Reason # 2,198 why I'm marrying this boy

[missroserose]

While he's taking pictures of breaching humpbacks out at Douglas Harbor, I'm off by the pier waiting for our friend David (who's been out fishing on his friend's boat) to come in. Thinking I'll check out the time, I pull Brian's iPhone out of my back pocket.

And drop it into the harbor. In murky, cloudy, silty Alaska water.

I reach in to try to find it, then borrow a net and try to dredge it up, but I have only a vague idea of where it is, and I have no luck finding it. Eventually I give up, only to catch sight of the edge reflecting light underneath the surface, and I reach out and grab it. But it's been in there a few minutes already, so it's pretty much dead.

Brian shows up shortly after I do so, and asks what's going on. Everyone on the pier, including David, suddenly finds their feet very fascinating.

I say in a very small voice, "I dropped your phone into the harbor."

There is a very long silence, which includes a Look.

Then he says, "It's okay. I still love you." And hugs me.

David: "I now pronounce you man and wife."

Comments

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

...*applause* :D That is pretty damned incredible. I donno many people who could be so cool-headed!

(a thousand times more applause if he didn't just delay the anger until the friends weren't around like my prideful ex would...)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

No, he wouldn't do that. Neither of us really have tempers, and while we've been known to get angry with each other on occasion, it's very rare. I had a friend comment once on how "You guys never seem to fight", and I went "Actually, we were having a disagreement just the other day when you were around," and he went "Really? I never noticed." I think it helps that neither of us are the sort to take the small things that seriously. Phones are replaceable, after all.

[likable-lemur.livejournal.com]

Oh, pfft.

It's just a phone, and things happen.

I would have preferred it had died in some really spectacular fashion (that phone had survived being frozen on a mountaintop, simmered in 85-degree 100% humidity heat, bashed around telecom towers and a host of other misadventures), but we can't have everything, I suppose.

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, and I think most everyone would realize this in the long run...but if it'd been me, I woulda been clenching my teeth at the very least, I probably woulda thrown out some snappish comment (that I woulda regretted and apologized for later)...it's admirable that you were able to see that it's just a thing, in the moment. Takes a pretty level head for that. :)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just...wow. You two are just perfect for each other. Though I wouldn't blame him if he Ziploc'd everything he handed to you for a few weeks.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wouldn't either. I've done some pretty boneheaded things in my life, but that was definitely in the top five. :D

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hey now. Accidents happen. That's not boneheaded. Boneheaded would be if you'd thought "Oh! A fish! I should try to catch/call it!" and then threw the phone into the water.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

AWWWWWW!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I think you should marry him.
(Of course, I think *I* should marry him. So I may be biased.)

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

You marry him, I marry her?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking we all marry each other. (Only one wedding presents *amazing* cost savings!)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Sorry, arrangements are already made and I think the coordinater might be thrown for a bit of a loop if I suddenly wanted to add two grooms. (Although, it strikes me that it would be funny to see the price structure for a place that catered to group weddings:

Traditional Wedding - $3500
Additional Groom - $75 each
Additional Bride - $100 each

[borismarkovich.livejournal.com]

*forstalls the Utah jokes* :D

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Why do you think the brides are more expensive? More demand! (Also, more trouble. :)

[moonwick.livejournal.com]

Awwwww. :)

[gracewanderer.livejournal.com]

That's so sweet of him :)