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Hi TL!
This is a short story about what happened to me today. Not sure it is even worth blogging about but I wanted to share it and though maybe some of you would at least laugh.
It started off at midday, a warm, windy day in the local park. I was walking through it on my way into town to do some shopping when I heard my phone receive an SMS. Not wanting to walk and type, I stopped and sat on the grass. Nothing out of the ordinary, it was lunch time and so hundreds of other people were lounging about on the grass, gazing at flowers, feeding squirrels and eating sandwiches on the benches.
As I sat there a bunch of Asian tourists walked past with their cameras, taking pictures of everything. One of them greeted me in heavily accented English. I smiled and returned the greeting. I stood up now, ready to continue my walk when two of the Asian men turned back and walked over to me. The one who had greeted me motioned to his camera and pointed at me. Thinking he wanted me to take a photo of him and his friend standing by the sun dial, I walked over with my arms outstretched towards his camera. He looked at me for a second, puzzled, and then turned and, to my surprise, put his arm around my shoulder. I realized he was asking me to pose for a photo with him!
I smiled while his friend took two or three photos of us and then they spoke in whatever language they spoke (I assumed Chinese, we have many Chinese tourists here) and his friend translated to me 'My friend say you very boootiful!'
I blushed a little and said 'Thank you, gam-sa-ham-ni-da' (which is thank you in Korean, which I had been trying to learn!)
My reply caused some shock amongst the men and some more mumbling.
'How you know Hangul?' the friend asked.
My reply: 'I watch StraCraft and I wanted to learn Korean so I can go to the GSL.'
Without a second's hesitation the first man dropped down on one knee and took my hand with a huge smile. This of course made me laugh and blush even more and his friends laughed and slapped each others backs. And of course everyone nearby in the park now turned their attention in anticipation of a proposal. Of course it was in jest, but the friend translated to me 'He want marry you!' and we laughed and (to be incredibly anti-climatic) I apologized for being taken already. I'm not entirely sure they understood, but they all shook my hand with a smile and said 'See you later!' (as though it was likely we'd bump into each other again) and continued in our opposite directions.
And so TeamLiquid, thank you for all the small things that allowed a lead up to this event (Starcraft, threads of places I could learn Korean, and a place I could blog about this). I'm pretty sure it doesn't sound nearly as hilarious in writing, but I wanted to share anyway. 
TL;DR I had a stranger propose to me in public.
Edit: The situation drawn out in haste ^_^
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37071 Posts
Ahahahah!!! 5/5!!
Hangul ftw
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Can we have pictures so we can confirm these gentlemen were correct on your bootifulness?
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haha, thats a funny story
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intrigue
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hurray! good job. very well done.
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Awesome story, 5 stars!
Also...
On December 02 2011 07:07 dbosworld wrote:
Can we have pictures so we can confirm these gentlemen were correct on your bootifulness?
Is this just a sophisticated 4chan-ism?
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Nice story and honest answer haha
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On December 02 2011 07:31 CortoMontez wrote:Awesome story, 5 stars! Also... Show nested quote +On December 02 2011 07:07 dbosworld wrote:
Can we have pictures so we can confirm these gentlemen were correct on your bootifulness? Is this just a sophisticated 4chan-ism?
No that would be asking for pictures.
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On December 02 2011 07:57 dbosworld wrote:Show nested quote +On December 02 2011 07:31 CortoMontez wrote:Awesome story, 5 stars! Also... On December 02 2011 07:07 dbosworld wrote:
Can we have pictures so we can confirm these gentlemen were correct on your bootifulness? Is this just a sophisticated 4chan-ism? No that would be asking for pictures.
I can't promise a picture but I can upload a high resolution detailed artistic (and realistic) sketch of the situation
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/0Bhc4.jpg)
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Haha that's awesome.
5/5.
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Well played! Exactly what I wanted!
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Blazinghand
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On December 02 2011 07:57 dbosworld wrote:Show nested quote +On December 02 2011 07:31 CortoMontez wrote:Awesome story, 5 stars! Also... On December 02 2011 07:07 dbosworld wrote:
Can we have pictures so we can confirm these gentlemen were correct on your bootifulness? Is this just a sophisticated 4chan-ism? No that would be asking for pictures.
I can't even describe how bad an idea it is to ask for pictures of A_Bandersnatch.
reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandersnatch
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There are a ton of funnies in the blog section today, evidently. 5/5
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On December 02 2011 10:03 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
There are a ton of funnies in the blog section today, evidently. 5/5
There should be a TL blog section vs. Reddit battle or something...
Awesome story BTW! 5/5!
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On December 02 2011 09:39 Blazinghand wrote:Show nested quote +On December 02 2011 07:57 dbosworld wrote:On December 02 2011 07:31 CortoMontez wrote:Awesome story, 5 stars! Also... On December 02 2011 07:07 dbosworld wrote:
Can we have pictures so we can confirm these gentlemen were correct on your bootifulness? Is this just a sophisticated 4chan-ism? No that would be asking for pictures. I can't even describe how bad an idea it is to ask for pictures of A_Bandersnatch. reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandersnatch
HEEY! The photographer caught me on a bad day, with my morning hair. I look much better when I've had my coffee
http://aliceinwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Bandersnatch
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Good stuff I enjoyed reading that!
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haha nice blog.. at the begining i didnt got you were a girl lol
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On December 02 2011 10:40 Inzek wrote:
haha nice blog.. at the begining i didnt got you were a girl lol
Yeah I thought she was a guy the whole way through which was way creepier than funny. Then I looked at her post history and eventually realized she was a girl. I was relieved.
Instead of being creepy, it's just some tourist hitting on a girl and getting rejected but with a SC twist.
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