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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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.
March 16th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
What an enormous debt we owe some of our friends, huh? Happy anniversary!
March 16th, 2006 at 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 16th, 2006 at 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 16th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Beautiful, lovely, sweet. Congratulations.
So, there is no Long John Silvers in Switzerland? How backwards!
Peace,
BG
March 16th, 2006 at 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 16th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
I KNEW you owed my five bucks! Finally the truth emerges!
And… happy anniversary.
-brent
March 17th, 2006 at 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 17th, 2006 at 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 18th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
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