Sometimes it seems that Fate looks to you and says--hmm let me have a little fun with this one... and throws things your way to see if you meet the challenge. Apparently one of my friends was chosen to be the one that Spring. There he was, all excited about traveling to London to meet with the girl of his dreams, with his biggest worry being what special gift he could get for her.
Then the thought occurred to him---why not bring her something unique? So he went and bought her a bottle of wine, from a rare vintage that you could only get in the USA. There!... he said to himself, she will love this.So with that decided, he proceeded to pack it safely for the long trans-Atlantic plane ride.
He found a cheap flight, which unfortunately was not a direct flight, but no matter, he was London bound. When he finally gets to London, he claims his bags and then decides to take the train into the city. Now, I must mention here, that my friend did not tell the girl that he was going to visit her, it was going to be a surprise. So he had it all planned out, he would show up at her door, and surprise! here he is and look at this great bottle of wine!
Liking to travel light, he only had this one large backpack, for all his stuff. Which meant that as he approached her neighborhood, he had to take out the bottle of wine, so that he could have it in his hands as he knocked on the door of her apartment. In his mind he played out the scene: he knocks on the door---she opens the door and he says surprise! and after hugs and kisses he tells her let's celebrate with this bottle of wine!
Well, he gets to her building, runs up the stair--so excited--and then it happens--he gets to her front door---rings the bell..and as he's waiting for her to open the door---the bottle slips out of his hands and breaks into several pieces on the floor, there was wine running all over. When she opens the door---as he told me--all she sees is him standing there...in shock. As she was not expecting him at all--she is puzzled, why is he just standing there, not saying a word ...did he come all the way from the USA to make a spectacle of himself?
My friend told me that he was so embarrassed he just told her --hello, a few more words, then practically ran out of the building, went to a nearby park, sat on a bench and just cried.
