From The Day We Met... Part Three
And Through Part of Our Courtship
To keep the anonymity of those persons who played a major role in our lives, I have used fictitious names or "Blanked" them
By this time "D....." had arrived and I said my goodbyes. You saw me to the car, but didn't say anything about seeing me again.
The day I was coming home I sent you a telegram to let you know
when the train would arrive, but I wasn't sure if you would be there.
You put this into your album, too.
When the train arrived at the station and I saw you waiting for me,
you looked so handsome. I was so happy to see you. I got this funny
feeling in the pit of my stomach and knew I had fallen in love with
you.That is when, you told me later,you had fallen in love with me,too.
What a joy it was to go out with a gentleman.You respected yourself
and had a deep respect for me. Nothing like other men I had gone out
with and had to fight off. Sometimes having to walk home the three or
four miles by myself.
Hallowe'en was coming up, with a masquerade at the Gibbons Hall.
"......." and "....." asked us to go with them. We went as gypsies.
You a dashing Cavalier, me a young maiden. No one knew us at first.
I had never been there before, so no one knew me anyway. As soon as
you started to dance you were recognized. Everyone liked to dance with
you. It was a great dance, an evening enjoyed by all.
A Safeway dance was coming up. You phoned me at work and asked if I
would go with you. I said."I'd love to." I bought new shoes with 4"
heels for dancing. I'll never know why. I was 5'7 and 3/4" tall without heels,and didn't need the height. The shoes looked so nice and just
right for dancing, I thought, and I wanted to look special for you.
I took my good dress and shoes to work and changed there, since it
would be too far to go home first.
When you had phoned me at work, we made arrangements to meet and
have supper before the dance.
When we got to the dance, you left me there while you went to the
hotel,down the block for a drink, which you always did before a dance.
A habit of yours.
While I sat waiting a fellow employee came over to me and asked me to dance. Since I didn't know how long you were going to be, and we did know
each other, having worked together in one of the stores I had worked, I
accepted the invitation. When you returned and found I wasn't where you
had left me, but on the floor dancing, you were upset with me, which
made me feel bad.
I thought it would be ok, since he wasn't a stranger.It was at
this point you said. "Don't ever do that again. When I leave you,
I expect to find you where I left you".
I guess we were an "item" now.
We won a prize in the spot dance, then another for the best dancers
on the floor. It was strange watching as others were tapped on the
shoulder and left the floor.
My boss,Mr.Welsh was very proud as he presented us with the prize.
It was a beautiful cup and saucer.
Everyone commented on how beautifully we danced, and stood back and
watched us, when they left the floor. They clapped vigorously, as we
floated around the room. This made me feel a little ill at ease, but you smiled at me and swung me around and around the room, enjoying every
moment.
It was heavenly. I was floating on air, deliriously happy, and
falling head over heels in love with you.Truly enjoying myself. I
could have danced forever.
"The Band Played On," a great selection. As you swept me around the
room, you whispered in my ear, "Sweatheart, you are the best," and sang
along with the music. You had a beautiful voice.
When an opening presented itself, you would swoop me through it
and settle to dance there until another opening presented itself and
whoosh... we would swoop into it. I loved dancing with you,and couldn't
get enough of it.
When the dance ended we went out, into the night and because it
was so beautiful and the evening had been so great, we decided to walk
home.As we were walking along the street,talking,you gently moved me
over to the inside.(Something you always did throughout our lives).I
caught a glimpse of us in the store window and noticed that I looked
taller than you. I said. "I'll never wear these shoes again. They make
me taller than you." You laughed and said I was walking along the higher
side of the sidewalk,and you were on the lower side.
You teased me about this many times over the years. You were 5'11"
and my heels made me 3/4" taller than you.
After walking nearly two miles, and having danced in them all
evening,the shoes got to be too much for me. I took them off,walking in stocking feet. You carried me piggyback for awhile.
We had such fun,laughing, talking, running, you carrying me. The
walk was over, too soon. This was the beginning of our going steady.
We went dancing every other night,and a show on alternate nights.We
went out for supper often. I always ordered tomato sandwiches, which was something I didn't get at home as I was growing up, and I loved them.
You didn't think this was good enough for me.
One night you had persuaded me to order a meal,so we went into the
'Esquire Grill' which was supposed to be one of the 'BEST'. We ordered
full course meals and started to eat, when you found the peas were sour
and you said. "Don't eat them, they might make you sick."
You paid for the meals and we left. You were so wise. and felt really
bad because I had finally agreed to eat a regular meal and it was no
good. We did get good meals after that, though.
You would take me home in a taxi sometimes, but in nice weather or
if it wasn't too late we would walk. We would sing, and talk of our
hopes and dreams, which were so much the same,it was amazing,and quite surprising.I never thought I'd find someone with the same dreams as I had. Especially,farming.
We talked of eloping, but, since I wasn't 21 yet we decided to get
engaged on your birthday, 8 December 1946 and elope on mine 21 March 1947.
END PART THREE
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