[suid]

Reminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox. A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a delivery, and leading to a correspondence and later a meeting between an unhappy housewife and a lonely widower.

[sho]

> A meet-cute

OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.

[TylerE]

It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier.

Edit: Wikipedia cites a first usage in print of 1941, which implies it was already a common trope at the time: The earliest example given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Anthony Boucher's mystery novel The Case of the Solid Key (1941), in which a character says "We met cute, as they say in story conferences."

[js2]

Also, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.

[toyg]

But it was largely limited to professional storywriters, Hollywood / Broadway types. The internet spread their lingo much more widely, and terms like that have become more common and fashionable in recent years.

[lloeki]

Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!

[alanfalcon]

Welcome to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Now go watch The Holiday (2006).

[solsane]

Ok but can someone explain what this means

[kdwikzncba]

The lunchbox, is that the movie they watch in Seinfeld, which Elaine hates?

[actionfromafar]

No but she definitely would have hated it

[toyg]

I've actually seen this! Hated the ending.