The Wedding
DQ reader Scott Ray (who I've known since he was seventeen, which was about fifteen years ago) got married in Austin on Saturday, and Gloria and I were there.Men and women think differently about weddings, or they remember them differently, anyway. Here's a conversation we had:
Me: Do you remember Liz and Dan's wedding?
Gloria: No. Did I go to that one with you?
Me: I'm sure you did.
Gloria: No. I think that was some other girlfriend.
Me: Oh wait--I didn't go with you.
Gloria: So it was some other girlfriend.
Me: No, that was the day that Zach Thomas, who had a terrible case of the flu, intercepted a Texas A&M pass in the last minute and ran it back for a touchdown to win the game for Texas Tech. I was sitting in the parking lot of the church, listening to the game on radio and hoping it would finish in time. I started honking the horn when Thomas ran in for a touchdown, and when I stopped I could hear a horn. It turns out there was a guy a few rows down who was doing exactly the same thing.
Gloria: When was this?
Me: 1995.
Gloria: What do you remember about the wedding?
Me: Well, they went through with it.
By the way: at the reception they were playing Billie Holiday music. You know what? Five hundred years from now, people will still be playing Billie Holiday music, and it will still sound perfect.
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