I went to a shadchan who set me up with a girl she had never met. The girl’s friend’s sister had boarded at the shadchan’s home for a few years, and apparently was talking about this girl all the time. The shadchan thought she was right for me, so she set it up. We dated about 3 months before we got engaged. We were engaged on Thanksgiving day, and that Sunday I took my kalla over to finally meet the shadchan!
One other funny story that also happened. The girl, at the time, lived in Flatbush. She lived with a few other girls in the upstairs of a two family home. When I first started calling her – before we even went out – I would leave messages on her answering machine, but she never called me back. Finally, I called the shadchan and explained my predicament. After finally speaking to the girl the first time, I heard “the rest of the story.” Her bedroom was the sun room, with windows all around. The room would get so hot during the day that her answering machine would overheat. She put it in the fridge to cool it down, but any messages on it were gone!