Well...Heather and a girlfriend sidled over to the ball field where my team was playing. We needed one more woman (it was a mixed softball league) to fill out the lineup. She said "Ughhhhhh!" (in Scottish) "I HATE baseball!".

She came down to the pub I was playing at (with her then boyfriend) and I tried to impress her with "Lizzie Lindsay". No dice, I'd have been better off trying Led Zeppelin.

Later she went with me to a demonstration I was playing at. It was in support of striking British Mine Workers. I sang "Solidarity Forever"....she said "Those bastards made us freeze our asses off!"

She was virtually a vegitarian Buddhist (or Bahai ist or something) who worked out all the time.......I was a carnivore who HATED onions, turnips, spinach, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and about a dozen other veggies.

So ya see......we were perfectly suited!

I asked her out to dinner....she proposed a few days later. That was 15 years ago.

I sure wasn't happier being single!

What I HAVE discovered is that politically we've gotten closer together in outlook. I've become more conservative and she's more liberal.

Cheers

Rick F