Senior's Awkward Tteokbokki Hack Became a Lifelong Love Story

A forum user shares a memory from high school: she was sitting on the school steps late at night, crying out of nowhere from the weight of it all. A student council senior who'd been staying late prepping for a festival noticed her, said nothing, and came back with a wrapped piece of tteokbokki and a crumpled tissue.

He just sat next to her, stared ahead, and asked what was wrong. She cried it out — can't study, everything's hard — and he silently listened, then told her to eat the tteokbokki and stop crying. She says spicy food always helps her feel a little better, so she asked him how he figured that out. His answer: at the school festival, there's a booth where you wear a giant ball costume and slam into people. He'd watched her and a friend crash into a pillar head-first while laughing, so he figured — if she's crying, take her to tteokbokki and she'll start laughing.

Sure enough, mid-bite, she burst out laughing. He said he'd remembered that moment and bought it because of it. She's posting this because she's craving tteokbokki rn and asked her husband (!!!) to go buy some — and he pulled out THIS story as his excuse for being sentimental about it. lmaooo the man married her over a crying-girl-eats-spicy-food origin story 🥹