As of today, Andrew and I have been together for five years. In honor of our anniversary I would like to share with you how it is that we came to be a couple.
chatting_ron: so how did you and Andrew meet?
chatting_ron: as a single guy, I like to hear how people actually get together
chatting_ron: gives me hope
crystalshiloh1: He was my boss at my first college ;)
chatting_ron: Man...and I don't manage anybody...that doesn't do me any good
chatting_ron: lol
crystalshiloh1: sorry :(
chatting_ron: It's OK, guess it's back to the bars for me
chatting_ron: (just kidding)
crystalshiloh1: It's actually a cute story.
crystalshiloh1: I desperately needed a job on-campus and I needed one that paid pretty well.
crystalshiloh1: I applied to be the webmaster of Financial Aid at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
crystalshiloh1: He was the Associate to the Director of Financial Aid.
chatting_ron: uh huh
chatting_ron: wow...not too shabby
crystalshiloh1: At my interview, he pointed to a rack filled with servers and he asked me to identify each one.
crystalshiloh1: I was like, that's a server, that's a server, that's a server, etc. lmao
crystalshiloh1: Well one machine was actually a Jukebox, then there was the Jukebox server, and there was also an NT server (I could have told him that had the screen saver not been going).
crystalshiloh1: Before I left he gave me the job.
crystalshiloh1: When I went home to my dorm room, no sooner did I peel off my little Ally Mc Beal suit and climb into bed did my phone ring and it was him
crystalshiloh1: he said he wanted to make sure I knew I was hired and when I was to report to work, I was duh ??
chatting_ron: uh huh
chatting_ron: and....?
crystalshiloh1: sorry cat needed to be fed
chatting_ron: lol...I'm on the edge of my seat here....
crystalshiloh1: So anyway, I figured he just needed an excuse to talk to me again.
crystalshiloh1: I reported to work the first day that I was supposed to... time passed by pretty quickly.
crystalshiloh1: I noticed that he was pretty miserable at work
crystalshiloh1: he would always lay his head on his desk or grouch at one of the machines... he seemed very unhappy.
crystalshiloh1: One of his friends visited him as we were all just about to leave the office. I decided to ask Andrew and his buddy to go to a basketball game with me, not as a date but just for fun and his friend managed to talk him into it.
chatting_ron: You asked him out!
chatting_ron: lucky bastard
crystalshiloh1: After that, I tried to get him to go out on an actual date, figuring that I'd show him some attention and he'd cheer up somewhat.
crystalshiloh1: He fucking turned me down!!!!
crystalshiloh1: I had never been turned down EVER!!!
chatting_ron: lol...bet it made you want him even more
crystalshiloh1: I guess for a while I pursued some more because I love a challenge.
crystalshiloh1: and when he finally said yes, I was like ummm NO!!!
crystalshiloh1: It was all just too funny.
chatting_ron: looks like you guys know how to play the game
crystalshiloh1: He came over to my dorm frequently with his friend.
crystalshiloh1: I guess someone was letting him in, because I sure didn't. I wasn't taking his calls either...
crystalshiloh1: Then finally I was having trouble with my roommate and so he offered to let me use his apartment to study.
crystalshiloh1: So, I accepted, and next thing I knew he was trying to pursue a relationship with me.
crystalshiloh1: Since he wouldn't give up I finally relented.
crystalshiloh1: but there's more to this tale.
crystalshiloh1: Before the relationship went any further I asked him before hand if he would tell my (our) boss about the relationship
crystalshiloh1: he said no. That was very important to me because I was paid in advance my entire salary for the semester and there was no way I could repay it if I were to be fired...
chatting_ron: good guy
crystalshiloh1: My tuition was astronomical.
crystalshiloh1: I asked him again and he said he would have to tell her. I made it clear that he better not. As usual, I went to class the next day.
crystalshiloh1: When I returned to my dorm room there was a message on my answering machine from Andrew explaining that he didn't feel honest not telling our boss about our relationship and that he had already divulged the information, despite what he had said to me about keeping it a secret.
crystalshiloh1: I told Andrew when he called that he just single handedly ruined my life and that I would never speak to him again. I refused to go in to work that afternoon.
chatting_ron: good start
crystalshiloh1: Yeah, he was such a jerk, but an honest one at that.
crystalshiloh1: well, when it came to interoffice dating, anyway.
crystalshiloh1: So Andrew walked over to my dorm and rang up. I told him he could rot for all I cared and that he should just go away while I tried to figure out how to fix everything.
chatting_ron: wow
crystalshiloh1: He said to give him just ten minutes to explain. I was like, no. You had your ten minutes when you explained it to Tori (our boss).
crystalshiloh1: I eventually relented and gave him 30 seconds.
crystalshiloh1: He told me that he really cared about me and that he was being moved to another department (to Flight).
chatting_ron: because he wanted to be with you?
crystalshiloh1: That didn't seem improve things much for me.
crystalshiloh1: Then Andrew told me that Tori wanted me to keep my job.
crystalshiloh1: I eventually forgave him.
chatting_ron: lol...i bet you did....
chatting_ron: that's a good story....
chatting_ron: you should post it on your website for people to read
crystalshiloh1: Maybe I will some day, lol