Train Wreck of Love
January 26, 2007
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
I just now got around to reading today’s Keller Citizen, and couldn’t help but notice the ad on page 14A. It was too big for my scanner so I took the picture you see over to the left (click for monster size).
It appears that “Jeffrey” took out a full page ad to ask “Michele” to marry him. The ad consists mainly of a poem, followed by the proposal (the poem begins “Like a delightful train wreck you careened into my life,” which was the impetus for the title of this item).
I hope, for Jeffrey’s sake, that A) Michele reads the Keller Citizen, and B) that she says yes. He’s putting her on the spot in a hugely public way (although not nearly as bad as those guys who propose at sporting events).
I also hope the Keller Citizen at least gives us a short blurb next week as to the outcome. My curiosity has been piqued.
Categories: What the heck?
One thing’s for sure. They’ll sell you the space to announce the result yourself…
I always thought that these public proposals are really unfair to the women. As bad as we guys fear rejection (and we really fear rejection) I think that the guilt that women feel over having to reject an earnest seeker is just as bad. (I’ve had women go into serious gymnastics to try to reject me as gently as possible, which just causes guilt on my side about how bad they feel.)
The problem with these is that it doesn’t leave an honorable and gentle way for the woman to say no. She has no choice but to humiliate him, which means that she is either pressured into it or saddled with some pretty heavy guilt.
(Of course, this is a continuum, and in those relationships where everything but the formality of proposing has been covered, this is much less, but even so, it is still a presumption.)
It’s always a fine line between “true romantic” and “creepy stalker” …