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Prompt Response: We Met on the Phone ☎️

How did you meet your significant other?

By Day One (Prompt 2862)

Because it’s late, and I’ve been traveling, I’ve decided to dig out a draft I started from an older Day One prompt. First, though, you’ll want to read about our telephone meeting in When God Plans a Meet Cute.

So now you know that we created our own Valentine’s Day on the first time we spoke over the phone on February 12th. But that’s where I stopped the story. I didn’t tell you that we began exchanging phone calls regularly (and back when you paid by the minute) and talking for hours. Once, he said he needed to go just to get a few hours sleep before work. The next thing you know, he said he needed to go, so he could take a shower and go to work. Oops 😬! But neither of us really wanted to hang up even with building phone bills into the hundreds of dollars.

Arizona

I headed back to Arizona after the two jobs in Massachusetts where we truly got to know each other via long phone calls and a few letters. While I was there, I stayed with my aunt since I didn’t need my own place while living on the road doing the traveling sales. My Aunt Shirley insisted on her own phone time with David. I think she fell in love with him as well, because when it came time for me to get back on the road, and the trip included heading to Kentucky to meet David, she said she knew my life was going to change and that I wouldn’t be coming back to Arizona to live. And she was right.

Kentucky

So my next job was in La Porte Indiana (the town I wrote about on October 4th with the hair dresser who taught me to make homemade salsa). It was close enough to Louisville, Kentucky, that we made plans to meet each other in person. It took me about 3 or 4 days to drive with stopping for sleep and phone calls along the way.

A Giant Bow

Before big bows by that Jo Jo girl became popular, I almost always wore big bows to pull back my long, straight hair. Between that and my 4’10” height, when I knocked on the door and David looked through the peep hole, he could only see the bow on top of my head 🎀😁 Now, don’t you think that made him extra nervous? Especially since Aunt Shirley had jokingly warned him that I was 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Poor guy!

7-Course Dinner

Yes, he actually opened the door. Maybe curiosity pushed him beyond his fears. But also, he had prepared a 7-course meal for me. Basically, he’d been writing down everything I said I liked in our phone calls, and then he shopped for everything he could that he knew how to make, and totally spoiled me. If the calls weren’t enough, that was certainly the icing on the cake with a cherry on top. A proposal came 2 days later, and the rest really is history—35 plus years of it. 💝🥰

October 18, 2026 - Posted by Crystal A Murray (aka CrystalWriter) | AI Image Creations, Creative Image Editing, memories, Prompts, Slice of Life, special days, Text on Image | dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2862, God's will, meant to be, meet cute, significant other