Well I heard a story lately which I found quite interesting;
A couple were on their way to BP from Flatbush for the ‘l’chaim of their son. As they got into the car, they noticed an elderly couple waitng at the bus stop. After requesting a ride to BP, the young couple obliged.
As they got into BP it started to drizzle and was getting dark. The younger man was gettinga little nervous that he might be late for his son’s Lchaim. Without even asking where the elderly couple has to be, he suggested that he would have to leave them off at the corner of New Utrecht expaling that he was ina rush to get somewhere.
The elderly couple left the car and the younger couple continued to their destination.
As they arrive to their new Mechutonim’s house, they anxiously greeted the soon-to-be young pair, and were welcomed by their new in laws. Just then the door bell rang, and in walked this elderly couple who were their passengers a few minutes earlier.
The older man , a little startled to see this young man again, approached him and asked’ who are you?’
‘I am the Choson’s fahter’, was the reply, ‘and you are??’
‘I am the Kallah’s Zeida, and if you are disrespectful enough, to leave two older people on the street to walk alone without even inquiring wher they have to be, then your standards of Chesed DO NOT meet ours, we are breaking the shidduch right here and now’
So the l’chaim went from a potential simcha to a broken engagement.
Well, at least both x Choson and Kallha can ‘drink’ to the fact that they are on the market once again:-)