Honey, will you marry... Oh. Never mind... - TalkNewJersey.net

frogman68 · 03-14-2008, 09:39 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - It is the one moment every man wants to get right -- and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.
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The luckless 28 year-old's dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air.
Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a $12,000 engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that she would pop the balloon as he popped the question.
But as he left the shop, a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand and he watched the ring -- and quite possibly the affections of his girlfriend -- sailing away over the rooftops.
"I couldn't believe it," he told The Sun newspaper.
"I just watched as it went further and further into the air.

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Doh I think she is a gold digger

RosaM68 · 03-14-2008, 04:48 PM

LOL...That is so crazy!!! Something like that would happen to me, with my bad luck...That was a very expensive ring to be putting in a balloon, don't you think???

Eric · 03-15-2008, 08:13 AM

damn, I wouldn't put a $12 ring into a balloon, much less a $12,000 ring, I would be afraid the same thing would happen to me.