OK, here we go....
We were both working in Valencia, Spain at the time (he was working legally, I was NOT, but I guess that's way beside the point
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I was out w/one of my former college roommates who had come to Spain to visit me (OK this is so random, but she had actually been my roommate in Valencia during our "junior year abroad"; she had actually just come back to visit for a couple of weeks, while I had decided to move back to Spain on a much more permanent basis....sorry for the aside....). ANYWHO.....
We went out to eat, and at the next table was a big group of people, speaking mostly Spanish but I heard a few English words too. One of them heard us speaking to each other in English, and came over to introduce himself and his group of friends (on the pretext of "Oh we really want to practice our English" - like I hadn't heard THAT line before
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Well, it turned out to be a group of Spaniards who were out having a meal w/their teacher (a Brit).....we ended up going to a nightclub w/them and the "Brit" pestered the hell out of me, until I finally gave him my phone number and agreed to meet up w/him for dinner the following week.
I had no intention of turning up for the date, but he called me to make sure I was going to be there - so I had to show, just couldn't be too cruel.....and to put an end to this too-long story - we've been married now for 10 years!!