Some Enchanted Afternoon

One day,on the spur of the moment,my boyfriend came up to my folk's house to eat his lunch with me before I had to go to work on the second shift at a local factory. Earlier that day, I'd given myself a home permanent (the smelly kind) & had set my hair in pin curls so I could wrap it in a bandana while working. I had to leave at two & was dressed in work jeans, a flannel shirt and my steel- toed shoes. I didn't expect him at all, but managed to make coffee and talk through half of his lunch hour, and then, just before he had to leave, he proposed. It came as a real shock to me for just the week before we'd had a very special evening at the New Years Eve dance, dressed to the hilt. Later, when I asked him why he proposed when I looked and smelled as I had,instead of on the night when I was all dolled up,he just grinned & said, he figured if that was the worst I could look (and smell) then it was safe to propose. Naturally, I said yes & we spent 55 years together!