First comes the humiliating public rejection, then comes the bill
As bad as the Houston Astros have been on the field this year, their fans seem to be striking out, too.
Common in ballparks these days is the Kiss Cam, where between innings, the stadium video screen will show a couple, who are then implored to kiss for the thousands of voyeuristic perverts fans in attendance.
Well, on Monday night the Kiss Cam made its way around Minute Maid Park, finally landing on one couple:
With the couple highlighted on the big screen, the mood soured after the man took a knee to offer an engagement ring. Wearing a brick-red replica Astros jersey, the woman appeared to angrily dump a bag of popcorn on the man before rushing up the stairs amid a chorus of boos.
After the top of the sixth, the man left amid cheers from the sympathetic crowd.
Dee-nied!
And to add financial insult to the debilitating ego injury, the Astros are sending the poor bastard the bill for services rendered:
[N]ow he’s stuck with the $300 bill from the Astros, which is the tab for two tickets, the proposal shown on the centerfield scoreboard and a souvenir video of the proceedings.
“We did what we said we were going to do,” said Pam Gardner, president of business operations. “We hope these proposals will be serious and special, so people have to think before they do it.”
My feelings on this are mixed. On one hand, rejection is never fun, especially when it’s in front of 25,000 people in attendance and many thousands more on television.
On the other, though, if the guy thought that popping the question in front of so many people was the only way she’d agree to marry him, he’s got problems bigger than what happened Monday.
Better just to laugh at him.
