You never know when you’ll meet that special person, so keep your eyes peeled at all times!

And let these tales of random meetings from AskReddit users keep you hopeful.

1. Choices

“Had a choice of a baseball game or party. Wanted to go to the game but made a promise to go to the party. Wasn’t in the best of moods.

Go to get a beer and a girl comes up to the keg, I hold out the tap to fill her cup and she says in a non-talkative way, thanks.

I say, you seem to want to be here as much as I do. She apologized and we mentioned why we were there and why we didn’t want to be. Ended up talking the whole time and got together with her friends later that evening.

Spent everyday together after that. Dated, moved in together, got married and had a son.

10 years to the day we met she filed for divorce.

Should have gone to the damn baseball game.”

2. That’s one way to do it

“In high school I had a summer job insulating houses. One day I was helping spray insulation in a homeowners attic and fell through the ceiling into the homeowner’s daughter’s room.

Between busting my butt and getting berated by my boss, I was really embarrassed. The daughter noticed I was pretty down on myself and went out of her way to be nice to me.

Long story short, we ended up dating for about a year before heading off to college.”

3. Wrong number

“Wrong phone number. A girl apparently gave him a fake number at a bar the night before, and that turned out to be my number. We only dated for a few months, but it’s a funny story either way.”

4. Happy ending

“My uncle married a wrong phone number. He called, it was the wrong number (it was the salon she worked at) and they chatted for a few minutes. He enjoyed their conversation so much that he decided to stop by the salon and say hi in person and they chatted some more. He asked her on a date, she said yes, and now they’re married.”

5. Future wife

“I met my wife before a college English class. It was an 8 A.M. class and the teacher was super late, so we were all waiting outside the door. I was absentmindedly humming along to “The Ocean” by Led Zeppelin when she turns around to me and says, “Hey, is that Led Zeppelin?”

I said, “Yeah!”

She said, “Oh cool. Well, you gotta shut up. I’m hungover as hell.” And then she turned back around.”

6. Happy accident

“I used to tell people that she hit me with her car.

Which was true. Technically.

I was stopped at a traffic light on my motorbike and she was stopped behind me. Her car rolled forward, bumped my bike, which jolted it forward. This caught me by surprise and the entire thing ended with my bike falling over. No big deal.

She was extremely apologetic, and worried that I might take legal action or that she had damaged my bike in some way. So she offered to buy me a coffee in apology and it went from there.

edit: I was wearing a full-face helmet, so I doubt it was planned. And it only lasted six months back in ~2009.”

7. Classy

“In high school my now husband was stabbing plastic utensils into an apple, I told him it looked nice and he told me to f*ck off.

Edit: Wow this got popular! I’m glad that my awkward relationship story could make some people laugh, it’s a cherished memory that I don’t think I’ll ever forget and it makes a hell of a great conversation starter for “how did you two meet?”

8. To the rescue

“My current partner chopped her finger off at work and I took her to hospital and hung out for eight hours while they reattached her finger then took her home to make sure she was okay. We’ve been together two years now and she has no visible scarring from the surgery. We just kinda clicked.”

9. Nice beginning, bad ending

“I found a desert tortoise wandering down the sidewalk. So I went door to door trying to find its owner. Cute guy answers door, gets me a box, we find the owner together. We got married a year later.

Buuuuut then while paying for his Ph.D. in ethics, he’s busy hammering hookers while I traveled for work… to pay for his Ph.D. One divorce and 10 years later I’m still stuck with his student loans on my credit report and HPV to boot. NEXT TIME JUST KEEP THE DAMN TORTOISE.”

10. Dueling parties

“I met my wife at an ad hoc party thrown by two roommates who hadn’t told the other that their friends were coming over. So both groups of about 5 people showed up just expecting to hang out, and it turned into 10 people jammed into a small apartment laughing and drinking.”

11. Kind of awkward, but okay

“I went in for a colon cleanse on a dare with a friend, and it ended up in a date with the girl inserting the water tube and performing the flushing.”

12. “Are you real?”

“4 years ago, my friend introduced me to a game app, the kind you play with your Facebook friends. After a while, she lost interest in it, so I decided to play with a “random opponent”. I got matched to some guy from Europe and we played the game for a week before he messaged me on the chat function “Hey, are you real?” because he wasn’t sure if he was playing with a bot. We hit it off and he ended up moving to my country to be with me “

13. Billing = Love connection

“I had a full-time job at a biotech company, but also a part-time job at a magazine. The magazine didn’t do direct deposit so I had them send my checks to the biotech company. One month I didn’t get my magazine check, and the head of billing at the biotech emails me and asks me to come to her office.

The biotech was somehow able to deposit my magazine money that month into their own account, and the head of billing asked me why I was receiving money from some magazine, what I did for them, what the magazine was. All this with the door to her office open.

After some back and forth she says she’ll cut me a check which requires a lot of paperwork on her part, and as I’m walking back to my desk downstairs, I make eye contact with a girl in the billing department.

An hour or so later the girl sends me an email because she overheard our conversation and is familiar with the magazine I worked for. We dated for a little over three years.”

14. Coffee shops are always good for this

“I was at a coffeeshop with a girl I was absolutely nuts about but only dating casually. During our conversation she cuts me off and hisses about a girl across the room I’d never seen before who was having an argument with her boyfriend.

“That’s the bitch who stole my boyfriend!” girl-I-was-nuts-about said. Same guy arguing with girl-I’d-never-seen-before. Girl-I’d-never-seen-before stands up, says “I’m done”, and storms off–not angrily, but calmly and confidently. Supremely poised, like she was storming out of a Henry James novel. I remember briefly thinking as she walked out the door, “that is the most regal creature I have ever seen in my life.”

Girl-I-was-nuts-about huffs in pleasure about their fight. I murmur some kind of agreement in the interest of solidarity. We have a pleasant coffee date and don’t go home together.

Three years later, I start managing that same coffeeshop. On my first day, girl-I’d-never-seen-before is formally introduced to me by mutual friends. It dawns on me after a moment that this was the girl from that night. This was the entire conversation:

ME: Hello. HER: Hey.

A year later, as she became a regular at the shop, we became actual friends and started hanging out. A year after that, we started dating. That was 20 years ago. She’s snoring quietly beside me as I type this.”

15. Thank you, volcano!

“It was April 2010, I was travelling in Barcelona for work when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted and grounded all aircraft flying to Europe. I was trapped. I did the sensible thing and went to the pub where I met 2 drunk Irish guys. Proceeded to get reasonably hammered until a girl walked in and sat beside me. She was stranded as well so we proceeded to get drunker together. Decided I should kiss her, I did, and now she is my wife. All thanks to Eyjafjallajökull.”

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Names are one of those rare things that can be ruined forever just because of one person. I’ll keep mine to myself (I have several) but I know exactly where these AskReddit users are coming from.

1. Mackenzie

“I’ve met so many Mackenzies and all but one of them have been huge jerks.”

2. Elsa

“Elsa. two years before the movie came out I was browsing baby names and wanted an old-time classy girls name that wasn’t used much anymore… Brave took Meredith off the table for me, but I though Beverly could be OK (my grandmother’s name) But then a customer (sweetest old lady) came in with the name Elsa and I was SOLD.

Frozen came out while I was Pregnant. Luckily I had a boy, because I didn’t find another girls name I liked as much.”

3. James

“When I was in 1st grade there was this troubled kid named James that would fight all the other children, steal things (like their lunches), and even started a fire in the bathroom. In hindsight, he probably needed a lot of help – but back to the point of OPs question. My GF suggested the name James for our upcoming son. Yeah, I had to put a stop to that one.”

4. Nevaeh

“Nevaeh. Ruined by EVERY mother who names their kid this including “It’s ‘heaven ‘ spelled backwards” EVERY time they tell you their name. Like, yeah, I got that in 2007 when the trend started.”

5. Hahaha

“My name, which I’ve had for 33 years, is Michael Scott. I was a supervisor for ~20 employees at a call center during the height of a certain TV shows popularity. I hate my name and all cringe comedy.”

6. Daniel

“Daniel.

I work with the special ed population. I’ve met a lot of different types of kiddos, most of which are awesome. However, Daniel was a pain. He always got what he wanted. He was conniving and charming when it benefitted him. He would upset other students so they would hit him, and then he would report them for hitting him. He thrived in chaos. Trying to work with him, he was a nightmare. We all said a little prayer of thanks when he didn’t show up for school, bc we knew we’d be having a calm day.”

7. William

“William because it was the name of my husband who cheated on me for 5 months after barely two years of marriage. It stung more when I found out he started the affair three months after I had a miscarriage.”

8. Lots of these around

“Am a nurse in L&D. We still hand write out the names on the bassinets. I swear to God I write out a name with -ley, -lei, -leigh, -lee, -lynn, -lin, -linn, or -line AT LEAST once a week. The ones that pissed me off the most were Bristolynn and Finley. Like why? It’s so hard not to cringe at some of the names people give their children.”

9. Connor

“Connor. Two Connors in my high school were absolute jerks. Another was a crazy stalker. And another burned down his own house with his mom in it, so I’ve heard. Only met one nice Conor (without the double n). Connors are certified crazy.”

10. Two of ’em

“Ashley -> Every single one I’ve met is a self absorbed cow.

Lydia-> crazy self absorbed family member who has single handedly broken up the family.”

11. Isis

“My name, which is Isis; it’s pretty self-explanatory. It sucks because every time I hear my name called out, I either hear people whisper around me or I often get stared at. I don’t want to go through the hassle of changing my name legally, so I guess I have to suck it up and live with it.”

12. That’s too bad

“Brett.

That’s my sons name. my own sons name was ruined because my wife was f*cking a dude name Brett. And to top it off, my son’s name was chosen partially because it was one of the few we could come to an agreement on and is partially based on the dude she was f*cking (her co-worker’s son).”

13. All of them

“Jaxon. They’re all assholes I’m an elementary school teacher and I have seen the evidence. ALL of them.”

14. Good old Dick

“Richard, specifically ones from Northern ireland. The first one f*cked with me emotionally, the second one gave me chlamydia. No more Richards!”

15. Ben

“My ex’s name is Ben and it was a bad breakup. Every single tv show has a character named Ben. I hate it.”

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There’s nothing fun about being broke. Except for the moment when you finally get some money. But until then, you’ve gotta get creative to make ends meet.

These AskReddit users have been there, and they were nice enough to share their personal stories about the brokest things they ever did.

1. That is pretty bad

“I’d almost ran out of money in my bank account with no overdraft and it got so bad then I wanted something to eat from the supermarket so I picked a banana. But then had to put it back and pick up a smaller banana cause I couldn’t afford the bigger banana.”

2. Scraping by

“I had just started a new job after barely scraping by with my old one. There was a lapse in paychecks so I was super-extra-broke. At the orientation for the new gig they had snacks – granola bars, chips, fruit, etc. – so I stocked up. Grabbed a few when people weren’t looking or tried to be the first in/out of the room so I could sneak more into my purse.”

3. Desperate

“I remember one time when I was little my mom went into a Wendy’s or something like that and grabbed some crackers and ketchup for me and my brother to eat from the condiment section. That was pretty bad times. I’m just glad I can barely remember it. Lol.”

4. Pretend camping

“Told the kids we were going to pretend to be camping for a few days. Lit candles, cooked food on the grill, opened the windows at night and took cold showers for 3 miserable days to get to the next payday because my now ex was terrible at handling money and we didn’t have enough to pay the damn electric bill.

Kids thought it was great.”

5. Dumpster diving

“I’m pretty sure that for about 4-6 months around the time I was 8, our meals were coming from my step-dad dumpster diving at the local Safeway. At one point I can remember him breaking down emotionally when we came home one day and someone had left three bags of groceries in our driveway right before Thanksgiving.”

6. Hard times

“I was homless in Las Vegas for a summer after a series of ridiculous events, capped off by the guy I had paid 3 months advanced rent to getting arrested for fraud and the landlord kicking us out.

I managed to get room key cards for several of the hotels in Las Vegas that people had thrown away. Then I’d stay up all night, and sleep in one of the chairs at the pool during the day. You had to show a key card to get into the pool area, but once you were in they didn’t pay much attention that what you did. The pool at the Paris had a handicapped bathroom you could lock, so I’d “shower” in there.

I managed to survive through the summer on about $20 without stealing or begging. It probably helped that I was an early 20s white guy in decent clothes, I got away with a lot.”

7. Rough

“Sold plasma twice weekly to pay for food. Got my student id renewed a month after I was kicked out of school because it doubled as a free bus pass I still cant believe that worked. Popcorn was an intergrel part of my diet at the time because it was dirt cheap.

Summer 2011 was rough but now im much better off.”

8. Flat broke

“Put a paper plate in the sink to be washed.

Was at a friend’s house for D&D and we had some BBQ before hand. Getting cleaned up and I, on reflex, put my paper plate in the sink. Later that night, my friend noticed and says, “Which of you broke mother f*ckers put this in the sink?!”

It was me. I was the broke mother f*cker.”

9. Shoes!

“When I was in college I found a pair of thrown out shoes in front of an apartment. They were soaking wet but otherwise new and were my size. I took them home, washed them in the sink, dried them out, and wore them for two years.

I was that broke my shoes had holes in them, so I wasn’t going to let free shoes go away….”

10. Good tip

“Restaurants typically have huge trash bags that take a long time to fill up. This means that dumpster diving is almost guaranteed to be disgusting. But did you know that if you wait till the end of a shift (10am, 2pm, 6pm, 10pm, and 2am) most places will have emptying the trash as an end-of-shift duty? And if you keep an eye out, you can grab food off the top of the bag that’s still pretty much fresh?

Because I know that.”

11. Gone fishin’

“In college, I would go fishing to catch trout for dinner. Not because it was fun, but I wouldn’t eat otherwise.”

12. Roughing it

“Lived out of my car and bought a $10/per month gym membership to Planet Fitness just so I could shower every day.”

13. Leftovers

“When I was a waitress, if someone didn’t want to take their leftovers home, I’d hide in the freezer in back and eat the remaining food left by strangers.”

14. A bad memory

“I ate a $1 can of cold “chunky” soup with a plastic spoon, while sitting in my car in the WalMart parking lot, in mid-winter in the dark, crying because I was poor and new to the area and had no friends. That was a Christmas Eve to remember.”

15. Act of kindness

“Was buying tampons from the dollar store and my card was declined. Nicest cashier ever just told me it’s okay and to go ahead. Super embarrassing.. I’m still a regular at that location.”

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