The Herald celebrated the coming of Valentine’s Day by standing outside Downing University Center with a black box. We asked couples to step inside the box and tell us how they met and some of their interesting dating stories, while getting their picture taken.
Natural attraction
Dan, a Louisville senior, met Kelli, a Madisonville sophomore, at his birthday party and said there was a “natural attraction.”
The two have been dating for about five months and said the weirdest thing they’ve probably done as a couple is stand inside a black box and answer relationship questions for the Herald.
The two go to sorority and fraternity functions together, but Valentine’s Day plans are still unknown.
“Oh it’s a secret,” he said. “Even I don’t know what it is yet.”
Different memories
Adrianna, a Paducah freshman and Tim, a freshman from Wrens, Ga., met through a friend, but have different memories about how they got together.
Adrianna said the two were set up, but Tim said one of his teammates introduced them.
He said if it hadn’t been for that, they probably wouldn’t have spoken.
Pretty dull
Bryan, a sophomore from Carmel, Ind., and Emily, a Somerset junior, said they’re a pretty dull couple. They don’t go on dates, and they’re not very romantic.
They met in January 2007 when they were taking pictures at a protest in Washington, D.C.
The first date was a trip to RedZone about a year ago for the Super Bowl. Emily said she doesn’t care about football that much, but Bryan wanted to watch it.
“It just seemed like something you’re supposed to do,” she said.
For Valentine’s Day, the two said they will probably just split dinner at Puerto Vallarta.
Everything fell together
“Why do girls date a–holes?” was one of the first things that Elizabethtown senior Jason asked Fort Thomas junior Caroline.
Jason said Schroder kind of shrugged. The two eventually started dating.
They had a class together during the spring 2007 semester, and began spending time together about two weeks before summer started.
Caroline says their relationship is unique because even though they were about two-and-a-half-hours away from each other, they made an effort to see each other almost every weekend.
For Valentine’s Day, the two are going back to the first place they hung out together: Steak ‘n Shake.
They say it’s weird how everything fell together.
“We’re pretty different,” Jason said.
But Caroline said that is what makes them work.
Undeniable charm
For Princeton sophomore Michael, February isn’t the best month.
Michael has to buy his girlfriend, Bailey, also a sophomore from Princeton, presents for their anniversary, Valentine’s Day and her birthday.
Michael says that Bailey won’t accept one gift for the three days. Bailey agreed, laughing.
The two have been dating for a little more than a year, but have been best friends for longer than that.
Bailey was dating Michael’s cousin before the two got together.
Michael told Bailey that he was going to college and that she would never see him again.
Bailey saw that as her last opportunity to get with him, and persuaded him to come to Western with her, she said.
Michael says it was his “undeniable charm,” that brought them together.
Cuddle with anything
Rachel, a Cincinnati freshman, remembers how she and Jake, a Madisonville freshman, got together differently from how Jake remembers it.
Rachel said the two were asleep in her room at Minton Hall when he started kissing her.
“I woke up to him kissing me,” she says laughing.
According to Jake, he only found out a week ago about Rachel’s version of the evening.
The two were talking about how awkward that first night was, he says.
Jake said her face was really close to his, and that he thought that was what she was aiming for.
Rachel said she was trying to make sure he didn’t fall off the bed.
“I’ll cuddle with anything,” she said.
Rachel said she suffers from chronic fatigue and she sometimes falls asleep in the middle of class, or when walking on campus and Jake will have to come wake her up.
It was nice
Bowling Green freshman Katie’s brother is pretty well known at her church … to everyone except Bowling Green sophomore Matt maybe.
The first time the two met at their church, Matt said he asked Katie what her last name was, to which she responded, “Don’t you know who my brother is?”
Her brother was a youth leader in the church.
The two have been dating for about three years, and in that time, they’ve done many romantic things for each other.
Matt said when he used to work at Chick-Fil-A, Katie would come and visit him, even when she didn’t have a reason to.
“She would come and get water and stand around,” he said. “It’s not typical romance, but it was nice.”
Katie said that Matt sometimes leaves notes on her car and one time even left roses on her doorstep for no reason.
Katie is a member of Western’s dance team and says that on Valentine’s Day she’ll be dancing at the women’s basketball game.
“I’m going to go to the game and get a free T-shirt,” Matt said. Afterward, the two will probably do something together.
Reach the reporters at news@chherald.com.
.