Some people would think that it would be difficult having your wife work directly over you. I've found quite the contrary. She calls the shots around the house, so it wasn't a stretch for her to call the shots at my job.
It is actually a funny story of how we met. We weren't working together at the time. Actually I had been working at the company for about 3 years. After my manager had gotten promoted, I was next in line to receive a promotion to his position. But, it turns out that they were interviewing people from outside the company for the position. This left me pretty frustrated, and I knew going forward I would likely resent anyone that received that position over me.
I must have been pretty obviously pouting because they did end up offering me an interview. As I was approaching the office, I saw the most beautiful young woman step out of the office. She about 6 inches shorter than me and 6 years younger by my approximation. She looked confident but I sensed she was fronting a little. She had blond hair that was put into a professional bun, perfectly natural makeup that truly highlighted all of her natural facial features. She was professionally dressed in shortish dress with a loose blouse, so I couldn't make out her bodily features. From what I could see, she had fit legs, and she did fill-out the breast of her blouse well. She looked like she had just graduated college and she thought she was getting the management job over me!
I entered the interview, and everything went perfectly. They said this interview was formality, and that they'd like to hear where I'd take the company. This was such a softball question I had practiced the night before that I nailed it out of the park. Long story short, the interview went great. I felt like a shoo-in for the position.
After the interview, I was running on such adrenaline that I needed to get outside for fresh air. This is where I met her. She was sitting outside holding her cell phone in her hand, but the screen was dark. I'm sure she was recovering from her first rough job interview out of college. I was feeling so good that I had to approach her, if nothing else to console her loss. I introduced myself and she told me her name was Angela, Angie for short. I asked her if she was interviewing for the manager position. She told me it was her first interview since receiving her MBA and she felt like it went "okay" but not great. She said she was having a bad day on top of it because her phone was out of battery and she didn't know how she was going to get home. It was right around my lunch break so I offered to give her a ride, since she didn't live far.
We immediately hit it off and talked the entire way to her house. It felt so natural to set up a date. We went on dates about every 2 nights and I soon figured out this was the woman I would spend the rest of my life with. I was so excited that I had the prospect of getting this promotion and on the same day, met the love of my life.
A month had passed and I hadn't heard anything about the promotion. I figured they were just getting their paperwork in order to offer me the position. I knew with the new position I would be able to support my new found love and I bought a ring and decided to pop the question.
I took her to a very nice Brazilian steak house. When I got down on one knee, I felt a collective gasp from the entire restaurant. I told her that when you know that you found the love of your life, you know almost instantly, and I had known since I dropped her off at her house, the first day. She told me she knew then too and she said yes.
She, of course, was crying from happiness. She then told me she couldn't believe she would get two life changing moments in one day.
I paused, "Wait, what was the other thing?"
