Reed Harris wanted a memorable proposal — but he probably should have thought his plan through a little better. He hid an engagement ring in his girlfriend’s Wendy’s Frosty — and then he and his friends challenged her to a race to see who could eat their Frosty first. What could go wrong?
“I mean, I was taking huge bites and swallowing,” Kaitlin wrote. “There was no tasting at all. I get to the end and everyone starts staring at me with this weird, worried look on their face, and I have no clue what is going on around me.”
Yeah, she ate the ring. This is the exact thing that I picture happening whenever people try to replicate jewelry commercial proposals. If anyone ever wants to marry me, they should just ask. Don’t hide anything in my food.
For those of you who are worried, the ring “arrived” safe and sound after a little prune juice and fiber.
New Mexico woman accidentally swallows ring during marriage proposal [News2]
now i know how to propose to my future ex-wife.
@lotussix: Didn’t this happen in a Woody Allen movie?
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@lotussix:
I just made that joke to my wife, “This is how I should have done it.”
She came back with “I would have made you fish it out.”
touche’!
@lotussix: ring and poo be damned, the simple fact that he thought a wendy’s frosty was romantic is entirely jacked up.
Aw. I’d marry you, Meg. And I wouldn’t even insult you with pricey jewelry! :)
@SpiderJerusalem: I’d second that
@SpiderJerusalem: It’s not an insult. It’s a bribe. :)
I’ve heard of crappy rings, but that’s ridiculous.
Ba-dum-tsssssh
@BuddyGuyMontag: Re-sale value on used engagement rings stinks.
@failurate: There’s always Cash4Gold
@Applekid: Cash4GoldPoo?
Naked, stop calling out Homerjay’s elitism.
Homerjay, stop making fun of Naked’s love of privacy on the internets.
There!
A-o!
Ew, I am happy that none of my rings have passed through my digestive system before I put it on my finger.
@IT-Chick: I read that as “none of my fingers have passed through my digestive system,” which made your comment a LOT more surreal.
Also a little terrifying. I can see the headlines now… FINGER FOUND IN FROZEN FROSTY BY FUTURE FIANCE.
Here’s the smart thing:
1) Take cup
2) Take clear packing tape.
3) Seal ring on bottom of cup with clear packing tape.
THEN you eat the Frosty.
Hell, better than finding a finger in your chili.
@BuddyGuyMontag: At least there wasn’t a finger in the ring at the time!
@Underpants Gnome:
Mmmm packing tape.
@Underpants Gnome: Oh, touche!
@BuddyGuyMontag: this works right up until you realize the frosty comes in an opaque cup and she gets up to clear the table suddenly and throws it away. then you get to fish through garbage and try to wash off an engagement ring in the wendy’s bathroom sink and lose it down the drain.
or something like that…
@catastrophegirl:
Yes, I would MUCH rather dissect my gf’s feces to get the ring back then go through some food garbage.
Good to know things worked out well in the end for her.
@Ben Miner: She certainly did get to the bottom of it
@Ben Miner: that’s a crappy joke man.
damn, I got nothin’ else right now.
@Ben Miner: Everything really did come out okay.
@MissPeacock: Hmm. Perhaps I should have read all the comments thoroughly before trying to be clever…
@Ben Miner: It certainly appears as though everything came out okay.
@Ben Miner: Sounds like she found a diamond in the roughage.
@Ben Miner:
The trouble has finally passed and she’s now floating on air
@Ben Miner: I see what you did there.
Actually, having your future husband find your ring after this might be exciting to some (okay, very few) ladies. To those it grosses out, consider that a man dedicated to you enough to do this is probably a keeper. :D
@shepd: To do what? To hide it in food thinking it was a good idea? Dedicated that he decided to propose at all? Kudos that he got up the courage to really commit, and this makes for an interesting story later down the road, but this is more of a quirky story than a stunning “OMG, a man proposed!” story for most women.
@pecan 3.14159265: I think shepd meant if you find a guy willing to mash your turd apart with a potato masher to fix his mistake, he’s pretty dedicated to you.
@chuck0008: Like the guy who paid $5k to rescue his fiances $78k ring from the sewerline. Men will do alot for money and even more when the woman they love is telling them to do it.
@econobiker: It’s that deadly combination for men…sex and money. All you need is food and sports and it’s a wrap.
@RandomHookup: I think the food and sports was covered in the Frosty eating contest part.
@chuck0008: how do you know it was a paotato masher? he could have just dug in it.
@Lo-Pan: I was guessing. Lol, there’s precedent. I don’t recall where, but I remember hearing about someone using a potato masher for something similar. I think it might have been dog crap that time tho.
@pecan 3.14159265:
but but but… he went to JARED!
@shepd: I bet any girl would want to merry a gastroenterologist.
@redkamel: NO! a spelling mistake! I can never be spelling nazi again!!!
@redkamel: That’s ok, I’m sure gastroenterologists could use some cheering up.
This could be interpreted as attempted murder… a calorie-laden frosty AND a piece of sharp metal and diamond.
@pecan 3.14159265: sharp metal? what kind of rings are YOU wearing?!
@hedonia: the throat, stomach lining and everything internally can feasibly be nicked by a diamond or the setting around the ring if it wasn’t a simple solitaire. My engagement ring has metal corners. Not sharp, but were there some kind of agitation, I think it’d be possible something worse could have happened.
There’s nothing more romantic than fishing your poo-encrusted engagement ring from the toilet.
@aloe vera: Actually, the only thing less romantic than fishing your poo-encrusted engagement ring from the toilet is proposing to your girlfriend at Wendy’s.
@Homerjay (insert star here): Yes, because everyone has the same idea of romance as a diamond ring commercial, and all couples are concerned with what everyone else thinks of their proposal. What if they met at Wendy’s over a frosty? What if a frosty is his fiance’s favorite treat ever? Why is it any of your business?
@nakedscience:
Yeah Homerjay! Maybe they were plumbers and met whilst unstopping the toilets of a frat house, and now a poo-encrusted ring has a great deal of meaning to them?
Please think before you comment, jeez.
@ScottRose: I don’t get your comment, since his judgement was on the Wendy’s proposal, and the poo-encrusted ring wasn’t planned. You fail at wit.
@nakedscience: He fails at wit because you don’t get it? I don’t think it works that way.
@nakedscience: @ScottRose:
Oh Sorry. I didn’t realize I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion.
@Homerjay (insert star here): Right, and I didn’t realize your idea of what “classy” is actually mattered.
@nakedscience: It matters to me! And isn’t that all that really matters?
No. No it’s not.
@nakedscience: Yeah, maybe they met at wendy’s and she likes frostys and it’s a sentimental thing…
OR MAYBE he’s just some idiot proposing to his girlfriend at the home of the baconator. I suspect I’m closer to the truth because they don’t sound very intelligent from what happened in the story.
Screw a ring, my g/f is getting a nice engagement big screen, HD TV.
@bonzombiekitty: You, sir, are a patriot. But does she want a ring? I’m not being snarky, I’m just asking. Does she actually want a ring of some kind?
@bonzombiekitty:
If you can get away with that, then I salute you!
Though you should probably throw in a year of cable and a DVR if you really want to be romantic..
@BuddyGuyMontag: Not all women are delicate flowers who are concerned with what people think of them and their proposals.
@nakedscience: eh, I’ve asked for a $200 ring and a nice, lovely engagement Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR lens. I figure… I’m a bonehead. I lose jewelery. He knows this. He also knows how much more use I’m going to get out of that lens.
@Eilonwynn: If I ever get engaged, I’ll have him save the money he’d otherwise spend on a super fancy wedding and cliche ring, and we’re goin’ to Italy.
@nakedscience: Oh, that’s already decided. The wedding will probably be in somebody’s back yard, potluck style, then all over europe for the honeymoon – part of the reason for the lens. One of my friends just spent twelve grand on a ring, and I told him flat out he’s an idiot. I’m getting aircraft grade titanium and either a black diamond or a star sapphire.
@Eilonwynn: That sounds like a lovely wedding and honeymoon! The best wedding I went to was in a tiny little church, and the reception was about 10 miles away in a local park’s “snack shack/arcade” right on the river. There was a keg and kaereoke (which I acn never spell). The kids had a BLAST in the arcade. Best reception ever.
@nakedscience: Uh, I didn’t get a ring because I’m a delicate flower concerned with what people think of me and my proposal. I got a ring because I like sparkly things and my husband’s very traditional.
@Eyebrows McGee: Well, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting a ring, so you’re right, the delicate flower bit was uncalled for. Still, I’m tired of people assuming that all women (and men, for that matter) are concerned with lookin’ “classy” and wanting rings and typical romantic stuff.
@nakedscience: I think people who EITHER assume everyone should have an engagement ring/traditional wedding/etc. OR assume that everyone who does those things is a flake are so far into their narrow-horizoned world of stereotypes that we can safely ignore them.
People get up in my face with surprising frequency for not wearing my wedding ring all the time (my hands swell and shrink a lot with the weather) or for not taking my husband’s last name. And then other people get up in my face for having been married in a church in a poofy white dress. And I think, “Boy, it’s a good thing I can go home to my healthy and functional relationship and have lots of church- and state-sanctioned sex with my husband while ignoring these people’s opinions.”
Because really, how do ANY of these trappings — or lack of them — define someone’s relationship? And I think those who are convinced there’s “typical” romantic stuff have just successfully identified the reason their relationships aren’t working out. Romantic is what your partner finds romantic, not what Hollywood says all women/men find romantic!
@Eyebrows McGee: I agree 100% When it comes down to it, I don’t care! I personally think it’s a bit ridiculous to spend 10K on a ring and 10K on a wedding etc., but whatever, it’s not my money!
I’m 27, single, and have no plans on getting married. I get crap a LOT for that, so I feel ya.
@Eyebrows McGee: I have many of the same problems. I have a very nice heirloom ring that obviously cost us nothing but people love to comment about blood diamonds or wasting money on a ring or sometimes how stupid they think marriage is
@Eyebrows McGee: All the women who fought for equal rights did so so that, in the end, we could all judge the hell out of each other for our choices ;)
@DrGirlfriend: LOL
@Eyebrows McGee: not to mention most engagement rings, are, honestly, tacky, and that the entire diamond thing is made up DeBeers and real engagement rings are made with any kind of precious stone. I told some girl that once (except the tacky part) when she was annoying and she didnt appreciate it, so I had to tell her it wasnt my fault she didnt even know what she was wearing or why.
@nakedscience: I have to say that I’ve flat out told my boyfriend that if he ever spends tons of money on an engagement ring for me that I’m making him take it back. He’s bought a ring for me awhile back, and while it wasn’t perfect (it’s gold, and I’m allergic to gold), it was a wonderful sentiment. I love it, but he’s not allowed to purchase an engagement ring, because he knows it’s just not my style. I’m allergic to gold and diamonds are guady.
@nakedscience: yeah, i only want to be offered a diamond if it’s a diamond tipped drill bit for my dremel. not some stupid ring
@bonzombiekitty: That’d be kind of hard to wear on her hand and show off to her coworkers.
@Applekid: Not all women care about that, you know.
@bonzombiekitty:
So she can look forward to a lifetime of receiving gifts that YOU wanted?
@bonzombiekitty: We’re using a family ring.
Thus requiring moving the big-screen TV to the honeymoon, where it will be joined by some other nice electronic equipment, a lot of take-out food, and hopefully, by that point, the entire run of Battlestar Galactica (new version) on Blue Ray.
@bonzombiekitty: To all you modern progressive women who claim that you do not want an expensive engagement ring…I call Bullshit. This is the same as women who claim to want a “small, simple wedding” and three months later are obsessing over where to procure 3 dozen white doves and table napkins made from Hermes silk scarves.
Here’s how the conversation will go with your female friends and coworkers….”I’m engaged!” “Where’s the ring?” “Oh I told my little snookems that I didn’t want him to spend his money on an expensive ring” “You got ripped off and your fiance hates you” “everyone knows the engagement ring is the most important part of getting married”
@bdgbill: Wow, someone’s bitter. It might be time to lay off watching Bridezillas. The wedding doesn’t matter nearly as much as the marriage to some of us.
@Eyebrows McGee: In all honesty, he’d probably take me with him or ask me to pick it out myself. (I’d like to see what he does when left to his own devices, but he’s the type to put pressure on himself even if I tell him otherwise.) We’ve talked about getting weddinged for quite some time, so we’re cool on the answer to The Question. :) Not so much on my desire to be married by Zombie Elvis. Eh, love involves compromise.
@h3llc4t: We went pre-shopping together so he had a pretty clear idea of what I liked and didn’t like, and then he went and picked out the actual ring himself. That was a good compromise for us between my pickiness and his desire to be all traditional about it.
And Zombie Elvis Wedding would ROCK!
@bdgbill: You need to meet some more women, dude. I have plenty of friends who had small, simple weddings, or eloped, or just did the JP, and plenty of friends who didn’t do engagement gifts, or did non-traditional ones, or did a mazda miata instead. It’s really not THAT big a deal, srsly.
(Me, I got a big honking ring and I got married in a big honking ceremony in a big honking church in a big honking white dress, but, again, that was a personal/family choice. It’s not that big a deal one way or the other as long as the principle parties are happy.)
Then she said, “I doo doo.”
So what *was* the expected outcome of this, to make her catcht the ring in her throat and go into a coughing fit?
@h3llc4t: *catch, rather.
@h3llc4t: Well, if it was to see if she’d swallow, I guess she passed.
@h3llc4t: My thoughts exactly. In what verse does telling someone to inhale food containing a small, sharp bit of metal end well?
They are both lucky she didn’t break off a tooth. At ~$4,000 EACH for a decent implant, it’s a lot more expensive than the x-ray, ex-lax, and aquarium net that this cost.
@WhatStockMarket?_GitEmSteveDave:
Ech. The “aquarium net” really brought the mental image home. Thanks.
There ain’t much chewing involved in a frosty anyway. I think more lucky that she didn’t tear up her insides, or that it didn’t get lodged somewhere on the way down and out.
@ScottRose: It was probably a small stone. ;)
@WhatStockMarket?_GitEmSteveDave:
Don’t those usually pass out the front?
@ScottRose: Hopefully I never find out. Since I have gout, apparently I have a higher chance of getting stones. Still can’t hurt worse than gout(I almost wrote “the gout”, but HATE when people say that).
@WhatStockMarket?_GitEmSteveDave: dude, ben franklin in 1776 had gout. that guy was awesome.
@Elcheecho: Yes, he was. I was just saying that whenever I talk to someone over 50, they refer to my gout as “the gout”. Like it’s singular.
@McNugget911_GitEmSteveDave: Trust me, you never ever want to get one of those stones.
How about not proposing at Wendy’s over a frosty
@Bram Verdoes: Yeah this could’ve been classier. Not like proposing at a restaurant is much, much classier per se (cause you can propose at an Applebees too) but that maybe trying to do something a little less cliche.
@pecan 3.14159265: Less cliche like proposing at a Golden Corral, Ryan’s, Chinese buffet or some other buffet place…
@pecan 3.14159265: Proposing at Applebees is much easier. You can actually just order the proposal version of any entree and a moderately priced, mass-produced and underwhelming ring is already placed into the vacuum-sealed food bag and ready to be heated and served.
@pecan 3.14159265: Maybe Wendys and/or frostys had a special meaning to them. Contrary to what movies may lead people to believe, not all women find red roses and champagne romantic. I was proposed to on the couch while watching tv, which was exactly what I wanted in a proposal
@edwardso: I don’t find red roses and champagne romantic. But hiding a ring in a frosty is pretty gross. You can’t just rinse off a ring and it’s all good…food gets stuck in the little teeny gaps in the ring setting, and it just gets messy.
@pecan 3.14159265: They have jewelry cleaning brushes (or my favorite a toothbrush) I like the idea
@edwardso:
So long as you are using your own toothbrush on poo-rings, then that’s your business.
@ScottRose: It’s an old one, unless the husband gets out of line…
@pecan 3.14159265: LOL it really is not hard to clean rings. There are even special brushes for it!
@edwardso: I was proposed to hiking in a forest preserve. Roses make me sneeze and champagne makes me get drunk in my knees. Just my knees. Romantic is getting up half an hour early to scrape all the snow off my car so I don’t have to.
@Bram Verdoes: There was too long of a line at Del Taco
@Bram Verdoes:
My only question would be, are they going to get married IN the Wendy’s now?
(It’s been done, people!)
@Bram Verdoes:
I didn’t get a proposal. We had more of a mutual understanding after 3 days in bed following his having to return home (overseas) during the summer b/c of the terms of his student visa.
We couldn’t afford a ring, he offered a silver ring he’d bought at a music festival, it fit the ‘wrong’ finger, but I thought it romantic. He promised a ring for our 10th anniversary, but we needed the money for a house downpayment. I said 15th anniversery then, but instead we moved overseas & had a baby.
Maybe for the 20th.
Did she leave a ring in the commode?
Not blaming the OP, but I got this visual in my head of a woman you would typically think of 1) being proposed to at Wendy’s and 2) Capable of chowing down a Frosty incredibly fast.
I googled Kaitlin Whipple. I was pleasantly surprised. Had a Cally from Battlestar Galactica vibe to her. Rowr.
@BuddyGuyMontag: In what way? Frosty like the vacuum of space?
@WhatStockMarket?_GitEmSteveDave: Poor Cally.
@BuddyGuyMontag: I checked out her blog. Now that I know she’s a mormon, it all makes sense. They love their frozen sweets.
@ThickSkinned: WHAT’D I DO?!?
I really hope she made him go through her crap before every flush.
Nice to see that this came out alright.
If it had stayed in her body she could’ve called it internal body bling.
@pecan 3.14159265: Now I’m having Amateur Surgeon flashbacks.
@pecan 3.14159265:
Yes, that would indeed allow her to sound like a tool.
Man, she’s lucky she didn’t choke or break a tooth. Don’t put jewelry in people’s food!
Anybody who can eat a Frosty that fast and not get total brain freeze must be a mutant.
At least he’s willing to embrace his husbandly doodies.
See, the thing about champagne, as shown in movies and TV and commercials where for some reason some foolish man thinks that beverage-doused ring is the way to go, is that it’s translucent and served in an equally translucent container.
@pecan 3.14159265: Yes, because all women are greedy and materialistic and care about “classy”.
What if they met at Wendy’s? Does it matter? It’s their relationship.
An ex-boyfriend tried to get back together with me this past Valentine’s day by sending me red roses. I laughed in his face. If he actually paid attention to me while we dated, he’d realize that your typical romantic b.s. does nothing for me. I’d have been more receptive to him bringing over my favorite pizza and a movie, not some ugly roses.
Will you marry me, Meg? You’re very intelligent and… what’s that other thing… oh, right! – attractive.
How about Reed or one of his friends stopping Kaitlin before she downed the frosty? Or, not even challenging her when there is a ring in the food?
FAIL = Reed & his friends.
Wow. One girl and a cup.
@adb1158:
OMG, so many great comments on this post!
:-D
i suppose they met at wendys or something.. gross
I wonder if, after all that, the ring was nice or just a piece of sh*t…..
(groan)
@ElizabethD: There is a picture on her blog if you google kaitlin whipple. Not my style
Did she win the eating contest?
Where did he go wrong?
Ring in Desert = original
Frosty = classy
In Front of Friends = was either afraid she would reject him, or reject him less in front of his friends or simply doesn’t like to be alone with her
but in the end she says yes, so they’re made for each other…
@edwardso: I have reasons against diamonds…blood diamonds being part of it but I would never comment on that about someone else’s ring. Plus, I’ve just never really liked diamonds. I’d take a TV.
@friendlynerd: What, women don’t want big screen, HD TVs? Well crap, I better return that one I just bought…
With the diamond industry the way it is, many of us ladies are probably wearing diamonds that went through someone’s intestines, at one point or another. They have to smuggle them out somehow.
I really hope she gets a new ring or that ring will forever be the butt of all jokes till she dies =P
Stolen from Woody Allen’s “Everyone Says I Love You” movie with Drew Barrymore and Ed Norton.
“I mean, I was taking huge bites and swallowing”
“There was no tasting at all”
Sounds like he’ll have fun on his wedding night (aside from the biting part. . .)
@ReasonableGuy:
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
… oh wait, she really did
@nakedscience: My boyfriend still doesn’t believe that I don’t really like diamonds that much. I think his mom and other women have drilled the idea of “engagement ring = diamonds” so far that it’s going to take a lot of work to get it out.
I told him I’d be much happier with a non-diamond ring that he felt suited me. In the back of my head I’d kinda like a vintage snake ring, but if I’m gonna marry the guy I have to trust that he’d know me well enough to a) not blow tons of money on something that’s ultimately not a huge deal to me, and b) know my style well enough to not bling me out like 50 Cent.
@h3llc4t: How about a guy who c) takes you shopping with him for the ring? Sounds like you have strong preferences. :)
(I know some women prefer surprises, and that’s cool, but I sorta feel like a marriage proposal is one of those questions you should probably know the answer to BEFORE you ask it. But maybe I’m just bein’ a lawyer, since I hate asking public questions I don’t know the answer to. That’s how you get in trouble during testimony.)
Smooth move, Exlax.
one ringy dingy
I guess I don’t understand how she couldn’t have realized it was going down the hatch. OK, MAYBE she didn’t feel it in her mouth, but why didn’t she feel it going down her throat?? Either she’s an unlucky woman because the rock is that small or he’s a very lucky man because… well, I’ll leave it at that.
At least the x-ray will tell her if the diamond’s real.