Friday OT #2 - AMA

[Angie]

Who proposed and how?

I again think anyone should answer this, but I really enjoy ours.

It was our one year anniversary of dating. I am not a big one to celebrate things like that; I frequently forget our actual anniversary. But that first year is a big deal, so we were going to go to Lucullan’s for dinner. (That immediately dates this story.)

We get there, and @Mr Janny was unusually quiet and anxious. That dude was in radio for a bit so he knows how to fill dead air. We had both been traveling that week separately for work, so I assumed maybe he’d had a bad trip or something.

Dinner got done, and we left. He paused outdoors in Tom Evans Park, and we saw Richard (the nice man who sometimes wears a dress and a Santa hat around town). I found out later that, while Richard is a very nice man, Janny didn’t propose there because he had thought maybe he shouldn‘t be the first person to find out about our engagement.

We went on a drive, and drove by Tradewinds, where we had met when a good mutual friend introduced us one night. It had literally burned down the night before (which may not have allayed Janny’s anxiety).

He drove us to Bandshell Park, and we got out. He pushed me on a swing, a romantic gesture to which we were not typically prone. He casually walked around me as I swing, and stopped in front of me to allow me to swing into him - seemingly into his junk. He dropped down to one knee “in pain” as I stopped the swing to check on him. He pulled out the ring and proposed.

...Just the way I dreamt it as a little girl.


Are you married? How did it happen for you?

 

[simply1]

I again think anyone should answer this, but I really enjoy ours.

It was our one year anniversary of dating. I am not a big one to celebrate things like that; I frequently forget our actual anniversary. But that first year is a big deal, so we were going to go to Lucullan’s for dinner. (That immediately dates this story.)

We get there, and @Mr Janny was unusually quiet and anxious. That dude was in radio for a bit so he knows how to fill dead air. We had both been traveling that week separately for work, so I assumed maybe he’d had a bad trip or something.

Dinner got done, and we left. He paused outdoors in Tom Evans Park, and we saw Richard (the nice man who sometimes wears a dress and a Santa hat around town). I found out later that, while Richard is a very nice man, Janny didn’t propose there because he had thought maybe he shouldn‘t be the first person to find out about our engagement.

We went on a drive, and drove by Tradewinds, where we had met when a good mutual friend introduced us one night. It had literally burned down the night before (which may not have allayed Janny’s anxiety).

He drove us to Bandshell Park, and we got out. He pushed me on a swing, a romantic gesture to which we were not typically prone. He casually walked around me as I swing, and stopped in front of me to allow me to swing into him - seemingly into his junk. He dropped down to one knee “in pain” as I stopped the swing to check on him. He pulled out the ring and proposed.

...Just the way I dreamt it as a little girl.


Are you married? How did it happen for you?

Haha, that's a power move, getting the sympathy for the "kick to the junk" right before asking.

You know I should ask my wife if she remembers the details better, I'm terrible at it. Basically I made a message in a bottle with a romantic note inside. We lived in WDM at that time, and went out to Badger Creek from time to time to walk around and enjoy the lake.

So basically I drove out to Badger after work on the night I planned on proposing, planted the bottle along one of the rock piers in a tough to see spot, and then drove home. So it's during the week and not a lot of people out there, but I'm still panicking that someone is going to find it before we get there.

We do drive out and we're wandering on this pier and I make a scene about finding something but I can't quite get it out, can she grab it. So she grabs it and brings it up and I'm like you should open it and see what's inside. It was obvious at that point that I had placed I there, so she read it and I proposed at the end. TA DA!

 

[Angie]

Haha, that's a power move, getting the sympathy for the "kick to the junk" right before asking.

You know I should ask my wife if she remembers the details better, I'm terrible at it. Basically I made a message in a bottle with a romantic note inside. We lived in WDM at that time, and went out to Badger Creek from time to time to walk around and enjoy the lake.

So basically I drove out to Badger after work on the night I planned on proposing, planted the bottle along one of the rock piers in a tough to see spot, and then drove home. So it's during the week and not a lot of people out there, but I'm still panicking that someone is going to find it before we get there.

We do drive out and we're wandering on this pier and I make a scene about finding something but I can't quite get it out, can she grab it. So she grabs it and brings it up and I'm like you should open it and see what's inside. It was obvious at that point that I had placed I there, so she read it and I proposed at the end. TA DA!

That is so sweet! And it's really, really creative - that's super clever! Janny'd had some romantic ideas (a hot air balloon, etc.) - but went for the kick to the junk.