u/eiileenie

I work for Monumental, the regional sports network for the caps, wizards, mystics, and gogo.

I live pretty far from the arena, I do live close to a metro station though.

During the playoffs, I decided to go alone to a sports bar all the way out in western Fairfax county (Carpool) and watch all the different sports and games on the TV.

This was during the Canes Flyers series (the ESPN broadcast) and the bartender said holy shit do you know who that is behind you?

I turn around and who do you know its Ovi with his buddies opening hockey card packs. I had no idea that he even came in I was locked in on a baseball game

I turned to the bartender and said I want to buy Ovi a drink to say thanks for everything hes done for the city and making hockey what it is today.

A little while later the bartender told me Ovi declined my drink and instead wanted to buy me a drink! I was literally like oh my god the all time leading goal scorer just bought me a drink!

I remember the Flyers Canes game was broadcasted on ESPN and Oshie and Spencer Carbery were on the panel. Ovi and his buddies were taking pictures of the TV and laughing in Russian (I didn’t know what they were saying). I was smiling because I thought that was really cute taking pictures of his Babes. (Oshie is one of my favorite Caps players because he’s genuinely nice to everyone. When he was still on the team but injured, he smiled at me and said hi and I said hi back and that was the coolest thing to me at the time!)

I kept smiling and peeping glances and one of his buddies came up to me and said do you want to have a conversation with him? I said yes very excitedly!

A little background info, I have media training on not talking to any athlete unless they initiate a conversation first because I’m afraid of losing my credentials. I know to not ask for pictures or autographs because I know thats the last thing they want. If they initiate wanting a picture or signature I would say yes but I know they just want privacy especially out in public. (The only athlete that I will initiate conversations with in all of the sports that I work is Anthony Gill on the Wizards because I genuinely consider him and his wife amazing people and I just love how he takes time out of his day to talk to everyone)

I approached Ovi and his friends all nervously because I have seen him closeup before and hes been within feet of me previously but this is the first time I have actually spoken to him directly.

I said, “Hi Ovi it’s nice seeing you again.” He looked confused and I was like “oh I work for the tv broadcast for monumental I’m around the locker room area a lot I talk to Jeffrey all the time when you walk by” (Jeffrey is my favorite usher at cap one I always go out of my way to say hi to him)

Ovi’s eyes got wide because he knew exactly who I was talking about. I told him I just wanted to say thanks for everything he’s done for the city and I’m grateful to get to witness his historical moments in person.

He gave me a hug and said “don’t be shy say hi to me at cap one next year”

I work for Monumental, the regional sports network for the caps, wizards, mystics, and gogo.

I live pretty far from the arena, I do live close to a metro station though.

During the playoffs, I decided to go alone to Carpool in Herndon and watch all the different sports and games on the TV.

This was during the Canes Flyers series (don’t remember the game) and the bartender said holy shit do you know who that is behind you?

I turn around and who do you know its fucking Ovi with his buddies opening hockey card packs.

I turned to the bartender and said I want to buy ovi a drink to say thanks for everything hes done for the city and hockey.

A little while later the bartender told me Ovi declined my drink and instead wanted to buy me a drink!

I kept smiling and peeping glances and one of his buddies came up to me and said do you want to have a conversation with him?

A little background info, I have media training on not talking to any athlete unless they initiate a conversation first because I’m afraid of losing my credentials. I know to not ask for pictures or autographs off the bat because I know thats the last thing they want.

I approached Ovi and his friends all nervously because I have seen him closeup before and hes been within feet of me previously but this is the first time I have actually spoken to him directly.

I said, “Hi Ovi its nice seeing you again.” He looked confused and I was like “oh I work for the tv broadcast for monumental I’m around the locker room area a lot I talk to Jeffrey all the time when you walk by” (Jeffrey is my favorite usher at cap one I always go out of my way to say hi to him)

Ovi’s eyes got wide because he knew exactly who I was talking about. I told him I just wanted to say thanks for everything he’s done for the city and I’m grateful to get to witness his historical moments in person.

He gave me a hug and said “don’t be shy say hi to me at cap one next year”

UPDATE that I forgot to mention when I typed this yesterday thats cute!!

I remember the Flyers Canes game was broadcasted on ESPN and Oshie and Spencer Carbery were on the panel. Ovi and his buddies were taking pictures of the TV and laughing in Russian (I didn’t know what they were saying). I was smiling because I thought that was adorable. Oshie is one of my favorite Caps players because he’s genuinely nice to everyone. When he was still on the team but injured, he smiled at me and said hi and I said hi back and that was the coolest thing to me at the time!

My story of how I (F26) knew my boyfriend (M29) is the one for me

(this is my first time posting my story on social media let me know if theres any formatting issues I can fix. I wrote this on my phone)

As a kid, I never got into Pokemon games that much but I still loved the shows and the universe.
When I was a kid, my mom got me Plusle and Minun plushies and I loved them so much and always played with them. At some point throughout my childhood, my mom made me give away all my stuffed animals but a few and ended up giving them away.

Fast forward to two years ago, I met my boyfriend two years ago yesterday on Bumble. He turns 30 in October this year so he is the same age as the Pokemon franchise. He got us an Nintendo Switch 2 in April and thats how I got into Pokopia. My boyfriend also started playing the versions of Pokemon that were released on the Switch2 but it got me back into the Pokemon Universe.

Throughout the times since we started collecting different pokemon plushies, I started remembering my first two ever Pokemon plushies, Plusle and Minun.

When we first matched on Bumble, I made the first move and after his second message to me I decided to ask him out. There was this vibe that his profile was giving off that he was a genuinely good person (he has a family boxer and one of the pictures was him with a flower in his hair picking up Sky his boxer that now is obsessed with me).

The day leading up to the date, we found out how many people in common we both know because he grew up in the neighborhood across the street from me and ended up in a different high school. I was closer in age with his brother (my boyfriend was class of 2015, I was class of 2018, and his brother was class of 2019) and it turns out that I worked with his brother as a lifeguard years ago. The boundaries by my house suck for high schools, within a mile radius of me there were four high schools that you could have ended up going to. (They added a new high school that fixed that issue and the first school year is this coming fall.)

When we finally ended up meeting up around 4 pm, we decided to go mini golfing and funny enough, at hole 17 our balls both got stuck and we tried to both hit trick shots (holding the golf club like a pool cue) and my trick shot made it in. I remember thinking, “wow I just showed off in front of a cute boy”. After mini golf, we decided to go to this awful Mexican restaurant and just talk for hours. It felt like I have known him for years immediately after meeting and we became inseparable since. We started living together in October and it’s everything I have always dreamed about and more.

Fast forward to Saturday on our two year anniversary since our first date. There were a bunch of signs that I noticed throughout our day on our date that told me the current relationship I am in is going to be successful and we will last a long time.

Our first sign, was at an Italian restaurant called Carbonara. Something that you need to know about this restaurant is that it’s a highly rated Italian restaurant that is incredibly difficult to get reservations at. We ordered a bottle of Moscato for us to share and the bottle of wine was fermented and bottled the year we met a few months prior to our relationship in 2024. I immediately noticed when the waiter told us the year of the bottle and I had to take a picture and my boyfriend was confused until I told him about the connection that I made.

Our second sign was the recreation of the first date going to mini golf. On our first date, I hit a trick shot like a pool cue. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to make an even cooler trick shot holding it with a pool cue but unfortunately I barely missed. When I looked at a painting on the wall, I noticed a monster playing pool with a pool cue.

The third and final sign brings us here. When we got to E-Starland, a retro video game store that sells old game cartridges and controllers for Nintendo 64 and old game consoles; I got to see a bunch of throwback consoles and controllers and games. When I saw the plushies section, all of them were imported straight from japan. At first, I was going to get a different plushie because of the sentimental meaning to giving one of the Pokemon that my boyfriend captured a nickname Lemon (the electric dog that looks like a lemon I forgot the name)

I was so close on getting that plushie until I noticed it. My eyes locked with the Minun plushie and instantly without thought I snatched it up because it just made me go holy shit no way! I was on an immediate hunt throughout the store to find Plusle. Right before I gave up to ask someone to check the back, I noticed the Plusle in a different location.

I have never been as happy as I was yesterday. It felt like I healed my inner child and having all of the signs with my boyfriend just confirmed that hes the one for me. I genuinely hope that we work out because I only have good things to say about him and he makes me believe that fairytale romance exists and can be actually healthy and happy.

TLDR: on Saturday, my two year anniversary with my boyfriend had three signs to show me that he is the one I want to be with for every lifetime as long as we keep living.

(this is my first time posting my story on social media let me know if theres any formatting issues I can fix. I wrote this on my phone)

As a kid, I never got into Pokemon games that much but I still loved the shows and the universe.
When I was a kid, my mom got me Plusle and Minun plushies and I loved them so much and always played with them. At some point throughout my childhood, my mom made me give away all my stuffed animals but a few and ended up giving them away.

Fast forward to two years ago, I met my boyfriend two years ago yesterday on Bumble. He turns 30 in October this year so he is the same age as the Pokemon franchise. He got us an Nintendo Switch 2 in April and thats how I got into Pokopia. My boyfriend also started playing the versions of Pokemon that were released on the Switch2 but it got me back into the Pokemon Universe.

Throughout the times since we started collecting different pokemon plushies, I started remembering my first two ever Pokemon plushies, Plusle and Minun.

When we first matched on Bumble, I made the first move and after his second message to me I decided to ask him out. There was this vibe that his profile was giving off that he was a genuinely good person (he has a family boxer and one of the pictures was him with a flower in his hair picking up Sky his boxer that now is obsessed with me).

The day leading up to the date, we found out how many people in common we both know because he grew up in the neighborhood across the street from me and ended up in a different high school. I was closer in age with his brother (my boyfriend was class of 2015, I was class of 2018, and his brother was class of 2019) and it turns out that I worked with his brother as a lifeguard years ago. The boundaries by my house suck for high schools, within a mile radius of me there were four high schools that you could have ended up going to. (They added a new high school that fixed that issue and the first school year is this coming fall.)

When we finally ended up meeting up around 4 pm, we decided to go mini golfing and funny enough, at hole 17 our balls both got stuck and we tried to both hit trick shots (holding the golf club like a pool cue) and my trick shot made it in. I remember thinking, “wow I just showed off in front of a cute boy”. After mini golf, we decided to go to this awful Mexican restaurant and just talk for hours. It felt like I have known him for years immediately after meeting and we became inseparable since. We started living together in October and it’s everything I have always dreamed about and more.

Fast forward to Saturday on our two year anniversary since our first date. There were a bunch of signs that I noticed throughout our day on our date that told me the current relationship I am in is going to be successful and we will last a long time.

Our first sign, was at an Italian restaurant called Carbonara. Something that you need to know about this restaurant is that it’s a highly rated Italian restaurant that is incredibly difficult to get reservations at. We ordered a bottle of Moscato for us to share and the bottle of wine was fermented and bottled the year we met a few months prior to our relationship in 2024. I immediately noticed when the waiter told us the year of the bottle and I had to take a picture and my boyfriend was confused until I told him about the connection that I made.

Our second sign was the recreation of the first date going to mini golf. On our first date, I hit a trick shot like a pool cue. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to make an even cooler trick shot holding it with a pool cue but unfortunately I barely missed. When I looked at a painting on the wall, I noticed a monster playing pool with a pool cue.

The third and final sign brings us here. When we got to E-Starland, a retro video game store that sells old game cartridges and controllers for Nintendo 64 and old game consoles; I got to see a bunch of throwback consoles and controllers and games. When I saw the plushies section, all of them were imported straight from japan. At first, I was going to get a different plushie because of the sentimental meaning to giving one of the Pokemon that my boyfriend captured a nickname Lemon (the electric dog that looks like a lemon I forgot the name)

I was so close on getting that plushie until I noticed it. My eyes locked with the Minun plushie and instantly without thought I snatched it up because it just made me go holy shit no way! I was on an immediate hunt throughout the store to find Plusle. Right before I gave up to ask someone to check the back, I noticed the Plusle in a different location.

I have never been as happy as I was yesterday. It felt like I healed my inner child and having all of the signs with my boyfriend just confirmed that hes the one for me. I genuinely hope that we work out because I only have good things to say about him and he makes me believe that fairytale romance exists and can be actually healthy and happy.

TLDR: on Saturday, my two year anniversary with my boyfriend had three signs to show me that he is the one I want to be with for every lifetime as long as we keep living.

I need to fucking vent because this has been bugging me for a few hours. If you want a sappy genuine feel good love story, I linked it in the post.

I genuinely posted this with good intentions and I just wanted to share a cool story of some signs to show how my boyfriend was going to be in my life together. This was my first time in my 26 years of living posting one of my true stories online. I used to write scripts a lot about my life because I used to say my life could be a movie with all the crazy stuff that has happened.

I started suddenly receiving hate out of nowhere like “I aint reading all that” and nobody would fucking tell me what I was doing wrong so I started over explaining myself and people are like oh you’re autistic NEGATIVE BIAS DOWNVOTE EVERYTHING YOU SAY YOU can’t SAY ANYTHING RIGHT

Bro I’m legit being myself online I live my life with the mindset “treat others how you want to be treated” and I am trying to normalize being neurodivergent and autistic because there are so many antiableist views in society along with other parts of society that I could add a few more paragraphs to. But genuinely I posted with good intentions but naturally I’m going to match the energy of others so if people come in and start attacking me out of nowhere I get defensive and then over-explain myself.

It sucks because I came in with such good intentions to share a happy story because theres so much drama and toxicity online and I’m actively trying to make others better people. I NEVER go out of my way to be rude because it affects the other person on the other side of the screen. It genuinely hurts me seeing so many downvotes to my comments because I take it as a personal attack on myself and my relationship because I’m just trying to share a genuine story.

The worst part is thats my local subreddit so I actively am trying to make my community a better place online and in person and I can’t comprehend people liking to make others suffer like I can’t fathom it at ALL.

Okay this is getting long rant over anyways read my story if you believe in storybook ass love because thats what this entire relationship has felt like and I’m genuinely obsessed with my boyfriend because hes my best friend and has shaped me into who I am today and I love him so much