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So...
I'm engaged to be married.
This happened on Friday night. I had friends who
are television producers arrange to have part of Cooper
Square in New York City shut down with sign- bearing
strangers. I then dragged my girlfriend Rebecca into the
middle of the intersection and got on bended knee and
proposed. She thought that someone else had done it and that
I was just being a big doofy jerk until she read the signs
that were gaffer taped to the street reading:
WILL YOU
MARRY ME
REBECCA?
...at which point she freaked out and started
screaming "OH MY GOD!" over and over again. Someone yelled
at her to say yes, and she did, and the hundred or so people
gathered started cheering and honking.
In addition to the sanctioned helpers, my scheme
was also aided by a phalanx of drug dealers on the corner of
Broadway and Astor Place, an off-duty clown named Happy Dan
the Musical Clown, and a crack addict who blessed all the
balloons that Happy Dan the Musical Clown
provided.
Yes, there is a videotape. And I am prouder than
you'll ever know that the camera man was the same artistic
visionary who designed and manufactured the huge butt for
Sir Mix-A-Lot's video "Baby Got Back." I swear that this is
true.
Needless to say, I had some explaining to do after
we left the scene.
What a week, what a weekend,
Gentleman Jim
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