Man, all games are broken when the first people who aren't developing them play them. Such is the nature of game development.
Oddly, the romance one is the only quest I was really sure it happened on. There was something else, and I can't remember what, so it was on my mind, and then it happened with that one and I went 'okay, no, that's real'. But, if you can't trip it, I must've done something weird. I'll see if I can repeat it, next time I play.