Played straight with this troper. He met his current GF three years ago when she ran into him while trying to find one of her friends. Wound up with her lying on top of me and the two of us staring at each other in shock for several minutes before I asked, "As thrilling as this is, would you mind getting off me?"

Several ''minutes?''

Subverted in this would-be Tropers life. A girl, at my high school landed on my foot, got up glared at the person who pushed her and left. I never saw her again, and I was left with three hurt toes, and a smirk on my face.

Variation: This troper has a habit of saying "Hello there" whenever she runs into something, usually an inanimate object.

This troper met his significant other when she dropped a piece of scenery on his head (she was a stage-hand on one of his shows).

This Troper met her boyfriend at a wave pool when she got caught off guard and was swept un-gracefully by a big wave and crashed right into him, practically putting him in MarshmallowHell... how embarassing.

Happens so often with a particular girl at work I suggested that we wear matching bells to avoid each other. The only argument for this which she approved of was that this way was more comfortable than swallowing a GPS dot.

In a school play at this troper's high scool, a scene that started out this way was selected for auditions- and they paired up the tallest guy and the shortest girl on the stage. This caused many laughs.

While she hasn't actually collided with anyone yet, This Troper's general lack of paying attention has sometimes caused her to nearly run into people- sometimes with the "Wh-Hello!..." included. Also inanimate objects. Those metal poles at school were out to get me... and everyone else...

This 5'1" Troper once met a girl at a party. She is 5'8". This CrashIntoHello was promptly followed by MarshmallowHell. We have been happily married for almost two years, and together for four.

This troper witnessed one in college in the year their men's basketball team finally won the inter-university championship. In the ensuing celebration festivities, one of the activities was a mock basketball playoff between the men's team and the women's team (except the men's team were handicapped by wearing boxing gloves - NO! NOT TO PUNCH ANYONE!), with the ROTC special units on guard duty all around the place (specifically, a squad of the Navy Seals were seated around the basketball court). During the mock game, one of the girls was charging after the guy who had the ball, but tripped, and her butt landed one one of the Navy Seals's faces. Cue cheering and whooping from the crowds, the girl laughing it off embarrassingly, and the Seal waving to the crowd and his squadmates high-fiving him and each other.

Averted by This troper. Never happens due to too much situational awareness and quick reactions, while being a gentleman means I won't just let it happen.

This troper's brother left his glasses inside and went out one morning to get the mail. A guy from school happened to be looking the wrong way and hit him with a bike. Hard. They said some awkward hellos and went their separate ways. They started dating almost a month later.

This troper met his boyfriend on (first-person for ease of narration) my first day at boarding school. I wasn't watching where I was going and only realised he was there when I ran into him and dropped my books. Papers went ''everywhere''. It took several minutes and one accidental hand-holding to get everything in order.

When I was five years old, I was running around the playground as usual. Another kid turned out to be doing the same, and we accidentally crashed right into each other. We landed on our backsides, cried, and were close friends from then on.

A non-romantic example: This troper's first year of college, the school had the freshmen show up a week early for orientations and to get acclimated to the campus. This troper didn't know anyone and was normally a bit socially awkward. About Wednesday of that week, the dorms decided to have a fire drill. This troper, being a newbie, didn't initially recognize that godawful sound as a fire alarm, and, when everyone else in the dorm started bolting for the doors, he just stood there. He turned around, and a guy wearing a cowboy hat, a duster, a football jersey, and shorts came barreling down the hallway at full speed. After he finished helping to peel this poor troper off the floor, they got to talking. They've been close friends ever since, and enjoy relaying the story to other friends whenever they get the chance.

Inverted for this troper in high school. He was racing down the stairs to class, and a cute freshman was racing to the stairs for her class. They stop centimeters apart, and go their separate ways, but not before he yells after her, "YOUR HAIR'S NICE." According to this troper's friends, this, coupled with a previous incident with said girl could've been a MeetCute if he had the courage to do anything.