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Make that over 250,000 people, to be a little more precise.

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You see, while all of those people were in their cars a few hours earlier, making their way into Pittsburgh to form that massive crowd, I got held up in the traffic and was running late for work. The date was February 7, 2006, and the occasion was a celebratory parade in honor of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl victory.

Now, as excited as I was that my favorite team was, well, so awesome, I was a little annoyed that all of the hoopla was making me late. Lucky for me, I wasn’t the only one running late that morning.

When I reached my parking lot, I got in line to catch the shuttle bus that drops me off in front of my building. The bus came, I got on and someone sat next to me. My first thought was “please don’t talk to me,” as my experience with bus talkers usually includes awkward conversations. But, of course, he talked to me. It was all small talk. I replied to be polite, but the conversation continued on a little longer. We discovered we worked in the same building and continued chatting as we walked inside and got on the elevator. Before the doors opened at his floor, sweet, confident Mr. Deviled Egg asked me for a date and we exchanged contact information. I guess you could say the rest is history.

So thanks goes to all of these people for making both me and Mr. Deviled Egg late for work that day, and thanks to the Steelers for giving them all a reason to make me late ;). And of course, I have to thank the man upstairs, too. I’m still a little in awe by how things worked together that day to allow for our chance encounter on a bus. That day was filled with out-of-the-ordinary occurrences, which resulted in a completely extraordinary experience for us. I like to think that it means we are meant to be!

I love hearing about how couples met. What’s your story?