Ricky and I have worked together at Mayo for almost 5 years-He’s a cardiovascular monitor tech and I work as a nurse in the cardiac ICU. The first 3 years we worked togegher mostly consisted of passing eachother in the hallway and doing that polite midwestern closed mouth smile and continuing on our seperate ways. One day, we were settling a new patient who had just landed and Ricky was in the room to place lines. I wanted to get a height on the patient so grabbed the tape measure, handed one end of it to Ricky, and went up to the patients head to measure. He willingly helped, of course, but as I waked past him to chart the height he smiled and said, ‘Next time YOU get the feet.’ After that day, Ricky asked me to grab ice cream for our first date. We spent 5 hours walking and talking that night and a second date quickly followed. The rest is history!