An enlightened proposal
By Never teh BrideFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer comes a sweet tale of a man who couldn’t decide how to propose, a string of Christmas lights, and three hours of frustration as said man endeavored to figure out why the damn string of bulbs kept blinking. Okay, only kidding about that last part. Maybe. Charlie Warner of West Berlin (NJ, that is) never mentions in the article whether or not he had to make an emergency trip to Wal*Mart for more lights.
Warner, 32, a special-ed teacher for Lenape Regional, only put his marriage proposal in lights on the roof of the house he shares with his girlfriend, Ashley Lees, 23, and their 21-month-old son, Brandon.
A couple of Fridays ago, Lees went out with her family, and Warner got out the ladder. When he fired up the display, cars stopped, and occupants began hollering, “Yes, yes, I will!”
His girlfriend’s was the answer that mattered. On her way home from her family excursion, “she looked up and saw it and got all excited,” he says.
Now if I could only figure out how to finegagle The Beard into hanging lights in our apartment windows!
December 18th, 2006 at 9:44 am
Aaaaiieeee!!!! It is the Philadelphia INQUIRER! It is not related to the New York newspaper of dubious … enquiries.
(The correct spelling is even provided at the beginning of the article.)
December 18th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Ooops. Now I feel like a real schmuck. Fixed, natch. The worst part is that the correct spelling is even in the URL.
*shame*
December 18th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Bad NtB! Bad NtB! Because, you know, I’m so prefect …
Not.
If that’s the worst thing you do in your life, bless you, sweetie.
December 18th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Sorry, NtB…but it’s actually West Berlin NEW JERSEY. I’m a staffer at The Inky, and a copyeditor to boot.
Still love the blog though.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Good to know, fozzie. This has not been one of my better days, it seems.