The Birch Show.

Everybody wants the romantic story on how they met. Everybody wants to be able to tell that tale. Right. You know, when you've been with each other for 20 years, the most romantic story ever is the way we met. But the truth is sometimes it's just not that romantic, you know. We are going to call this Bert Show listener Carla. Good morning, Carla. Good morning, guys. Hi, you're on the voice disguiser. Good. Well, ours actually, it's not romantic at all. I was new to Georgia, and one of my girlfriend said, hey, you should try one of those, you know, chat lines. You know, at night, Friday, night, Saturday night., they say 1-800, do you want to meet somebody this and that?

And, you know, so me and my girlfriend are like, yeah, we'll call, we'll leave a, you know, personal message and have people, you know, replies.

So, um, my current husband had actually replied one day, and we talked for a while, and then we met and started dating and everything, and then he got around to invite me with his family and his friends. So I'm like, well, you know, what are we going to tell him? Because the only people who knew the truth was my best friend and his best friend. Right. So he's like, oh, I already have to take care of him. told him that we met at the mall. She was, I saw you, and I came over and we started talking.

And now we've been married for five years.

We've got two kids and our parents, his parents, my parents, families, friends, other than

our best friends, think we met at the mall.

That's great.

That's great.

Good for you.

Now, what kind of chat line is this?

Are these a lot like those chat rooms?

Like the lava life, you know, the ones at night, like on TV, 1-800, such and such, you know,

and they show this woman getting home from work and she wants to see what, you know, and they show this woman getting home from broke,

and she wants to see what, you know, they say see what John is doing, he's a such and such,

you know, I know you've seen him, but don't play.

Yeah, I have seen them.

I've never called, but I have definitely seen him, yeah.

Now, like, when you, like, you say, you just say you met at the mall, like, what is, does anybody scrill you even more? Like, oh, what were you, like, what a coincidence? Like, does it ever get uncomfortable that people want too many details? No, it's just that you just, you've got to remember, you got to stick to the story, you know what I mean? Because I remember, oh, yeah, okay, we met at this mall and, you know, maybe what I was

doing or something, but, yeah, you can't end up changing up and say, oh, yeah, we were at a club and met or something because I'm going to be like, hey, didn't you know what I'm saying you're met at a mall? See, now I'm trying to... Even my kids, oh my God, they've asked before.

My son has asked, and, you know, we kind of look at each other and, you know,

mommy and man met at them all. So I'm trying to think now the telltale signs when I meet a couple and ask them how they met, I want to see the signs of whether they're lying to me or not. Is there when they look at each other a lot, trying to, you know, get their story straight? Probably. I'd say we do a lot of eye contact and probably even a smirk towards each other.

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