Great thread! DW Nancy and I first met back in high school while working near each other at different businesses and had talked a few times. She worked at a supermarket, and in high school I worked at a nearby chinese restaurant. One day, the manager of the restaurant sent me to the store to get 6 cases of apple sauce (for the sweet & sour sauce) and a dozen gallons of bleach to clean the floor. As I'm wheeling this stuff around the store thinking I must look like a freak, wearing clothes that got dirty from cleaning the kitchen, I figured I might as well go to the line with the best looking cashier because I might as well spend my time explaining this weird story to someone pretty! She told me I smelled like a chicken wing and laughed at my story.
Moving forward to the end of freshman year in college, we both were single and I was going to her workplace on Friday after work to cash my paycheck (aging myself here - anyone else remember when most businesses, including banks, were closed on weekends? Remember having to fill the gas tank on Friday because most gas stations were closed?)
Anyhow, back to the topic, I went in to cash my check one night and buy a lottery ticket. She was working in the cash office of a local supermarket that would cash paychecks from other local businesses after the banks were closed. Nancy said that the rule was that if you won, you had to take the person who sold you the ticket out for dinner. I offered to take her out to dinner before the numbers were picked, and if I lost she would owe me another date! After seeing her at work all those years, I never figured she would be interested in a guy like me, and jumped at the chance. We dated for a few years, got married right out of college and 24 years later are still doing our best to enjoy life. Luckily, we both have the Disney obsession.