The Mad Chatters thread Part 6

[Ready to go in Ok]

I think that's a great idea. We can even push the mail by date back by a week...I just wanted to give everyone a chance to get it in the mail...I know mail that time of year is busy...but I think a WDW package would be AWESOME!!

Yay! Jay, you rock!

 

[paigevz]

The story of "us" continued...once we did start to date, we knew. I mean neither of us was going to mess around with the friendship we had. If we were together...it was going to be for good. Dating your best friend is awesome...it is also very risky...if you break up you lose so much.

So...our Soph. year we got together in April and by Jan. of our junior year we were engaged. Another not so romantic story. We had gone to his home in the middle of nowhere and stayed with some of his friends (his parents didn't know we were in town). So...his mom sees me in a store and well...umm...she was not very happy at this point that her son (who is going to college 6 hours away) drove "home" and didn't stop in to visit. Somehow we got to fighting about that. Like it was my fault that she walked into the grocery store while I was getting some food (20 something single men have NO food in the cupboards). I don't know how or why...but it turned into a fight. Stupid fight. One that meant nothing...he was just feeling guilty and took it out on me. I should have known that and let it slide...but I didn't give an inch that time. So anyways...we are stuck together then on this 6 hour drive back and we really aren't talking. I wasn't going to break up with him or anything...but he must have thought he really blew it...

We stop for a quick food break at an overpass Wendy's. It went right over I-94 just outside of Chicago. While I was in the bathroom, he bought a ring out of a bubble gum machine (I had no idea)...

We ordered our food and sat down to eat (still not really talking) and dh dropped to his knee, pulled out the bubble gum machine ring and asked me to marry him right in the middle of the Wendy's dining area. A trucker hooted and whooped. And a few others in the dining area clapped. I guess I was in so much shock I didn't answer and he started to look sick (thinking I was really mad and leaving him). I finally figured out that I hadn't said anything and croaked out yes. Then we got free Frostys from the people at Wendy's and a pressed penny with a bible verse on it from the trucker (I still have it...I keep it in our safe with the little turn my finger green bubble gum ring).

Turns out he thought I was going to leave him and he had been thinking of how to ask for a while. So...he thought he better just ask (I guess me being quiet really scared him...I am NOT quiet by nature).

I got a "real" ring that year on Valentine's Day but that bubble gum ring is still special to me.

Not such a romantic way to get engaged...but it's the only story I have...so I love it.

Aw Jay, that's perfect. That story is just fitting for you. I just knew it'd be something like that. Perfect.

 

[jaycns]

Nope......I had no excuse......Well, other than having 2 children while in college.....but that wasn't really the reason.....I just have problems confronting uncomfortable things sometimes.....like today....I go to buy a camera, and there isn't a salesman around.....instead of flagging someone down, I just kind of stand around waiting on someone to help me...I finally went and found someone.....crazy....

Not crazy...it makes you unassuming...but not crazy.

What kind of camera did ya get?

 

[paigevz]

That's true......and we had a Dairy Queen......

OH NOW I am JEALOUS...................we had no fast food of any kind. Wouldn't have mattered though, my dad didn't let us buy processed food or fast food.

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

The story of "us" continued...once we did start to date, we knew. I mean neither of us was going to mess around with the friendship we had. If we were together...it was going to be for good. Dating your best friend is awesome...it is also very risky...if you break up you lose so much.

So...our Soph. year we got together in April and by Jan. of our junior year we were engaged. Another not so romantic story. We had gone to his home in the middle of nowhere and stayed with some of his friends (his parents didn't know we were in town). So...his mom sees me in a store and well...umm...she was not very happy at this point that her son (who is going to college 6 hours away) drove "home" and didn't stop in to visit. Somehow we got to fighting about that. Like it was my fault that she walked into the grocery store while I was getting some food (20 something single men have NO food in the cupboards). I don't know how or why...but it turned into a fight. Stupid fight. One that meant nothing...he was just feeling guilty and took it out on me. I should have known that and let it slide...but I didn't give an inch that time. So anyways...we are stuck together then on this 6 hour drive back and we really aren't talking. I wasn't going to break up with him or anything...but he must have thought he really blew it...

We stop for a quick food break at an overpass Wendy's. It went right over I-94 just outside of Chicago. While I was in the bathroom, he bought a ring out of a bubble gum machine (I had no idea)...

We ordered our food and sat down to eat (still not really talking) and dh dropped to his knee, pulled out the bubble gum machine ring and asked me to marry him right in the middle of the Wendy's dining area. A trucker hooted and whooped. And a few others in the dining area clapped. I guess I was in so much shock I didn't answer and he started to look sick (thinking I was really mad and leaving him). I finally figured out that I hadn't said anything and croaked out yes. Then we got free Frostys from the people at Wendy's and a pressed penny with a bible verse on it from the trucker (I still have it...I keep it in our safe with the little turn my finger green bubble gum ring).

Turns out he thought I was going to leave him and he had been thinking of how to ask for a while. So...he thought he better just ask (I guess me being quiet really scared him...I am NOT quiet by nature).

I got a "real" ring that year on Valentine's Day but that bubble gum ring is still special to me.

Not such a romantic way to get engaged...but it's the only story I have...so I love it.

Aww Jay! You made me tear up! That is the sweetest story!

 

[paigevz]

Yay! Jay, you rock!

If Jay ends up with your gift, I'll know it was fixed..............

 

[jaycns]

We didn't have any form of theater.......but we did have a skating rink......of course it was only open when someone rented it out for a birthday party....if you didn't get invited to a lot of parties, you were SOL...

Paige, I think the stomping of rotten boards and curtain swinging sounds like a TON of fun! And I am not even joking.

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

Not crazy...it makes you unassuming...but not crazy.

What kind of camera did ya get?

A Nikon Coolpix.....it is tiny

 

[paigevz]

Not crazy...it makes you unassuming...but not crazy.

What kind of camera did ya get?

Jay, that is a WAY better answer than what I told her...............

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

OH NOW I am JEALOUS...................we had no fast food of any kind. Wouldn't have mattered though, my dad didn't let us buy processed food or fast food.

No hot dogs or PopTarts? That is what I grew up on....

 

[paigevz]

Paige, I think the stomping of rotten boards and curtain swinging sounds like a TON of fun! And I am not even joking.

Well it was............we were creative kids...............

 

[jaycns]

Jay, if you need me to be on time, that's no problem.......I will just be early.....and have to think....which wouldn't kill me....every once and a while everyone needs to have a good think.....

Time is for clocks...not people! You will be fine mailing from WDW!

 

[paigevz]

No hot dogs or PopTarts? That is what I grew up on....

No. No mac and cheese, no pizza, no McDonald's....................you know the saying: If ya didn't find it, grow it or kill it, it don't belong here.

 

[paigevz]

Time is for clocks...not people! You will be fine mailing from WDW!

Dang........that's wise there. I need to borrow that for my administrators when they tell me recess is running over.................

 

[jaycns]

Aw Jay, that's perfect. That story is just fitting for you. I just knew it'd be something like that. Perfect.

What...that I would drive my potential mate to the brink of madness to make him propose at a truck stop Wendy's?

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

No. No mac and cheese, no pizza, no McDonald's....................you know the saying: If ya didn't find it, grow it or kill it, it don't belong here.

Tell me you at least got to have koolaid.....

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

Hello!!!

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

Hello!!!

Hey Mary! How's the scrapping going?

 

[paigevz]

What...that I would drive my potential mate to the brink of madness to make him propose at a truck stop Wendy's?

No it's so flippin' romantic, and sweet, and .............just great.

 

[paigevz]

Tell me you at least got to have koolaid.....

No Stephie..................I grew up in an 80s that was more like the 40s............

Hi Mary