...a girl saw a boy in a grocery store. She was exhausted and stinky; upon returning from a 3-week wilderness backpacking trip in Canyonlands, Utah, Ashley and her roommate Brad needed food. They began scavenging the produce section at Raley’s. When you've eaten nothing but pasta and dehydrated fruit and beans for three weeks, fresh bananas, pineapple, and even spinach, look like delicacies. "Hi Brad, how's it going?" The chipper voice was met with a tired, melancholy "Hi Corey. Good." Brad was not in the mood for chit-chat. Ashley saw the stranger from across the row of apples. This guy was cute! Corey asked Brad "What are you up to? How's your summer?" Ashley chimed in to save emo-Brad from more one word answers "We just got back from three weeks in the desert in Utah." A few more words were exchanged and Corey left to go find cookies and donuts. As soon as he left, Ashley went straight to Brad. "Who was that?!" "Corey." "Well, how do you know him?" "School." She realized she was going to get no useful information out of Brad, so she didn't press the issue. The next day, Ashley was browsing her online dating profile (that’s not weird anymore, right?) Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. There here was - the cute guy from the grocery store. She thought she’d never see him again. With no time to stalk him, she favorited his account, not knowing that it would notify him. Ashley left to go wherever, and five minutes later, DING! A message. A message from Corey. “Aren’t you Brad’s friend from the grocery store?” Ashley was so embarrassed. But alas, the two began talking, unknowing what the future would hold for them. Their first date was a few days later at Truckee Thursday. A big group went. Turns out, Ashley and Corey had the same friends. Their second date was a hike on the Tahoe Rim Trail. Their third date was summer snowboarding at Boreal. Corey probably should’ve known that day that he should marry this girl 😜 A few years later, he finally asked.