How It All Began
“My co-worker pointed him out and said something about him that I won’t repeat..
however, it did make me give him a second look.”
“I saw her behind the counter and I couldn’t see anyone but her.”
Sam had just turned 19 and decided he was ready to try again at a real relationship when his good friend, Nate, took him to the coffee shop that one day in 1991. Nate said he had the perfect girl in mind for Sam. After grabbing their coffee, the two gents sat down at a table in the corner to begin their reconnaissance. Sam needed to see this ‘perfect girl’ before he would meet her. There she was, standing behind the counter whispering to her co-worker about who knows what…But the girl Nate was pointing out wasn’t the one Sam had his eye on..Little did Nate know that he had just changed Sam’s life forever….
Carrie, having just moved into her first apartment a few months prior, was standing behind the counter at the coffee shop where she had worked all thru high school. Debbie, her co-worker, had just pointed out to Carrie this punk looking guy. He was wearing a bright orange bomber jacket and Doc Marten boots half way up to his knees. His hair was short, except for this chunk in the front that came over his eyes and down past his nose and his front teeth were chipped. She didn’t pay much attention to him at first, but it was what Debbie whispered (that shan’t be repeated here) that got Carrie to take a second look and lock eyes with Sam.
Sam ended up hanging out at the coffee shop all day with Carrie’s encouragement of free coffee refills and a few extra croissants. They ended up spending all day together, shared dinner and a movie later that night and even after she dropped him off at home, they continued the conversation over the phone until the wee hours of the dawn.
