First saw MrsMC at the briefing for a charity walk up Ben Nevis in 1995. There was this really annoying loud woman sat behind me and my mate.
Couple of weekends later my mate and I got chatting to the two women sat in front of us on the bus on the way up to Fort William. Sat with them for dinner, walked up the Ben with them, had a few drinks at the bar that night.
Spent the 13 hour journey back sat next to the cuter one, just chatting, discussing future plans in life, dream holidays. Arranged to meet up for a film and pizza that week. Kind of clicked that day.
A month later I got a good career move and moved 180 miles away from her. She spent a year commuting up and down the A1/A14/M11/M25/M23 at weekends to see me.
Then she went one better and spent a year on the edge of Siberia. I didn’t commute at weekends, to my eternal shame.
When she came back to the UK, we finally got together and got married in 2002. Our honeymoon was one of the dream holidays we’d talked out on the bus journey back from Ben Nevis.
Took a few years of marriage before I made the connection between my darling wife and the annoying loud woman at that first briefing 😉