It's a small world

[MarkInTx]

So... I'm doing some shopping, and not paying much attention when the check-out lady asks me if I have a discount card.

I tell her no, and she asks me if I want to consider getting one because I would save a lot of money if I did.

I again decline, but something about the woman's accent made me look at her name tag.

It says: "Natasha."

I ask her: "Where are you from Natasha?"

And she smiles and says (a little apologetically?) "Ukraine."

"Really?" I ask. "Where in Ukraine."

I can tell that at first she is a little uncomfortable, and says simply: "South..."

"Like Odessa?" I ask.

That makes her stop and look at me. "No, I lived about an hour from there..."

"Nikoleav?"

Now she is impressed. I can see her wonder how I knew, and I smile and tell her I was just in Kiev in June.

I ask her how long she has been here. She tells me about one year. And then she asks me if I went to Kiev on business or to meet someone there.

So, I tell her that I met my fiance there, and now I am fighting with the INS trying to get her here.

She asks me how long its been, and I said two months, and she says: "Mark, it took me seven months!"

Unhappily, there were other people in line now, so I had to leave without getting more information. Considering that she is from Ukraine and lives somewhere in my neighborhood, I really wish I had gotten her name for Victoria when she gets here.

[Jack, I know you know a bunch of the people here in the metroplex... if you think you might know her, drop me an email, and I'll tell you the store and town I met her in...]

But it is a small world, eh?

[Jack]

... in response to It's a small world, posted by MarkInTx on Aug 7, 2002

Mark, like Brian said, go back there! This was, and is, a golden opportunity to meet someone, to help build your network of potential Russian ladies that your lady might take a liking too.

Mark remember this, a small percentage of guys looking for a Russian bride even know about these discussion boards. If I had to guess I would say maybe around 20% at best know of these boards, so the great majority of guys who are doing this, we don't even know about.

Go back, tell her that your fiancee from Ukraine will be here soon and you would like to be able to go out for dinner one evening with her and her husband and to be able to introduce your fiancee to her. Ask if you could contact her husband or if your fiancee could contact her. I think this Natasha would look forward to such a meeting.

[BrianN]

... in response to It's a small world, posted by MarkInTx on Aug 7, 2002

It's actually quite refreshing to meet people like this that have common backgrounds...  I know exactly of this experience that you talk about here and it's a good thing.

You can always go back to the market later.  No need for extensive check-ups or connections... just go back sometime and maybe she'll be there.  Perhaps you can ask her for her husband's phone number and strike up a friendship that could last a lifetime.

You never know... it could be some idiot dude like me on the other end of the line you could laugh at.

lol!