March 15
25 years ago yesterday a timid preacher wannabe couldn’t get up the courage to ask out a certain young lady. Easter break had just started, and like good Christians, my roommate, his fiancée and I attended Sunday night service at Highland in Abilene. About a thousand people were present. When my roommate to whom I will forever be grateful saw my not-yet-known-to-be future wife (NYKTBFW), he said we wouldn’t leave that sanctuary until I’d asked her out. After worship, with only 7 of us still lingering in that sacred hall, my roommate finally gave in. He asked her out for me.
He also loaned me 5 bucks. We all went to Long John Silver’s and ate a healthful meal of deep fried fish and deep fried shrimp and deep fried hushpuppies and cabbage disguised as coleslaw. Roommate and fiancée suggested I accompany NYKTBFW to her place in her car. They’d pick me up there. While waiting on her front porch ten minutes later, they drove buy honking. Deserted, I got invited in. We silently watched the end of Dr. Zivalgo with her roommate. I then walked home.
Every March 15 Wife fries fish, home-makes hushpuppies, grates cabbage for coleslaw, and we remember our first March 15 together.
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March 16, 2006@ 4:25 pm
What an enormous debt we owe some of our friends, huh? Happy anniversary!
March 16, 2006@ 5:22 pm
What about the Dr.Zivalgo connection and you two ending up in Europe? How about that for some Long John Silver’s karma?
Happy anniversary Brady. Enjoy the coleslaw.
March 16, 2006@ 5:33 pm
What a sweet story! It’s amazing that we think we’ve known each other for so long, and yet there’s so much we don’t know!
Happy Anniversary!
March 16, 2006@ 5:37 pm
Beautiful, lovely, sweet. Congratulations.
So, there is no Long John Silvers in Switzerland? How backwards!
Peace,
BG
March 16, 2006@ 10:58 pm
What a great story. Interesting that she didn’t know that she would be stbbmg (soon-to-be-brady’s-married-gal) which is what the word verification verifies.
March 16, 2006@ 11:43 pm
I KNEW you owed my five bucks! Finally the truth emerges!
And… happy anniversary.
-brent
March 17, 2006@ 3:18 pm
I’m almost crying tears over Randy’s keyboard! Just the thought of all that deep fried food makes me very emotional. Oh, yes, congrats on the anniversary of March 15. I shall ever remember this date as the date I flew to DC to spend time with Randy! Not really, because at 53 (Sunday, but please, no lavish gifts from Europe) I hardly remember anything.
March 17, 2006@ 3:35 pm
For some reason my keyboard is soaking wet. Was the fished washed and rinsed on my computer? Weird.
That’s a great story – when you visit I’ll take you to LJS.
March 18, 2006@ 7:15 pm
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