Long time lurker here. A lot of these stories are pretty good, so I figured I’d contribute a few of my own.
This happened a bit over a year ago, with my friend Joanna. We’d known each other for about six months, and had formed a really good friendship after going to see a local band I’d been following for ages. She really likes the indie/hipster music scene, and her ex-boyfriend from when she lived interstate knew some guys whose band is now quite well known. She was dating this Irish guy Sean, who had originally come over to do the backpacking thing, you know, come to a different country, meet the local people, travel and drink and work a bit until the visa expires. I don’t think finding a local girlfriend was pretty high on his list, because he’d have a habit of deciding he was bored and would literally book the next flight or bus out to go somewhere else. It was during those months when he was interstate that Joanna and I first hooked up, and we’d done it a few times while he was away.