Today?sgeneration might claim that online dating brings the real joy of dating buteven the dating that existed in our generation was also fun. I have dated someof the most beautiful women in our locality during my youth. I met my late wifeMel through dating only. Even today I can remember our first date clearly. Shewas a close friend of my best friend Andy's girl friend, Juliet. One day whilewe were having coffee at a restaurant, she also was there with her cousin.Juliet invited them to join us. She was pretty, in fact very pretty with aperfect figure and height. I am not exaggerating but she looked just like KateWinslet in her long skirt, suit and hat in the movie Titanic. For the firsttime in my life I was a bit nervous even with the company of so many people.The whole evening she gave a mysterious look and twinkling smile towards me.

Ikept thinking about her long after that coffee encounter. No doubt I wasinterested in her but I didn't know what was in her mind and then she wasJuliet's best friend also, so was feeling a bit self-conscious to ask Julietabout her. Don't know if luck was on my side or what, but one day Juliet askedme that if am not otherwise engaged, would I like to go for dating with herpretty friend? I said ?are you kidding, I have been waiting for this since thelast so many days; I would love to go for dating with your best friend.?

Onthe day of our dating, I picked up Mel from Juliet's place. She was lookinggorgeous. I couldn't believe this pretty girl was my date for the evening. I wantedthis dating to be very memorable for both of us. So I had booked the bestrestaurant in the city. But guess that was not one of those good days of mylife. We were on the mid way when my car was encountered with flat-tyreproblem. Somehow I repaired that and we reached the restaurant. To my bad luckas were late to reach the venue, the manager of the restaurant very happilyallotted our table to someone else. Great, as if my misery wasn't enough, thisguy increased it even more. I didn't know what I am gonna do now, when Melrescued me from my embarrassment by suggesting to go to a nearby relativelycheap but popular food joint. That was when I found another quality of Mel tolike, i.e. her understanding and adjustment nature.

Anyways,my first dating with Mel passed smoothly for the rest of the evening. We talkedfor a while during our dinner, but I just wanted to sit and keep looking ather. Mel also sensed that for she was blushing the whole time. I just wishedtime would stop then and there. After dinner when I was on my way to drop Mel,I had already decided to ask her for another date. But don't know what got intome, I couldn't utter a single word. I was just about to say bye when Mel as ifcould read my mind and asked me when we are going to meet next. My joy knew nobound. I could have hugged her then and there. But I controlled my emotions andscheduled our next dating for the very weekend. We got married after dating fora couple of months. I was in love with her from the first moment I saw her, andwhen she accepted my proposal I felt like the luckiest man in this world.