A2Z Challenge — The Letter F

Fandango

I am unofficially participating in this year’s A to Z Challenge. My theme this year is girlfriends.

F is for (Mrs.) Fandango

No compendium of my girlfriends would be complete without the story of the best of the lot.

It was a fix-up. A blind date. My brother-in-law played tennis with her father and one day his daughter showed up to watch them play. I got a call from my brother-in-law telling me all about her and he gave me her phone number.

I was reluctant to call her as I was not keen on blind dates, but I had recently broken up with a girl I’d been dating for about six months and I figured I was ready to dip my toe in the water again. So I decided to give it a go.

I spoke with the fix-up girl on the phone a couple of times and thought she sounded nice and seemed to have a good head on her shoulders. And, most important, she laughed at my jokes. So I arranged to pick her up at her apartment. It was one of those buildings where you’d go to the front desk and they’d call and let the person know that there was someone in the lobby to see them.

I was told to take a seat and that she would be coming to the lobby shortly. A few minutes later, the elevator doors opened, I looked up, and I saw a vision. She looked like an Indian princess — or, as we’d say in the politically correct 21st century, a Native American princess — and I was smitten.

It took her a while to warm up to me, but I persisted and eventually convinced her to move in with me a year after our blind date and marry a year after that.

It was truly love at first sight, at least on my part. That was in 1976 and we’ve been together ever since.

Previous 2024 A2Z posts: A B C D E

39 thoughts on “A2Z Challenge — The Letter F”

  2. writerravenclaw April 6, 2024 / 4:13 am

    What a lovely story, I also met my husband on a blind date and we have been married for 37 years.

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  3. newepicauthor April 6, 2024 / 6:53 am

    I guess your brother-in-law was your sister’s husband and I am really happy that things worked out for you, and you got a lifetime partner.

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  4. eschudel April 6, 2024 / 9:43 am

    Awww, I love that story! My parents first met when my dad was on a blind date with my aunt, mom’s sister. It was complicated…

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  10. Marleen April 7, 2024 / 1:43 pm

    Hurray for Mrs. Fandango!

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