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We’re coming from different places. While you may look at a bridge as “the guy being cheap” and the tunnel as “the guy being a mentch” we look at it differently.
The toll notwithstanding, a tunnel is a mere hole in the ground while a bridge is a graceful structure with its towers standing proudly hundreds of feet above the river supporting the massive cables which create a perfect parabola while carrying the roadway across the river in one sweeping arch.
After she answered the phone, without even saying “excuse me”, she lost her bridge privilege. (She had already lost window privileges but I wasn’t ready to take away front seat privileges as of yet.) Before we got into the tunnel I informed her that we are approaching a tunnel, that the phone call might be dropped and “it’s rude to just cut someone off while they are in the middle of talking”, so she might want to say good-bye. She said to her friend, “Chavi- I’m actually on a date now and the guy said we’re about to go into a tunnel and we might get cut off, so I’ll call you back when he drops me off… Uh, I’ll tell you how it went when he drops me off, OK?”.