So when that moment came in October 2001, he didn’t hesitate to shoot his shot.
“One day, I was walking out of my dad’s store and Chip was walking in, so we kind of hit each other,” she shared in What Makes a Marriage Last. “He said, ‘Hey, you’re that girl in the tire commercials.’ And I thought to myself, Oh, no, this is one of those guys.”
It wasn’t his best opening, Chip admitted (“It’s kind of sad and embarrassing to remember that now. It was so unoriginal,”) but what he did next found him in much smoother terrain.
“I was super introverted and quiet at the time, like a closed book,” recalled Joanna. But as she sat and chatted with the Albuquerque-born, Dallas-bred entrepreneur, like her, a graduate of nearby Baylor University, she found herself opening up. “Even though he kept asking me ask these questions—’Why are you staying in Waco?’ ‘Tell me your story’—it was the first time I’d ever sat with a guy without questioning his motives,” she said. “We talked for about an hour, and he was a wonderful listener.”
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