The kids and I came outside this afternoon and I headed down to the mailbox to check the mail. There were a couple of gumballs in the gutter at the end of our driveway. I looked again. There were actually gumballs in front of the entire length of our property and stretching down the block. I ran around back to tell the kids -- we have a mystery to solve!
By the time we got back to the end of the driveway to inspect the gumballs, we noticed two high school girls walking slowly down the road, picking up the gumballs and putting them in a huge bag. Charlotte and Peter wasted no time in running to where they were to chat them up. By the time I got there, I heard something about a boyfriend and a dance, and I started to get an inkling of what was going on.
Apparently, this girl's boyfriend had made of a trail of gumballs for his girlfriend to follow from her friend's house all the way across the neighborhood to her own. She was guessing that he was at her house, waiting for her to ask her to the prom. The grin on her friend's face told me she was right. We walked along with the girls and put Charlotte and Peter to work picking up the gumballs until we made it back to our house. Charlotte and Peter wanted to continue on with them, but I guessed the event wouldn't be half as romantic if there were two munchkins and a random grownup tagging along. I convinced Charlotte and Peter to stay home, and we watched the girls continue on their gumball retrieving expedition.
Darn. I kind of wanted to see what that was all leading up to! Extravagant dance invitations weren't in vogue yet at Placer High School in the mid-90s, so all I got was my boyfriend casually asking me if we were going or not. My question is if these girls get these kinds of elaborate dance invitations, what are they going to expect for marriage proposals?
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Man, I must have had looser boyfriends because no one did anything like that for me either. lol!
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