It got my wheels turning!

 

MASTERCARD WEDDING

You gotta love this guy… This is a true story about a recent
wedding that took place at Clemson University. It was in the
local newspaper and even Jay Leno mentioned it. It was a
large wedding with about 300 guests…

At the reception after the wedding, the groom got up on stage
with a microphone to talk to the crowd. He said he wanted to
thank everyone for coming, many from long distances, to
support them at their wedding. He especially wanted to
thank the bride’s family and his family and to thank his
new father-in-law for providing such a lavish reception.

As a token of his deep appreciation he said he wanted to
give everyone a special gift just from him. So taped to the
bottom of everyone’s chair, including the wedding party,
was an envelope.  He said this was his gift to everyone,
and asked them to open their envelope.

Inside each manila envelope was an 8×10 glossy of his Bride
having sex with the best man. The groom had gotten suspicious
of them weeks earlier and had hired a private detective to tail them.
After just standing there .. just watching the guests’ reactions for a
couple of minutes, he turned to the dumbfounded crowd and said,
"I’m outta here."

He had the marriage annulled first thing in the morning.
While most people would have canceled the wedding immediately
after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with the
charade, as if nothing were wrong.

His revenge…making the bride’s parents pay over $32,000
for a 300 guest wedding and reception, and best of all, trashing
the bride’s and best man’s reputations in front of 300 friends and
family members. This guy has balls the size of church bells.

Do you think we might get a MasterCard "Priceless" Commercial out of this:
 
Elegant wedding reception for 300 family members and friends………$32,000.
Wedding photographs commemorating the occasion…..$3,000.
Deluxe two week honeymoon accommodations in Maui….$8,500.
 
The look on everyone’s face when they see the 8×10 glossy of the
bride and the best man having sex……….Priceless.

"There are some things money can’t buy, for everything else,
there’s MasterCard."

      Sexual situations intrigue me, as do people and their attitudes.  I’m sure the whole idea of this actually happenning to someone you know (or you) runs to one of two reactions basically .. "OMG!" pity pain, poor someone or .. "Go Ferdinand!" .. a typical male reaction.  Both of which would eventually have considerable laughter associated with them.

    Having never encountered a tale, with this much malice and forethought, in this venue ( sex, morality, love, friendship, trust, betrayal, commitment, all in question at the birth of a marriage), I’m teased by the many stories that lend themselves to my imagination and libido. How, where, when, what .. got the lovers together? The detective’s viewpoint, the affair itself, the groom’s brilliant solution, the lover’s aftermath (or any key character in the wedding), the secret liason never being discovered, pregnancy, threesomes, blackmail, murder, coersion) .. the plot lines for stories are unending!

     My very first reaction, beyond my disbelief, was power. The groom held incredible power and THAT felt sexy to me.  It wasn’t revenge or blame, disgust or humor.  I’m certain once the shrines to his beloved and his closest, most trusted friend were painfully destroyed, the ilk of vengeful anger leaked into the groom, like spilled Black India ink travels on a flat surface and drips omminously over the edge of the desk to the carpet below .. permanently staining and ruining whatever it touches. Then, there’s the loud outbursts and broken things about.

     In that (my) first moment, power had a purpose .. a selfish purpose .. he could demand ANYTHING of either or both of them.  He’d been wronged and he had the goods!  If you were the bride (or best man) and someone could ruin your character, impact your life for as long as you had witness’ to your deed, what would you tolerate to keep that hidden? How would you cope? How LONG could you cope?  What value would you place on it’s secretcy?

(((((O/)))))

     I’m sure many of you reading this today, have a secret so hidden, no one knows it, but you.  You may have a secret that you left behind, known in your past, but unknown now.  It may be a secret about another and THEY haven’t a clue that you know it.  If it’s influencing you today, you need to free yourself somehow. Walk off with it in the open, outside of you.  I assure you it loses it’s power, when you give it up.  At the very worst, the knowledge of keeping it for so long may manifest itself in you again, but it’ll be far less controling.  The groom refused to be it’s pawn and dared to go down in history remembered for his methods of denial.  He made lemonade!  I wonder what it’s memory, on the minds of everyone else, will have some long range impact on HIS life in the future?  The MOMENT was definitely HIS!!

     It wasn’t my intention in this entry to make you an offer of a tranquil escape from your demon, but feel free to put it here annonimously, if you like.  Email me, if you feel more comfortable or need more room to write. You may also hold it tight, like 5 year old’s quarter. Better out, than in, though .. remember that. 

(((((O/)))))

     Back to reason .. it was a delightful example of patience and passion, tension and tanacity.  I’ll remember it and when I need a path away from ‘writer’s block’, I may just find it here in a thoughtful reread.  It DID get my wheels turning! XX

     Dandetime@aol.com  ~ as needed ..  

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