The Great Panda Adventure
My fiance Mike and I had been dating for a couple of years, and we'd talked about marriage a lot so I knew it was coming any day now. He'd also make some comments to me that led me to believe that he actually had a ring. At that point in time, most of our fights centered around the fact that we weren't engaged yet. We had planned on getting married right after my law school graduation in May 2010 so that we could go on a honeymoon before I started a full-time job, and the window of opportunity was getting smaller and smaller in my eyes. I didn't know what he was waiting for, so I would get frustrated with him really often. One day, my friend Gwen who was pregnant asked me to go paint shopping for the baby's room with her and then grab some lunch afterwards at the mall nearby. I said ok, and she picked me up. She asked if we could eat at Gordon Biersch, which was fine with me because I'm not picky about that stuff. Gwen needed to go to the bathroom again, which I thought was odd but just figured it was a pregnant lady thing. She was gone probably ten minutes or so, and at that point I wondered if I should go see if she was OK. I was looking down at my menu when I see something out of the corner of my eye. I look up, and there's this panda standing in front of my in the restaurant holding birthday balloons. I was scared at that point because a) it wasn't my birthday and b) this was the grungiest panda costume I'd ever seen. I quickly raced through my brain to remember if I had heard of any panda-costume-related stories on the news, but couldn't think of any. The panda kept trying to hand me the balloons and I kept repeating that it wasn't my birthday. The panda then began singing the weirdest and most nasally birthday song I'd ever heard. At that point I just wanted to get up and leave. Then the panda took off his costume head, and I saw it was my fiance! He gets down on one knee and whips out the ring box and breaks the top off because he was so nervous he was trying to open the wrong side! Within seconds he said, "will you marry me," and I said, "of course." I was still in shock, but then it helped that the bartended bought us shots afterwards.
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My fiance Mike and I had been dating for a couple of years, and we'd talked about marriage a lot so I knew it was coming any day now. He'd also make some comments to me that led me to believe that he actually had a ring. At that point in time, most of our fights centered around the fact that we weren't engaged yet. We had planned on getting married right after my law school graduation in May 2010 so that we could go on a honeymoon before I started a full-time job, and the window of opportunity was getting smaller and smaller in my eyes. I didn't know what he was waiting for, so I would get frustrated with him really often. One day, my friend Gwen who was pregnant asked me to go paint shopping for the baby's room with her and then grab some lunch afterwards at the mall nearby. I said ok, and she picked me up. She asked if we could eat at Gordon Biersch, which was fine with me because I'm not picky about that stuff. Gwen needed to go to the bathroom again, which I thought was odd but just figured it was a pregnant lady thing. She was gone probably ten minutes or so, and at that point I wondered if I should go see if she was OK. I was looking down at my menu when I see something out of the corner of my eye. I look up, and there's this panda standing in front of my in the restaurant holding birthday balloons. I was scared at that point because a) it wasn't my birthday and b) this was the grungiest panda costume I'd ever seen. I quickly raced through my brain to remember if I had heard of any panda-costume-related stories on the news, but couldn't think of any. The panda kept trying to hand me the balloons and I kept repeating that it wasn't my birthday. The panda then began singing the weirdest and most nasally birthday song I'd ever heard. At that point I just wanted to get up and leave. Then the panda took off his costume head, and I saw it was my fiance! He gets down on one knee and whips out the ring box and breaks the top off because he was so nervous he was trying to open the wrong side! Within seconds he said, "will you marry me," and I said, "of course." I was still in shock, but then it helped that the bartended bought us shots afterwards.
