I met my girlfriend when I worked at the hospital and she was working in the gift shop. I went away to med school and she finished college and was trying for a long time to get a pharmaceutical sales job. She applied to so many positions that she forgot which ones she had applied to. I had a friend call her posing as a pharmaceutical sales rep who would be at the hospital and wanted to interview her. The “interview” was to be on Feb 15th, 2008 at the hospital where we met, University Hospital in Augusta, GA. She was supposed to come up and see me in Columbia that night so she had no idea that I was coming. She prepared all week for a job opening that was an actual open position I had found on the Internet. Just before the “interview,” I had my friend call her to say she was running a little late, and could she meet her in a conference room on the other side of the hospital. When she walked into the room I walked through the door on the other side of the room dressed up with a dozen roses and a ring. The room was so large that she thought I was a doctor walking through before she realized who it was. She was a mix of anger and relief as I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. I almost thought she would say no and it took a couple of times of asking her before she cleared her head and said yes. I then took her by her parents’ house on the way to a nice dinner out.
- Justin M., North Augusta, South Carolina