eBay, always so handy: "I'm an unmarried heterosexual woman, and since I probably won't be using my right to get married, I would like to give it away."
eBay, always so handy: "I'm an unmarried heterosexual woman, and since I probably won't be using my right to get married, I would like to give it away."
But...what if I want to marry her?
I'd hate to think what she'd put up for sale since she isn't using her second amendment rights.
Should I, or should I not hope that Jaime finally meets her prince? I bet she goes all Indian giver* on them unless there's something in the contract which states very clearly: "no take-backs."
(This is also known as "pulling a California.")
A wedding planner accidentally called my office this other day, and I happened to answer the phone:
"Do you you sell two-groom wedding-cake tops?"
"Sorry, I think you have the wrong number" and I hung up.
It took me a minute to realize what she had asked, and then a smile crept across my face.
"A young man asked a father for his daughter's hand, and received it in a box -- her left hand.
"Father: 'You asked for her hand and you have it. But it is my opinion that you wanted other things and took them.'
"Young man: 'Whatever do you mean?'[...]"
-- P Highsmith, Little Tales of Misogyny ("The Hand," init.), which I suspect must be one of the guiding inspirations for Edith Zimmerman's very-short-story blog.