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...Um...
I was at my parents house, which we had
somewhat
un-official sunday night dinner there
and on this one uh... sunday occasion the phone rang, I answered it
it was for my dad
it was a female... so when i handed the phone off to dad... and i finally hung up
I said: "Who's that?!"
meaning, there is somebody i havent been with...
...in the world... and i was uh... basically a bachelor
in West L.A. ... and uh
running a very strong social life
So I said to my dad: "Dad, who's that!?"
and my mom, god bless her, she said " Oh, That's Lynn,
but you should really meet her sister, Shelley"
So my dad
went on to explain that this was uh... Lynn Sinay, Shelley's sister, Shelley is
my wife, your [Jered] mother
Shelley's uh... sister Lynn, she was being paid at that time
to call and make sure that there were enough people playing in the monday night
card game. That was her job.
Shelley's father, Sam
and my father, Herman
had been playing cards together on a regular monday night game
at The Hilton Hotel
and various other places, for a number of years...
So at that point, my dad said:
"I'll ask Sam"
Well, i get a phone call Monday night
and it's from my dad saying: "Here's Shelley's number" and I said:
"Sam gave it out that fast?" "Oh Yeah"
So it was a Tuesday morning, I get a phone call...
So that Tuesday morning, I called Shelley...
and he asked me:
If my name was Shelley Sinay
So I called her and said " Hello is this uh...
Shelley Sinay?
and i wasn't going by Shelley Sinay at the time
I was going by Ashton
and she was on the phone she said "uh...
...yeah"
I didnt know who was calling me with
that name
with the name Shelley Sinay, and so he said...
Well Yeah Shelley, im kind of embarrassed about this, i dont know how to say this, but last night...
my dad
was playing cards with your dad
And so im thinking, what the hell does this guy want? You know?
Well, he lost a lot of money to my dad
Why is he calling me? I don't have any money, you know? What does he think i am?
...pregnant pause....pregnant pause...pregnant pause...
and then i started laughing
because Shelley is thinking:
"What did he [Sam] do? Sell me? To Michael, to make up for the debt"
So obviously he was joking...
and um he asked if we wanted to meet
Why dont we get together for lunch?
that's uh... you know and me, i was having a great time, i said "Fine"
and so we met for lunch
the first thing i saw of her when i walked in, she was eating a mini muffin...
I was picking the nuts
out of a muffin... Before you got there?
Of Course
and i wasn't "eating", but he
perceives it as eating
and i was waiting for him, and i was having an ice tea while i was waiting...... Um we met
and we ate
i thought it he was a great guy, i thought he was very nice, very funny nice very funny
we laughed alot
and she had some time to kill, so i said "You wanna go with me, i have to do some shopping"
"we went shopping".... "and so we uh
we went shopping to the Custom-Shirt-Shop" ... "He went to buy shirts...
Custom shirts
"I think he wanted to impress me"
And she liked that, A lot
"and then we went to Balleys, Shoe store"... "I think i maybe bought a pair of shoes that day, im not sure"
"He bought five or six pairs of shoes"... "But i think we looked at shoes"
"Two models in three different colors"
and uh...
and that was our first date
and he said he would call me
but this is specifically about
How I met your mother