Women who met their partners in very unromantic places/situations for national newspaper feature

Hi Linda, I met my future husband at a race night at our student halls on my second night at university. He was a freshers rep and I was a fresher who had just moved 100 miles away for university the day before. I turned up half way through the night to the race night and we only spoke at the very end when he asked if I wanted a lift into town with my friend to go clubbing and now we are due to be married almost 8 years later.

Hi Misselle, thanks for getting in touch!

This sounds interesting. Did you get together that night?

Please email me if it's easier.

Thanks.

Does it count to have met on Gumtree?

My OH & I first met over a dead pigeon, under a tree in town. I was poking at it with the toe of my boot... ?

Hi Alice in Wonderland, this sounds great.

Do you have a bit more info, please? Email me if it's easier?

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Hi Lil,

Gumtree is very interesting too - do you have a bit more info?

Were you selling something/buying something and got chatting?

Thanks,

Linda

It was on the meet new friends session! If it is interesting enough, let me know and I will send you an email with the details, but if you think the other stories have been more interesting, no problem!

Basically, I was shopping in town one afternoon with my boyfriend (let's call him D) at the time, and we stopped to sit down on a bench under a tree - D knew my OH (I'd not met him before) and the tree was outside where he worked; D wanted to catch him on his lunchbreak for something.

I noticed that under the tree was a dead pigeon. I have something of a morbid curiosity so I started nudging at it with the toe of my boot, and making "eww" noises, just as OH came out of work ?

He laughed, said hi to D & made some comment, I looked up as I realised he was there... and it was a proper eyes-locked moment, over a dead pigeon! ?
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We didn't get together til a good couple of years after that, but needless to say D isn't mates with him anymore... ?

I met my fiancée, Chris at a student night in Derby, he was absolutely dripping in sweat as he chatted me up. I was too drunk to realise he was chatting me up & snogged another guy whilst he was in mid-flow. It took his best friend at the end of the night to tell me how devastated he was, he gave me Chris' number & I texted him that night to apologise. The next night, we went on our first date & he hasn't left my side since.