never try and be romantic.
After I'd been going out with this particular lady for a few months I wrote some 'committment vows' for her. I arranged a surprise party. The idea was that she'd come in and all our friends would be there, I'd read the vows and it'd all be lovely, then we'd go off on a surprise romantic weekend. I even arranged to have one of my friends, who was a bit of a would-be sound engineer, record the whole thing so that it'd be a memory years from now blah blah blah.

She was mortally offended! We did go on the weekend, but she was really tense the whole time, and she broke up with me very soon after that. So in the end I spent hundreds of dollars to be left with minus one girlfriend and a state-of-the-art cassette recording of our relationship ending.

I don't know - was the whole idea patronising? Was it being too forward? Was it putting her on the spot? Was there something wrong in the vows themselves? Was she just nuts? I don't know - I still have the recording, maybe someone can listen to it and tell me what went wrong (download and judge for yourself).
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sat 30 Aug 2008, 8:02, 1 reply)

Women, eh?
Strange how they over-react to the slightest little thing.

Tsk.
( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 30 Aug 2008, 9:48, closed)