The Meet Cute

ELIZABETH ROSE

“Scenario in which two individuals are brought together in some unlikely, zany, destined-to-fall-in-love-and-be-together-forever sort of way (the more unusual, the better).” – urbandictionary.com

So today we start our relationship journey with first contact. In the movies this is always in the unusual, cute and zany manner that makes you realise these two are meant to be together.

In the lives of the ordinary and unscripted, first meetings can be awkward, and sometimes even boring. Many people meet through friends, at work, and these days online (*Hello Ken* – I’m looking forward to my close up…).

To be honest, with more than few of my past lovers my memories of our ‘first’ meetings involve me laying next to them naked and hungover the morning after. So although they weren’t boring meetings, they were definitely awkward. Personally, in this situation I find fucking like monkeys really helps break the silence.

Anyway, I digress.

Many of us, like a cute story and our romantic notions of “the one” require a story you can tell your grandchildren. I even know one or two. My favourite belongs to the parents of a friend of mine. The lady lived in the town centre during her university years. After a night out drinking with a mutual friend, her future husband was convinced by the mutual friend to head back to the lady’s house for further drinks. The result? Two drunken reprobates banging on her door in the wee hours of the morning, much to the dismay of our feisty heroine. How did she get rid of them? Well, the clever lass opened her first floor window, threw a bucket of cold water over the two pissheads, and followed it up with some verbal abuse.

Upon waking the next morning, our  hero felt quite bad about upsetting a complete stranger. So he returned to her home to apologise. A few years later they were married, and my dear friend is apparently the result of a late night shower.

That’s a great story for the grandchildren (especially in North England, where drunken men and feisty women are the stuff of romance).

Finn and I didn’t have a meet cute. We met in a bar watching rugby. I chased him down the street as he didn’t have the balls to get my number. Also, I haven’t heard from him at all since our sex tape escapade. I’d be annoyed, but instead I am a little piqued. I had sort-of-started-to-kinda-like him. I’d even stopped having regular sex with other men. I was still having casual sex with random men, but I am only human.

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