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[pensnest]

I cannot fully express my horror: Woman to 'earn' engagement ring by making 300 sandwiches Fortunately, the comments are most entertaining.

Something big must have happened on the motorway in the vicinity of here this morning, as our five-minute car trip to the gym took twenty-five minutes. I missed the first 15 of my Pilates class and decided to do some general gym stuff. Was very glad I had not decided to go swimming, when we got a strident alarm and had to evacuate the building. (The swimmers were supplied with foil blankets.) Don't know why.

My poor Beast is hobbling about clutching his butt. He seems to have tortured the top end of his hamstring, or something like it. And a small creature bit him in the night, so he is filled with woe.

I hauled the tomato plants onto the compost heap, there being no indication that the remaining (thousands of) tomatoes were ever going to ripen. Sigh. I have not yet succeeded in growing Really Nice Tomatoes. Next year, fewer plants, all Gardener'd Delight, and a bit more attention. Meanwhile, we have two more giant pumpkins burgeoning, yay!

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[nopseud]

I cannot fully express my horror: Woman to 'earn' engagement ring by making 300 sandwiches

Luckily, Brian is expressing mine for me.

I wonder what will happen if she makes 300 sandwiches and then he doesn't propose. I don't think you can still sue for breach of promise, can you?

[pensnest]

I'm in favour of the theory that she'll get to sandwich #298 (or thereabouts) and he'll decide he doesn't like sandwiches *that* much. By that time, I will have no sympathy for her.

[nopseud]

I assume the 300 sandwiches is just a schtick to push traffic to the blog (at a convenient 3 sandwiches per week), which certainly seems to be working out well for her so far. So in a year's time...300 sandwiches to a baby, maybe?

[pensnest]

Side note: her maths doesn't seem to be up to much, if she considers that the construction of 300 sandwiches will take her well into middle age (or some such nonsense). But yes, I expect it has drawn her quite a bit of blog traffic. Wonder if she's enjoying the results?

[jerakeen]

Holy sandwiches. I don't know whether to laugh or throw up.

[pensnest]

It's kinda frightening, isn't it.

[watervole]

The foil blankets will be to stop them freezing. Being wet and out of water, you chill very fast.

[pensnest]

I was mostly impressed that they had them available and brought them outside very promptly!

[watervole]

I note from the comments that her partner actually does more of the cooking than she does. The 300 sandwiches seems to be mostly a joke between them.

[pensnest]

If it's a private joke, I can't help but feel it should have stayed private.

[ephemera]

“You’ve been up for 15 minutes and you haven’t made me a sandwich?” - I am sorely tempted to try and work this sentence into every story I ever write from here on in!

[nopseud]

Heh. That's actually an awesome idea. :-)

[pensnest]

Hee! Redemption through fic.

[rikes]

I have a feeling my suitors would starve to death.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I went and read that article, and now I wish I could scrub it out of my head. OMG. Yeah, the comments (mostly) were entertaining, but I'm still horrified by the idea -- whether it was in jest or not! -- that anyone would think it "cute" (or whatever the descriptor was) to issue a challenge/dare/whatever like that.

Plus, "you've been up for 15 minutes and haven't made me a sandwich yet?"

STAB STAB STAB STAB. I *felt* my blood pressure rise at that. Oi.

[pensnest]

Proper responses might include: "So I made him a sandwich and I rammed it down his throat. He never asked me for another one." Or, "Make your own fucking sandwich, you lazy arse."

I mean, what? What?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

If anyone ever demanded I make them a sandwich within 15 mins of waking I'd brain them with the stalest loaf I could find.

We've had to learn that more plants isn't better in terms of tomatoes. We had six plants this year, all Shirleys, and have had a great crop.

[pensnest]

I think your sandwich request response would be entirely appropriate!

Yeah - I think I need to do more in the earlier stages, to nip off the side shoots and so forth. There were hundreds and hundreds of tomatoes on the plants, but most of them just didn't ripen, and the ones that did weren't the gloriously sweet, utterly delicious tomatoes I'd been hoping for. Ah well, next year.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think I would brain them with the hardest, solidest, heaviest object that first came available. Possibly the bed frame. *g*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahaha, I'm with you there.

[musiquedevie.livejournal.com]

Wow, that guy sounds like SUCH a keeper in that article!

..... :O So, why would anyone want to date, nonetheless marry that jerk is beyond me. I'd tell him, "Do I look like June Cleaver?"