Eating Noodles Wedding Proposal

Eating Noodles Korean Wedding Proposal

Eating Noodles Korean Wedding Proposal

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When I was a Peace Corps
Worker in South Korea
Working in a rural health center
Almost 50 years ago

A pretty Korean nurse
Asked me

“ When are you
Going to eat noodles?”

I thought that I understood .
That she was inviting
To lunch

I said,

“Why not today?”

Everyone laughed
As I had apparently
Just proposed to her!

They figured out
I did not know
That when someone
Asks someone,

When they are going
To eat noodles
It is a idiomatic phrase
Meaning

“when you are going
To get married?”

As noodles are served
At weedings.

My lead co-worker
Took me aside
And told me
What I had really said.

She became my girlfriend
But we broke up
About a year before
I met my wife.

And yes
I had noodles
At my wedding.


September 18, 1915, saw the publication in the Saturday Evening Post of "Extricating Young Gussie," by P. G. Wodehouse, the first appearance of the duo of Jeeves and Wooster.

If you don't recognize those names, drop whatever you're doing to find and read some of the Jeeves novels. They're among the classics of twentieth century humor, and rightly so.

In these stories, Bertie Wooster, a well-meaning but bumbling upper-class British young man, is rescued from various complicated and humorous scrapes by his valet Jeeves. In addition to being extraordinarily well-crafted novels (Wodehouse would cover whole walls with notes and diagrams as he plotted them each out!), they're also a wonderful send-up of contemporary British society.

For tomorrow, try your hand at writing something similar: a dim-witted employer has gotten into some sort of difficulty, and a clever employee must extricate that employer from it. One of your genres must be COMEDY.