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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 530477" data-attributes="member: 16749">“BOB LOVES SEANETTE!”—Re: February 2016 ... &amp;quot;Love and Romance&amp;quot;First entry…&nbsp; In 1994, I was thirty-one years old, and finally in my very first ever real romantic relationship.&nbsp; We went to the State Fair in Santa Barbara, and there I was drawn in by a carnival-game-barker, who encouraged me, for free, to try a game to see how easy it was.&nbsp; It consisted of tossing a baseball into a bushel basket a short distance away.&nbsp; Among the prizes on display was a white teddy bear bearing a red heart with “I Love You” printed on it—just the thing I had to win for my new girlfriend.&nbsp; I quickly learned a lesson about these carnival games.&nbsp; I don't know the exact mechanism involved here, but it was obviously rigged in some manner.&nbsp; When I was playing for free, with no prize at stake, I could easily toss the ball into the basket, and it would stay there.&nbsp; If I paid some money, and hoped to win a prize, I could toss the ball in, and it would just bounce back out.&nbsp; So, I did better.&nbsp; The very next morning, I got up early and went to a local toy store, where I bought the largest white teddy bear that they had; bigger than the one that I had failed to win the day before.&nbsp; I went to a craft store to buy materials to make a heart, and with a little help from my mother, I created this far-superior version of the bear I that had failed to win before.&nbsp; On the back of the heart, is the date, “May 4th, 1994”.&nbsp; I said that this was my first real romantic relationship.&nbsp; Actually, it was my first, last, and only such relationship.&nbsp; Seanette and I were married less than a year later, and we have now been married for almost twenty-one years.[ATTACH]197331[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 530477, member: 16749"] [b]“BOB LOVES SEANETTE!”—Re: February 2016 ... "Love and Romance"[/b] First entry… In 1994, I was thirty-one years old, and finally in my very first ever real romantic relationship. We went to the State Fair in Santa Barbara, and there I was drawn in by a carnival-game-barker, who encouraged me, for free, to try a game to see how easy it was. It consisted of tossing a baseball into a bushel basket a short distance away. Among the prizes on display was a white teddy bear bearing a red heart with “I Love You” printed on it—just the thing I had to win for my new girlfriend. I quickly learned a lesson about these carnival games. I don't know the exact mechanism involved here, but it was obviously rigged in some manner. When I was playing for free, with no prize at stake, I could easily toss the ball into the basket, and it would stay there. If I paid some money, and hoped to win a prize, I could toss the ball in, and it would just bounce back out. So, I did better. The very next morning, I got up early and went to a local toy store, where I bought the largest white teddy bear that they had; bigger than the one that I had failed to win the day before. I went to a craft store to buy materials to make a heart, and with a little help from my mother, I created this far-superior version of the bear I that had failed to win before. On the back of the heart, is the date, “May 4th, 1994”. I said that this was my first real romantic relationship. Actually, it was my first, last, and only such relationship. Seanette and I were married less than a year later, and we have now been married for almost twenty-one years. [ATTACH=CONFIG]197331._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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