Successful Story for Speed Dating 2
Jonathan and I had met once, very briefly, at the 1999 Aish HaTorah Annual Banquet. We parted ways without having exchanged numbers or spending more than a few moments chatting. We both figured that we had seen the first and last of each other, but we were mistaken. Four days later, we separately dragged ourselves to Speed Dating, our desire to stay home on the couch beaten down by a nagging internal voice that insisted we seek our soulmates outside of our living rooms. Since both Jonathan and I are obsessed with punctuality, we found ourselves meeting again on the bench in front of Peet’s Coffee, 20 minutes before SpeedDating even began.
Within 10 minutes he had told me that he was tired of dating and was looking to get married. He then asked for my phone number, afraid of missing his second chance. Technically, you’re not supposed to exchange numbers at SpeedDating. But since the event had not yet even begun….
Once SpeedDating started we found that, due to the number of people attending, we never did get paired together. (Consider that a plug for mingling both before and after these events!) Both of us ended up with a few other matches, but once we went out with each other four days later, our fates were sealed. We found out that not only had we both been involved in Aish HaTorah for a few years without meeting, but that we lived two blocks apart, had stood in line together for our passports six years earlier, and had gone to the same pediatrician as children. We were engaged after five months and married five months thereafter. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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