Heather and her best friend Jenn were visiting some friends in Washington, DC for a long weekend before Heather went back to work for the start of the school year. Robby got the invite through her friend to come hang at Dacha beer garden in Shaw for the day. Dacha's line was too long, so they all ended up sitting in the back corner of Passenger swapping stories. Robby made Heather laugh. Heather smacked Robby's arm one too many times. The rest was history. The night ended with Karaoke, dancing, and Heather asking Robby if they could be friends in real life, in which Robby responded by getting her number. At the end of the weekend, Robby had already invited himself to a Clemson game a month later. That Clemson game led to many more adventures and two years of long distance between DC and Greenville. The deal was sealed when they survived pandemic lockdown in DC shortly after Heather moved there in 2019.