I met my wife by calling a wrong number

[JoeLansing]

Sorry if this is long.  Ages ago, I was 44 or so and scared to fly.  So one day I decided I was going to get over it and fly someplace exotic, but where they spoke English because I'm lazy like that.  I used Google and it said Philippines was an English speaking country.  Looked good!  So I go to work at the bank and like 8 out of 10 of the people I tell I'm going to Philippines ask me "are you getting a wife there?"  I'm like what's this?  So, back to Google and look up Philippine wife.  Huge mistake!  I registered on Filipinaheart, I think it's called Filipinocupid or something now, and over 2-3 months over 600 girls send me emails.  Well, they have a filter that let me refine by age, kids, English ability, location, astrology sign, Chinese astrology sign, height, weight, on and on.   I flew down to Bohol to meet one girl on her birthday, but brought a list of 20 phone numbers of others nearby that fit my qualifications and looked and seemed genuine.  (Great Plan B on my part)  So, I fly down there.  Checked into a nice Tubigon pension house, and the next day go to this girl's house on her birthday.  It wasn't her birthday.  She said she lived alone with her widow mother and was an only child.  She had like 5 siblings, and her dad there.  They had a party for me, and I slept on the floor of their nipa hut in the jungle with no water or electricity that night.  Next day I go back to my pension house and get out my list of phone numbers.  I have a few San Miguel beers and call a way cute 30 year old accountant in Cebu from my list.  I call and she answers.  I make a date.  She's meeting me the next morning at Cebu port as I arrive from Tubigon Bohol on a ferry.   I meet her, and she's not super cute, but that's ok with me anyways.  Beauty queens normally have too much baggage for me.  Name is wrong, turns out I called a wrong number.  She's a 32 year old 4'10 88 pound accountant for FedEx living on Mactan air force base in her brother's basement.  She's already put all her 5 brothers through school working for FedEx and wants to get married and have kids.  She'd never kissed a guy before.  I flew back there 9 months later to see my son born.  Took another 6 months to get them to USA due to things like her birth certificate name was wrong (I did all the paperwork myself, and all my stuff was right).  It ended up all good.  She's smart.  She had an Avionics Engineering degree all on scholarships and was on the Philippines Air Force pistol team. (I like guns).  We've been married 16 years now and have 15yo girl and 17yo boy that are straight A students.  My 17 year old son just finished early DO doctors training at MSU.  I can't complain (but I still do).   So now you know, the rest of the story   

Daughter is incapable of smiling for a camera, but is way cute.  

 

[JJReyes]

Wonderful story of a successful family.  

[P_X]

Fantastic story