A genuine fairy story...

My brother arrived tonight from Paris with his partner.

Over dinner they told us how they met two and a half years ago.

Pipo, my brother explains that he had gone shopping at Carrefour. When he got to the checkout, he realised that he'd forgotten his wallet.
Embarassed, he confessed to the young woman behind him in the queue and moved away from the checkout,

He left his trolley in one of the aisles and headed for the doors.

Yvonne, the young woman was startled by an inner voice telling her to help him. She confided in her teenage daughter who had come out shopping with her.
"You and your strange voices, Mum!"
"I really mean it. It told me to help him."
"What are you waiting for, then?" her daughter urged her, "Go after him before he vanishes!"

Yvonne caught up with Pipo just as he was stepping into the car park.

"Excuse me, Monsieur, if you want, I don't mind paying for your shopping. Just send me a cheque in the post!"
Pipo was truly astounded by the stranger's show of trust. He mumbled some kind of thanks and followed Yvonne back into the supermarket. He collected his trolley.
She paid for his shopping and commented that, by a strange coincidence, it only cost one cent more than hers.

As she wrote her address, Pipo asked for her phone number. "I owe you dinner for your trouble!"
Yvonne was so taken aback that she made a mistake writing the last two digits of her telephone number.

Pipo explained that he was about to go and visit his daughter in Haute-Savoie for three weeks but that he would send her the check before he left. He thanked her once again and headed right for his car as she went left for hers.

As promised he wrote the cheque and sent it the following day with a note thanking her for her generosity and trust.

Once at his daughter's in Haute-Savoie, Pipo could not stop thinking about Yvonne. He dialled the number she had given him but a stranger's voice answered that he had the wrong number. He tried a few more times without success.

Pipo decided to send her a postcard in which he explained that he had tried in vain to ring her.

The day he got back from his holiday, Pipo found Yvonne's reply on the doormat with the correct telephone number. He rang and invited her out for a meal two days later. She accepted.

The meal was not great but neither of them took much notice of the food. They talked throughout the meal discovering so much about each other.
Pipo invited Yvonne back to his place for a coffee.

As they sat next to each other on the couch, he thought about kissing her but feared rejection.

Yvonne's feelings were quite mixed by that time. She kept saying to herself that he was not really her type but the same inner voice she had heard in the supermarket insisted that she should look for his inner beauty.

Finally, she decided to lean across and kiss him.

They are still in love two and half years later as they go on telling everyone the fairy story of their magical encounter.