This troper met one significant other during a {{Fora}} game, where we repeatedly commented on one another's oddly similar avatars. Apparently, we had BelligerentSexualTension to the rest of the {{Fora}} for quite some time.

A friend of this troper met his significant other (a, before that point, perfectly straight male) in the most sickeningly contrived way possible: the friend was cross-dressed for a theme party with some friends, and the gay-bar they were at got boring so they went bar hopping. Apparently his costume was freakishly convincing; after the truth came out, the soon to be S.O apparently grappled with his sexuality for months before asking him out.

This troper was at an airport gate in Germany waiting to fly back to the States when he started talking to a nearby girl who had overheard a comment and thought it was directed at her. As unlikely as it sounds, we were seated next to each other on the 9-hour flight, and got to know each other pretty well, and exchanged contact information (and a kiss) once we landed. Sadly, she had to catch a connecting flight to another state while I went on home, but we stayed in touch and even visited each other several times over the next couple of years. This troper's friends frequently told him it was "like something from a movie" when they heard the story.

That really IS something from a movie.

While cuddling on a lawn on campus with a bunch of friends for absolutely no reason, this one girl came along who was friends with some of the people involved in said cuddle orgy. She got sucked into it and ended up holding hands with this troper. We're now going out.

Cuddle orgies?? Just because?? Where did you go to school? I think I feel like continuing my education!

This troper met his wife in an online game, long before such a thing was common. The year was 1993 and the game was an all-text MUD called The Asylum. He was literally a knight in shining armour, and she was a new player on the MUD for the first time who decided to join the knights guild. Cue many years of "Where did I find you anyway?" "In an asylum!" quips. Thirteenth wedding anniversary in March!

Massive win for you and the missus. Um, by any chance, can I join that MUD?...

Of all the video games, of all the servers, of all the islands, of all the rooftops, This Troper had to boredly land on one to ridicule something in a fellow player's description, but decided to stay and RP a while to see if they actually warranted ridiculing. She didn't. Oh lord she didn't.

Of all the games, servers, and rooftops, he landed on mine. Our first anniversary comes up in May.

Aww!

Although this troper subverts this by meeting all her love interests in very mundane ways, she's had several memorable platonic meetings:

One of her oldest friends is from preschool. They met when friend said to this troper, "Here, I saved you a swing."

Another old friend is from first grade, and he befriended this troper because they both had those gimmicky light-up shoes (hey, it was TheNineties).

In college, this troper was on a bus when she saw a guy with a shirt that read "I roll 20s". Being a huge geek, she commented, and he was so shocked and happy that he gave her his screen name on the spot.

And finally, the first time she met one of her friends in person, she was humming "Melodies of Life" when he joined in, whistling; turns out it's one of his favourite songs.

Want to know how this Troper's parents met? Her Mom's cat fell onto her Dad's porch. They talked for hours when she went to get it back.

This troper's met at a party held by a mutual friend. Now, that dosn't sound very cute untill I mention that said mutual friend was perpetually late, even to his own parties. Mom was visiting out of town and staying at his apartment, so she was setting up when my Dad came in exactly 45 minutes late, because he liked to be on time. They were the only people there for a good two hours more so they started talking and found out they had a lot in common.

This troper made (platonic) friends with another troper through mutual PerverseSexualLust for a particular video game character. To this date they still share some fairly dirty ideas about said character.

Now to add a sense of horror to this otherwise nice page, My friend's Aunt met her husband after he microwaved and killed her cat. Married for quite a few years. They aren't nice people.

Best. Story. Evar.

That's not Meet Cute. It's Meet Terror.

Now that's funny.

This troper met her now-boyfriend at an anime convention. He was wearing a Death Note T-Shirt, and I was cosplaying Fire Emblem's Guy and attempting to beat a level on said game in the AMV room. He happened to sit right behind me, recognized me from school, and we thought nothing of it. Cue a few months later when we end up in class, and...

Another platonic meeting (well, mostly) - I was at my first anime convention with a friend from college. I was exploring the video game room when this cute, genki-ish girl came up and offered to glomp me (she was attempting to glomp as many people as possible over the weekend.) Now, unfortunately, my college friend had a girlfriend at the con, leading to my abandonment during most of the con. Being quite introverted, I was somewhat at a loss for what to do, and I wound up making my way to the friday-evening rave. I ran into the same girl, struck up a conversation, and essentially latched onto her for company for the rest of the weekend. A good four years later, and she's one of my closest friends (and an on-again-off-again crush).

This Troper met one boyfriend on DeviantArt while she was trying to stalk his best friend. Turned out that his best friend didn't at all mind, and she and the guy wound up going out. For a while. It didn't end well.

This troper met his girlfriend on deviantArt. She was his very first watcher. :3

This Troper was first contacted on MSN by his girlfriend when said girlfriend was asking him to convince his Heterosexual Life Partnerto ask a mutual friend a mutual friend out on a date. That one conversation ended up lasting around seven hours and covering topics from Star Trek to about twenty different anime. We had our first date on 1st January 2009. The two friends never did get together though.

A close friend of this troper met her future husband through a traffic accident: he wrecked her first-generation Ford Mustang. While waiting for the tow truck, he asked her out, and after that, they were inseparable until he recently passed away.

This Troper met her current boyfriend when she sat at his table for dinner one night. He mentioned how much he liked StarTrek, and two hours and about 100 StarTrek references later we agreed that we were each other's future spouses.

This troper's parents met in college. Her mother was walking in the rain with her umbrella, and offered to share with her father. He looked up, and all my mother noticed was his big, brown eyes.

This Troper met her boyfriend when they were working in a communist bookstore.

This Troper met his girlfriend through Deviant Art first. It started more as online buddies, then we swapped MSN's and then she out of the blue asked if I had a webcam. After a while I agreed and the first words on the screen? "You're cute." Cue hiding my face in embarassment. Then we talked for hours and bonded really well, she of course shared her webcam too and she is lovely. Currently long distance but if everything goes right, this year we will literally get closer. I feel like I could have worded that whole thing better...

I met my boyfriend when I was staring at ''FinnegansWake'' looking utterly confused in the quasi-permanently deserted town library. He walked up and said, "It's never going to make sense, you know, but if you want I could help."

This story is so ''ridiculously cute''. I love it.

This troper's parents met-cute in a ridiculously coincidental plane-scheduling accident. I forget what city they were in, but he was headed to Boston, and she was headed to Chicago. Her flight was cancelled, and she had to choose between flying back the next day, or connecting through Boston. Guess which flight she chose? They wound up sitting next to each other, and despite the long distance, this troper's future existance was confirmed.

This troper's parents met on a cruise ship. My mother was in the casino, kind of drunk and in an extremely unflattering outfit, and met my father when his younger tomboyish sister ran past and he was chasing after her. At first the relationship was kind of odd (my father is six years younger than my mother) but, surprisingly, they discovered that they only lived a state away--my mother in Michigan, my father in Ohio--and they've been happily married.

This troper's parents met on a blind date with two other friends; they boated out into the middle of the lake when the motor died, and they were stranded for hours.

I made a (platonic) friend like this in high school. I was walking down the hallway and I overheard him saying something to someone about missiles and landmines being needed in a future city. I disagreed and decided to tell him that, even though we'd never talked to each other before. It's been seven years and we're still friends.

This troper and her...something...met like this. We had both been given the wrong schedule on our first day of class and had to wait for an hour in an empty hallway; we quickly realised that we were the only two people in one of our weekly seminars. By the time we actually got our schedules fixed, I was halfway in love with her.

This troper met a guy on the train who was reading ScottPilgrim and wearing a FinalFantasyIX T-shirt. My heart leapt and I started talking to him and got his name before he had to get off. A week later I found him on facebook and more importantly, his blog in which he had written an entry about the mysterious nerdy girl he had met on the train. Apparently he had been blown away by my nerdiness and my Keyblade-necklace and had tried to find me ever since we met. We went to see HarryPotter 7 and Scott Pilgrim together. He had dyed his hair red and was wearing a Hogwarts uniform. That boy is wonderful.

This troper met his best friend at a D&D game at college. No, she wasn't playing. She was in the same room doing her chemistry homework. I helped her while waiting for my fellow players to go. I later helped her make her first D&D character. Our friendship stayed quite platonic - in fact, we now call each other brother and sister.

This troper met his best friend playing Warcraft III. More accurately, playing a Pokemon-themed Maul map. And his ex in an anime forum, which he joined by chance.

This troper's parents were both involved in the local opera scene, and happened to be be paired up as dance partners during a scene in one of the shows. They're been happily married for thirty years now.

I met my best friend at age fourteen in high school when my pencil broke. She sat behind me and lent me her pencil sharpener. Ten years later I was her maid of honour at her wedding.

The first boy I kissed I met because I'd bought a portable sound recorder the day before which I had fallen completely in love with. I was stalking around a corridor in music practice rooms, looking for things to record, and heard a pianist trying to play a riff in time with a metronome and failing. I recorded eight seconds of audio before he caught me doing it, and vocally made his displeasure known. Then it turned out that he'd been living in the room opposite to mine all this time. Also, there was kissing in there at some point.

Good god, this troper's first few meetings with the boy he currently likes were so this trope. First time they meet, they end up getting having to have a table discussion. #QUOTE# Him: So you're Korean? Do you speak it? #QUOTE# Me: *scribbles something down on a piece of paper* #QUOTE# Him: What does it say? #QUOTE# Me: I love you. And then the second time, when they have to work together on a biology project... -> Him: *writes down his last name* #QUOTE# Me: Wow, cool last name. I wouldn't mind marrying someone to have a last name like that. Smooth. Real smooth. And this was all before I even liked him.

This troper was ordering lunch at a diner, and happened to know the guy behind the counter and offered a bit of encouragement before placing my order. The girl in the next line over spun around and said "You are so polite!" "Um, Thanks?" I responded. She stuck to me like glue after that. I thought she was something of a ManicPixieDreamGirl at first with her ecstatic behavior, but when we learned that we had many mutual friends and that we both were fans of Series/DoctorWho and {{Firefly}}, were practically inseparable.

Even though my parents worked together (my mom was a receptionist), the first time they spoke was in an elevator.