Critterhunter
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A while back I was hunting a beach, when I noticed somebody guarding a stretch of sand. I couldn't hear what they said so I moved closer. The lady said "I'm just making sure this sand over here doesn't get walked on until she sees it." I looked and noted that somebody had scrawled out "Will You Marry Me?" in huge letters in the sand. So, of course, I kept my distance from that area.
A little while later a helicopter comes over very low and hovers, and then it was obvious to me, that the man was proposing to her in a helicopter ride. Very cool gesture I thought.
Later, an hour or two perhaps down the road, the girl and guy show up on the beach, and they asked me if I'd mind using their camera to take a picture of them both. I said sure. After a few pictures I joked in good humor to her "Don't get used to him spending money like that. Five years from now it might take some effort to even get him to spring for a pizza."
They both laughed, which is good, as I guess sometimes my sense of humor might rub people the wrong way.
Anyway, so later down the road I was thinking, that they might look back on that moment and laugh and laugh about the remark I made when they relate the story of that big day for them to others in how he proposed to her.
Conversely though, I then had a second thought- Perhaps it might have been the wrong thing to say. Might be every time they argue about money decades from now she throws in his face "I should have listened to that guy years ago who said you wouldn't even spring for a pizza five years from that day!" I could see the guy smacking his forehead and yelling "Not the stupid pizza story again!"
Or, how about this...Somewhere out there is a guy, years from now, quietly polishing a baseball bat in a dark room as he slugs down a bottle of Jack and murmurs to himself..."You have no idea how she's used that line on me over all these years...I don't even have a good comeback line to answer her with...Make a stupid remark like that on my big day will ya? I've got your pizza right here buddy..."
A little while later a helicopter comes over very low and hovers, and then it was obvious to me, that the man was proposing to her in a helicopter ride. Very cool gesture I thought.
Later, an hour or two perhaps down the road, the girl and guy show up on the beach, and they asked me if I'd mind using their camera to take a picture of them both. I said sure. After a few pictures I joked in good humor to her "Don't get used to him spending money like that. Five years from now it might take some effort to even get him to spring for a pizza."
They both laughed, which is good, as I guess sometimes my sense of humor might rub people the wrong way.
Anyway, so later down the road I was thinking, that they might look back on that moment and laugh and laugh about the remark I made when they relate the story of that big day for them to others in how he proposed to her.
Conversely though, I then had a second thought- Perhaps it might have been the wrong thing to say. Might be every time they argue about money decades from now she throws in his face "I should have listened to that guy years ago who said you wouldn't even spring for a pizza five years from that day!" I could see the guy smacking his forehead and yelling "Not the stupid pizza story again!"
Or, how about this...Somewhere out there is a guy, years from now, quietly polishing a baseball bat in a dark room as he slugs down a bottle of Jack and murmurs to himself..."You have no idea how she's used that line on me over all these years...I don't even have a good comeback line to answer her with...Make a stupid remark like that on my big day will ya? I've got your pizza right here buddy..."
