It’s awkward and kinda manipulative. Women almost never like it. So…
It was August, and Kat and her boyfriend, Nick, were at an outdoor music festival in San Francisco. They’d been dating for five years and Kat assumed they’d eventually get married, but it wasn’t exactly on her mind as she stood near the stage watching the indie band They Might Be Giants. Then, three songs in, the lead singer made an announcement: ‘This next song goes out to Nick – he has a very important question for Kat.’ Kat found this strange. ‘I was like, “Oh my god, those are our names. What a weird coincidence!”’ But when she turned to say this to Nick, he was on one knee, prying open a ring box. The crowd parted instantly and Kat saw one girl frantically elbow her friend to alert her to the unfolding spectacle. Then Kat realized with horror that she and Nick were the spectacle. ‘Get up. Get up,’ she pleaded with him. ‘I was actually very embarrassed,’ she says now. ‘I don’t love public attention.’ Compounding things, ‘I was hungover, I wasn’t dressed cute, I probably hadn’t even had a shower.’ After hurriedly accepting Nick’s proposal, ‘we had to watch the whole concert,’ she recalls, ‘and I kind of wanted to just leave.’
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