"This is my daughter Melissa. She has just been compromised."
This, people, is how my father announced my engagement to his neighbor.
You see in Spanish, when the gentleman has made his intentions known, he has offered the family a "compromiso," a promise if you will, to marry.
These slips in translation are the kinds of things that made me cringe when I was 13. Now though, I just wish I'd had the camera to capture the look on his elderly neighbors face as she processed the information she had just received.
2 comments:
Congradulations on your compromise. I assume the agreement you both came to was adequate? Or did you mean... Oh my. That's naughty. :-)
lovely! what beautiful news.
Post a Comment