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Mr. Ticket and I met in a rather unusual way. In fact, I will go so far as to make up a statistic here on the spot. I would say that 9,999 out of 10,000 couples would say they had NOT met in this way. They might even think you were joking if you asked. All right, I’ll stop making up statistics and just tell you.

Mr. Ticket and I met because of this guy:

Image via Thottbot.com / Posted by Kallnohae / Screen shot from World of Warcraft

That’s because Mr. Ticket and I met playing the MMORPG World of Warcraft. I was farming (repeatedly killing and looting) this particular creature to obtain a piece of loot that a few friends and I wanted. I had heard that Mr. Ticket wanted one as well. (He was in my guild, so I thought I would be nice and offer to help him out.) I messaged him one day to ask if he would like me to farm him one, and we just kept talking after that. In fact, we had known of each other through the game for over a year prior to us actually talking; he later confessed that he was under the impression that I didn’t like him because whenever he entered a Vent channel, I would leave. (I would like to go on the record now as stating I did NOT dislike him…I simply disliked the topics of conversation he and other people had in Vent while I was around. Not inappropriate—just boring or annoying boy stuff, haha.)

Go ahead. Laugh. I know you want to. It’s OK, really. Everyone else does, too. Well, actually there’s usually this look of confusion (what on earth is World of Warcraft?!), then surprise (they can’t be serious…), then amusement (haha, what dorks—Mr. Ticket prefers the nomenclature “gamers,” FYI). I used to be a bit embarrassed of how we met—I would awkwardly tell people we met online and change the subject as fast as possible.

People would often get confused and assume we met via an online dating site. Then I would have to explain to them our meeting looked a lot less like this…

Personal screen shot taken from Match.com

And a lot more like this…

Both personal screen shots taken in the game of World of Warcraft

But over time I have come to love our story. It’s unique! While there are other couples out there who have met in this manner (I have in fact talked to a few in-game), it’s pretty rare. We met while enjoying a mutual interest, and things slowly blossomed after that. OK, well, not THAT slowly. We started talking in September 2007, and quickly we found ourselves staying up till 3 AM PST (note the PST because Mr. Ticket was on EST, meaning he would be up till 6 AM!—and he was going to school and working full time at that point) talking over Vent about anything and everything. I refused to admit that I liked him. (I was a stupid girl—what can I say?) I had recently been burned by another guy, and I had no interest in dating someone, let alone someone across the country! But apparently I was obvious about how much I liked him to my friends, even if it wasn’t obvious to me. Some friends frequently pointed out how much I liked him and that us getting together was inevitable. Other friends were mystified by the idea of me meeting a guy online and figured it was just a dumb phase that would pass. Boy did we ever prove them wrong…

Do you and your SO have a unique story of how you met? Were you ever embarrassed to admit how it happened?