My name is Ellen. My husband's name is Jack, and we have one daughter, Riley, who is 2 years old! This blog is dedicated to our story.
Our story begins the week before Thanksgiving in 2005. My sister, Catherine, and I were at our local tavern, Mike's after a long day at work. (We waited tables together at Macaroni Grill). We were sitting at the bar enjoying our cheap beer, and playing the TV screen video games ~ we like to refer to it as the CRACK MACHINE because it is addictive! While we were minding our own business, some dude comes up behind us and butts into our game....we were like, what the heck is this guy doing, and why doesn't he leave us alone?!?! He kept helping us with our games, then going to the other end of the bar to check out a game score or get another beer. I told my Catherine, if he keeps bugging us, he better start buying us some drinks!! Eventually, Catherine went to the bathroom, and the guy, Jack, started talking to me...then asked for my phone number....hmmmmm...ok...he seems kind of nice, eh, why not??? =) He puts my phone number in his phone, and we part ways.
...........days go by, and i wondered why he didn't call. It was Thanksgiving week, so maybe he was just busy...I can understand that. That next Friday night (day after Thanksgiving), Catherine and I were at Mike's Tavern again...after a long day at work, and the bartender said, "hey, remember that guy you were talking to last week?" and I said, "yes, Jack." She told me that he had lost my phone number or something, and wanted me to give the bartender my number so that the next time he came in, he could get it from her...I thought, "what a debacle...this is soooo not worth the trouble...but it DID explain why he hadn't called." So i gave her my number.
Sunday evening, while hanging with my friend, Sandy, HE CALLED! He wanted to meet at Mike's for a drink! I was pretty excited! So I changed my clothes and met him up there!
...and that my friends is how Jack and I met...we are that couple who met in a bar.
