Payback is...

[While talking about engagements, someone commented about how far ahead people are getting engaged.]

I agree--Jake proposed to me just before i graduated and just before he went off to Hawaii for the beginning of a two-year stint there. He already knew he'd be there for a couple months, then in Maryland for training from mid-summer till November, so after November he'd be in Hawaii for good. So the second he proposed we both knew we were aiming for an October wedding. When I informed my mom on May 11 that we wanted to get married in October, her response was "OCTOBER?!?!?!" Needless to say i was not encouraged by her reaction. But after she got off the phone with me she turned in exasperation to my father to ask how I could do this to them, there is no way to plan a wedding by October. My dad simply looked down at his paper and asked, "When did I propose to you?"

"May--why?"

"And when did we get married?" Their anniversary is October 24.

"Oh."

"She's just doing to you what you did to your mother."