The Perfect "Meet Cute" Story
Okay, so yesterday was the tale of how I almost committed the perfect murder. Now for the perfect "meet cute" story.
This is also absolutely true.
I was waiting tables. I had a "best customer." A man who owned a Cadillac dealership who always requested my table and always ordered the most expensive thing on the menu AND a pricey single-malt scotch. I ordered his meal at the window of the kitchen, signing my check with an "E"--slammed it on the counter there for the chefs to hang up and cook. Picked up the steak. Served it. I asked for it "mid-rare." It came out as shoe leather. Best customer was unamused. I, single mother, worried I had just been screwed out of my best tip of the night, AND had disappointed my best customer. I took said steak and FLUNG it through the kitchen window in a fury, narrowly missing the chef's head. He turned around. We've been together ever since.
A "meet cute" though slightly temperamental story (this was before I was all peace and love, you know?).
All romantic comedies--or most of them--pivot on that "meet cute" story. That "we hated each other at first sight but now we love each other." That "two strangers meeting in an unusual way."
So . . . no perfect murder today, but share your "meet cute" story if you have one. Or . . . from your work in progress. And if your meet cute morphed INTO the perfect murder, well, then share that, too.
This is also absolutely true.
I was waiting tables. I had a "best customer." A man who owned a Cadillac dealership who always requested my table and always ordered the most expensive thing on the menu AND a pricey single-malt scotch. I ordered his meal at the window of the kitchen, signing my check with an "E"--slammed it on the counter there for the chefs to hang up and cook. Picked up the steak. Served it. I asked for it "mid-rare." It came out as shoe leather. Best customer was unamused. I, single mother, worried I had just been screwed out of my best tip of the night, AND had disappointed my best customer. I took said steak and FLUNG it through the kitchen window in a fury, narrowly missing the chef's head. He turned around. We've been together ever since.
A "meet cute" though slightly temperamental story (this was before I was all peace and love, you know?).
All romantic comedies--or most of them--pivot on that "meet cute" story. That "we hated each other at first sight but now we love each other." That "two strangers meeting in an unusual way."
So . . . no perfect murder today, but share your "meet cute" story if you have one. Or . . . from your work in progress. And if your meet cute morphed INTO the perfect murder, well, then share that, too.
Labels: romantic comedies
posted by Erica Orloff at 8:15 AM
27 Comments:
I'm not sure I have a "meet cute" in my life, although maybe... it turns out that the woman who introduced us to each other back in high school (yes, we were high school sweethearts)....
Well, Leanne was her piano student and I was in her church youth group, and she introduced us, and it turned out that we sort of already knew each other because we were in a class in school...
the rest is history, anyway. Hasn't led to a murder yet.
In Houston I had a romantic comedy binge of sorts in the hotel room and watched, back-to-back, "Dan In Real Life" and "Music and Lyrics."
I guess the "meet cute" in Dan was the scene in the bookstore where she thought he was a clerk and he went around finding her books to read at random; in Music and Lyrics it's when Drew Barrymore is watering his plants and supplies the rhyme for one of the lyrics he's working on. Hmmm...
Mark:
I saw Music and Lyrics . . . but not Dan in Real Life. Sometimes the "meet cute" is that pure coincidence--she's subbing for the REAL plant waterer, she HAPPENS to be able to rhyme, he HAPPENS to need a hit . . . and so on. (I did love the curly-haired original lyricist he had who was all about death and doom).
You've Got Mail--they emailed each other without realizing who the other person was.
In Mafia Chic (one of mine), it's the FBI agent tailing her, and she, mob princess that she is, "makes" his van and goes and bangs on it and he eventually emerges.
Mark:
P.S. . . . . HIGH SCHOOL? Totally cool.
I love that story, E! So, did you get your tip? ;-)
Mine is more of a "meet cute butt" tale.
Husband was a junior in high school and was mentoring my sophomore dramatic competition entry. (He does not remember meeting me this way.) I thought he was cute, but I was really shy and he didn't pay me much attention outside of tutoring until he saw me in the auditorium one day a few months later. I was wearing white spandex leggings (it was the 80s)and he noticed my butt, which obviously made more of an impression on him than my acting skills, lol.
We are 36 now with three kids.
My favorite romantic comedy is Houseboat, with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren.
My HEA "meet cute" story is yet to come. I hope. But I think it has to just happen. You can't go looking for it.
Heather:
LOL! Gotta love the 80s!!!!!!!!!!
E
Jude:
I liked Houseboat . . . but pretty much I like anything with Cary Grant in it.
E
Dan In Real Life is not a romantic-comedy, although it has a few moments of comedy. I liked it, but wouldn't be surprised if most women didn't. It's like Spanglish in that way, another movie that I liked but women don't seem to.
Mark:
I loved Spanglish . . . but was of course disappointed on one level to not get the HEA. BUT, my significant other loved it . . . and being Mexican, he said he felt it was very "real"--that she would never break up a marriage like that, her values and so on. He felt it was just so honest and true in that fashion. So re-examined in light of that, I warmed to the ending and her principles.
E
HEA--took me a while. Considering the source, I was trying to figure out what High-Energy Astronomy had to do with Spanglish.
But Happily Ever After, yeah, I sort of felt let down, but then realized how consistent it was with both characters.
Mark:
LOL! Sorry. HEA . . . MC . . . WIP . . . we get used to our own acronyms.
;-)
E
I loved Spanglish - even her not breaking up his marriage. She had strong principles throughout the movie.
My fave romantic comedy is American Dreamer. It's the writer thing, I suppose, but it also has some very nice twists and pays homage to other movies and genres.
Meet cute? Yeah. I started a lesbian vegetarian dining group. Met one woman early and we were dating at the time of the first meeting. And then she walked in. *sigh* Started dating three months later. We're getting married next Friday! I'll invite you to the after party for sure. We're not inviting anyone to the wedding, selfish things that we are. ;-)
Well crap, blogger ate my comment, I'll try to reconstruct it:
My true life meet cute story is how I met my first husband. I met him at a yield sign. I was sitting there waiting for the stream of cars to go by. He was in one of the cars. Our eyes locked as he passed, background music, yada yada yada.
I was on my way to work. I actually fantasized that he followed me to work and left a note or something on my car. When I got out of work there really was a note, and a rose on my car.
As for my fiction, due to the paranormal bad boys thing I've got such a morbid fixation on, most of my stories start out as "meet terrified" stories. But later they come to trust each other obviously.
Wow, you were a fiery young miss. When I met my husband of many decades, it was love/lust at first sight. It was a shame he was my girlfriend's new boyfriend.
He's not dead yet, so I'd rather not tell...
Anyway, great "meet cute" story.
I sort of went to a party with one guy. During the party I was talking to this other guy. First guy got jealous and pushed us into a bedroom, slammed the door and wouldn't let us out.
So I left the party with the second guy. We've been married 27 years.
Sarah:
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am very excited for you!
E
Zoe:
How cool (being as he turned out not be a stalker). ;-)
E
suzanne:
It was during my temperamental "phase."
E
Mel:
feel free to use my method from yesterday. ;-)
E
Aimless:
WOW! Now that is a very cute story.
E
I love your meet-cute story! LOL, at least he knew what he was getting into, right off the bat. ;-)
When I saw Spanglish, it was in the hotel room after Dallas RWA conference. I was supposed to be out at 11, but that was the middle of Spanglish. So the lady came knocking a couple times, and tears are pouring down my face, and I'm telling her I'm almost done. She finally looked in, saw the movie, laughed at me, and told me to take my time.
I think I already told you my meet-cute. We were in the same chat room, and I just knew. We barely said a word to each other. I was so blown away I stared at the ceiling for three days in shock. It took another two weeks for me to compose a dreadful two-sentence email, LOL. A month after that, we met in Las Vegas. :-)
From flinging steaks to exploding garbage disposals. LOL He should have known what he was getting into.
I met my husband at a bar, which wasn't that cute of a meet. His intro line was, "I met your sister," then he asked me to dance. Not as dramatic as yours.
Spy:
Spanglish . . . you sentimental gal, you.
E
Edie:
Yes, an unpredictable life with me, for sure.
E
haha, yeah there were a few weird circumstances. Turned out we had a mutual friend, etc. So it wasn't quite as "OMG scary" as it sounds like to other people who first hear it.
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