Odette - that story rocks.

Me - well DF and I work together for the same extremely large company, and work in the same building. Mind you, about 500 people work there! I thought he was really cute, and although I am known by pretty much everyone at work, I'm pretty shy when I really want to get to know someone. So I'd bounce over to his workgroup / team and talk to them. I really got to know them well, and they got to know me well too

One day my boss & I were checking out a house I was interested in on the net - it was an old church I was considering buying and renovating / converting. Anyhows DF wandered past and joined in the convo - this was the first time he'd ever actually initiated a converstation with me. An hour later, he went home (and he claimed o/t for the convo!) and my boss just kept looking at me with raised eyebrows.

A couple of days later, one of his work team got my home email addy and sent out a joke email to just myself and DF ... hmmm, subtle?

About a month later, I got drunk and emailed him, asking if he wanted to do coffee one day.

He replied (also drunk) about a fortnight later.

Then a month later I checked my email account and there was his email! I replied and we set up a date.

So a week later I rocked on over to his place, and knocked on his door, my little leggies shaking. It was a lovely day, so we went for a bushwalk instead ... until it rained and we got soaked. I went into his place and had a hot cup of soup and then went home.

The next week, he invited me out for a movie on Sat night, but I had a huge forum meet-up after a Buffy convention, so re-arranged for the Monday. Well fate had different ideas and on the Saturday I attended a fatality with SES - it was a young kid aged 14. Well the meet that Sat night was likely to involve drinking, and most of the people would be younger - like 16-18. And I couldn't face the idea of being around drunk teens - not when I could still see the dead kid's face. So I called DF and asked if he still wanted the movie that night (YES!) and we saw Spiderman II. During the movie I told him what happened. He came back to my place, and stayed with me until I fell asleep. He then left my house and went home. What a gent!
The Monday we went bushwalking again and kissed, and he SMSd me on the Monday night with his age. I didn't care about that and replied "And I'm xx" which was good, cause he thought I was 10 years younger than I am!

Well since then we haven't been apart longer than 1 night excepting when I was in hospital for my reduction. Literally.