what are the odds? - Encountered co-worker on swinger site

[blinkey]

We became active in February. So far, to date, we have only replied to the influx of emails that new accounts tend to get. Well, that has finally leveled off, and so this past weekend, we sent out 5 emails to couples that looked promising. That's a grand total f-i-v-e emails that we initiated to meet others.

Today a co-worker, whom we have had over for dinner (and his wife), who we would consider friends, asked if the name "blinkey" means anything to me. My smile gave it away.

Wow, I've heard of people running into people they knew, but that only happens in stories. Or maybe to people who have been active for a long time. I am still in shock. I cannot believe that one of the 5 emails landed in an office literally across the hall from mine. Oh, how small the world just became. (But what a nice talk that resulted.)

B.

[Mr. Truelove]

Heh, you think thats bad? I ran into my neighbor. But they don't know we know yet, and we've known for a month or two. Whats worse is we've fanatasized about them in the past....a lot. And we've decided that for now, our neighbors are off-limits.

Sigh....maybe in the future.

What's even funnier is we got invited to one of their "swinger" parties without realizing it was a swinger party. The wife invited us over while she was drunk...partying. We thought it was an adult christmas party, but people were just a little out of place, something was not right. Soon my neighbors told us their party was coming to an end and we left. But other people didn't follow and we thought that was odd as well.

Now that we are in the know it all clicks and we realized that we were invited to this swinger party and that they had decided it was bad form to invite us and then tried to find a diplomatic way to tell us to leave. At the time they were whispering to each other and whatnot.

How silly it all seems.

[sexyshelby]

Yep, it will happen. You just never know who you're really contacting until you do it.

Luckily for you, things seem to be ok

~SS

[meandher2go]

we had one of my customers contact us with thier private pics open and now i cant even look at him the same. too funny

[havefuninsun]

I was chatting with potential playmates last night, and she was telling me that their neighbors across the street spotted their profile on AFF ... and when they brought up the subject with them, they all four laughed, talked, and everything was cool. In fact, they do have fun every once in a while -- our potential new buddies said "well, you can't beat the travel time." HAHAHAHA.

[macallan_neat]

I'll be d***ned, blinkey -- Yesterday that *exact* same thing happened to me in reverse!

What are the odds!!!

[lovedoctor]

Blinkey and Macallan!

Just be careful if you decide you are going to swing with a co-worker. That's one of our absolutes that we won't do.

The problem is not when the going is good. The problem is if things don't work out - you still have to work together.

Our guideline is "Don't shit where you eat...."

[macallan_neat]

Most definitely, love doc.

[Mr. Truelove]

Originally Posted by macallan_neat

I'll be d***ned, blinkey -- Yesterday that *exact* same thing happened to me in reverse!

What are the odds!!!

Now that was really funny. =P

[Jaz Kansorka]

We got a hit on Swing Lifestyle from a childhood friend of mine. Opened the email, read it, sounded great then scrolled down the pic that was attached. Thought to myself, "OMG that is *Anna*" I emailed back that I wanted HER to look hard at my pics and be SURE they were interested. She didn't get who it was, I've changed a lot. So I gave her the intersection of the streets we lived on as kids. She about died! She gave me her phone number and begged me to call. We laughed for an hour about what were the chances and agreed that while playing was out of the question, the 4 of us HAD to do dinner just for kicks and to chat about how we all got to this point in our lives. It is a very very small world!

jaz

[DGrey]

LOL!

This has happened to us...twice in a matter of weeks.

First, on Swapper we got an email from an incredibly sweet and attractive couple wanting to meet that night. Turns out, we were not able to get a sitter but told them we'd keep them in mind for the future. The more I looked at his picture, the more I swore I knew him from somewhere. A few more back and forth emails revealed that he is a permanent teacher at the school where I was (up until this past Monday) doing my student teaching. D'oh! We both agreed to keep it professional and when we would pass each other in the halls or the office or what have you, just exchanged smiles. As it turns out, I'm assigned back to the same school for my full time internship in the fall. so it looks like we'll never have the opportunity to play with them.

Then, just a week or so later, we get an email on Swing Lifestyle from a couple and I instantly knew I knew the female from somewhere. She was the college roommate of my former best friend.

It's such a small world.

E

[TeamSoBe]

I walked out of my wife's office on Monday morning to take some outgoing mail downstairs to our office building's lobby. I left her bitching about her sore muscles from the crazy swing romp weekend that we had. We met some new couples, and there was one couple who was supposed to show but couldn't make it.

On the way back up I held the elevator door for this sexy woman who looked awfully familiar. She was in a big hurry to get somewhere and didn't notice me at all. I didn't even figure out why she looked familiar until after she had already gotten off on her floor. Then it hit me. Gee it's a good thing that she and her husband put photos of their faces in their profile.

I sent email to their profile right away about how much I love the girl watching in the elevators in South Beach. 'Hey why don't we already know these people' ensues and we're meeting soon. Then we realize that this couple was the friends-of-friends couple who didn't manage to make it to our party two nights earlier.

[WesternSwing]

We've had past friends enter the lifestyle and come across our profile and call out out of the blue. We've run into several business associates at parties. It's an awkward moment, but past that it's a good laugh and you now have more in common then business.

Mr. WS

[Amanda69]

Still not happened yet but I know one day it will. I figure you are both in it so both have something to lose by outing the other.

However, have to agree safer not to play with co-workers and possibly neighbors. If you have a falling out who knows where the fur will fly.

[cj22s]

One day J was looking at ads on Swing Lifestyle from our old zip code and guess who was at the top of the list. His best friend from high school (he was also supposed to be the best man at our wedding). To think of all the time the 4 of us hung out not knowing how much more fun we could of been having. Well we will be heading home for the holidays maybe we will give them a call.