Parents

Do you know how your parents met each other? After all, it was a momentous occasion for you or you wouldn't be here.
A crowd of us were discussing this some time ago. Our parents were born between 1883 and 1905. One said the parents met at school, another said in the church choir. Yet another that they were next door neightbours. Most couples lived a short walk or bicycle ride from each other. Don did some detective work to discover how his father, George, who lived in Godalming, Surrey met his wife, Elizabeth, who lived in Deal, Kent. George visited his uncle who ran a tobacconist's shop in Deal which was next door to a greengrocer's. The greengrocer had five pretty daughters so George was spoilt for choice. He chose the second daughter Elizabeth.
Cooks tended to marry policemen or postmen or gardeners. Outdoor men who had been offered a cup of tea! It was surprising how many couples met in domestic service, as mine did. We were a proletarian crew except for Joan, a delightful but frightfully posh friend. She trumped the lot of us by saying her parents met at Richmond Tennis Club. Stunned silence!