I couldn't make this up if I tried
Oh. My. God. It seems my life has been taken over by sitcom, and I just got more information about the situation that makes it EVEN MORE ridiculous.
Let me explain.
First off, my boyfriend and I have been together for 7+ years. Yes, I know this is a very long time to be dating someone. Yes, we live together, and yes, sooner or later we probably will get married. What we don't have are any immediate or official plans to do so. This is a source of great frustration for some people.
It all started a couple of weeks ago, when my boyfriend's father sent me an email, and signed it "Dad". I thought that was a little odd, as I've never called him that, and you know, he's not actually my father-in-law, and I told D. We laughed about it, and moved on.
The next day, D tells his coworker about the above as a mildly amusing anecdote. D's coworker responded by whipping out a ring sizer that he just happened to have in his desk (WHY??), giving it to D, and telling him to get me drunk and find out my ring size. Yeaaah. Apparently, his coworkers have a betting pool on when we'll get engaged. D shares this with me, we laugh about it, find out I'm a 4.5 which is why I can never find any ring that actually fits my ring finger, and move on.
This next part is my fault for not thinking things through. I tell my mother the above, because ha ha, funny story, who the hell keeps a ring sizer at their office? My mother gets very excited. My mother starts asking me what kind of ring I'd want. My mother starts suggesting jewelery stores. I realize that I've made a tactical error and try to explain that no no, we're not planning anything, this is just D's coworker being weird. I thought I'd cleared things up, and that would be the end of it.
At work the next day, the subject of rings somehow came up during lunch. I have a couple of married coworkers, plus another girl who's in a similar relationship situation to me (LTR, no plans to get engaged, but everyone being highly encouraging). I share the above, because it's a funny story and I like to tell people funny stories. I drastically underestimated how bored my coworkers were that day. They decided they were going to text my most gullible coworker and tell him I'd gotten engaged (he believed it, and I had a hell of a time convincing him they were lying). That was bad enough, but they also posted congratulations on facebook (!!!). And then, they set me up a wedding registry at Walmart, with things such as rooster area rugs and snowflake dishes. And posted that to facebook, too. Many of my relatives are my facebook friends. Many of D's relatives are my facebook friends. The one saving grace is that I think I got to it and announced that it was an elaborate joke before any of said relatives saw.
A couple of days later, I get a card from my Granny, who lives about ten hours away and I rarely see. In the letter, she let's me know that she's come into some investment money, and would like to buy something nice for me and D. The suggestions were a wedding in Vegas, or dining room furniture. My response was manic giggling to what I thought was a ridiculous coincidence. But, I had no idea how to respond, so I asked my cousin Z what she thought was going on. It turns out that the funny story about the ring sizer went from my mom to my dad to my uncle to my grandmother, and by the time it got to Granny it had turned into D actually proposing and ring shopping. :headdesk, so much headdesk:.
I still have to reply.
So the morals of this story are that A)OMG EVERYONE WANTS A WEDDING B)Gee mom, and you wonder why I don't tell you things, and C)the more entertaining the rumor, the quicker it spreads.
Let me explain.
First off, my boyfriend and I have been together for 7+ years. Yes, I know this is a very long time to be dating someone. Yes, we live together, and yes, sooner or later we probably will get married. What we don't have are any immediate or official plans to do so. This is a source of great frustration for some people.
It all started a couple of weeks ago, when my boyfriend's father sent me an email, and signed it "Dad". I thought that was a little odd, as I've never called him that, and you know, he's not actually my father-in-law, and I told D. We laughed about it, and moved on.
The next day, D tells his coworker about the above as a mildly amusing anecdote. D's coworker responded by whipping out a ring sizer that he just happened to have in his desk (WHY??), giving it to D, and telling him to get me drunk and find out my ring size. Yeaaah. Apparently, his coworkers have a betting pool on when we'll get engaged. D shares this with me, we laugh about it, find out I'm a 4.5 which is why I can never find any ring that actually fits my ring finger, and move on.
This next part is my fault for not thinking things through. I tell my mother the above, because ha ha, funny story, who the hell keeps a ring sizer at their office? My mother gets very excited. My mother starts asking me what kind of ring I'd want. My mother starts suggesting jewelery stores. I realize that I've made a tactical error and try to explain that no no, we're not planning anything, this is just D's coworker being weird. I thought I'd cleared things up, and that would be the end of it.
At work the next day, the subject of rings somehow came up during lunch. I have a couple of married coworkers, plus another girl who's in a similar relationship situation to me (LTR, no plans to get engaged, but everyone being highly encouraging). I share the above, because it's a funny story and I like to tell people funny stories. I drastically underestimated how bored my coworkers were that day. They decided they were going to text my most gullible coworker and tell him I'd gotten engaged (he believed it, and I had a hell of a time convincing him they were lying). That was bad enough, but they also posted congratulations on facebook (!!!). And then, they set me up a wedding registry at Walmart, with things such as rooster area rugs and snowflake dishes. And posted that to facebook, too. Many of my relatives are my facebook friends. Many of D's relatives are my facebook friends. The one saving grace is that I think I got to it and announced that it was an elaborate joke before any of said relatives saw.
A couple of days later, I get a card from my Granny, who lives about ten hours away and I rarely see. In the letter, she let's me know that she's come into some investment money, and would like to buy something nice for me and D. The suggestions were a wedding in Vegas, or dining room furniture. My response was manic giggling to what I thought was a ridiculous coincidence. But, I had no idea how to respond, so I asked my cousin Z what she thought was going on. It turns out that the funny story about the ring sizer went from my mom to my dad to my uncle to my grandmother, and by the time it got to Granny it had turned into D actually proposing and ring shopping. :headdesk, so much headdesk:.
I still have to reply.
So the morals of this story are that A)OMG EVERYONE WANTS A WEDDING B)Gee mom, and you wonder why I don't tell you things, and C)the more entertaining the rumor, the quicker it spreads.