What do you do when while you are walking, someone suddenly, from out of nowhere, blocks your path, kneels in front of you, and while gasping for breath proposes marriage? And you have no freaking idea who that person is?! It's a crazy situation to imagine yourself being in and I for one, couldn't even think of anyone at that moment, proposing to me without him becoming my boyfriend first. You may think, oh she's making it up, but I am most definitely not. My nose is still flat as it is as I am saying this. Why don't you and l travel down memory lane and visit that memorable day. I can't believe I am even labeling it as memorable. Aren't marriage proposals supposed to be memorable? It is? So my experience is no exception then. Fact is it was sooo memorable for me that I can still remember the scene. I was walking with my best friend along the boulevard, in my city, we were just chatting and having fun reminiscing on old times, when suddenly, I stopped dead on my tracks. Of course my friend had to stop too, as we had our arms linked while walking (you know how it is among girls, it's either we walk hand in hand, or arm in arm to show closeness). Anyway, we both stared at the guy who was already kneeling in front of me. He was gasping for breath as if he was running to catch up on us (assuming?), and suddenly he took my right hand, and said those exact words we always hear and see in movies, "Will you marry me?". I was stupified. There I was standing, mouth and eyes open wide, too stunned to speak or even utter a single sound. In my mind I was thinking, who are you? and should I say yes? haha you can laugh but yes i did think of that. I was brought up watching too many romantic movies and reading cheesy romance novels, in which all responses to that question is always a yes. So yes, i did think of answering yes. But before I could even say anything, my friend pulled me away from his hold on my hand, from his sight, and she literally dragged me running across the street just to get away from that stranger. Lo and behold! He ran after us. He dashed across the road amidst the buzzing horns of the oncoming traffic, and he literally chased us. All the time I was still too stunned to even think of swiping my friend's hand away, which by then, was creating a red mark on my flesh. So tight was her grip that I didn't even notice it until we stopped somewhere safe. I guess it was safe because by then we didn't see him anywhere close. Whew! That was the only time I came back to my senses and to reality. All that time I was running, I felt like a puppet being pulled on its strings. when I came back to, all i managed to say was, " Crazy". Yap crazy indeed. Crazy situation to be in, crazy stranger with a crazy proposition, and crazy me for even thinking of answering yes. Well a girl gets to think, how many times does one gets a proposal like that? Until now me and my friend still remembers that one crazy day and we would just laugh all about it. I don't know if that guy was plain whacko, or it was just some kind of "dare" by his friends, we didn't bother to find out then. In our mind, the priority was to escape to freedom and to sanity. Mind you though, that guy was not bad looking at all. He was fair skinned with slightly chinky eyes. A bit cute in fact. hehehe... I am currently engaged to my boyfriend and one friend once asked, " how does it feel to be proposed to?" My only reply was " It's a crazy feeling."
