Back in about 2001, came home drunk one night as a teenager and went online. Met this guy in a chatroom, talked to him til about 6am. Made immediate plans to go visit, bought train tickets the next day.
Iirc it took 3 trains to get to his town, I remember an older lady chatting to me and seeming very concerned when she heard what I was doing (in hindsight, I see why haha).
Honestly we didn’t really vibe irl and so it turned out “awkward”. But I didn’t get murdered, which frankly is a bit of a miracle.
That does sound kinda dangerous lol. What ended up happening?
Honestly nothing too interesting at all. We went out to a local rock night, and then the next day I had to just hang around aimlessly in the town centre because his parents didn’t want a random girl staying alone in their house while everyone was at work!
We did stay in touch for a while after as internet acquaintances but he ended up having accidental kids quite young so I dodged a bullet there.
Wow that’s a crazy (interesting) story, glad everything turned out alright.
It was not my most sensible moment. Second place probably goes to the time I went to a gig in Leeds at 16 (we do not live near Leeds), couldn’t afford a hotel, and just had to spend the whole night in the city centre among all the drunks while being…um…scantily clad. Teenage me was a bit of a menace.
I moved across the country to live with someone I was mutuals with on Mastodon, and then became her girlfriend a couple days later. It’s been almost 5 years now and we’re still very happy together! She’s my best friend and the only person that I feel understands me completely, and it still feels unreal that we even met at all.
Aw this is lovely, congratulations!
In college some friends and I decided Friday night that in the morning we were gonna drive to the beach and spend the day. We had been heavily drinking all night, but come the morning we were all in the car and drove 5 hrs to the beach at 7 am and came back in the late evening. One of the best bonding moments of my college years and I got the worst sunburn I’ve ever had.
I bought an apartment 600kms away from my job two months ago.
I’ll report back on how it turned out when I move there and find out whether they decide to fire me.
