1: Met this Dominican girl while stationed at Camp LeJeune. 5'10, dark curly hair, dark eyes, looked AMAZING in a pair of tight Wrangler jeans and a tied-up western shirt. Found out she had a kid, not a big deal for me, I'm great with kids. Six months later, I've decided that this is the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with. Drop two paychecks at Zales on a diamond, take her to Wilmington to the fanciest restaurant I can find, and hit the knee. I hear this: "I love you too, but I can't marry you." Bewildered me asks why. She responds "because I'm already married".
I was enough of a gentleman to drive her back to Jacksonville, got my stuff from her place that night after she crashed and never went back. Found out that not only was she cheating on her deployed husband with a dude named Kevin, she was cheating on both of them with me.
2: I can still make my buddy Adam cry laughing with four words: "Fayetteville Bump and Run". This is that story.
This happened back in the days of Yahoo Messenger (dating myself, I know). I was going through a massive dry spell, it had been two weeks or so since I had experienced any nocturnal physical training, and I was bored AF being stuck on base. So.....I start rolling through chat rooms. End up talking to this girl from Fayetteville (NC, not TN, but I did live in the TN version when I was a kid), she doesn't have a webcam so I can't see her live. Okay, cool, let's find out a little about her.
-She tells me she's 5'9", 115 pounds, dark hair, blue eyes, and she has big "girls" (note, clue #1 that I missed completely. Rest assured, dear reader, there will be more of these).
-She tells me that she lives alone in a trailer (clue #2)
-She tells me that she's going to be driving a red Ford Fiesta when we meet up (should have set off alarm bells, tornado sirens, and ship horns........but it didn't
Sounds good to me, let's DO THIS (she had also mentioned that she had a handle of Jack Daniels, and I had a bit of a drinking problem at the time). I asked her if she had a friend that my buddy Adam (he was as bored as I was, and was willing to be my DD) could hang out with. She's like "yep", so me and Adam roll out from the barracks about 2330 on our way to Fayetteville.
We agreed to meet up at this pizza place that she knew would be right on highway 24 as we got into Fayetteville (I had been there once before, that's another story for another thread; Adam had never been there). We get there in record time, and don't see a Ford Fiesta. Give it five minutes, and here comes this red car.
Y'ALL. THE DRIVERS SIDE OF THE CAR WAS DRAGGING. This woman gets out, and she had never SEEN 115 pounds, she had skipped plum over it on her way directly to HFS. We make our introductions, and yeah, it's the one I've been talking to. Her friend that was supposed to hang out with Adam?? About 55 years old, and had exactly seven non-sequential teeth in her head. So, we get back in our respective vehicles so that me and Adam could follow them to her place. Adam looks at me and says "dude, I can't let you go through with this. Let's just tell them we got caught in traffic, and we'll haul *** back to the barracks." I tell him that we're not going to be rude, that she has alcohol, and we'd give it an hour and then bounce.
We get to her place, and I start pounding Jack Daniels like they ain't never gonna make no more. Adam's in the living room trying to fend off her friend, me and ol' girl are in the kitchen. Of course, my drunk self completely loses track of time and also loses the ability to stop the evening's festivities from proceeding as she had planned. The festivities end, and I start throwing my jeans back on, she asks where I'm going. I tell her "out to smoke", she wants me to hurry back so we can cuddle and discuss our potential relationship.
I sneak out into the front room, Adam's fully dressed on one couch asleep, her friend's on another asleep. I wake Adam up by putting my hand over his mouth and whisper "we're TF out of here, dude". He and I head out the front door, wind up pushing his car backwards out of the driveway (didn't want to turn it on because the headlights would have come on), and getting directions back to Jacksonville from a NC State Trooper.
Needless to say, I had roughly 350 messages the next day telling me what a bad person I was, and how we could have had a wonderful and fulfilling relationship.