Tony Reali Got Engaged in an Airport Bathroom
Yesterday on Around the Horn, Tony Reali mentioned that he got engaged in a airport bathroom. After the show, Stat Boy took to Twitter to tell one of the most romantic stories ever that involves vomit, a New York City cab and the LaGuardia Airport bathroom. You can read the entire story on his Twitter page, or just read left-to-right, top-to-bottom right down there. The way LeBron intended.
[via @AroundTheHorn; amazing twitter compilation by reader Justin]
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June 20th, 2012 at 1:05 PM
Really, that’s actually a pretty crazy tale.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:06 PM
Would be better if it was… you know… true.
“Drag stat girl between the men’s and women’s bathrooms and get engaged right there”.
Also… it doesn’t appear that there was any actual vomit, either.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Reali is good people. He deserves to host a better show.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:11 PM
The cat burglar shot on the left never stops being awesome.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:13 PM
I can echo this. Many stories from friends when he went back to Fordham (I think he graduated in ’00 or ’01) and hung out with current students and bought them beers at the off-campus bars.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Engagements are very overrated. If there’s a great story like this one, it’s awesome, but the pressure for everybody to have a romantic or memorable engagement is way too much.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:14 PM
dude has to work on that weak ass stomach of his
June 20th, 2012 at 1:15 PM
That’s a helluva ot of vomiting. He must’ve been dry heaving by the 16th tweet.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:15 PM
My engagement story:
“Hey, would you like to go ring shopping? Because I don’t want to spend a lot of money on something you don’t like.”
“Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.”
/magic
June 20th, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Thats why you leave your rings on while you sleep, stat girl.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:17 PM
My wife went and picked her’s out all by herself. I never left the damn house.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:17 PM
thankfully my wife wasn’t into showy, flashy public engagements. found a nice quiet spot in central park in an area that we always went to, popped the question.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:17 PM
I really dislike him and have never been able to get more than five minutes through that show but that is an okay story, good for couples parties, and traffic jams.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:18 PM
that’s phenomenal.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Put him on the Bathroom Story Mt. Rushmore along with
-Ben Roethlisberger
-Shock G
-and ???
June 20th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Sounds similar to me, although I was taking her out for her b-day the next day, I did a detour by the Philly Art Museum, went about half-way up the steps to a fairly empty area and popped the question.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
did they film a video rubbing their engagement in the face of all their friends that some other couple had already made viral a month earlier? because that’d be awesome.
-no one
June 20th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
But this is one of the things I hate about twitter, someone is telling a story and you have to scroll all the way down to the beginning. Be nice if Twitter was in reverse order from top to bottom, and left you where you left off at the top when you sign in.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
that politician who was trolling for buttfun.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
sounds like you’re getting tired of waiting for Mr. Right to come along and sweep you off your feet.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
wide stance
June 20th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
na…i just like being the cynical asshole.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
still waiting for a certain Florida commenter to jump in with the time Reali listened to the commenters and said Godzilla biscuits on air
June 20th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Legendary.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:24 PM
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Didn’t get insurance immediately? Really? Seems like a no brainer.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Seconded.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
tweeting has to be the least efficient method of telling that story.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
thankfully my wife wasn’t into showy, flashy public engagements. found a nice quiet spot in central park in an area that we always went to, popped the question.
Good call.
Did the same thing at the stone steps at the arboretum in college. Simple and unforgettable – considering it was halloween.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
My parents announced ours at their 25th Wedding anniversary party. We then proceeded to have a party few weeks later, where she got intricate silk embroidered clothes, 22 carat gold jewelry, and a 7 diamond ring. All courtesy of my family. I got nothing.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
lolz. I forgot about that. That was fantastic.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
i’m crazy, allow me to amaze the
they say i’m ugly but it just don’t phase me
June 20th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
im going with skywriting.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
I find this story to be uplifting.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
What’s this now? It’s like a reverse dowry.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
I dont want this to sound racist-y, but are you in an arranged marriage?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
And oh yeah, people actually watch around the horn? Get lives you idiots.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
My engagement story…
Got engaged on a run (we met running). Had a bottle of champagne/picnic stashed in the woods at the halfway point. Of course I missed it, had to drag her back to the spot, pull the ring that I safety-pinned into my pocket, kneel down and ask her to marry me. Then she asked if I was serious, because while we’d talked about getting married etc, she had no idea I was going to ask… and because she hadn’t bothered to look down at me and see I had a ring in my hand.
Nothing over-the-top, but fitting for us, and special. And very private (no people, no phones, nothing around). All things I’d recommend to someone considering it.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
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June 20th, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Regardless of how or when you do it that ring feels like a goddamn anchor in your pocket and you’re verifying it’s location every 8 seconds.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Whomever’s in charge of the spreadsheet, is Godzilla Biscuits her or Tebow’s ex-girlfriend? Or her?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:31 PM
SPILL THE BEANS, JUGDISH
June 20th, 2012 at 1:31 PM
It’s like your Frodo and the ring is just weighing you down.
/no homo
June 20th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
If you’ll indulge a little #humblebrag, it worked out great because since she was there, we were able to have a ring and wedding band custom designed together to match.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
I proposed to my wife in the Grand Canyon. We had hiked for a couple days in 110 degree heat and she almost stepped on a rattlesnake. I didn’t puke.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
I got the ring and the insurance company said once I gave it to her the insurance was voided, so I had it uninsured. I safety-pinned it in the pocket of my running shorts, and kept patting the pocket every few minutes running. Then since we were leaving for Philly the next morning, we had to go to her work to fax in the info se we could get in insured that night. I can’t imagine a couple weeks uninsured.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
I dont want this to sound racist-y, but are you in an arranged marriage?
Nothing racist-y, but no it wasn’t arranged. Indians make a huge deal about this stuff. And I’m not married anymore, so there it is.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
I dont want this to sound racist-y, but are you in an arranged marriage?
Yeah, how many goats were included in the dowry?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
That’s actually your own ring that does that, after the wedding…
June 20th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
I don’t think we would get along.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Chris Hanson ruined my engagement story. Asshole…
/Fetch
June 20th, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Nothing racist-y, but no it wasn’t arranged. Indians make a huge deal about this stuff.
I can vouch for that. I work with an Indian and the damn wedding appeared to be a weeklong affair. I thought the painting of designs on the women was trippy.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
CRAMP!
June 20th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
The chick not realizing we were dating ruined my engagement story. Bitch…
/Fetch
June 20th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
Yeah, how many goats were included in the dowry?
Actually, we got 3 cows.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:36 PM
The smart thing to do is about 6 months before, start trying to notice when she says what kind of ring she likes. I knew my wife wanted a solitaire, and I picked out a unique-ish setting I really liked (I don’t like the plain ones). If a woman is picky, she will make sure you know what kind of ring she wants, if you pay attention to her at all. Chicks are way more manipulative than you think…
For instance, I know that my wife getting another puppy (in 2 weeks!), is really just testing me/us out to see what it will be like when we have kids.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
freal? that’s fairly awesome.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Was she running in place monitoring her heart rate while you were on your knee?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
the damn wedding appeared to be a weeklong affair
It is. I work with lots of “those people” and the stories are right out of 3Rd century Asia.
/*not racist
June 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Guess I didn’t take possession until I was asking, and we insured it the Monday following (asked on Saturday), so I didn’t have any exposure.
/nods
June 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
That’s not possible.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
/pants HEY THERE! HEY, DID ANYONE EVER TELL YOU YOUR SWEAT GLISTENS LIKE FRESHLY FALLEN SNOW? /pants
June 20th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Good point.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Worst irony in arranged marriages in being burnt alive for under cooking dinner.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
freal? that’s fairly awesome.
Fuck no, just messing around. We value cows more than goats, though.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
that tiny third pocket right at the waistband of jeans was a lifesaver for me, snug enough it wasn’t falling out, easy enough to get into all smoove like.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Actually, we got 3 cows.
Awesome. Did you borrow someone’s bull to expand the herd? Seriously – I’m not joking. Calf breeding is easier than you think.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
She was lost. It was a super weird night, because right before we got there, we passed 8 cop cars on the side of the road investigating something, then I ran ahead up the hill to get the ring out etc, and missed the spot where I said I’d stashed “water” because there was a car going the wrong way down a divided road.
So I had to stop her, bring her back to the ‘water’ (on a short run where we didn’t even need water), and then take her headphones off to talk to her, then I said “you know how much I love you” so her reaction was “oh no what did you do”. It was sort of a clusterfuck, in a good way.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
This is all true. Very easy to get insight with little effort. I’m now pround of the fact that not another piece of jewelry has been purchased since that one almost six years ago. Homes instead …
June 20th, 2012 at 1:40 PM
The chick not realizing we were dating ruined my engagement story. Bitch…
/Fetch
RIP MLJ and Fetch’s final post.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:40 PM
I met my girlfriend while doing the 100-yard butterfly.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Worst irony in arranged marriages in being burnt alive for under cooking dinner.
I think what you’re looking for here is “beheaded”. Your welcome.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
your reflection in the water doesn’t count
June 20th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
He was actually in the stands at the High School State Championships
June 20th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
But what if you think it’s really easy?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Nothing cements love more than a crippling debt rock mined by a child slave.
/In marriage it’s bling bang
June 20th, 2012 at 1:43 PM
Well done.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:43 PM
UNDER THE SEA! THE WEDDING IS BETTER WHEN EVERYTHING’S WETTER…HAH NOT REALLY!
June 20th, 2012 at 1:44 PM
People are complaining about the pot smoke in the bathroom. This office is no fun, man.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Nope burnt alive at a rate of one bride per hour.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:44 PM
But still harder than beekeeping.
/Ben
June 20th, 2012 at 1:44 PM
We value cows more than goats, though.
Well, of course. Prime rib don’t grow on goats.
I met my girlfriend while doing the 100-yard butterfly.
Is “100 Yard Butterfly” what you call motorboating?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
maybe you just needed to replace the light bulbs with blacklights and get some cool glow in the dark posters man.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
i know a guy who had to refinance his car loan to afford the ring for his wife. that’s gotta be some good action he’s getting.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Got my wife a crappy cheap engagement ring b/c I was essentially destitute.
Got her a really nice blue sapphire and diamond ring for our 7th anniversary – completely random. Good graces with her for a long time (at least, until the next anniversary which in no way was going to hold up to the previous one, creating a spiraling effect of doom.).
June 20th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Calf breeding is easier than you think.
But what if you think it’s really easy?
Easier than that even.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Is the Times of India a real newspaper or a joke newspaper?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
i know a guy who had to refinance his car loan to afford the ring for his wife.
The worst racket in the world is the whole “two months salary” for a ring.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
I didn’t want to be the one to tell him, but with those narrow hips, that girl couldn’t have more than 6 or 7 children!
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Sousedbergin and I definitely do not share the same daily web reading habits.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
My husband was going to propose to me on my 24th birthday but I was too depressed about getting so old that I got completely wasted. He had to wait till the next day, after the Pats won, aww.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Drink whiskey in the office like a man instead of sucking your smoke from a phallic glass tube like some flower power whore.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
buy a his and her calf pair and mate them. that’s big this year.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Nope burnt alive at a rate of one bride per hour.
I stand corrected, thank-you.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Jesus. My wife would have killed me.
I’m lucky… we move in together about a year before we got engaged, so I basically just used what I saved on rent to buy the ring.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Is the Times of India a real newspaper or a joke newspaper?
It’s real, not Onion like.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
It’s three months.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
“100 Yard Butterfly”
Hey – that’s my move!
June 20th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Is that gross or net?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
I have been unironically told by single women that this isn’t enough anymore. They do not appreciate my response that it’s not their decision, though they can certainly influence it.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Is true.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
that’s what happens when you listen to the womenfolk
June 20th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
It’s definitely not the worst racket. But it’s still terrible and only morons listen to these jeweler assholes.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
This is basically what we did. God, life was great before kids*.
*financially, I mean.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
I’m in the clear. My girlfriend won’t officially marry me because of all my student loan debt.
Wait that’s probably not a good thing is it.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
I assumed gross, otherwise, I spent way too much.
Too late now I guess…
June 20th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
People seem to think I’m getting engaged soon and keep asking me about my ring fund.If I have to here about this ring fund thing from people anymore I’m going to have a conniption.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
I was ordered to plan a 30th birthday blowout for the Wife for similar aging-averse reasons.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Amen.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
if they don’t work they have no idea what the value of money is – don’t marry them, this is a bad sign.
if they do work and say this – don’t marry them, this is a bad sign.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
My wife loves Halloween. She handed out candy at a friend’s house and I showed up in a huge frog mascot outfit (head completely covered) asking for candy. I looked about 7 feet tall with the huge head. All her friends were very weirded out by the huge stranger asking for candy. I was handed candy and asked if she wanted a treat (throwing my voice). Very weired out but too nice to mace me she said, “I have plenty of candy, but Ok”. I went in my pillow case full of candy and pulled out the ring on one knee and took of my huge mascot head. By that time, I had an audience following me of families and everyone cheered when she said yes. She cried. Got lucky.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:51 PM
The worst racket in the world is the whole “two months salary” for a ring.
It’s three months. Mole
Hey, fuck you. Mole obviously slangs blood diamonds.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
My ring was probably 1 month salary, gross. Yall are marrying the wrong women if they need more than that.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
oh, and one girl did yell “the frog turned into a prince!”… nailed it!
June 20th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
don’t listen to this dumb cunt…he’s all drunk on whiskey and has been signing his name “murpy’s law” for the past eight months.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
So your looks were already fading at 24? That’s a steep decline.
Mark off CJ as “not Asian” on the spreadsheet.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
For her 30th birthday I got my wife (at basically her request) two months worth of a personal trainer (she was on the verge of birthing our child at the time). It was expensive. Over a year later she’s never used it yet she’s skinnier than she’s ever been and I have something to hang over her head for the rest of our lives.
/marriage
June 20th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
It’s nice being able to tell them this from my ivory tower of No Longer Single.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:54 PM
Move to Niagara Falls!
/under no circumstances should you move to Niagara Falls
June 20th, 2012 at 1:54 PM
Sums things up nicely.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
it is pretty nice, isn’t it?
if only more people would listen to my advice to not spend money on the wedding, put that money towards a house, our economy would have no housing problem whatsoever right now.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Both our families are from Upstate NY, we’re not that stupid.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
for better but not worse, through the good times and not the bad, for richer and that’s it, in health but not if you’re sick…until the pats start sucking again do us part.
/pats fan vows
June 20th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Sister’s getting married soon. This is the route they’re taking. I think the dumbest thing you can do is spend $10k on a ring.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Spencer gets a pass, whatever substance gets you through you the week of blowing Pro Shop instructors for lessons I’m all for it.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Presumably jewelry will hold it’s value nicely. That goes out the window if the couple splits and you argue about who gets that value.
I tried to tell my sister and her fiance to take my parents offered money and run … no dice.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:00 PM
I’d argue that spending $40k on a wedding is much dumber than $10k on a ring.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:00 PM
I just heard of a girl who bought her husband a $10K Rolex as a gift for the engagement ring.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
I showed up in a huge frog mascot outfit
Winner!
June 20th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
that’s what i plan to do if i have daughters. here’s $$$$, spend it on your wedding or a house, i strongly emphasize using a good portion for a house.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Guys if you’re going the ring route, may I suggest solid gold?
/ EIC
June 20th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
T-Bone, I’m normally a cynical asshole about this stuff but that story is really good.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:03 PM
I would agree with said argument, Mr. Bear
June 20th, 2012 at 2:03 PM
that’s almost a 20% down payment on a nice house, monthly mortgage w/o mortgage insurance included is a big, big gift that keeps on giving.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:03 PM
I’ve explained to the Wife that I would be willing to save and pay for college and possibly grad school. I will not offer any money for a wedding, however. But we don’t plan childen so it’s really a useless conversation.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:04 PM
ketamine. scrumptious ketamine.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:05 PM
And many would say that $40k is a relatively budget-friendly wedding these days.
/Christ!
June 20th, 2012 at 2:06 PM
I’d argue that spending $40k on a wedding is much dumber than $10k on a ring.
Spent about 20K on a wedding with 375 people at the reception. Full open bar and buffet. That was back in 1996, though.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:07 PM
Wear gym shorts.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:07 PM
Things women would rather have than $40k/10k on a wedding/ring:
Wine Cellar
Basket of Pug Puppies
Trips anywhere in the world
All the concert tickets you could want
A fucking house
Their idiot tattoos removed
June 20th, 2012 at 2:08 PM
if only more people would listen to my advice to not spend money on the wedding, put that money towards a house, our economy would have no housing problem whatsoever right now.
I’ve told my daughter that I’ll write her a $10K check when she gets married if she has the wedding at our house (or a friend’s house) with a casual theme and kegs.
So far, my wife is putting the sledgehammer to this. Damn.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Holy crap. I got a nice Tag watch from my wife, but it was much less expensive than that.
And we got some money from my Dad for our wedding, but he’s saving the rest for when we start to look for a house. We paid for almost all of our wedding ourselves.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:10 PM
Forty grand? That’s like eight Springsteen concerts with one beer at each show!
June 20th, 2012 at 2:10 PM
And many would say that $40k is a relatively budget-friendly wedding these days.
/Christ!
Yup, getting married in Nov and this is not close to what the final bill with be.
/cries
June 20th, 2012 at 2:11 PM
AP trumps Rolex by a mile.
/Team AP
June 20th, 2012 at 2:12 PM
You need to run. We can help you escape. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. #FreeMatterhorn We can beat this thing!
June 20th, 2012 at 2:13 PM
If it was up to guys, weddings would cost about 10k total.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:13 PM
Wow. I would have preferred Cartier but wouldn’t turn up my nose at a Rolex.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:13 PM
So you’re saying we need to kill his fiancee.
If memory serves, SROD is the expert on this topic.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:13 PM
I have a father-in-law who had the foresight to begin saving for marriages when his daughters were born. I don’t know what the final bill was for our wedding, but it was higher than than as well. Only after the wedding did my Wife tell me that he offered her money instead of a wedding, something neither he nor her told me.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:14 PM
If it was up to guys, weddings would
cost about 10k total.never happen but the bachelor parties would.June 20th, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Yup we were around $35-38k for ours (excluding honeymoon) and that was in Central NJ. We saved on having everything at one place (no limo or shuttle between reception & hotel) plus my wife and I squeezed as many deals as we could.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:15 PM
I have a father-in-law who had the foresight to begin saving for marriages when his daughters were born. I don’t know what the final bill was for our wedding, but it was higher than than as well. Only after the wedding did my Wife tell me that he offered her money instead of a wedding, something neither he nor her told me.
Our parents are paying for about 1/3 of the wedding. Still makes me upset to think we likely won’t get close to our 2/3 back in gifts. Hoping to get about half the total.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Rolex is fine if you’re old and golfing a lot. If you’re not retired, gotta be AP.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:16 PM
thoughts on breitling?
June 20th, 2012 at 2:17 PM
My cellphone has a clock on it.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Got married at the courthouse with the public rabble. Spent $100 or so on the paperwork. The 2 of us and our witnesses were the nicest people dressed in the courtroom that day. Had some jorts-wearing, Metallica shirt having DB get hitched ahead of us. Good times.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:17 PM
can’t afford kids, can’t afford a wedding…it’s a good thing im ugly and don’t have any charisma otherwise i might be depressed by all this.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Would definitely get a Breitling over a Rolex. My Dad has a really nice gold Rolex, but I have no interest in it.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Spencer, love Breitling.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Is it bad that I don’t know what AP is?
June 20th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
My advice: don’t trust women with multiple broken engagements on their record who live in the western CLE suburbs.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:19 PM
I like Invicta
/ lower budget’d
June 20th, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Had to Google as well, Bear. Watches do nothing for me.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Hahaha! Oh New Jersey. My wedding sans the honeymoon was right around 10K. 100ish guests. Dont regret a thing.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Yeah, I’ve never heard of it. Sounds like a hipster-type “It Must Be Expensive and Awesome Because You’ve Never Heard Of It”.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:22 PM
When i get engaged I’m offering up a nice poem and other home made fares mostly to test the validity of “its the thought that counts”. I’m pretty sure I will never purchase an engagement ring in my life, if she wants one she knows where its sold. When i wanted a riding mower I did sit around and hope she surprises me with a John Deere.
Also I don’t understand why anyone would a) be surprised by a proposal and b) say anything other that “yeah… so no” or “let me think this over”. I take my time deciding whether or not I want desert when the waitress comes around so for something like marriage I’m going to need to at least sleep on it not matter how awesome we are unmarried.
/diagnosed with commitment issues
June 20th, 2012 at 2:23 PM
CJ, that’s because you’re cheaper than Costanza.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:23 PM
advice recieved…you never mentioned she was from the west-side before, i could’ve told you about the mutants that crawl out of that cesspool and saved you the headaches.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:23 PM
I’m sure you remember me freaking out about it last year. I’m just glad its done and paid off. And I know several of my friends who spent $45k+.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Completely agree. We spent more on our wedding than we wanted after first, but still way way way less than 40k.
Thanks to Nashville housing prices, had we put what we spent on our wedding on our house, we’d STILL have mortgage insurance. My only hope is that since we bought low on a fixer-upper, that by the end of this year, we’ll have 20% equity with only paying about 10% in and can get the insurance taken off.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
breitlings are my fav, but gonna hold out hope my dad gives me his omega speedmaster when he dies.
/looks at watch
//HURRY UP DAD, GAWD
June 20th, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Its completely stupid to spend that much on a party. And within 2 years of marriage we were able to put a down payment on a house.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:27 PM
Smells like broken marriages and shattered dreams in here.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:27 PM
See I disagree. My wife is pretty low-maintenance, didn’t need a fancy ring etc… but still the thought and effort of picking out the symbol of your lives together is important. She absolutely didn’t want to pick it out or get it herself.
She was surprised/shocked by the timing and wasn’t expecting it (we had talked enough so I knew she’d say yes… plus we were living together at the time). You could not be more wrong on the ‘take their time’ part. Every woman who has dated someone long enough to be proposed to, usually knows if she’d say yes. If not, or if she has to think, that’s a ‘no’… even if she eventually says yes.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:28 PM
AP is definitely not a hipster brand. Where’s Jay V when I need him, he would definitely know it.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:28 PM
So you’re saying we need to kill Spence’s father?
June 20th, 2012 at 2:28 PM
No money down and a 5-year ARM on the first house, baby!
/wildly lucky that the economy tanked and our payment was cut in half
//don’t do this
June 20th, 2012 at 2:29 PM
I say the girl gets 5 seconds to say yes before you can legitimately question her commitment to your relationship, unless she is just completely overwhelmed, and then she better be nodding through her tears.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:30 PM
That’s how you view the ring? Interesting. I just assumed she wanted something nice to show off to her friends and secretly be satisfied with if/when it was “better” than theirs.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:30 PM
If a sports blogger can afford an AP then I’m in the wrong line of work.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:30 PM
/convulsing uncontrollably
June 20th, 2012 at 2:31 PM
I have to think Hernia has a day job.. he doesnt do THAT much here or at his his site.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:33 PM
Needs more negative-ammortizing interest only loan.
Basically you only pay interest, and every time your house goes up in value you can borrow against the increased worth without ever making payments.
Those people should be in jail.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:34 PM
Thought you might like that. Second house we still went nothing down but got a traditional mortgage.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:35 PM
he’s lived a long life, just make it quick…wonder if his life insurance is still in place…
June 20th, 2012 at 2:35 PM
We paid principal as well from the very beginning, payment was more or less equal to what a traditional mortgage would have been.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Its just not clear to me why there is any relationship between the symbolism of a piece of stone its monetary value. The symbol of a lives together can be a memento from when we fell in love or anything that actually means something to us. The idea that it has to be this ring thing that had nothing to do with our lives until I paid for it is just foreign to me.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:38 PM
All of your lives sound like a metric fuckton of paperwork.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:38 PM
ARM just basically gambles on the rate. The negative ammortization that some people get (or really, interest-only loans too) bothers me. It’s basically banks letting you borrow a principle you have no intention of paying off, then being shocked when it doesnt work out for them.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:39 PM
The running shoes looked funny on her finger.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Right, I felt a need to half-assedly justify my ARM. That set up sounds like a win for the borrower and suicide for a bank …
Couldn’t agree more. Ring wasn’t for me or us, though. In hindsight I would’ve handled that and the wedding differenly, but you can’t worry about that now.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:43 PM
When I proposed, I had planned on doing it at this vineyard I took my wife too. But she made a crack about my mom being in a bowling league and wearing flannel shirts, so I had to stowe the damn ring until later. I couldn’t find a good spot at the vineyard during the tour, and then once the tour ended, she fired back up with the jokes about my mom. I ended proposing to her while we were laying in bed. I told her I had the damn ring burning a hole in my pocket all day long because she wouldn’t shut up about my mom. She felt like shit about that. So…score one for me???
June 20th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Unless we met in a boxing ring, auto parts fencing ring, or while working for Ringling Brothers I’m not sure why a ring needs to be part of the symbol of our love.
I understand wedding bands cos its a virtual “Closed for Business” sign so its useful.
Not being a Skip Bayless about this… I honestly don’t get it.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:48 PM
a tattoo is a much better symbol of permanent love that can never be hocked at a pawn shop.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:48 PM
If it’s about outward symbolism, just don’t do it. Get legally married at the courthouse and be done. Don’t get a ring and continue with your lives. Societal pressure can be a real bitch, but if you can push it aside it’s incredibly freeing.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:50 PM
You don’t go to the right pawn shops, my friend.
/wipes scapel clean
June 20th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
This was me.
June 20th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
I thought Sen Larry Craig was already married.
/tap foot