Topic: WC - Daily Practice
Thursday 22Mar07 8:47pm
I went out tonight with the gooseman for a couple Corona's and coconut shrimp. I figure if I say what kind of beer I drank I'll sound less like an alkie since I've gone out three nights in a row. Tuesday was Lolo taking me out to cheer me up, which she did. Last night was the almost weekly beer and a hug. And tonight was because the guys have suspected my pissed ness when they couldn't take me out for my birthday for drinks on the Wednesday before my birthday and have since gone out two Wednesday nights in a row. Yeah, I voiced my comments about being less important than an outing to the strip joint. But as usual, I digress.
Not really having much to say I asked the gooseman how long he and his wife knew each other before they started dating. He told me that he was in Saudi Arabia working and she was living in Canada. She was single and living with her sister whose husband also happened to be working in Saudi Arabia with the gooseman. In conversation he told the gooseman about this very picky single woman and set things up whereby the gooseman and her started exchanging letters. When ever any one was flying to the Philippines the gooseman would talk to her with music playing in the background on a cassette tape and send the tape to the Philippines where someone else would mail it to Canada from there.
They met a year later when they coordinated meeting face to face at the airport in Manila. They spent time together, his family met her family and brought a sweet treat as a token for the sweetness their union would become. They got married and he went back to Saudi Arabia and she went back to Canada. They continued their letters and the periodic cassette tapes. It was another two years between him finishing his work in Saudi Arabia and going back to the Philippines to wait until she was able to sponsor him in Canada. They knew each other through letters and tapes for three years before they lived like a married couple.
They've been married for 24 years. Well that's certainly a way to get together.
EY
