Example 3: My wedding
Actually, it was a great day, sorry to have wasted your time.

OK, then, but it's not that funny.

I am fortunate that Mrs Throbbe shares my view that weddings are generally a futile exercise in trying to prove that money can buy you class. Therefore, we did a nice simple registry do with close family. The one thing we did really deliberate over was music, as it's something that's very important to me.

The piece we'd chosen for Mrs T to walk in to (NMA's Sleepwalking) is a nice acoustic guitar/violin instrumental. I'd suggested that she enters the room at a particular key change. Since Mrs T doesn't do music we rehearsed. After several failed attempts we noted down how long the song should be playing for before she entered.

On the day the music starts and Mrs T checks her watch. Meanwhile, I am trying to frantically signal to the registrars assistant that not only is it the wrong CD, but it's also jumping like buggery. Clearly she thought that we wanted some extreme gabba hardcore as our wedding music. After what seemed an eternity I left my place, changed the CD and returned.

Mrs T meanwhile is so nervous that she's just been staring at her watch and not even hearing what was going on, and walks in just as the correct song starts. Ten seconds later it is faded out again as she is next to me.

See, not really important.

I suppose if you really want to stretch it my friend being off work for a day after overenthusiastic air guitar playing at the reception is quite amusing. I suspect that's not the reason he gave when he rang in sick.
(Throbbe, Mon 18 Jul 2005, 13:14, Reply)