Freakin' Gas Prices

Alright everyone and their mothers have complained about gas prices. I know that already. I'm going to bitch about it now but at the end I'll relate it back to the wedding.

(How the hell am I going to relate gas prices to a wedding?! Read on to find out)

I recently got some gas, driving a truck it is something I oft do. I have a credit card that gives me a rebate on gas. If you don't have one I strongly suggest you get one. In any case when you use a credit card to buy gas the initial swipe has the gas station deducts a certain amount, you know, to make sure you have enough money. Usually the amount is a really high total and however much gas you bought, the difference is refunded back to you when you are done. Well the last two gas transactions I had were $75 even. I didn't notice the first time because that sort of thing happens, the second time in a row however I checked my gauge after filling up and the fuckin' thing isn't full. $75 does not fill up my tank anymore. In order to get a complete fill up I have to do two transactions for a total of AT LEAST $75! SONAVABITCH.

Now, onto the wedding. When it comes to weddings some people like traditions. They like to include things that their family or religion have done for generations. Me, I'd like to have a personal wedding. I want my wedding to say "Him's Wedding" at every turn. I would be very happy if every one of my guests thought to themselves, "damn Him really had his hand in everything here." For example, I don't like cake all that much. But pie... ohhhh pie. So if it were up to me I'd have a wedding pie and me and the wife would cut it with a samurai sword. I do however realize that I am getting married to another person and that person probably have their own ideas about how their wedding will be.

So, when wedding talk started to get serious I asked Her, "look, you have two choices. Either I play no important role in this, I pretend to care about every third thing (which is advice given to me by a very wise now-married person), and you just tell me the day before when and where I'm have to show up OR my opinion counts 50% on everything. And honestly Her has been really good about all this. She was even ok with the pie and samurai sword idea, just so long as she can have the option of warm brownies and ice cream. My fiance is awesome.

But this entry hasn't been about my finance. She's been great. Her mother though... That's a different story altogether. Her mother is a pretty traditional Jew. Much like any traditional culture a wedding is a "village event." The wedding isn't about or for the two people getting married. It's for their families and the various people the parents know and want to impress. The dad wants to suck up to his boss? Guess who's coming to the wedding. I for the most part am alright with this kind of wedding. I understand. It is however the type of wedding that you just need to tell me when and where to show up the day before and I'll be there. I think Her's mother really really wants to do that sort of wedding. And I'd be ok with it but Her doesn't want that type of wedding either.

There is however another option. And this option is the only way this whole entry of mine can work. Her dad has always suggested eloping. Every time the wedding topic comes up he whispers to Her, or to both of us to elope. With eloping we save him a whole mess of trouble and he'll just give us the money that he would have spent on the wedding. And you know what? I could spend that money and get me a motorcycle...

I've always wanted a motorcycle, and it'd save me a rack of gas money too.