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  • #1407802
    Joseph
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    Lilmod, that was a great story! But don’t leave us hanging for the cliffhanger.

    Who did he end up deciding to marry – Sara or Esty?

    #1407807
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    So after Yossi finished laughing and apologizing, Sara told him that she would speak to Esty and they would decide which one should date him first.

    Sara and Esty discussed it and tried to figure out which one he would be most matim for. In the end, they concluded that he would be the most matim for their third roommate, Tova! L’maaseh, Esty went out with him first. I don’t remember if Sara or Tova ended up going out with him.

    I do know that none of them ended up marrying him. Esty got married to someone else, not too long afterwards. Sara got married around 15 or so years later. I have no idea what happened to Yossi or to Tova (whose real name I can’t even remember).

    #1407833
    Joseph
    Participant

    Yossi and Tova eloped.

    #1407858
    batHH
    Participant

    It’s so nice that you guys have such cute stories! I only have experienced/heard sad stories… BS”D not anymore in future!

    #1410638
    Burnt Steak
    Participant

    My friend set me up with a girl who he said would be a great fit for me. He wouldn’t tell me much about her except that she was a good girl ect… I talked with her on the phone and we had a good conversation. She told me she knew a few players on my favorite football team and we decided to go out. From speaking with her on the phone I thought she was similar to me.

    At the time I was living in Manhattan and she was in Staten Island. We were gonna do the date in lower Manhattan. I went to meet her on the Staten Island side of the ferry. She was late and missed the ferry. When I saw her I knew it would not work out. I was not attracted to her, she was very different hasgafically than me, and we had almost opposite views in life and wanted different things. We ended up walking around lower Manhattan and I decided to have some fun and asked her if she knew who Harambe זכרונו לברכה was. When I heard she didn’t know about the Great One, I spent the rest of the date showing her Harambe memes.

    I ended the date on the ferry ride back to Staten Island. Unsurprisingly she agreed with me.

    #1410695

    It sounds like the joke being made in BMYer’s story was that the reason the boy opens the
    car door for the girl is that they’re afraid the girl might damage it if she opened it herself.

    #1560582
    whitecar
    Participant

    Any more?

    #1562940
    whitecar
    Participant

    Thats it, no more?

    #1609909
    boki beshas
    Participant

    Please tell me you bought her the shot glass that says “take a shot for harambe, he took one for you”

    #1609923
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Be careful roomates or sisters should not show up when it is not their date. The date might get derailed by him falling for the wrong person which is funny but it is not.

    #1706114
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    This happened to our babysitter-

    She started dating fresh out of seminary and got pretty far with the first guy she went out with. He had mentioned to the shadchan that he was ready to get engaged and then reality hit her. She was having a good time on the dates and enjoyed being around him but she felt that she might not be mature enough to get married and take on the responsibilities of raising a family. My wife sent her to speak with a rebbatzin who agreed with her that she wasn’t ready to get married for some time. She then called the shadchan, explained what was going on and said that she needed to end it.

    A few months later she saw on a different website that the guy had gotten engaged.

    Fast forward some more time.

    She’s in Lakewood for Shabbos and hitches a ride back to Flatbush Sunday morning with a distant cousin who’s been married for a few years. When she introduces herself to the husband he has this strange look on his face and asks if she has any older sisters. She answers that she’s the oldest but is totally unsure of what he’s getting at. Then he asked if she has any female cousins with the same last name that are dating and she said that her father doesn’t have any brothers- but she is still unsure of what he’s getting at.

    During the ride she’s sitting between their two infants and entertaining them. When the kids fell asleep the husband starts talking and explains that he has a friend that had gone out with someone with the same last name so he just wanted to make sure that it wasn’t her sister or cousin. Since he already confirmed that it wasn’t her older sister or cousin he began to relate to her what this “horrible girl” had done to his friend. “She totally led him on that she was interested in him until he was ready to propose and then she claims that she’s not ready to get married.” So, our babysitter considers jumping out onto the Garden State but figures that the child safety locks are engaged and doesn’t even try. The guy keeps going on and on about how horrible of a person this girl was to his friend and she’s sitting there not knowing what to do.

    Finally she breaks the ice and says, “WOW, she really does sound immature! I sure hope your friend finds someone else right away and she stays single until she grows up a little”. She spent the rest of the ride sympathizing with the guy while trashing herself.

    #1706115
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    This happened to a former student of mine (I heard it from him)-

    He’s driving her back after a great second date (the first one went great as well) when she asks if she can ask him some questions. He agrees.

    “So, thinking about your upbringing, can you relate to me a decision that your parents made that you agreed with and a decision that they made that you don’t agree with?”

    He was totally caught off guard and was speechless.

    She told him that if he didn’t have an answer right away she’ll go on to the next question and he can think about it and give her an answer on the next date.

    “So, thinking about your current chavrusa and a former chavrusa, can you tell me something that you like better about your current chavrusa and something you like better about your former chavrusa?”

    Again he’s caught off guard and is speechless. She again offers to go on while courteously allowing him to bring an answer to that question as well to the next date.

    Without looking up from the road he asked her if she’s reading these questions off a paper or something, but she said that she forgot the list of questions at home so she’s going by her memory.

    By the time he got to her house he hadn’t been able to answer a single question of hers but she gracefully allowed him to answer all her questions on a subsequent date.

    Unfortunately for her- there was none.

    A few weeks later I noticed that he wasn’t by the Mincha that we usually went to and his brother told me that he was on a date.

    I sent him a text- “So, thinking about the girl you’re currently dating and a previous girl you dated, tell me something that you like better about this girl and something that you liked better about the other girl?”

    He texted back that they both found it hilarious. (They eventually got married.)

    #1706116
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    Heard this from the person who it happened to during the shiva for her father-

    The niftar was a senior pediatrician from the practice that we use.

    One of his daughters related that after the levaya before the burial she was surrounded by her friends when a guy she recently broke up with popped out of nowhere and said “I felt that I have to be here for you.”

    #1706208
    Joseph
    Participant

    “I felt that I have to be here for you.”

    Did they get married?

    #1706217
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    That is really awkward. I hope he didn’t show up to the shiva house every night

    #1706221
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    Joseph-

    I don’t know her too well and I have no idea who the guy is. They had already broken up at the time and I doubt that they reconnected.

    #1706228
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    These stories just make me more frightened to send my kids out with “strangers”

    #1706281
    Joseph
    Participant

    Syag, your kids can marry their cousins.

    #1706396
    Yzj
    Participant

    No one posted the one about the ultra frum BJJ girl who informs the boy she is dating that she asks people to call her ”Baska” so as not to pronounce the Shem Hashem by saying “Basya”. He replies “in that case please call me Keilikaku”.

    I was told that the following took place with the parent of a friend of mine be a few decades ago. The boy was supposed to go out with this girl who he wasn’t thrilled about, and just before the date he was told that another girl who he was very interested in had become available. He figured he’ll just act over the top and get the first girl to reject him. He gets to the house and and they offer him some cake. He says “cake? I LOVE cake! “They offer him some Pepsi and he says “WOW! PEPSI! My favorite! And so on during the date as well. After the date he gets a call from the shadchan who exclaims “What did you do? He thinks to himself oh boy, I really rubbed them the wrong way. The shadchan continues, “they loved you! The parents and the girl are so excited and looking forward to the next date!

    #1706409
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Yzj- great stories!

    #1706422
    Joseph
    Participant

    Did I somewhere within the over 1,400 funny shidduch stories posts on this thread over the past 10+ years ever retell the story of my date with Dr. Pepper’s sister?

    #1709394
    GRATEFULBLAC
    Participant

    THE SHORTEST SHIDDUCH MEETING EVER
    There once was a girl named Shprinszy,
    who I was to meet for a coffee,
    when I got to the hotel,
    I said hello, I believe you are Sprinkly,
    I mean Sherinsky,
    sorry Shrinky,
    I mean Sheprinsky,
    I am having trouble pronouncing your name Stinky,
    She gave me a look,
    and said that was enough
    and that was the end of that shidduch!

    #1709746
    GRATEFULBLAC
    Participant

    LOVE WILL TEAR US APART AGAIN
    Once I met a girl on a shidduch,
    Who had on pale makeup,
    Her lipstick was black,
    And her eyeshadow dark,
    And she was dressed as though she was ready for a funeral,
    I said hi there Devorah are you ok,
    And she said yes I like the cemetery,
    I said “are you a goth?”
    and she said “yes,
    there is nothing wrong with that!”
    Oh I said that’s fine I will be back at 9
    And disappeared before she could lock me in a coffin!

    #1889127
    shmuliebz
    Participant

    Bump

    #1891005
    AriHaleviRosman
    Participant

    After coming home from learning in Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim, my friend went directly to Lakewood to meet with a local shadchan.
    After explaining that his family is very Modern but he flipped out in OJ after graduating his co-ed high MO school, the shadchanit told him that he and his family were too goyish for the girls she knew.
    After a few more squabbles, my friend ended up marrying that shadchanit’s daughter.
    To this very day, she still thinks her son-in-law is a goy!!

    #1891079
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    Jospeh-

    I just saw your question from last year. I don’t recall seeing the story anywhere except when I first posted it back in 2009.

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    When I went back to that part of the thread there were some comments missing- including the one where you admitted that you were the guy she was dating. You can tell by the lack of continuity.

    My brother-in-law found out about it and still teases her. When they recently went food shopping and the grocery store said they needed to wear gloves he took two out of the box, stared at them, and said “look, they gave me two right handed gloves”!

    He doesn’t tease her about dating you though so he must not have found out about it by reading it here.

    #1891090
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Dr. Pepper- joseph hasn’t posted in over a month and with Covid-19 I worry about people when they go awol. There is no way he would miss out on responding to a post from you so hopefully we will hear he is well.

    #1891171
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    Syag Lchochma-

    I checked on the profile for Joseph and it was obviously a different profile as this one was created less than 3 years ago and the original post was over 10 years old.

    (It may have been the same Joseph though.)

    #1891180
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Pretty sure they’re all the same Joseph. I checked a few joseph profiles but found nothing more recent than july 2nd.

    #1891251
    achmad_the_arab
    Participant

    wow I cant believe the same people have been talking to each other on this thread for 9 years. Do you guys know each other personally? like, in real life

    #1891450
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    achmad_the_arab-

    For the most part I don’t know who these profiles are in real life. Every so often I figure out who someone is and so I let them know (just so that they don’t think they’re anonymous) but they usually deny it.

    In one case a poster called me a name in a different thread (I’m not sure if it was meant to be complimentary or derogatory) but I never heard the term before. I then overheard a coworker referring to an old colleague with the same terminology and put two and two together. I informed him that his covers been blown (I didn’t tell him how I figured it out) and he denied it but the profile was immediately retired.

    Joseph is a different story altogether. Given that the Frum, Yeshivish community is very small most posters who want to remain anonymous are careful not to let their guard down.

    On a different forum I noticed that a poster had some close similarities to Jospeh and started monitoring the posts from both of them. After I was totally convinced I ran it by another poster who I was in contact with in real life and he thought it was solid. At one point he slipped and let his guard down and gave away enough information for me to figure out what his real name is. Of course this may have been intentional to throw people off- I’ll probably never know.

    Also, I can’t even be sure that the Joseph that I tracked down is the same Jospeh who’s posting nowadays.

    #1891499
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Oh boy, you got me so curious!!

    #1891515
    Maivin
    Participant

    By the way, there are at least 7 joseph’s

    #1891576
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    Syag Lchochma-

    It’s really not too interesting or worth losing sleep over.

    I’m going to try to give all the details but some of the posts I’m going to reference have disappeared over the decade so it’s hard to fact check.

    The first post from a “Joseph” that caught my attention and was an inside joke that was going on at work and I showed it to a colleague of mine and asked him if he thought it was a different colleague whose name is Joseph. He agreed that the poster either worked with us or a competitor unless it was just a strange coincidence. After checking out the other posts by “Joseph” we came to the conclusion that they were too radical to be from our coworker.

    Sometime later I was reading a post that I suspected was from a “Jospeh” and he used a word not in my vocabulary that I had to look up in the dictionary. Around the same time I was on a secular (albeit professional) website where the same thing happened. Those are the only two times I recall having to look up a word in the dictionary that I came across in an online forum. Given that some of the interests that our “Joseph” had coincided with the poster on the other site I began to follow the two of them very closely.

    I noticed another pattern in the two of them in that they both asked questions to new members that they seemed to know (or, based on proven expertise in a topic, should have known) the answer to. I don’t know what the point of this was, possibly to build trust amongst new members, but whatever it was- the pattern was clearly there.

    The poster on the other site posted pretty much daily except for Shabbos which I thought was a good indication that the poster is Frum despite the screen name. I waited patiently for the next Yom Tov to see if this poster happened to be away for Saturdays or was actually observant. When the next Yom Tov came and my “friend” didn’t post I suspected the latter.

    I wanted to share my findings with other CR posters but those that I outed denied being who they were and Moderator-80 was very clever and making sure we didn’t leave any personal information so that posters can contact each other.

    The idea that I came up with was to encode a message by using a private key based on some numbers that were used in one thread with an encryption method described in a different thread. I figured that a handful of posters who recalled both of those posts would be able to figure out how to decode the message and contact me on the email address that I set up for this purpose.

    There were a few posters who decoded the message and contacted me but I was only able to verify that 2 of them were the poster they claimed to be.

    Once I was in contact with these other trusted posters I shared my findings and we were above a 99.99% confidence level that these two posters were the same.

    I continued my surveillance on the other site until I hit a payday. A different poster at the site asked for assistance with a question and the solution was easier to explain with a word document than by typing in a response box on a forum. Instead of sending the OP a PM he embedded a Word document (it seems to have been removed since then)- and to my delight he neglected to remove the metadata from the file! I now had his full name and place of employment!

    Now, I can’t say for sure if “Joseph” was just one step ahead of me and sent me on a wild goose chase by leaving red herring all over the place but I did get a huge amount of satisfaction. I wouldn’t know if any of the pictures I came across while searching his name are actually him- so I don’t know if I ever saw him in person. There was someone who was in Yeshiva at the same time as my brother-in-law with the same name I never pursued if it was the same person or not as I thought it may lead to Lashon Hora.

    #1891585
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Wow! Truly fascinating. Did you ever tell him you figured it out?

    #1891591
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    I once posted something cryptic and it got through the moderators but a few milliseconds later Moderator-80 came around, figured out the underlying message and heavily edited it. Over the years I’ve dropped hints in seemingly innocent posts but they either went right over his head, he chose to ignore them, this isn’t the same Joseph it used to be or I’m way off.

    Either way- I pretty much spelled the entire thing out over here so let’s see what happens.

    #1891645
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Thanks for indulging me, I have always been obssessed with mysteries. I starting reading thru all your posts, having a blast. I remember the wagon wheels, wondering what they meant and feeling a desire to be a part of the “in” crowd.

    So far I’ve caught the friedman and khan refrences. Am I allowed to say that?

    #1891658
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    Dr Pepper- i just had a flash of onspiration. After reading that thread so many times over the years it just occurred to me. Could the wagon be a reference to a squeaky wheel?

    #1891664
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    The wagon was part of a caravan of trucks for a movie that was being filmed there. I hope you didn’t lose sleep over that for all these years.

    Before a movie is filmed signs go up to let people know to plan their parking accordingly so when the signs went up someone gave me a heads up that the “wagon” was going to be there.

    I had no idea what he was talking about until one Friday I took a detour to check it out. I tried to keep a straight face because I thought if he saw someone smile from ear to ear when they saw the wagon it would give me away. I walked right by as if I didn’t notice anything. I also pretended not to notice the can of Dr Pepper left by the wagon.

    This is a public forum so you’re free to quote anything I wrote but if you think it may lead to Lashon Hora please keep it to yourself. Thanks

    #1891667
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    That is so funny. No, i don’t generally lose sleep, but i find my brain tends to keep the files open indefinitely. I don’t think i thought about it regularly, just when i came across that thread or a reference. As far as Lashon Hora, I don’t think I know enough detail to know what you mean, so no worries.

    #1953287
    LA boy
    Participant

    BUMP

    #1955253
    yab
    Participant

    I know someone who went on a date during lockdown. To cut the long story short, the girl sat on a plastic chair outside the car whilst the boy sat inside the car with a plastic tablecloth hanging over the open car door!

    #1955256
    yab
    Participant

    To all those with kohein-divorcee stories!
    Little know halacha: a kohein may not marry the daughter of a ger and a giyores.
    I know a kohein who was seriously dating a top girl and was ready to get engaged. This girl’s father, a prominent man in his community, was a ger. The boy’s Rav told him to check out the mother’s lineage – the mother had been adopted at birth, so it was not 100% certain she was Jewish. In fact, she had undergone sfak geirus just in case, but as her birth parents had specifically requested that she only be adopted by Orthodox Jews, it was safe to assume that she was born Jewish.
    As the adoption was “closed”, it took 3 months (!) to find the necessary information. All this time, the boy and girl were unofficially engaged; they were just waiting for this mere formality to be over.
    And then …. they found out the girl’s mother was NOT Jewish from birth! It turns out her mother had noticed that Orthodox Jews treat their kids well and wanted her daughter to have a good life!
    Both boy and girl are happily married, and the girl’s mother was actually quite happy to get to know her “real” family.

    #1955257
    yab
    Participant

    A boy from out of town picked up the girl and then, following his map (yes, he was a little old fashioned!), set off down the main road – right through the centre of the Jewish kehilla! Turning red, he mumbles, “Oops this is feeling a little awkward! Which way should I go?” The girl was also feeling awkward – as they stopped by a red light, her friend had crossed the road in front of them; the friend waved then dropped her arm awkwardly when she saw the guy driving the car! So, the girl directs him out of the area. Unfortunately, he never told her where they were heading so they ended up hopelessly lost. Then he realises the necessary page is torn out of the map book! Bekitzur they end up parking at the wrong entrance to the park and hiking through an abandoned mud trail (the girl was wearing heels!). Then she got worried about yichud so they returned to the car. Unfortunately, she slipped into a mud puddle on the way, so got to the car caked in mud. The boy told her not to worry – the car was usually dirty! They did actually end up going out a couple more times, but it did not work out.

    #1955259
    yab
    Participant

    A girl was in a taxi on the way to a date (the boy didn’t drive, so it was arranged that she would meet him by the hotel). The cabbie turns to her as she got in and said, “Oooh, you’re dressed up fancy! Are you going to a wedding?”
    The girl laughed and replied, “Actually, I’m going to a proposal!”
    Cabbie, thinking that she meant someone else’s proposal (goyshe version of a lchaim?), asks if she thinks her turn will be soon.
    She blushes and replies in the affirmative, and then the cabbie gives her a lecture on why she should not be so sure of her boy until he actually proposes. By this time, she is nearly hysterical with suppressed laughter!

    #1955260
    yab
    Participant

    On their way to their second date, the boy tells the girl to choose a CD from the glove compartment. The girl, shaking with nerves, pulls out the top one and proceeds to turn purple as the strains of “Od yishama” fill the car! The boy commented “Ouch, that’s awkward!” and cooly switches the radio on.

    #1955273
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    The shidduch comes in an unexpected way as krias yam suf, the spitting if the sea, was not expected. My shidduch came through a plumber who worked by both of our families. My wife a’h and myself together made a shidduch.

    #1955284
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    A kosher movie named Arranged involves an arab girl who makes a shidduch for a religious orthodox jewish girl.

    #1955277
    yab
    Participant

    About a year ago, my friend was on a date. They got off the subway and found themselves face to face with a giant dog. My friend, who has an extreme phobia of dogs, took a giant step backwards, the train doors closed, and before the boy knew what had hit him, he was standing alone on the platform. He was still waiting when the girl reappeared, very embarrassed, 20 minutes or so later. Now, whenever they meet a dog, he quips that he had been well warned.

    #1955300
    yab
    Participant

    Talking about unexpected shadchanim, I heard of a goyta who told the woman she works for, “I think the Friedman boy around the corner is just perfect for your Sorole!” The mother was not impressed, but then the shadchan called that night with the exact same shidduch! Turned out the goyta had said the same thing to Mrs Friedman, who thought it was worth a try and called the shadchan.
    The story does not say if the cleaner received any shadchanus.

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