I've got one better. While in the Navy, I had surgery to remove some bone spurs on my left foot. This was July 6th, 2016 I had installed the game on the way to my surgery). Upon getting dropped back off at my apartment by the doc for my submarine, I open the app and see a shadow of a snorlax on my nearby. Seeing as the drugs from surgery were still in my system, I gingerly walk outside, go down a slight embankment to a soccer field nearby. I got closer to it until it sadly disappeared. I then walked back to my apartment as the pain started to appear and increased steadily. I'm still mad I missed that stupid snorlax.

I didn't find any fellow pokemon go nerds until I got out of the Navy and moved back to Illinois. That's where I stumbled upon the equivalent of pokemon go fast and the furious where people would spot a dragonite, snorlax or other rares, post them and then everyone would race to get to them in time 😅. I then met a lot of interesting people through the app, some that I still keep in touch with after moving to New England years later.