My First Impression

My First Impression

October 22nd, 2010 @ 2:59 pm by Mrs. Knitting
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While the movies tell us all about love at first sight, I read somewhere once that it’s often the people we have the most vague first impressions of who are the people that end up having the most significant influence on our lives. This is certainly true for Mr. Knitting and myself.

I transferred high schools in the middle of grade eleven and I went from a school of 150 people to a school with something like 1,500 people. One day I was getting something out at my locker and I heard my friend Julie say, “Mr. Knitting, stop staring at Miss Knitting’s butt.”

I turned around to see my friend snickering hysterically next to this tall, somewhat awkward and embarrassed looking guy who clearly was not staring at my butt. We were introduced, but since I was being introduced to something like 50 new people a day (okay I’m exaggerating slightly) I promptly forgot about him. I may have wrote him off as Julie’s vague friend.

Lucky for me that wasn’t the end of our story. A year later Mr. Knitting and I became friends and then we began dating. At some point I made some comment about us meeting in the library (because that’s what I remembered) and he responded:

“Um, no, that’s not where we met.”

“What? Yes, it is.”

“No, we met in the hall. Remember? I was with Julie. She made some comment about your butt…?”

At this point I started dying with laughter. I couldn’t believe I was dating the pretend butt ogler. My mom and sisters and I had laughed over this story a lot (since I had come from a practically all girls school where this kind of thing didn’t happen) and I couldn’t believe that I had no idea that it was him.

So there you have it: my first impression of Mr. Knitting was so vague that I pretty much forgot about him and yet 7 years later he’s had the most profound effect on my life and is definitely my favourite and most important person (sorry parents and sisters!).

What was your first impression of your SO?

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16 Responses to “My First Impression”

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JoyfulBee (message) 167 posts, Blushing bee

I was pretty much the bold one when the Mister and I first met. In fact, my first words went somewhere along the lines of “So you’re The Tim!”

First impression? He rolled with it, and his head (and ego) didn’t (immediately) swell up. Impressed me that he wasn’t some cocky guy.

10/22/10 @ 3:06 pm (reply)

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missbiscuit (message) 1,050 posts, Bumble bee

I was his RA in the college dorms (he was a transfer student). He helped me clean up stuff after our first building meeting where we lay out building/campus rules, talk about upcoming events, do icebreakers for the residents to meet each other, etc. I was impressed that 1) he had such nice manners to offer to help 2) that he didn’t hold a grudge against me just because I was an RA. We became sort-of friends after that, and for the first month I was convinced he would hook up with one of the other female residents in our building. In the end, though, it was us who wound up together!

10/22/10 @ 3:14 pm (reply)

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mckraut13

When I first met my BF it was senior year of college at an ‘anything but clothes’ theme party. I caught him using/dropping my camera (that he had stolen out of my bag). My first words ever to him were “if you f’n broke my brand new camera a-hole, you’re f’n buying me a new one” I now find it humorous that I have pictures of him and his (now our) friends at that party.

10/22/10 @ 3:15 pm (reply)

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blondeeebuckeye (message) 1,083 posts, Bumble bee

oh i was convinced my fiance was a total player. i have absolutely no idea where i came up with that, but it’s what i thought for about a month. now the story is told as a joke because his family/friends think it’s the funniest thing they’ve ever heard.

10/22/10 @ 3:19 pm (reply)

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Miss Biner (message) 1,101 posts, Bumble bee

We met outside rock climbing and he tried to feed my dog human food (not okay!). I got on to him. A couple months later we started dating!

We had actually heard of/been around each other before because of rock climbing, but the puppy incident is the first impression I ever got of him.

10/22/10 @ 3:24 pm (reply)

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MissCatherine (message) 278 posts, Helper bee

Oh that is a cute story!
We met at our first jobs at a McDonald’s as teenagers … my first impression was that he was really nice, but looked terrible in his uniform. LOL.

10/22/10 @ 3:33 pm (reply)

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junebug12 (message) 399 posts, Helper bee

I actually had my eye on his friend! That didn’t work out so well, and he and I started talking, and now I couldn’t be happier He always gives me ish about being my last resort, but it’s all in good fun now!

10/22/10 @ 3:42 pm (reply)

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TheFutureMcBride (message) 4,479 posts, Honey bee

That’s a funny story.
The first time I saw my husband, I knew I was going to marry him, which he doesn’t believe. I was walking down the hallway at work and he passed me. I almost fell to the ground without one look from him. Fortunately, I enlisted a good friend to tell me who this guy was; we worked at a place with 1500 people, so it wouldn’t have been easy without her. Now we is married people. Sweet!

10/22/10 @ 3:43 pm (reply)

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Knubbsy-Wubbsy (message) 2,395 posts, Buzzing bee

I thought he was incredibly weird. We were waiting in line at the bookstore on the day before classes started and he started chatting- which I found so awkward. I ended up leaving my now-roommate at the store to get away from the weird guy in line.

We forgot about it until after we were dating- we met again over fall break when a common friend pushed me at him, and told him to teach me to dance. That time he wrote me off as a probably flaky freshman and didn’t pay much attention to me until after when we all went to a local coffee place. Then it all worked out.

10/22/10 @ 3:53 pm (reply)

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Shiner (message) 389 posts, Helper bee

Haha, at the time I met my guy, I was working as a bartender. I had gone out to another bar with my coworkers, and the first time I met him, his cousin started hitting on me and I blew them off, so he thought I was a jerk. Then they started coming up to my bar and I didn’t remember him or his friends, although this might have been due to the alcohol on that first night He had already decided that I was stuck-up and out of his league, but the girls I worked with and I became friends with him and his group. I think the allure of the guy who isn’t making a pass at the bartender combined with his humor and laid-back attitude (I had just gotten out of a relationship with a very high maintenance guy) attracted me. I was interested in him for two months before he even realized it because he thought I was out of his league!

10/22/10 @ 3:56 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Trail Mix (message) 6,328 posts, Bee Keeper

That is such a cute story! My first impression of DH was that he was cute, haha!

10/22/10 @ 4:09 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Cola (message) 2,868 posts, Sugar bee

This is such a cute story!

10/22/10 @ 4:40 pm (reply)

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feministbride (message) 283 posts, Helper bee

The first time I met my fiance it was like I was hit with a ton of bricks… we met through mutual friends and all night I couldn’t stop thinking about him sitting two feet away from me on the couch. And I fell asleep thinking about how our names sounded so lovely together

10/22/10 @ 9:25 pm (reply)

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Girlie

This is so similar to me and my SO’s story, its crazy weird!

10/22/10 @ 10:57 pm (reply)

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SadieBee (message) 771 posts, Busy bee

Cute story! The first time I met my SO was at a mutual friend’s birthday party - our friends were actually trying to set me up with the birthday boy, but when my guy walked into the room, I remember thinking “Oooo, who is that? He’s cute!” We hit it off right away and spent the rest of the night getting to know each other

10/22/10 @ 11:27 pm (reply)

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