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Some of you have met Sarah "Hot Pants" at DW or elsewhere, others will in the years to come.... She has shown me that I have nothing to fear and that there are still some people here that can be trusted, which after October 01 I doubted seriously.
For the last several weeks every time we go into the grocery store we stop at the gum ball machines.... I give Sarah a quarter and ask her if she feels lucky and she tries to get a ring out of the toy jewelry machine. Funny thing is that the machine has never given her ANY prize what-so-ever, it just steals her quarter.... That leads us to last Friday 11/15/02. Taraker and I get together, I give him the ring (that I got while out in CA at the Vet Nats thanks to Mr. and Mrs Who) and my video cam... tell him the plan...
The Plan:
Matt goes to the store, gets set up and calls me when he is ready then we will head up there.... When he sees us pull in he will put the ring (already in a plastic toy capsule) in the machine so it will look like it came out of the machine....
What happened:
Sarah and I are sitting here at home and I am thinking, damn Matt, gonna call....? then the phone rings... Matt says dude, abort the mission, a guy just collapsed in the entry and there are fire tucks and ambulances everywhere.... Then he said oh wait, they are loading the guy up now, the coast is clear.... I am just shaking my head thinking.. he is full of it. So we head up. We get there as the trucks are pulling out and Sarah says "they must have been shopping for the station" I think, yeah that or some guy just collapsed inside... Anyway we go inside and I giver her a quarter and she says no, I am not playing anymore, that machine is broken... I say come on, one more time.... so she puts the quarter in, I am already squatted and have taken a knee.... she turns the dial and goes to take out her prize and..... NOTHING :think: WTF? Did Matt forget, is it still in his pocket...? so she is pissed and begins to shake the machine and I am almost to panic when I check the gumball machine one spot to the left... there it is! He put it in the wrong machine (I think he was as nervous as me) anyway I hand her the capsule and say well will this one work? She takes it and looks quizzically at the chunk of platinum and diamond in this toy capsule and starts to tear up... I say what's the matter? She does not really know what is going on here so I ask her... And she said yes, proving that attorney's are not the brightest bunch.
Meanwhile Matt is videoing the whole thing.... he got there early and got a cart and headed straight for the floral department, loaded it up with tons of plants... looked like Cambodia, only a lens sticking out, Sarge would be proud.
So here it is... it is a big video, 12M and it is a Quicktime Movie if you want to see it. CLICK HERE TO SEE IT
If you tell someone you asked your fiance to marry you in the grocery store it may soun a little red neckish... thus the reason I have spelled it out... Okay I'm still a red neck but what the hell she said yes.
Billywho will be my best man... lets hope he does not break anything. :silly:
For the last several weeks every time we go into the grocery store we stop at the gum ball machines.... I give Sarah a quarter and ask her if she feels lucky and she tries to get a ring out of the toy jewelry machine. Funny thing is that the machine has never given her ANY prize what-so-ever, it just steals her quarter.... That leads us to last Friday 11/15/02. Taraker and I get together, I give him the ring (that I got while out in CA at the Vet Nats thanks to Mr. and Mrs Who) and my video cam... tell him the plan...
The Plan:
Matt goes to the store, gets set up and calls me when he is ready then we will head up there.... When he sees us pull in he will put the ring (already in a plastic toy capsule) in the machine so it will look like it came out of the machine....
What happened:
Sarah and I are sitting here at home and I am thinking, damn Matt, gonna call....? then the phone rings... Matt says dude, abort the mission, a guy just collapsed in the entry and there are fire tucks and ambulances everywhere.... Then he said oh wait, they are loading the guy up now, the coast is clear.... I am just shaking my head thinking.. he is full of it. So we head up. We get there as the trucks are pulling out and Sarah says "they must have been shopping for the station" I think, yeah that or some guy just collapsed inside... Anyway we go inside and I giver her a quarter and she says no, I am not playing anymore, that machine is broken... I say come on, one more time.... so she puts the quarter in, I am already squatted and have taken a knee.... she turns the dial and goes to take out her prize and..... NOTHING :think: WTF? Did Matt forget, is it still in his pocket...? so she is pissed and begins to shake the machine and I am almost to panic when I check the gumball machine one spot to the left... there it is! He put it in the wrong machine (I think he was as nervous as me) anyway I hand her the capsule and say well will this one work? She takes it and looks quizzically at the chunk of platinum and diamond in this toy capsule and starts to tear up... I say what's the matter? She does not really know what is going on here so I ask her... And she said yes, proving that attorney's are not the brightest bunch.
Meanwhile Matt is videoing the whole thing.... he got there early and got a cart and headed straight for the floral department, loaded it up with tons of plants... looked like Cambodia, only a lens sticking out, Sarge would be proud.
So here it is... it is a big video, 12M and it is a Quicktime Movie if you want to see it. CLICK HERE TO SEE IT
If you tell someone you asked your fiance to marry you in the grocery store it may soun a little red neckish... thus the reason I have spelled it out... Okay I'm still a red neck but what the hell she said yes.
Billywho will be my best man... lets hope he does not break anything. :silly: