I guess I don't understand how she couldn't have realized it was going down the hatch. OK, MAYBE she didn't feel it in her mouth, but why didn't she feel it going down her throat?? Either she's an unlucky woman because the rock is that small or he's a very lucky man because... well, I'll leave it at that.

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

... oh wait, she really did

but but but... he went to JARED!

The trouble has finally passed and she's now floating on air

Yes, I would MUCH rather dissect my gf's feces to get the ring back then go through some food garbage.

And Zombie Elvis Wedding would ROCK!

(Me, I got a big honking ring and I got married in a big honking ceremony in a big honking church in a big honking white dress, but, again, that was a personal/family choice. It's not that big a deal one way or the other as long as the principle parties are happy.)

@bdgbill: Wow, someone's bitter. It might be time to lay off watching Bridezillas. The wedding doesn't matter nearly as much as the marriage to some of us.

@Eyebrows McGee: In all honesty, he'd probably take me with him or ask me to pick it out myself. (I'd like to see what he does when left to his own devices, but he's the type to put pressure on himself even if I tell him otherwise.) We've talked about getting weddinged for quite some time, so we're cool on the answer to The Question. :) Not so much on my desire to be married by Zombie Elvis. Eh, love involves compromise.

OR MAYBE he's just some idiot proposing to his girlfriend at the home of the baconator. I suspect I'm closer to the truth because they don't sound very intelligent from what happened in the story.

@bonzombiekitty: To all you modern progressive women who claim that you do not want an expensive engagement ring...I call Bullshit. This is the same as women who claim to want a "small, simple wedding" and three months later are obsessing over where to procure 3 dozen white doves and table napkins made from Hermes silk scarves.

Here's how the conversation will go with your female friends and coworkers...."I'm engaged!" "Where's the ring?" "Oh I told my little snookems that I didn't want him to spend his money on an expensive ring" "You got ripped off and your fiance hates you" "everyone knows the engagement ring is the most important part of getting married"

(I know some women prefer surprises, and that's cool, but I sorta feel like a marriage proposal is one of those questions you should probably know the answer to BEFORE you ask it. But maybe I'm just bein' a lawyer, since I hate asking public questions I don't know the answer to. That's how you get in trouble during testimony.)

@nakedscience: My boyfriend still doesn't believe that I don't really like diamonds that much. I think his mom and other women have drilled the idea of "engagement ring = diamonds" so far that it's going to take a lot of work to get it out.

I told him I'd be much happier with a non-diamond ring that he felt suited me. In the back of my head I'd kinda like a vintage snake ring, but if I'm gonna marry the guy I have to trust that he'd know me well enough to a) not blow tons of money on something that's ultimately not a huge deal to me, and b) know my style well enough to not bling me out like 50 Cent.

I didn't get a proposal. We had more of a mutual understanding after 3 days in bed following his having to return home (overseas) during the summer b/c of the terms of his student visa.

We couldn't afford a ring, he offered a silver ring he'd bought at a music festival, it fit the 'wrong' finger, but I thought it romantic. He promised a ring for our 10th anniversary, but we needed the money for a house downpayment. I said 15th anniversery then, but instead we moved overseas & had a baby.

Maybe for the 20th.

"There was no tasting at all"

Sounds like he'll have fun on his wedding night (aside from the biting part. . .)

Thus requiring moving the big-screen TV to the honeymoon, where it will be joined by some other nice electronic equipment, a lot of take-out food, and hopefully, by that point, the entire run of Battlestar Galactica (new version) on Blue Ray.

There!

@Eyebrows McGee: All the women who fought for equal rights did so so that, in the end, we could all judge the hell out of each other for our choices ;)

@nakedscience: He fails at wit because you don't get it? I don't think it works that way.

@nakedscience: I have to say that I've flat out told my boyfriend that if he ever spends tons of money on an engagement ring for me that I'm making him take it back. He's bought a ring for me awhile back, and while it wasn't perfect (it's gold, and I'm allergic to gold), it was a wonderful sentiment. I love it, but he's not allowed to purchase an engagement ring, because he knows it's just not my style. I'm allergic to gold and diamonds are guady.

@Lo-Pan: I was guessing. Lol, there's precedent. I don't recall where, but I remember hearing about someone using a potato masher for something similar. I think it might have been dog crap that time tho.

@edwardso: I have reasons against diamonds...blood diamonds being part of it but I would never comment on that about someone else's ring. Plus, I've just never really liked diamonds. I'd take a TV.

@friendlynerd: What, women don't want big screen, HD TVs? Well crap, I better return that one I just bought...

but in the end she says yes, so they're made for each other...

Also a little terrifying. I can see the headlines now... FINGER FOUND IN FROZEN FROSTY BY FUTURE FIANCE.

@ElizabethD: There is a picture on her blog if you google kaitlin whipple. Not my style

@Eyebrows McGee: I have many of the same problems. I have a very nice heirloom ring that obviously cost us nothing but people love to comment about blood diamonds or wasting money on a ring or sometimes how stupid they think marriage is

OMG, so many great comments on this post!

:-D

(groan)

@Underpants Gnome: Oh, touche!

She came back with "I would have made you fish it out."

touche'!

@Eyebrows McGee: I agree 100% When it comes down to it, I don't care! I personally think it's a bit ridiculous to spend 10K on a ring and 10K on a wedding etc., but whatever, it's not my money!

I'm 27, single, and have no plans on getting married. I get crap a LOT for that, so I feel ya.

@Homerjay (insert star here): Right, and I didn't realize your idea of what "classy" is actually mattered.

People get up in my face with surprising frequency for not wearing my wedding ring all the time (my hands swell and shrink a lot with the weather) or for not taking my husband's last name. And then other people get up in my face for having been married in a church in a poofy white dress. And I think, "Boy, it's a good thing I can go home to my healthy and functional relationship and have lots of church- and state-sanctioned sex with my husband while ignoring these people's opinions."

Because really, how do ANY of these trappings -- or lack of them -- define someone's relationship? And I think those who are convinced there's "typical" romantic stuff have just successfully identified the reason their relationships aren't working out. Romantic is what your partner finds romantic, not what Hollywood says all women/men find romantic!

@Eilonwynn: That sounds like a lovely wedding and honeymoon! The best wedding I went to was in a tiny little church, and the reception was about 10 miles away in a local park's "snack shack/arcade" right on the river. There was a keg and kaereoke (which I acn never spell). The kids had a BLAST in the arcade. Best reception ever.

@Eyebrows McGee: Well, and there's nothing wrong with wanting a ring, so you're right, the delicate flower bit was uncalled for. Still, I'm tired of people assuming that all women (and men, for that matter) are concerned with lookin' "classy" and wanting rings and typical romantic stuff.

@ScottRose: It's an old one, unless the husband gets out of line...

[www.imdb.com]

Wow. One girl and a cup.

@Applekid: Not all women care about that, you know.

@Eilonwynn: If I ever get engaged, I'll have him save the money he'd otherwise spend on a super fancy wedding and cliche ring, and we're goin' to Italy.

@ScottRose: I don't get your comment, since his judgement was on the Wendy's proposal, and the poo-encrusted ring wasn't planned. You fail at wit.

Yes, that would indeed allow her to sound like a tool.

So long as you are using your own toothbrush on poo-rings, then that's your business.

@chuck0008: how do you know it was a paotato masher? he could have just dug in it.

Don't those usually pass out the front?

Yeah Homerjay! Maybe they were plumbers and met whilst unstopping the toilets of a frat house, and now a poo-encrusted ring has a great deal of meaning to them?

Please think before you comment, jeez.

@pecan 3.14159265: LOL it really is not hard to clean rings. There are even special brushes for it!

@pecan 3.14159265: They have jewelry cleaning brushes (or my favorite a toothbrush) I like the idea

@ThickSkinned: WHAT'D I DO?!?

@WhatStockMarket?_GitEmSteveDave: Poor Cally.

@econobiker: It's that deadly combination for men...sex and money. All you need is food and sports and it's a wrap.

@BuddyGuyMontag: Not all women are delicate flowers who are concerned with what people think of them and their proposals.

How about Reed or one of his friends stopping Kaitlin before she downed the frosty? Or, not even challenging her when there is a ring in the food?

FAIL = Reed & his friends.

@Homerjay (insert star here): Yes, because everyone has the same idea of romance as a diamond ring commercial, and all couples are concerned with what everyone else thinks of their proposal. What if they met at Wendy's over a frosty? What if a frosty is his fiance's favorite treat ever? Why is it any of your business?

@chuck0008: Like the guy who paid $5k to rescue his fiances $78k ring from the sewerline. Men will do alot for money and even more when the woman they love is telling them to do it.

@Bram Verdoes:
My only question would be, are they going to get married IN the Wendy's now?

(It's been done, people!)

@pecan 3.14159265: Yes, because all women are greedy and materialistic and care about "classy".

What if they met at Wendy's? Does it matter? It's their relationship.

An ex-boyfriend tried to get back together with me this past Valentine's day by sending me red roses. I laughed in his face. If he actually paid attention to me while we dated, he'd realize that your typical romantic b.s. does nothing for me. I'd have been more receptive to him bringing over my favorite pizza and a movie, not some ugly roses.

@pecan 3.14159265: Maybe Wendys and/or frostys had a special meaning to them. Contrary to what movies may lead people to believe, not all women find red roses and champagne romantic. I was proposed to on the couch while watching tv, which was exactly what I wanted in a proposal

At least he's willing to embrace his husbandly doodies.

@h3llc4t: Well, if it was to see if she'd swallow, I guess she passed.

Anybody who can eat a Frosty that fast and not get total brain freeze must be a mutant.

@pecan 3.14159265: I think shepd meant if you find a guy willing to mash your turd apart with a potato masher to fix his mistake, he's pretty dedicated to you.

Ech. The "aquarium net" really brought the mental image home. Thanks.

There ain't much chewing involved in a frosty anyway. I think more lucky that she didn't tear up her insides, or that it didn't get lodged somewhere on the way down and out.

@Underpants Gnome:

Mmmm packing tape.

If you can get away with that, then I salute you!

Though you should probably throw in a year of cable and a DVR if you really want to be romantic..

@SpiderJerusalem: I'd second that

@Ben Miner: that's a crappy joke man.

damn, I got nothin' else right now.

Not blaming the OP, but I got this visual in my head of a woman you would typically think of 1) being proposed to at Wendy's and 2) Capable of chowing down a Frosty incredibly fast.

I googled Kaitlin Whipple. I was pleasantly surprised. Had a Cally from Battlestar Galactica vibe to her. Rowr.

Did she leave a ring in the commode?

@h3llc4t: *catch, rather.

So what *was* the expected outcome of this, to make her catcht the ring in her throat and go into a coughing fit?

There's nothing more romantic than fishing your poo-encrusted engagement ring from the toilet.

Here's the smart thing:

1) Take cup

2) Take clear packing tape.

3) Seal ring on bottom of cup with clear packing tape.

THEN you eat the Frosty.

Hell, better than finding a finger in your chili.

Ew, I am happy that none of my rings have passed through my digestive system before I put it on my finger.

A-o!

I've heard of crappy rings, but that's ridiculous.

Ba-dum-tsssssh