Patricia Haines:  

Chuck and I have been married for 20 years and live in Dallas, TX. No kids but have a 5 year old collie, Edie, and a 5 year old cat, Emily (we refer to them as "The Twins"). I studied computers at the State University of New York at Potsdam. It was between working for IBM and Kodak. Kodak won because I thought that IBM would be too restrictive. I worked for Kodak in Rochester for 9 years then went out to the field - first Dallas, then Atlanta, and Washington, DC. By this time I had a collie, cat, and a boyfriend who wanted to move to Hawaii. Not a poblem I had a good college friend who was living out there. LOVED Hawaii. I got a fun job as a computer consultant - travelling the islands, teaching computers at the colleges and also selling real estate. After a while, the boyfriend and I parted ways, then the dog died, and the cat died - all within 2 weeks. I really missed the dog and cat. That was a turning point in my life. I took the next few years getting it all back together and then met my husband, Chuck who was the passenger services mgr for Continental Airlines in Oahu. When his grandmother was ill, I offered to help him pay for the ticket back east. That's when I learned that he flew for free. He gave me a T shirt that said "Marry me and fly for free". We were introduced by mutual friends from the northeast. The timing was right for both of us and we hooked up. When we told the story of how we met at our wedding reception, about 20 of our friends and family took credit for our meeting. While in Oahu, I sang with the Honolulu Symphony Chorus. Loads of fun - we sang with Marni Nixon at the Waikiki Shell, at the senator's funeral, and sang at Marcos' funeral. Chuck was transfered to Houston to the main office of Continental Airlin...Expand for more