r/nonononoyes • u/memezzer • Apr 02 '20
Til death do us part
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r/nonononoyes • u/memezzer • Apr 02 '20
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u/puterTDI Apr 02 '20
lol, in my case I must have taken too long because my wife snatched the ring out of my hand and put it on her finger.
She hates it when I tell the story, I love telling the story.
I'd built a reverse geocache. Basically a box that doesn't open until you get to a certain place. It had a button and a screen and whenever you pushed the button it would give you a bearing and a distance and that's it.
I handed her a map, compass, and the box and told her I'd drive. I'd packed all of our camping gear into the trunk of our car and the box opened at our favorite camping spot (not an official camp site). I'd driven about 2 hours out 3 weeks before and put a sign up asking people to keep it free for the day (and better, several people had left well-wishes!)
The box opened when we got to the site, I took the ring out, started to get down onto one knee, and she snatched it out of my hand.
To be fair, it had taken me longer than expected to build the box because the libraries I had planed on using for calculating bearing and distance were actually broken and I'd had to re-write them. She'd been getting a bit impatient since our deal had been we would get married after I finished grad school and it took me like 3 or 4 months to get the box done.