{"id":17881,"date":"2016-02-10T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nextstopstl.org\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:53:20","slug":"valentine-passenger-profile-tammisha-and-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/valentine-passenger-profile-tammisha-and-steve\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Passenger Profile: Tammisha and Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tammisha1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day, we\u2019re sharing the stories of couples\u00a0who met on MetroBus or MetroLink. This week\u2019s Passenger Profile features our second\u00a0couple, Tammisha\u00a0and Steve.<\/i><\/p>\n

It may seem like the idea of love at first sight was created by a romantic crooner or a Hollywood script writer. But it\u2019s certainly a real sensation \u2013 just ask Tammisha and Steve.<\/p>\n

According to Tammisha, it all happened at the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Station during the evening on May 31, 2006. Tammisha was making small talk with a Metro Public Safety officer, when all of a sudden, Steve descended the stairs to the MetroLink platform.<\/p>\n

\"Tammisha3\"<\/a>\u201cWhen he came down those stairs,\u201d Tammisha said, \u201cit was love at first sight.\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for the two to strike up a conversation and eventually exchange numbers. While they went their separate ways that night, they continued to talk on the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about all sorts of things from music and books to my love of poetry,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was never hard to talk to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a few phone conversations under their belt, it was time to move the relationship to the next level. The two returned to the Forest Park-DeBaliviere station and rode the train to the Union Station MetroLink Station for their first date.<\/p>\n

That wouldn\u2019t be their last romantic rendezvous with Metro. Over the years, Tammisha and Steve would often take Metro to go on dates, and several nights a week they\u2019d meet at the bus stop near Germania Street and Interstate 55 and ride the #90 Hampton together to the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Station.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast Valentine\u2019s Day, Steve met me at my job with candy and flowers,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve slowed danced at the bus stop without music. There were a lot of moments like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tammisha2\"<\/a>From that chance encounter in May 2006, their relationship has only grown stronger, and today they share their love with their\u00a0<\/span>children. In fact, the whole family recently rode Metro together, riding the #4 Natural Bridge to the Civic Center Transit Center and hopping aboard MetroLink to the Union Station MetroLink Station.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to show our kids where we first met,\u201d she said. \u201cIt brought back the nostalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Metro was an important factor in their relationship, Tammisha and Steve think destiny still would have brought them together, even without the help of the bus or train. However, Metro did give them a boost.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of the same friends and we used to live on the same street when we were kids,\u201d Tammisha said. \u201cWe knew our lines would one day meet. Metro made that connection quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day, we\u2019re sharing the stories of couples\u00a0who met on MetroBus or MetroLink. This week\u2019s Passenger Profile features our second\u00a0couple, Tammisha\u00a0and Steve. It may seem like the idea of love at first sight was created by a romantic crooner or a Hollywood script writer. But it\u2019s certainly a real sensation \u2013 just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":17885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[184,1425,74,67,1198,1687,1427],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-lifestyle","tag-featured","tag-love","tag-metrobus","tag-metrolink","tag-passenger-profile","tag-valentine","tag-valentines-day"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}