Helpful suggestions, if you please
Helpful suggestions, if you please
#0Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/11/06 at 11:59pm
My friend Daniel, 17, proposed today to my friend Alison, 14. As in, marriage. And she accepted. Now obviously, it's completely ridiculous and all I was thinking when it happened was "what the HELL?". But these two are really bad with tough love, so directly saying "This is stupid, you have your entire lives ahead of you" won't have any affect.
They baffle me.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#2re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:00am
I actually said that out loud by accident. And they looked at me and said, "Our love is strong enough."
Which made me laugh...which made them upset...but you know..
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#4re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:11am
It is. Oh right, I didn't mention that he's going to England for college, and he wants her to wait for him so he can come back when she's old enough and then move to England with him
Again I say.
WTF?
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#5re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:19am14... jesus...
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#6re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:20am
I tried grossing him out by saying that less than like 7 months ago she was 13. That's how old his little sister is. It didn't work, he just said he'd wish marital bliss upon his sister.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#7re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:20amchoose new friends because your current ones are clearly mentally undstable.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#8re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:21amThat's what I was thinking...
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#10re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:23am14
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#11re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:26amHis going to England will be a good test of the relationship. It probably won't survive.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#12re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:27amHave you asked your parents about this?
#13re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:29am
When I told my parents about it, they suggested I A.)Never get married until I'm 25 and B.)I calmly talk to them (because they know this girl, I've been friends with her since the second grade). And I tried but she shut me up.
Yawper- I didn't even think of that. Maybe I should wait..
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#14re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:33amWell, he's going to England, and she's 14, so Yawper's probably right. Roll your eyes, sigh, and say, "Okay." They can't do anything about it for four more years anyway, so one way or the other it'll take care of itself.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#15re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:35amOh 18 is the age? That should be okay then...4 years is a looong time.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#17re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:36am
Cruel darling! I havent talked to you in forever!
And yes it is. It's also even crazier that her parents have no objections whatsoever.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#18re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:36amWhen your parents called her parents what did they say?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#19re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:38amI knoooooooooow. Where hath you been?
#20re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:39amSally, where do you live? Age of consent depends on the state.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#21re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:41am
They said something along the lines of "You realize that your daughter has her entire life ahead of her. She's 14, and she shouldnt be stressed with this sort of relationship. She's such a smart girl, and has the potential to be so much more than a married girl at 18 to a college student who was her high school sweetheart." Her parents are divorced, and they got married when they were 19 and 21. So my dad (the tempermental one in the family) went on this whol thing about "if you cant work it out at that age, what makes you think your daughter can?"
But her parents dismissed it as my parents being "carried away with foreign ideas" because my mom said something like "You know in France we never did that sort of thing". But their arguement is kind of pointless because my dad is from Lebanon and his sister was married when she was 15.
They just didn't seem to be bothered by it. They thought it was a good idea. And my friend? Wants to be a palentologist when she's older.
I live in CT. And Cruel, Ive been busy trying to stop a future marriage between idiots.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Updated On: 7/12/06 at 12:41 AM
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#22re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:47amWow, my parents would have called the police!
#23re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:53amYeah it kind of gives me a really bad headache. So I guess I'll just let it blow over. But I am NOT watching Love Actually or Cold Mountain with her ever again.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#24re: Helpful suggestions, if you please
Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:55amAge of consent in CT is 16. They could legally wed in 2 years if they have parental consent.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
Videos