I’m a tech person, not a fiction writer, and no form of embellisher. What I’m about to tell about happened exactly as I describe it (a long long time ago in my yute). It’s also not nearly as exciting as some of these.
I’m at this conference in Florida, and Alice, a lady from a competing company, wound up needing to borrow a power cord, which I had to spare, for the duration of the meeting (a couple days). Most of us are at the same hotel/motel. Of some relevance is that the rooms all have exterior doors, and a ‘living room’ space and behind it, a separate bedroom. The living room also had large windows. Of not much relevance is that Alice is about 15 years older than me.
On the last evening, she says come by my room at 9pm and I’ll give you back the cord. The meetings ran til 5, we had our respective dinners etc. with our colleagues etc. OK, at 9pm I go and knock on her door. The curtains on her windows are open, people can see us in there if they happen to look. So, reasonably above board (propriety was more of a thing back then).