Monday, July 25, 2005

I enjoy the sound of my fiancee’s screams, apparently.

One of my friends once said she thought that when I finally ask a girl to marry me, it would be one of the most creative proposals ever. Honestly, I’d never really thought about it before. I’ve been thinking about it ever since then, and here are a few of the ideas I came up with:

1. My girlfriend is in her home doing her daily things. Little does she know that I’m hiding in her closet. When she comes into her room, I jump out and yell, “Will you marry me!” This way the surprise of being asked to be married is doubled by the surprise of me jumping out of the closet.

2. My girlfriend comes home to see the front door ajar and blood smeared all over the threshold. She rushes in to find me on the floor in the hallway clutching my bloody chest. She tearfully grabs me as I gasp for air trying to talk. Then I pull my hand from my chest to show her an engagement ring in my palm and ask, “Will you marry me?” This way the joy of being asked to be married is even greater when it comes right after the horrible sorrow of thinking I’ve been murdered.

3. My girlfriend and I have just got back to her place from dinner when we start making out on her couch. A minute or so into it and I use my tongue to move an object I’ve been hiding in the back of my mouth into her mouth. She stops and pulls it out of her mouth to see it’s an engagement ring. She looks up at me and I ask, “Will you marry me?”

Right now I think number 3 is the frontrunner. That one doesn’t involve blood and terror, and it lets me get some action in the process of asking.