. I asked a friend whose brother had dated her sister for a phone number because there was over 30 people in Phoenix with the same last name (in 1985 Phx was 1/4 the size it is now). When I called her the conversation went something like this:
Angel: "Hello"
*****: Hi, Linda this is Irvi-
A: "Who?"
I: "Uh, Irv-"
A: "Do I know you?"
I: "Uh, I... we met @ church in Wickenburg and-"
A: "What do you look like?"
I: "Um, well I;m 5'8" dark hair and-"
A: "I don't remember you"
I: "uh-"
A: "How did you get my number?"
I: "A friend, Vern gave-"
A: "How do you know him?"
I: "We go hiking & camping sometimes-"
A: "How come no one ever takes me camping?"
I: "Wanna go camping?" (what the heck, she doesn't have any idea who I am I can't screw up any worse now no matter what I do!)
A: Laughs, "no... why are you calling me?"
I: 'I... uh... was going to ask you out to dinner on Saturday but-"
A: "ok"
I: "Huh?" (Did she just say YES?) "er, I'll pick you up around 11 ok?"
A: "You mean in the morning?"
I: "Uh yah... I... Oh! Where I'm from dinner is @ noon, supper is-"
A: "Ok"
I: "Where do you live?"
A: "You have my phone number but not my address?"
I: "uh yeah I-"
A: "never mind it's________" Do you hang out w/ Vern Duane & John?"
I: "Uh, yeah-"
A: "They're boring! Are you boring? Oh never mind I'll find out Saturday. Bye."
I: "Whew!"
When I went to pick her up I rang the doorbell & a middle aged man came to the door & looked @ me balefully. "What?"
"Is Linda here?"
"I'll see" - he shut the door in my face.
A moment later a beautiful lady w/ red-blonde hair opened the door.
"Dad! You could @ least let him in!"
"I didn't know who he was, you said you had a date for dinner not lunch!" (to me lunch is something you pack to take w/ you).
A: "Want to meet my mom?, where is Mom?"
Dad: "I think she's working in her garden."
I: "Uh, you hungry?"
A: "OK, let's go eat, bye Dad"
I: "Where would you like to go?"
A: "I don't care, what are you in the mood for?"
I: "I feel like a steak"
A: "You don't look like one!"
I: "A little overcooked maybe..."
We went to Bill Johnsons Steak House & she ordered a sandwich because she couldn't eat a whole steak (later accused me of marrying her because she was cheap to feed).
I discovered for the first time in my life I was with a girl I could actually talk to. We discussed everything (not just shoes & clothes like all the other girls I'd met). We spent the whole afternoon and evening talking, driving around in my old Jeep, sat beside the river for a while, ate cheeseburgers when suppertime came around. She could talk intelligently about anything but listened well also.
On the way home I thought to myself, "I'd like to see her again every day... wait a minute did I just say that? I was never going to get married!"
2 weeks later we were engaged.
2 months after the first date we were married... We've been described as "2 opinionated pissheads who just happen to agree on almost everything & seldom argue." It's been 25 wonderful years so far...
