How I Met Your Mother

Ann Dee: Mom, how did you meet Dad?
Dad: That's controversial.
A: Why do you say that?
D: We'll see what your mother says.
Mom: Well, Dee's girlfriend invited us to come to her house. Dee brought me and she brought your Dad.
D: We were in high school. Mom was there with Elaine Kimball who was engaged to Dee.
A: What?
D: Elaine Kimball was the daughter of Eddie Kimball who was the athletic director at BYU and her younger bro. was David Kimball my buddy. And she was engaged to Dee and she invited Mom over to her house (the Fagg's house now) that they built. And I was over hanging out with David. And Elaine came in and introduced us. She said, This is Larry. And then she kind of teased us around.
A: Like what?
D: I dont know. Just teased us. Then your mother left and she asked me if I liked her and I said yes and she said do you want me to line you up and I said yes. But then nothing came of it. I didn't see her for two years. Then at our wedding she said that she asked Jewel if she wanted to go out with me but Mom said I was too tall and she said she asked you but I said no, she's too short. But obviously neither of those were true. So she was lying. She lied all the time.
K: how did Dee get rid of her?
D: Mom caught her running around with other guys all the time. She was kind of a crazy girl. She was always doing weird stuff like saying outrageous things and a little overbearing.
A: So you guys didn't see each other for two years.
D: Yeah, we didn't see each other until my mission. The other connection was Kathryn used to work for my mother in the library. My mother ran the circulation desk and Kathryn got books from people. And i went there and dusted books. Actually I got a job when I was about six or seven picking up papers on the lower part of campus for 10 cents an hour. So Kathyrn remembered me from when I was kid. She saw me in church when I was a missionary and figured out who I was and invited us to dinner.
A: Did She know that you guys had met?
D: No but it didn't matter. I don't think Jewel even remembered.
M: I did too.
D: And Jewel says that she had designs to get us together.
M: And that was it for both of us. We didn't date another person.
M: There was a point where Dad thought I was too short.
D: No. I never said such a thing.
M: Yes, you did. And my mom was worried Dad was too tall.
A:So how many times did you eat at Kathryn's?
D: Oh, quite a few.
A: and mom was always there?
D: Yeah.
M: I lived there all summer. She had tons of kids.
D: She invited other people too. It wasn't just us. She'd have a bunch of people to dinner.
A: So you guys like flirting or something.
D: Of course not.
M:He always shook my hand after church and then he said will you write to me? I said yes. I'll write two words for every one your write and I did. I actually counted.
A: Whoa. So then you guys wrote. and then when you got home from your mission . . .
D: What?
A: You called Mom? Was she at the airport?
D: I didn't fly I drove.
M: He drove a poor old car that was white and had a hole in the floor that you could see the road.
D: I drove it home from Fresno. It was my own car. I had to travel all up and down the San Joaquin valley and because I was the district leader (it was different then) and I had to drive from Merced to Visaila.
A: SO you drove that car all over.
D: yeah, I drove that home by myself through Barstow and then up highway 91 which is now I15.
M to V: You know what your grandpa used to do? He used to teach the kids to hang on and pull themself up.
A: So when you got home did you call Mom?
D: Yeah, I called her and I went over to see her.
A; Were you planning on marrying her?
D: I can't answer that. We went on a little drive.
M: UP the canyon.
D: The American Fork canyon.
M: And he gave me a little kiss.
D: Oh.
M: you did. And were you released?
D: I don't know. the president knew where i was going.
M: We're probably still breaking rules.
D: we probably are.
A: So, ummm, how long after you got home did you get married.
D: well, that was probably April or something and we got married in August.
A: Dad, a bit soon.
M: Grandma had all kind of cute little tall girls all picked out for him and I know she was disappointed. Daughters of professors.
A: Is that true?
D: No.
M: yes. It was true.
D: we talked about waiting but then we just got married.
A: And then, you had Karen in a year.
D: Yeah.
A: But was mom done with school?
D: Yes. She was done with school and was teaching in Orem.
M: Fourth grade.

*There was some talk about Dad writing in his love/missionary letters how he'd heard that every kiss takes one year off of your life and he wondered if Mom would help him commit suicide . . . or something.