# Really Not All That Single **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904 "2008-12-19T14:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/1 "2008-12-19T14:21:26Z")
I’m engaged! We’re in DC- will post the sordid details when we get home! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/2 "2008-12-19T14:22:42Z")
Wow! Congratulations! (Is something going around, or what?) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/3 "2008-12-19T14:26:50Z")
Woohoo, congrats! And those details better be as sordid as sordid sorts! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/4 "2008-12-19T15:54:00Z")
Woohoo! _victory arms_ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/5 "2008-12-19T16:03:29Z")
Congrats! Do you need some place to keep your ring? ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/6 "2008-12-19T16:05:17Z")
I suggest a lobster claw shaped locket that is cow-tied to a wire hook that loops around your neck, but not too short and not too long. **Congratulations**! ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/7 "2008-12-19T16:08:29Z")
I have a great recipe for peanut butter balls you should try! ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/8 "2008-12-19T16:43:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Wow! Congratulations! > > (Is something going around, or what?) Must be. I’m engaged too! I’m going to hook my ring on a lobster claw attached to my nostril piercing. Oh, and Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/9 "2008-12-20T22:25:21Z")
How could you?! I thought we were going to run away together and have some doper babies. 😃 Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/10 "2008-12-20T22:44:30Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m engaged! Solid proof that you really are not all that bright. 😃 Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/11 "2008-12-20T22:58:33Z")
Congrats! Now hurry up back here and tell us how it all went down!! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/12 "2008-12-21T03:24:14Z")
Thanks for the congrats, all! Here’s the full story- The day: Thursday, December 18th, 2008. The location: South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C. The more specific location: On the walkway running around the National Christmas Tree (who knew there was a national christmas tree?), between the tree delegates\* from Ohio and Missouri. It was snowing. Actually, it was probably just sleet, but snow, I’m told, is totally romantic, and you weren’t there, so take my word on it when I say it was snowing. The cast: Girlfriend, My Best Friend (who is a DC local), Me. The prologue: Plan was hatched about a week earlier over the phone. Girlfriend and I were going to fly to DC to visit MBF, and we would all drive back together. Girlfriend likes trees. Girlfriend really really likes Christmas Trees. Thus, it was decided that we would go and see the tree at the White House on Thursday night, where I would propose. Obviously, Girlfriend wasn’t part of this conversation. Second choice for the location was the Lincoln Memorial… Monument… big statue. After all, nothing says romance like an old beardy man. However, input from female advisors resulted in the abandonment of this particular strategy. The story: MBF takes pictures of everything. Thus, it was no surprise when she asked me to take a picture of her and Girlfriend in front of the tree. It was even less of a surprise when MBF told us to pose for a picture together. It was a bit more surprising when she told us to pose for a second one. I was just about ready to chicken out, because there were 400 freakin’ people around the stupid tree, which didn’t do much for my nerves, which were already shot. Anyway, I sneakily dropped to one knee and pulled the ring box out of my pocket while Girlfriend wasn’t looking. Then she looked. And her jaw dropped. Then she said, ‘No!’… really really loudly. I assumed people all around probably looked over and saw some loser on one knee with a ring and assumed he’d be jumping off the… whatever bridge people jump off in the Greater Washington metropolitan area. Of course, being persistent, I decided not to take this as her final answer. ‘Will you?’ I asked. She said yes (naturally), and the scene devolved into much passionate kissing and ‘ohmigod’-type conversation. Only about six people out of the 42,000,000 who were in the immediate area even noticed, which was pretty awesome, because I was definitely not in the mood to be applauded by strangers. Then MBF said she had a surprise, and pulled out a bottle of Veuve Cliquot and cups. From her _purse_! However, the champagne was not consumed until much later because there were lots\*\* of armed White House guards around who looked like they’d shoot first and check for open containers later. \*Apparently all fifty states send a Christmas tree to represent them, and the fifty are arranged in a circle around the First Tree or whatever its official title is \*\*well, two ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/13 "2008-12-21T05:46:08Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/14 "2008-12-21T13:04:05Z")
Congratulations. Wishing you both luck and joy in your new life together. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/15 "2008-12-21T15:05:39Z")
Congratulations! What a beautiful story, too! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/16 "2008-12-21T17:11:12Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Congratulations! What a beautiful story, too! Thanks! I might stop telling people she said no at first. That seems to make her mad. Plus, it wasn’t “no” so much as “no, you aren’t serious, right?” I hope. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/17 "2008-12-21T23:24:14Z")
Pictures, dude, and you have to bring her to the next OrlanDope! Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/18 "2008-12-21T23:35:09Z")
That is the most awesome thing I’ve read all month. What a proposal! That’s something she’ll remember the rest of her life. Congratulations and best wishes to you both! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/19 "2008-12-22T00:02:56Z")
That’s really not all that terrible! Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904/20 "2008-12-22T00:07:32Z")
Aw, that’s incredibly sweet! I second the vote for pics. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-not-all-that-single/477904.md?page=2)