When people ask us how we met, our first reaction is to look at each other, laugh, and respond with "it's a long crazy one do you have a minute?" It is most definitely not your typical how we met story but boy, is it a conversation starter! Back in 2015 I was a student at Jersey Shore's operating room completing my externship to become a Surgical tech. I was single, eating healthy (it comes into play) and working out. Well the night before 7/14/2015 I was making my "healthy CrossFit lunch" when I cut my finger slicing sweet potatoes on a mandolin, so I had this huge bandaid on my finger. Roll around to the next morning I was running late (typical Danielle) and realized 3/4 of the way to the hospital that I couldn't scrub into surgery with a huge bandaid on. While stopped at a stop light in front of the hospital, I looked down to remove my bandaid and "BAM" I hit the car in front of me. Well... boy did my morning really start. The lady in front of me started throwing hands and I automatically knew I was in for it. We pulled over, she got out of the car and when I say flipped out, she did. Shortly after getting angry, she apologized and offered to call my job because I was late. I said "No, don't worry I work across the street at the hospital" she responded with "Oh, me too" well neither of us thought anything of it and left the scene. When I got to the locker room of the hospital I was getting ready for my shift, crying still (I'm emotional LOL) and with no one else in the locker room because I was running late.. She walked in. Let's say both our mouths hit the floor because neither of us expected we worked in the SAME department with how large this hospital is and I had been there for 8 weeks prior and we had never run into each other before. At that point, she (Diane) felt so bad I was still upset she took me to her managers office (who was also mine). When we got there we all laughed because I had hit "Diane Menna." It was a big joke, and as im still jumbled from this crazy morning the words coming out of Diane's mouth were "How old are you, I have a son who is 23" I was baffled.. I had JUST hit this woman's car and now she's playing matchmaker. I laughed and held up my fingers twice letting her know I was "22." She ran out of the room to get her cell phone, came back and showed me a picture of her son. Well, boy did I think he was cute.. but I wasn't going to say that to her matter of fact I didn't know what to say at all!! My manager Eileen at the end of the conversation said "Boy would this be funny if you guys got married, if you do I better be the first one to get an invite!" I really did think they were all NUTS! Anyways, I went about my day as normal and at lunch time once again Diane and I ran into each other, in the locker room.. At this point she says "Oh, hi! funny story, I told my son about you, he thinks you are pretty and wants me to give you his number" once again.. I was speechless. I literally said to her "Oh haha wow okay I will find him on Facebook" it was so crazy there was no way this was happening! Her last words were "Okay honey, I hope I see you soon" The kicker.. she was being moved out of the hospital to a office down the street two days later so I never would have ran into her truck if I wasn't running late that day! Later that day I winded up messaging Mike, because after all of this how could I not?! His first message back to me was "I am so sorry if my mom was a B**** this morning, BUT she's been raving about you all day.. here's my number" And honestly, from the next message on we never went one day without talking or spent one day apart, the rest was complete history. It's funny how life works, I never use to believe in "everything happens for a reason" until 7/15/2015. If I had changed one thing about that morning, I never would've met my soul mate, and my best friend.. and 10/5/2023 we will finally be Mr & Mrs.