Marriage Contract

As Valentine's Day was just earlier this week, this is a great follow up.

How is it that 2 people come together and make unlikely combinations? Well, when in the event of two parties combining to form a more perfect union, a contract must be established. A contract must be established, in the which, both parties reach an agreement upon the responsibilities and duties of one and another. Might I suggest the following contract which I obtained several years ago during a visit to the east coast.

I happened to be in Salisbury, Maryland at Salisbury University to present some research that I had been doing. I traveled there with several other students from the University of Utah, including 2 others from the same lab in which I was conducting my research. Salisbury, while a very cool place, very green and lush, is not near the beach and is not near anything else really and is pretty much boring. Ok, so it basically sucked. The only thing going on was the research conference that I was at (I can't stand research nerds with their glasses and research!). So in our search for something to do we found that we needed to go to Kinko's and make copies of the posters we were to present. It happened that I was using the computer to pull up something that we were going to print while the others were looking at copy paper (you know, looking for a good time). Next to me was a strange, middle-aged black man. Being from Utah, I don't see many black men, but that isn't what made him so strange. I'm a pretty friendly guy and so when he started to talk to me, I responded and we had an amicable conversation going when he just sort of trailed off mid-sentence and looked at me rather serious like and asked if I was single. Thats sort of a personal question but being unashamed of my bachelorhoodness as I am I said yes. The next question caught me totally off guard because he then wanted me to come look at what he was looking at on his computer. I sat there and analyzed this for a minute.

1. Strange man (black)
2. Wants to know if I'm single
3. Has something on his computer that he may or may not have shown if I was married.
4. I am no longer in Utah
5. He was looking pretty eager
6. But we're in Kinko's

So what was I to do? I was a little scared of what this man was trying to print and what he was trying to get me to see but I'll confess that my curiosity, and my not wanting to upset a black man of any size, got the better of me and I looked at what he had. The result was this marriage contract, which is pretty ridiculous. He'd had 3 women already agree to sign the contract and I think he was prepping it for a 4th.

Check it out because your own day of reckoning will come one day and this may just be the prenuptial you need.