It was the first weekend of school in the fall of 2000, and I’d been on my way to dinner, when I saw some friends, Tim and Mandy playing Ultimate Frisbee. When I stopped to talk to them, they invited me over for dinner because they knew that I liked to cook, and they know how school food can be at times. I’d known Mandy for a number of years, as she as my camp counselor for the last two years I was a camper prior to working at the camp, and Tim was her fiancé at the time, who I’d also met at camp one summer. Drew had been playing Ultimate with them for the past three years, and Tim and Mandy would often have people from the team over for dinner and to hang out, and this just happened to be one of those times.
I went over to their house to help cook and to hang out and get to know some other people on campus, as they were having a group of people from the team over. We had to stop and pick some food up so that there would be enough to feed everyone. By the time we got there, Drew was already there, but he wasn’t just sitting around watching TV or lounging like most people would have been.... Instead, he was underneath their dining room table trying to “fix” it. I just thought that he was strange (….and boy was I right….), but I went into the kitchen to start cooking. After dinner and spending time hanging out and getting to know people, I wanted to head back, but didn’t have a ride, so Tim asked Drew to give me a ride. I was thinking to myself, great…I get to ride with a fool… We were pretty quiet on the ride back to school though, because we are both naturally introverts.
I decided to join the team, so we spent some time together practicing or eating dinner with the team, but never really thought anything of it. It wasn’t until Fall Free Day Weekend, and our annual team trip to Vermont, that some stuff began to change. It was on this trip that I started dealing with some of my past. We got closer this weekend, but weren’t interested in dating each other. We got back from the trip and hung out more then we had before, and everyone thought that we were dating. I don’t know about him, but I still wasn’t all that interested in dating him at that time. The rest of the fall semester went by and we were still friends, but nothing more. I came back about a week early for the spring semester, because I was supposed to be babysitting for someone that week, but things got changed, and they didn’t need me after all, so I was hanging out at Tim and Mandy’s for the week. He’d already been back a week, as he was working with Tim at work for the two weeks prior to school starting back up. It was during the first few days that I was back that we talked and decided that there was something between us and that we should just start dating. And we’ve been together ever since. So if it weren't for Tim and Mandy inviting me over and then encouraging me to join the Ultimate team, chances are Drew and I wouldn't be dating at all, and I wouldn't be writing this for my webpage.
