I listen to THT for 8 hours a week and I wouldn’t have it any other way

Hi reddit, i know there are all kinds of crazy stories on here but this is a wholesome one I just wanted to share because i really love love. I thought this was a good place to share my wholesome story so here goes.

I, 23 F, have been working at a bar in my area as a waitress for over 3 years. In my 3+ years there I have been hit on many times, I’m blonde and super flirty sometimes for the tips, but I never took anyones number. Once about a year in, I left my number for someone but it didn’t pan out and that’s when I decided officially no cross mingling. I have also had absolutely awful dating experiences in the past 3 years (Im talking abusive and BAD). Back in July of 2024 I had a total of 3 shifts serving, one Wednesday and two Thursdays in the span of two weeks, I had changed my availability so technically those days I shouldn’t have been booked but it hadn’t kicked in yet so the days I had booked off just didn’t line up and I had to go in (that’s what I get for trying to finesse a whole month off lol). On the second shift of the month I served a guy, lets call him A. A came in with two friends of his who work for him and I thought A was super cute (think Miles Teller but with a very kind smile). We chatted a little when his workers/friends stepped outside for smokes, I noticed him more than I normally did of customers, but they ended up just eating and leaving after joking around with me a little.

The next week I only worked one shift and I was sooooo close to giving it away but I realized I kind of do need to pay rent so I went in lol. Lo and behold, with me serving on the opposite side of the restaurant as the previous week, A and his friends come in again-and get sat in my section AGAIN. Huge coincidence and I am super happy, chatting and joking with A (kind of ignoring his friends but they didn’t seem to care lol), but I have my rule of not co-mingling with customers so after they pay they leave and I pout a little bit missing my Miles Teller looking guy before walking over to clean and reset their table. At my restaurant on the dining side (which is where I am located on this particular day) we have paper and crayons on the table, and right beside where my name is on the table paper I see a name and a number written down. I take three pictures to make sure I save it to my phone before clearing the table. I am a giddy, smiley, sloppy, mess for the rest of the night just debating on if I should message him (in our conversations I learned they live 4 hours away from where I live and were just in town for work and that was their last night in my city), but I am incredibly single so I say F it – lets message him. So when I get home from work I message him, and by the next day we are texting. Over the weekend we chat a fair deal and he is as genuine, funny, and kind as he seemed. He tells me how he has never left a number for a waitress and I tell him how I have never taken a number left for me before so it’s both our firsts lol. On the Sunday he says he is in town the following Tuesday for work and asks if I would be up for dinner, I obviously am ECSTATIC but play it cool and say sure (I had by coincidence had that day booked off or else I 100% would have been working).

Tuesday we meet at the restaurant and we just immediately mesh together, we talk for hours until he feels bad for how long we had sat at a booth taking up a servers table and we move to the bar to have drinks (he is the most polite to wait staff-huge green flag). After the bar we just keep talking and driving around for hours, kissing a little, but mostly getting to know each other. That weekend I drive up to his town to see him and by the middle of August we are inseparable. He is caring, giving, kind, treats me like a princess, and I know I’m a goner. I admittedly am freaking out because I’ve never been treated so good so I try and self sabotage by making him talk about serious topics early on to “make sure we match” but he is down for the convo and we DO match (jokes on me). So when he asked me to be his girlfriend I had no other choice than to say yes because he is someone who radiates love, happiness, and joy and I would be a fool to let him go. And when we were laying under a blanket of stars at his family’s cottage and he told me he loved me, I had no other choice than to say it back-he had given me no choice but to fall in love with him, he’s genuinely incredible. He brings me coffee in bed, surprises me with treats, always insists on buying me food, makes me feel like the most beautiful person in the world when I have never felt like that before. He holds me when I cry and I know with him I am safe. I hope every day I get to watch him become everything he wants to be because I want to support him for the rest of my life, the way I know he will support me for the rest of mine.

So now, every week I drive 4 hours each way to go visit him, and I listen to Two Hot Takes to keep me company every drive. So thank you reddit and thank you Morgan for making my driving for my medium-distance relationship a little less lonely. Though I would drive to him in total silence, or in ear piercing noise-but this podcast does make the drive go by a lot faster.