Who knew the auditorium inside think tank Brookings Institute was a hot spot for meeting future spouses?
Well, according to John Carey, a former medical writer for Business Week, the utilitarian room with fluorescent light is the spot of multiple love unions.
Carey was the moderator at an event at Brookings today where he told the crowd of about 100, that the auditorium had special meaning to him because “I met my wife in this very room.” He then went on to say that he recently learned that “quite of lot of people” have met their (wonky) spouses in that room.
That led one of the panelists, Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, to quip to much laughter that “I’m still puzzling over” what it is about the room that has led to romance.
So single Washingtonians, take note, if you are looking for a date, head on over to the Brookings Institute.
(For full disclosure, I met my husband via work, though not at the Brookings Institute. He was a source for a story and we met on the telephone, so I can appreciate wonky ways of meeting one’s spouse.)
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