Maybe this should be MPSIMS or somewhere else, but has anyone ever been at an event where a guy publically asks a gal to marry him on the scoreboard or something and she plainly says no, like at roughly 1:26 of this YouTube clip? Tough for the guy, but I’m kinda thinking he’s really putting her on the spot. Was it still a romantic gesture? Or just messed up/creepy?
Looked like she was running the 50
One of the YouTube posters said that was a work*, he was in on it, and it was covered on Sportscenter. I’ll see what I can find.
I remember one race…CART, IIRC, long time ago…where one of the drivers actually wrote “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” on a piece of the suspension, visible only from the in-car cam. Don’t remember how that turned out, unfortunately.
I suspect this is true. At the very end, one of the crew catches her–literally grabs her–before she exits the court, in a gesture which only makes sense to me if the two concieve of themselves as cooperating in something. (Watching the clip will make sense out of this comment for you.) Furthermore, she looks up and back at the court again at this point, and she does not look in the least upset. She appears to simply be interested in seeing what happens next in the show.
Still: I don’t have much respect for the notion of “popping the question” as a suprise to the one to whom the question is popped. It’s a pretty serious thing being asked, and should be talked about carefully over the course of weeks or months. I don’t think most couples have a literal “popping the question” moment, but I suspect some guys think this is what they’re supposed to do, and I think that’s too bad.
-FrL-