Wedding Proposals

NSW, mallabula

Phil and I were expecting a baby and I had just finished work at more than eight months pregnant. My first day off and phil’s suggested we go to the beach in our 4WD. When we got to the beach I got out my towel and planted myself on the beach with a girlie magazine. Phil wouldn’t come and sit down he was hovering around the car. I thought he was checkng it for damage because we had just hit a kangaroo on the road. He kept saying to me honey can you come and give me a hand, can you come here. I wasn’t getting up for anyone. Than a 4Wd bus load of foreign tourists pulled up close by and he started getting more and more agitated considering there was an entire beach the driver could have chosen anywhere to park. Eventually phil said to me honey, you’ve got to come here and see this, its really gross. So naturally I got up, with difficulty and went around to the back of the car. Phil dropped to one knee and I started screaming. I thought he had been bitten by something he thought was really gross. So being a nurse I was checkng him for puncture wounds and still screaming, totally missing my proposal and then I noticed phil was holding a ringbox with a shiny ring. Being pregnant and not thinking I started saying no and was trying to get him away from the car from the gross thing that had hurt him. Than the penny dropped and I realised I had been duped. Phil had even organised the champagne and nibblies and he had planned the day for a long while. after I gathered myself and of course said yes, we turned around to a busload of tourists who were staring and taking photographs of us. Maybe not the most romantic proposal, but it wasn’t from lack of trying on phil’s behalf. But it does make me smile at how funny the day was and how unique the experience was.

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