The year: 2003. The season: Autumn. The place: my dining room.
The first time we had INTERNET (yes, real internet!) and I was allowed on. I was fifteen. I had MSN. My father had told me only to talk to people I knew. Again, I was fifteen. I messaged EVERYONE.

One of them was a teenage boy from Yorkshire, just older than myself. I liked him because he knew how to put lines through his text, which was pretty spiffy. It didn't take long before I was besotted, and for good reason. He was kind, funny, attractive and he called me cute *with* my glasses on. Two years later we met in Glasgow Central. I almost fell over. My sister had to come with me just so she could make sure I'd stay upright. It is the closest I have ever been to fainting and I damned nearly called it off I was so scared. We spent the rest of the day either sitting in shy quietness or talking about Harry Potter of all things. Then I hugged his knee.

Six and a bit years later he's mass-job hunting and we're saving so we can finally live together. Except I spend most of my wages on train tickets because I can't go more than a few weeks without seeing him.

Meeting people on the internet: It can be good. Very, very good!
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:44, 16 replies)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:46, closed)

I'm definitely trying the knee-hug the next time I meet a hot guy in a bar. If it doesn't result in marriage I want my money back, vix.
( AWPS, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:49, closed)

I'm pretty sure it will result in you getting kicked in the face.
If my leg got grabbed by someone crawling on the floor I would immediately assume that they were a zombie and stamp on their head.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:51, closed)

I've been considering the logistics of hugging someone's knee
My head would therefore be right at cock height. All of a sudden the original story makes so much more sense.

[edit] I'm gonna ask for a knee hug from Mr AWPS tonight, if I'm quick I might get away with it.
( AWPS, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:57, closed)

I'm genuinely upset that the reason you nearly fainted
wasn't that your internet beau was a creepy, 50 year old man.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:52, closed)

Wait wait wait wait wait.
You were 15, and got chatted up online. This can only end well.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:56, closed)

i call foul play
nobody looks cute in glasses
(little lord muthafuckin fauntleroy, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 15:01, closed)

Well that is simply a lie.
*pushes spectacles up nose with one finger*
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 15:03, closed)

Small spectacles?
Or large nostrils?
( TheAlmightyBeev, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 15:16, closed)

Why can't I have both?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 15:25, closed)

Good point.
You are entitled to both nostrils and spectacles of whatever size you prefer.
( TheAlmightyBeev, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 15:26, closed)

Well no, I for one, am devastatingly handsome.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 16:26, closed)

This makes me go SQUEEEEEEEE
Hope that it works out for you.
Clicky
( Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 16:48, closed)

fucking hell. are you a grown-up?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 16:59, closed)

I doubt they're even a human
Humans don't go SQUEEEEEEE. I think they're some kind of rodent.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 17:05, closed)

Good, but expensive!

(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 16:57, closed)