Marion's Miscellaneous Musings

I have a way of not thinking, and things happen.

In the stuff we were responsible for, one of the crucial factors is The Color Of the Dress. All we knew was "turquoise" and "on the darker side". From this, we are supposed to choose a matching tux and corsage. We opted for an all black tux, not even trying to mind read (knowing, unlike German TV, that Star Trek is only a fantasy) matching a colored vest. This, of course, does not work for the corsage. For one thing there are no black roses. (That, of course, did not stop my daughter, who spray painted hers black one year. The paint is still on the back porch to commemorate this.)

So we spent a lot of time at the florist trying to decided which colors would go with an unknown turquoise. Yellow, pink and lavender would work if the dress was light to medium. White would be the safest choice, but I wanted a spot of color on Stephan! Orange is out, but could have worked if the dress was exactly the right color. I don't like yellow and black together, and the lavender was a weird color. Pink would work for light to medium shades of turquoise. We finally settled on red, which would definitely work for the darkest shades and and not work well for the lightest shades.

Final opinion: it worked. The dress was the perfect shade for red. But it could have gone terribly wrong! Even the bow tie, which was supposed to be black, worked.

As we were driving to Lauren's house, we were watching some really interesting clouds. Those were slightly obscured by rain on the way to the restaurant. After they were safely inside, we got walloped with .2 inches of rain, mostly in 15 minutes. Timing is everything; the road between the house and the restaurant was later closed due to standing water.

I keep telling people it never rains here.

Of course, Lauren did not have a jacket, but this allowed Stephan to be gallant and loan her his. So this, technically, did NOT go wrong.

The next day I asked how prom went. "Fine" is all the answer I got. It is all the answer any parent is every going to get.