Real Life Relationships That Started Off On the Wrong Foot

Relationships can bloom from the most unlikely of circumstances, but some starts to relationships are weirder than others. People can meet under unusual circumstances, and it can often seem like things just aren’t meant to be, until suddenly they click.

Any of these relationships that started off on the wrong foot would make excellent romantic comedies.

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Wife and I started chatting back in 2004 when dating websites were not filled with bots.

She was asking me a bunch of questions and I was failing them. For example, she loves coffee and I don’t drink it. She loves going to the movies, but since I worked at a movie theater, I had zero interest in going to the movies, and I failed a few others as well.

She told me way later that she had already decided that we weren’t a good match until I mentioned I liked Sci-Fi.

She asked me which shows I liked and I said Star Trek and that totally sucked her back in. Apparently she had been going to Start Trek conventions since she was a little girl.

So Star Trek got me laid. Story credit: Reddit / my-life-for_aiur

Coffee Addict

Many years ago I worked as a barista. There was a really cute girl who would come into my place of work to get coffee and study. I never made a move on her because I didn’t want to be inappropriate at work or risk making a regular customer uncomfortable.

So one night, I rode with my mom to attend my younger brothers high school graduation. We stop at a gas station attached to a grocery store so it just had a single employee in a little booth. My mom pays for gas and comes back to me where I was pumping gas.

She said the girl in the booth asked if I worked at the coffee shop and if I was single. So I went over to talk to her and it was the girl from the coffee shop.

She said that she only came into the coffee shop to pretend to study while hoping that I would approach her and that she never made the first move because as an employee there I was paid to be nice to customers and she felt it’d be inappropriate.

We were together for just over two years before we split amicably. Nothing but good memories, our lives just went in different directions.

Story credit: Reddit / ChampChains

Jinkies!

Met a girl while exploring a creepy abandoned insane asylum at 3am. We were both there with separate groups, neither group was aware of the other group’s presence but we kept hearing one another moving around and scared half out of our minds because we each assumed the other was crazed hobos or criminals using the place as a hideout or something.

Anyway our groups kept getting closer and closer to one another while trying to figure out how to get out. I turned a corner, saw a face, and nearly brained this poor girl with the baseball bat I was carrying before I realized it was just a bunch of scared college kids same as us.

We had a good laugh about it, me and the girl hit it off, and ended up dating for a couple of years.

Story credit: Reddit / KongUnleashed

Oh Deer!

Hit a deer going about 45, knocked one of my headlights out. The car was drivable, but it was dark and foggy in the country.

My crush was with me that evening, and after cursing the deer for a solid 10 minutes, I asked if it was okay if she stayed with me that night instead of me potentially wrecking driving her home.

She agreed. We got back to my dorm, and I had to use the restroom. I told her I’d fix the bed situation when I got out. I intended to pull the mattress cover off, and let her have the bed for the night while I used the floor.

Yeah, she didn’t think that. I came out of the bathroom to find her wrapped in my blankets. I asked where I should sleep and she said to just sleep next to her. We ended up cuddling all night and having a tasty campus breakfast date the next morning. We’re still together 2 years later.

Story credit: Reddit / Programmer-boi