The Marriage Guy

This story dates all the way back to October and is still going on. It all started with telling the guy about how my family was coming into two in a few weeks. He then informed me that he wanted to me my dad so he could ask for my hand in marriage. Haha, ok, I will support that. Who doesn't want some random guy your dad has never heard of to ask for his daughters hand in marriage? And I really wanted to know what my dad was going to say.

The situation was actually set up perfectly. Because he made the comment several times over the next few weeks reminding me to bring my dad by Star Tours, I was determined to make this situation happen. When my parents finally arrived, we went on Star Tours. When the ride was over, we got off and who was in the arrival hallway, but the marriage guy! I immediatly introduced him to my parents excited to see the results of this joke, but unfortunatly he chickened out and said he couldn't do it. I was so disapointed my dad didn't get to respond, but haha the joke was over, right?

Wrong. The comments have continued from that point even until today comments were made. At first, he was just asking me when my dad was coming again so that he could have another chance. I expressed my concern that he missed out on his only chance because my next visit with my parents would probably be in Idaho. But then I decided to take a new approach.

One day when we were in the glasses stacker room (if the title is not explaining enough its the room where we stack the 3d glasses so they can be cleaned and there are no guests around) I brought up the point that marriage proposals usually begin with dating. This was the day where he informed me that dating is not neccasary and when you know, you know. I argued this point for a really long time (no seriously, it was like 30 minutes) and I finally resorted to religion. This seemed to have a made a slightly higher impact when I said I would not marry someone that was not Mormon. Though he still has not given up on the idea, the impact of relgion seems to set in a little more.

Recently, the marriage guy has also taken up deciding who I am allowed to be friends with. One day we were in the breakroom and apparently I was flirting with another guy and he started freaking out and telling me that I was cheating on him. It's funny that this whole time he keeps telling me that he wants to ask my dad for my hand in marriage, but somehow its slipped his mind that I should get a say in it to. Anyway, so after he said I was flirting with this other guy, he started telling me who I could and could not be friends with. The people that were threatening or non threatening are pretty amusing, but if you don't know them, you wont be amused. Moving on. Basically this is still going on. The kid is relentless. Even today, I waved at a friend of mine and he started freaking out on me. It didn't really help when my friend said "we have a special relationship...but not that kind" (thanks for that steven ;)

Oh and by the way, the marriage guy is from Africa so imagine all this with an accent.