1. Dude, the beard.
2. Lame sweater and rolled up button-up sleeves? Really?
3. Never do something like this at a sporting event unless SHE is the sports nut and/or THAT is where you met her.
4. If a sporting event - make sure it isn't one that is 4/5 empty.
So many bad omens for a woman here - I'm shocked she didn't run sooner.
As a side-note; way too early in the marriage to invite a young, buxom blonde with audio-visual equipment to get in between the two of you. Just say'n.
She's probably holding out hope to marry a Military Man and not some Mike Stivic kind of boy.
ReplyDeleteBetter get MAACO
ReplyDeleteYeah, that didn't go well for him. Time to find a new hipster. BTW, flew next to a girl teaching English in Korea. She was talking about how all of her friends never really liked the military, but all of them over there are dating mil guys now, vice the hipster teachers that are over there w/ them. She said her perspective is changing quite a bit. Amazing how that happens.
ReplyDeleteAnd what of the soulless cameraman who had to get the shot of him scurrying down the stairs in abject public humiliation.
ReplyDeleteWonder if anyone will ever propose to her again. Seeing as how she has no sense not to humiliate someone who seems to love her in a most public manner.
(I'd have hugged him and said "maybe" in his ear) and later in private if he wasn't my kind of guy (why was she with him then?) I would have told him to save the ring for someone who truly deserved him. She has crummy people skills. And he was dumb to put her on the spot.
Now it's on YouTube for the entire world to laugh at. Sad for him and someday she may regret being like that for all posterity to view.
The flip side to that is the girl: she's forever more going to be known as the woman that knifed some poor schmuck right in the heart in front of God and eveyone. What's the chances of her ever meeting someone that won't be terrified of getting screwed? Now the guy? Every girl worth her salt is going to look at him and say, "This guy has two things going for him...the courage to make an ass out of himself in public, and the convicition to go through with it"...not to mention the money for a rock ;)
ReplyDeleteOh. My. Gosh. I'm always terrified when I see one of these for fear that exactly that will happen.
ReplyDeleteDB, I'm totally with you. Say yes at the moment and talk to him privately later. I'm just crushed for the poor guy.
Hey, while we're on the subject, did any of you go down on one knee to propose? Most of my friends' husbands did - I'm surprised that such an old-fashioned custom is still popular. I think it's very sweet. Too bad it didn't work for this guy.
I doubt that she will be bothered by it, other than blaming him for putting her in this position. There are some very cold women out there, I know that from personal experience. A pretty little redhead did enough of a number on me in 1995, that I have yet to even ask anyone out, as I will not let some to ever be a position where she can hurt me like that. Oddy enough, I still dream of Corinne every now and then. No, I think that once the embarassment has gone, all she will do is laugh at his ever having asked her.
ReplyDeleteAwww, Badger. :( That post makes me sad.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if things had worked out differently between us, Corinne would have been stuck with ME for the last 16 years, so there IS two sides to every argument.
ReplyDeleteNot a Navy Proof relationship....
ReplyDeleteKristen, you and DB are Angels that you would pretend to say yes for the moment then canx in private... Ladies to the core.. Salute.
ReplyDeleteA swing and a miss...
ReplyDeleteDitto on MTH's sentiment. Hand it to youse. Youse are class broads.
ReplyDeleteThere IS the aspect of doing something like this in such a public setting. I do think it a bit rude of the guy. Because it does put the woman in an impossible spot. And if she had no idea it was coming, she might not think to do what you lovelies would do. She may not think at all.
I wonder if it's for the manliness or the "can you get me X at the exchange?"
ReplyDeleteThe guy at :19 has game. He makes her come to him. Someone's been reading http://heartiste.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteIf you are doing the horizontal bop, does it make a difference?
ReplyDeletei'd be inclined to agree with you, except for her body language. She gives such mixed signals. When she sees the mistletoe cam is on them, she gets all happy and actually reaches across a full body length to take HIS face in HER hands to pull him toward her for a big kiss. She's smiley and happy. Not the behavior at all of a woman who is unfamiliar with a guy. Unless it is all for show. Then she sees he's proposing and it dawns on her... what? She's been leading him on?
ReplyDeleteI have NEVER known a woman who was truly surprised by a marriage proposal. Secret: WE initiate it. WE give the green light to a guy that he has the feeling the answer won't be no. WE drop hints. WE talk about the future. Often it's the woman pushing for the commitment. So this is odd. No woman should be surprised when a guy finally pulls out the black velvet box. What game was she playing all along that it came to this???
But... you'd have been great at bringing her drinks! :-D
ReplyDeleteHA!HA!HA!HA!
ReplyDeleteShe alluded to it being more about the attraction to the alpha male. PX is just an added bonus. and URR, no, it doesn't matter, especially from the male's (big bopper?) POV.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Salamander; is that you?
ReplyDeleteSucks to be him. Life lesson kids, "it pays to be a winner." If you are going to go all in, you better have a shit hot ground game, and this guy does not.
ReplyDeleteI wish the video would have shown the high speed petty officer / Marine consoling her in a pub afterwards, fast forward to their family of four.
I guess a Sammich is outtta the question??
ReplyDeleteahahahahahahaha! This is why we miss you when you're AWOL, MTH.
ReplyDeleteI went down on one knee. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd the only surprise was the exact timing as we'd purchased the ring the weekend before and were waiting for it to be resized...
Let's not be too hard on this guy. Heck, even one of the smartest men in the world has trouble understanding wimmins...
ReplyDeleteYou went down on one knee when she'd already helped pick out the ring? Awww...that's very romantic of you.
ReplyDeleteMy husband did too, and I was quite surprised...and pleased. :) He also confided in my brother that he was going to propose that night, and my brother blabbed to my whole family, so when I got home from dinner my answer machine was full of messages asking if I had any news to share. Good times.
DB, I think most women start sizing up a man's marriage potential along about the third date. Which would probably surprise most men quite a bit.
ReplyDeleteMr T and URR, thanks, but I think most women would find a way to not embarrass the man in public. Too bad this girl couldn't have done that.
ReplyDeleteThat's OK...my favorite UCLA alum (Mrs. C-dore) declined the first time I proposed.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if these two are Theater Arts majors and this is a "performance piece" for the benefit of the camera.
Well, we don't know where URR and MTH went trollin' for babes. I know your friends and mine would have let the man keep his dignity. But there are some harsh women out there. Raised by wolves, maybe? For pure self preservation (if she lacks all empathy) you'd think she wouldn't want to risk unleashing the guy's inner psycho now that he has lost all and become a target for public speculation and humiliation.
ReplyDeletecynic. Now you done gone ruined the tragedy.
ReplyDelete;)
"<span>Well, we don't know where URR and MTH went trollin' for babes."</span>
ReplyDeleteWherever we could find 'em!!!!
Very possible, considering his attire..or else he's a doctoral candidate in History, Art History, Philosophy, or (spit) "Womyn's Studies"...
ReplyDeleteTook a knee on top of Mammoth Mtn during a ski trip. Soon-to-be Spousal Unit approved quite handily of said request. Photos, by a unwitting skier-by. Next day on the lifts we heard people were chatting about it - flashed shiny mineral as proof. I'm just a romantic at heart.
ReplyDeleteGreat story, Bartdog. I'm glad to see that even naval blogs have a few romantic guys hanging around. :)
ReplyDeleteC-dore, I'm pleased that she rectified her error. You should have done the down-on-a-knee thingy the first time around, her heart would have melted for sure. ;)
ReplyDeleteCommodore, I guess that this avant garde performance warrants us paying all of their student loans off and granting them an endless supply of unemployment benefits.
ReplyDeleteSheesh. I miss the days where performance art majors delivered pizzas to Casa Dissident.
Took my now fiancee to Great Falls and proposed on a cliff during sunrise. I had the setting etched into a sunrise so that every time she looks at it she'll remember the sunrise where we got engaged.
ReplyDelete@Kristen, No "down on the knee" on either try...just an evening stroll after dinner in Westwood Village. BTW, I'll never understand why a guy would buy the ring beforehand...you'd think they'd want their bride's input.
ReplyDeleteAhhh...the Village. Very nice place for a proposal. I miss strolling through it after dinner.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the ring, but almost every girl I know was proposed to with the ring. I guess if the girl really hated the ring it could be exchanged, but in my experience females are very emotional about our engagement rings and would love it no matter what.
I'm loving all these great stories. That sounds like a beautiful proposal and a very special way to remember it. Who'd have thought you were a softie underneath? :)
ReplyDeleteHey Scott, at least yours didn't decide that bleeding herself out was a better option than spending another day with you.
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