Is this what we've come to, one-upping in attention-getting, and the all-important Instagram posting? Because important moments can't just be shared between the people having them, they have to show off to the world. And in this case, risk other people lives. This man's very poor judgment doesn't bode well for marriage.
Well. That was epic in its stupidity and recklessness.
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I don't know what is more stupid, Stopping traffic on I-45 overpass near Houston downtown? Or posting the video of the escapade on Instagram and youtube?
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My DH wrote out his proposal on a piece of notebook paper and left it under my windshield wiper for me to find the next morning. We joke about what might have been had it rained overnight and turned the note into a soggy blob, or had someone stolen it before I found it.
Forty-four years later, I still have the note--and DH, probably because he knew that putting himself in harm's way would have defeated the purpose of the proposal.
Forty-four years later, I still have the note--and DH, probably because he knew that putting himself in harm's way would have defeated the purpose of the proposal.
Stupid. Why not chose a waste treatment plant?
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Dear Ms. Wykoff: a bit of advice from someone old enough to be your mother:
do not marry a man who likes to play in traffic.
That is all.
do not marry a man who likes to play in traffic.
That is all.
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I second this advice, as someone old enough to be your grandfather.
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Given the chosen location and statistics show that nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, though I believe Texas is still a Community Property state, after Valladares presented Michelle with the ring, he should have given her an arm and leg of a mannequin.
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Everything in life is always performative, but social media demands a level of branding that requires selling yourself and your experiences as worthy and beneficial to everyone's lives. It is absolutely repellant.
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I won't even bother to watch their video (just so that they won't get another click).
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Chris Christie likes this.
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Sorry, but if I have been the leading lady, I would have declined, because this proposal would have alerted me to my would-be fiance's tremendously poor judgement and deep lack of concern for others*. (His intended; his 'friends' who helped him; and all the other drivers on the road that day.)
Dumb, too.
Dumb, too.
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Vidal and Michelle,
As you travel down the road of life together, try to remember that...
... THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE ROAD WITH YOU!
Best wishes for a long and happy life together, and here's hoping that Vidal gets out of jail before the big day! :D
As you travel down the road of life together, try to remember that...
... THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE ROAD WITH YOU!
Best wishes for a long and happy life together, and here's hoping that Vidal gets out of jail before the big day! :D
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This makes me applaud the 50,000 people who proposed today without any video rolling and without using the non-word "u."
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His future bride might want to re-think her answer..
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Wonder if there were any emergency vehicles in the back up. God! How stupid!
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He is not as much of an idiot as 800,000 viewers who watched the video on Youtube, this is truly what's so scary about this country.
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In this world of 24/7 social media and selfie-sticks, the public proposal is just another symptom of the 'it's all about ME' society in which we live. Public proposals are the epitome of tackiness, self-centeredness (it's not about the woman but the MAN, who wants to call attention to himself..so everyone can gush about how 'amazing' he is...what a sweet guy to go to such lengths, blah blah) and are also utterly stupid (what IF she says 'no'?...what if she feels so much pressure that she says 'yes' to save you face and then tells you afterwards 'no'?, etc.)
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People should have just hit him -- I would have; a lesson in humility he would have never forgotten, assuming he survived.
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You would have hit him with your three-ton machine, potentially killing him?
Man, America in 2015 is just a brutish place.
Man, America in 2015 is just a brutish place.
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He sure played his part in making America "great again".
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This should have been quite clear of an indication for her to turn him down.
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I agree. But the thing is, in most instances the women with such men either 1) like or don't mind the men's grandiose behaviors or 2) the women themselves are the same as the men, and love getting this type of over-the-top very public attention.
I'd imagine in most instances, for a guy to do such a thing, he has a good sense either the woman won't mind his grandstanding or that she would in fact relish it. I'd think the % of men who do this and then get turned down, is slim.
I'd imagine in most instances, for a guy to do such a thing, he has a good sense either the woman won't mind his grandstanding or that she would in fact relish it. I'd think the % of men who do this and then get turned down, is slim.
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That says a lot, about the lack of judgment on her part, as well as his.
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Houston Freeways are not kind; if only someone had run over him to preempt his future pain and suffering.
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Donald Trump would never allow this to happen.
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Are you kidding? This kind of stupidity would be a daily event in Trump Nation! Assuming the happy couple weren't Muslim, black, Latino, gay, lesbian, poor, or Democrats, that is.
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not impressed...I hope he asked her father first...
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Asked her father??? Surely no one does that any more? What is she? Property. I would have been SO offended if my husband had done that!
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It is 2015, not 1915. Women are capable of being surgeons, lawyers, chemists or whatever they choose to be. I think it is offensive to all women when a man asks a woman's daddy for her hand in marriage. It is not up to her "daddy" to decide if the man has the right to ask her. He most certainly can ask his girlfriend without daddy's blessing. It is HER life.
Women are not property. How can society tell girls that they can be whatever they want to be and then tell them they might be too brainless and say yes to an unsuitable marriage partner, so daddy must screen the proposal.
Women are not property. How can society tell girls that they can be whatever they want to be and then tell them they might be too brainless and say yes to an unsuitable marriage partner, so daddy must screen the proposal.
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I hope you didn't ask your father to pay for anything either.
My wife didn't want me to ask her father for the same reasons. I didn't listen to her. And no I don't think my wife is property, but he did walk he daughter down the aisle. For those women that don't get it, I don't think you really have to. For the men who don't get it, I'm sure their lives would be better if they did.
My wife didn't want me to ask her father for the same reasons. I didn't listen to her. And no I don't think my wife is property, but he did walk he daughter down the aisle. For those women that don't get it, I don't think you really have to. For the men who don't get it, I'm sure their lives would be better if they did.
More proof that social media have produced a generation of narcissistic imbeciles.
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I think it is important for the District Attorney to bring charges against these individuals to discourage others from thinking this is something they should try as well. There are countless ways to propose but intentionally risking safety on a major highway should never be one of them.
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He is not mature enough to have a driver's license OR to get married.
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This was plain disrespectful to others.
Problem not so much that they've done it; but that they didn't think much of it in the first place -- as in how could it possibly be an inconvenience to others?
Problem not so much that they've done it; but that they didn't think much of it in the first place -- as in how could it possibly be an inconvenience to others?
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It was not only disrespectful, it put the lives of everyone involved in danger. He wouldn't have much of a wedding if his actions had resulted in an accident that caused a death.
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'...I just wanted to do something different...'
And no one else exists?
More narcissism. Good luck with that marriage.
And no one else exists?
More narcissism. Good luck with that marriage.
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It's the me, me, me generation.
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Good thing the ring was not inside a home-made clock...
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What narcissism.
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Fine them and make sure they pay. The height of self-centeredness.
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