We'll Set the Over/Under on Divorce at 3 Years

I’ve never had the pleasure (see also: panic attack-inducing emotional thrill ride) of proposing to a real live woman, but when (or, if) I do, I know one thing: It’s not going down at any sort of sporting event or public gathering. I’m not having “Will you marry me [Jessica Biel]?” scrolling across some jumbotron, or the side of a blimp, or flying from the back of a plane, or whatever. No, my proposal will happen somewhere with no one around, so as to ease the embarrassment when she inevitable says, “You’re kidding, right?”

But my feelings obviously aren’t shared by all, particularly certain NASCAR fans (from the press release):

Tomorrow night, Phillip Pruzensky and Janice Scarfe of Orange County, Calif., will have their marriage proposal featured on the back of Carl Edwards’ No. 99 Office Depot Ford during the 2008 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

“Our reaction was pretty much, ‘How perfect would this be?’” Pruzensky said.

“We’ve been talking about marriage for awhile now – the when, the where, the how – but I honestly can’t think of a more memorable way to ask Janice to marry me than at the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.”

Really, Phillip? You’ve wanted to propose for “awhile now,” and the best place you could possibly imagine for it to go down is in the middle of a gasoline-fume-infested race track with 200,000 screaming, shirtless drunks yelling for your wife-to-be to “show us your t---!” Sounds romantic. Hopefully Phillip can hear her response over all that pure American horsepower.

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