I Saw Green Hair & Knew It was Love

I was talk­ing to one of my near­est & dear­est friends Miss Coley (as my kids call her), we were stand­ing in State Hall talk­ing about the week­end com­ing up.  I remem­ber it like it was yes­ter­day.  When it was more than decade ago.  But the rea­son the day stands out is that this  guy walked by. I caught him out of the cor­ner of my eye & was try­ing not to stare.

Then my near­est & dear­est friend stopped our con­ver­sa­tion said “Hi” to this tall, lanky, absolutely hand­some man as he walked by.  He said “Hi” back & you know all the usual pleas­antries were exchanged.   While I stood there look­ing at him, try­ing NOT to stare (no one wants to be the creepy star­ing girl)  but  I was smitten.

Of course even as I was try­ing not to stare (did I men­tion I was try­ing NOT TO STARE??) I real­ized I was stand­ing there look­ing like I had just come out of a warm­ing cen­ter and lived on the streets.  Could I have looked any worse at that moment?  Prob­a­bly not. In fact, in ret­ro­spect NO it was impos­si­ble to look any worse at that moment.    Only pos­i­tive is that the look must have been com­pletely unfor­get­table because I made NO impres­sion on him that time.

How­ever, he made a last­ing impres­sion on me.

As he walked up the stairs to go to his class I saw his green hair danc­ing in the light & this amaz­ing smile & couldn’t stop think­ing “WOW, he is cute.”  And with that I did what any 18 year old girl does I start­ing grilling my friend on this guy.  Ask­ing her how she knew him, I thought maybe he was the guy who had helped her change her flat tire but it turns out he wasn’t.  She met him through a mutual friend.

I then looked at my friend and asked “Does he have a girlfriend?”

The answer next meant I wasn’t going to be dat­ing Mr. Green Hair any­time soon.

“Yes, he does.  He talks about her ALL the time.”

UGH, great I meet the man of my dreams & he has a girl­friend, one that he talks about ALL the time.  What­ever.  Mov­ing on.

That ends that.

Or not…

[this is part of my “how I met your father” series]

Tagged as: backstory, how i met your father, husband, love at first sight, Marriage