Oh the Conversations We Would Have
By Val
@valmnz (17095)
New Zealand
October 30, 2015 2:29pm CST
I know the idea comes up often, of what it would be like if we could meet the people we chat away to here every day. I imagine it would be so easy to just carry on with the conversations we have in our discussions here.
I know some of you have actual met. Four years ago, when I was writing on a site called Triond, I was lucky enough to meet two fellow writers there in Singapore. Once I knew my husband and I were going to Singapore we started building up even more of a relationship with them.
They were wonderful people, who'd actually never met each other before either. What made the day very special was the day we spent with them was our 40th wedding anniversary and New Zealand Mothers Day. It was Mothers Day in Singapore too but both gave up their time to be with us. That made it even more special.
So yes, I think it would be easy to put a large group of us from here in a room where we'd just carry on our conversations as if we were here. That would be fun.
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@fawkes62 (1276)
• United States
30 Oct 15
Unfortunately for me I am much more shy in person, so I don't know how comfortable I would be meeting anyone on here in person. I'm not nearly as shy when I am talking to a picture on the computer. It would be fun to meet some of those I've met online in person, if I could get passed the shyness. Once I know a person I do tend to talk a lot more.
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@rosekiss (30413)
• Eugene, Oregon
30 Oct 15
I haven't met anyone from mylot,but when yahoo had their chat rooms, I did meet one from there. He lives in the Bronx of New York, and he had a long distance relationship with a gal that lived in the area we did at the time. We met them at the Oregon State Fair one particular day, and we had the best time ever. That is the only time I ever met anyone from online, but maybe someday, i will meet others, maybe from here.
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@rosekiss (30413)
• Eugene, Oregon
30 Oct 15
@valmnz That will be really cool. Sometimes we can talk and talk to people and never ever meet them, and then other times we do meet. I was totally surprised when I finally did meet someone from yahoo. Well, there is one place where we will all meet each other, and that is in heaven.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
30 Oct 15
Yes Val I have met quite a few People from here and we stayed good Friends unfortunately the sweetest Person who used to look after me when I was sick (she used to come and stay with me)passed away but there are still good Friends from here I see
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
31 Oct 15
i was in an Indian forum where we had just one foreigner from the UK. She and I got on well, exchanged emails, exchanged photos and when she planned to visit India, I invited her. She and her friend spent two days with us. I took her round to places she had shown interest in.
We still write and are in touch
I have yet another friend from the US who is an expert in Iris cultivation.
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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31 Oct 15
I've only met one person from online, from Bubblews and that was my ex-partner.
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@LadyDuck (502877)
• Italy
31 Oct 15
@TheHorse LOL, I remember a friend of mine told me about two business who met, one only spoke Dutch and the other Spanish, but they finally were able to communicate speaking a broken Latin they both had studied in school. My Latin is poor, very poor.
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@TheHorse (238370)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Oct 15
I enjoy trying to work through language issues. I met a friend's father who spoke mostly German. I speak mostly English. But both he and I spoke bad French. So we communicated in bad French. There was much laughter. It was fun.
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@wetnosedogs (1533)
• United States
30 Oct 15
That had to be interesting meeting your Singapore friends.
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@GardenGerty (169585)
• United States
31 Oct 15
I have been fortunate enough to meet two or three people from here, or that I met here first. One was @AmbiePam another was @Marsha32 and then there is @Webieishere and his daughter @Minnie but they do not come to mylot anymore. I have spoken with @Hatley on the phone.
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@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
31 Oct 15
That would really be interesting if that could happen with others sounds like it was quite a experience.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
1 Nov 15
I think it would be great.... i've met one fellow mylotter.... which is great... and will see her again soon... there are sssooo many people from here that I would like to meet in person....
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