Mail Order Bride Stories - about those we laugh at...

[Goombah]

I suspect most of us that have been at this awhile have people come up and make stupid comments to us.  Thoughts I'd share something similar, and perhaps start an amusing thread.

I received an e-mail from my next-door neighbor this week.  She told me a friend of a co-worker was having problems finding a Mail-Order-Bride, heard I was successful, and wanted to know what web site he should visit to find "the good ones"...

Of course, I couldn't let this go, so asked a few more questions.  Apparently this 42 yo guy fell in love with a lady from the islands.  Visited her once, filed the K-1 (I presume), and went over there to pick her up.  THEN he found out she was 17...  How do you get to the point of bringing a lady over and never asking her birthdate, much less visiting a lady and not having a clue?  I'm told his response was "They all look young over there".

I suggest the Internet was full of advice on how to proceed safely, and hinted that I spent 4-6 hours a day for three months before writing my first letter.  I'm told "oh... he would never do that... just tell him where the goods ones are so that he doesn't have to go through all that."

*sigh*

Kevin

[mark30378]

I agree with you. It makes me very angry when I speak of my girl and someone makes a remark "mail order bride". I play stupid and ask " what is that?" and act like I have never heard of it before and let them show me their ignorance on the subject. For some reason this usually shuts them up.

[Ste]

Anyone got any good war stories about clueless idiots they may have met on a plane of in the FSU? You know, old fat lard-arses with mullets and a 17 yo looker on his arm.

I need cheering up, courtesy of a $300 mobile phone bill this month, aren't daughters wonderful? Hearing tales of other peoples laughable attempts to get a MOB/RW might stop me from putting her up for adoption.

Depressed Ste
 

[Bruno]

My actual lady is too much heavy to be a MOB... the limit of our Belgium post for package is 50 kg and her weight is 52 kg... :D:D

Goombah, maybe it is the reason the friend of your neighbor have choice one young woman ( 17 y.o ), usualy, they are more light... he hope maybe receive it by post :D

[Maxx]

I met a guy in his early thirties, overweight, loud talking and sitting next to me on my return trip home.

The Russian woman he met in Moscow after a little while with him told him that her grandmother had an emergency and she had to return to her city. He waited 3 days for her to contact him but she never did.

The next young woman came to him with her mother in tow. He told me that he taught the mother and daughter how to do "shots" with a lemon and salt. He said he thought he made a good impression with this as they laughed allot but they disappeared on him like his first lady did only without an excuse.

So he was rather glum about his Russian experience.

Maxx

 

 

[Goombah]

Could be...  I'm still stunned this came to him as a surprise.  His only defense was "they all look young over there"...

Think about this.  At no point prior to coming to get her did he ever ask about life after high school?  Work history?  Hell... dating history? (OK, maybe she has dated since age 12, so bad example).  

*sigh*

For Ste:  Sorry, the best I can do is recall feeling ashamed to be an American based on some of the "fellow Americans" I met on the hunt...  Oh, I have one, although I may have mentioned it already:

A local computer operator (eg. $30K/year) guy talked a beautiful lady into coming here.  She lasted 731 days.  Apparently didn't like living in a small home and not having a pocket full of money.  He was pretty philsophical about it - he had two great years with her.