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- From: darmstro@acs.ucalgary.ca (Debby Armstrong)
- Subject: Practicing for Their Honeymoon ... an Urban Legend
-
- PRACTICING FOR THEIR HONEYMOON by Jan Harold Brunvand
-
- When a minister tells you a story, you ought to believe it, right?
-
- M.H. for Fort Wayne, Ind., has her doubts. She finds it hard to
- believe this racy story, even though it was told as truth by a
- local minister.
-
- A young couple, engaged to be married, had scheduled a premarital
- counselling session with a minister. But they failed to show up,
- so the next morning the minister called the bride-to-be's home.
-
- "She's in the hospital," the young woman's mother told the
- minister. "She probably wants to tell you herself why she didn't
- show, though."
-
- So the minister went to the hospital, and there he found the young
- woman in traction with a broken leg and collarbone. But the
- accident had left her feeling more embarrassed than pained.
-
- She said her parents were going out of town for the weekend, and
- asked her to house sit. She and her fiance decided that this would
- be a perfect chance to "practice for their honeymoon." So as soon
- as her parents left, they set about "practising" in her parents
- bedroom.
-
- Not long afterward the phone rang. It was her mother, in a panic.
- She had left the iron on in the basement. Would they please turn
- it off?
-
- The fiance playfully picked her up and carried her to the top of
- the basement stairs. Both of them were still naked. When she
- switched on the lights, shouts of "Surprise! Surprise!" came from
- the basement. Her parents were standing at the bottom of the
- stairs, along with relatives, in-laws and friends. It was a
- surprise wedding shower!
-
- The shock was too great for the fiance. He dropped her and fled.
- She rolled down the stairs and lay there naked, while her family
- gaped. Her grandmother reached for her heart medicine. Everyone
- was too shocked to cover her.
-
- So, the minister concluded, the couple was never legally joined.
- "The girl went crazy," he said, "and the guy left town."
-