In a time when dating apps and party meet-cutes dominate, it’s rare to hear about couples who meet on the job. But for David Lautman and Megan Wang, an ordinary day at work led to an extraordinary connection. The two first met on the set of a laptop commercial, decided to stay in touch, and eventually became a couple. So when David was ready to pop the question, he knew exactly how to make it meaningful—by revisiting the same commercial set that sparked their romance in the first place, as reported by TODAY.
In an April 2024 TikTok video, Megan shared the unforgettable proposal moment, along with a ring that had a tiny cat design, a personal touch that clearly delighted her. Megan explained she had been casually watching TV when the commercial she and David had starred in appeared on the screen. Confused but intrigued, she started recording, wondering why the old ad was suddenly playing after two years. But as she watched, she noticed something different—the commercial wasn’t quite the same as the original.
In the original ad, the two actors are sitting in a field, while they talk about the Lenovo laptop. In the extended version, the commercial cuts to a scene where a narrator tries to urge the actor on screen to say something to the woman in front of him. Then, a large red box pops up on the screen and is tossed into the hands of David who is facing the camera. Meanwhile, the real-life David stands up from the couch, pulls out a matching box with a ring inside, gets down on one knee, and asks Megan, “Will you marry me?” to which she responds “Yeah, sure,” before both of them crack up. As he slips the ring onto Megan’s finger, she shows it on the camera, exclaiming, “It’s a cat!”
Speaking about the viral proposal, Megan later told TODAY that, at that time, she wasn’t interested in watching TV. She was casually scrolling through social media feeds, just when the old commercial caught her attention. At first, she was mad about the commercial being aired after two years without her knowledge and wanted to record the evidence. But things took a lighthearted turn when the commercial turned out to be an extended version of the original. Behind the scenes, David had secretly edited the ad using his production and editing skills. “I had to secretly edit at night after she went to sleep. So I spent a few hours every night,” he told TODAY.
Comment by user @owlwitches appreciating the proposal (Image Source: TikTok)
In the comment section, people were swooning over the inventive proposal and the couple's sweet romance. “This is the best proposal I’ve ever seen,” commented @ayeeitsmandy, while @lynndsae said, “Him laughing at his own proposal, I love this!” Lenovo too commented on the video asking, “Can we send you matching ThinkPads to help celebrate?” and United Airlines called the proposal “iconic.”
A comment on the video by @lenovo (Image Source: TikTok)
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.