Speaker 1: It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call. You
Speaker 1: ever look back at a moment in your life and think, oh,
Speaker 1: I wish that went different? Are you thinking about it?
Speaker 1: I think about the day I signed my first contract here.
Speaker 1: I was thinking of the time when I asked Mallory
Speaker 1: to the high school dance and she completely blew me
Speaker 1: off in front of the entire student body. Why would
Speaker 1: you ask everyone? How was I supposed to know that
Speaker 1: a mature, seventy year old divorced librarian would actually have
Speaker 1: stay in there? Alright? Anyway, I'm holding that we can
Speaker 1: help our listener today not make the same horrible mistake
Speaker 1: that I did. I still have regrets about it. He
Speaker 1: can't walk into a library. Now. Now let's talk to her.
Speaker 1: Her name's Jennifer, Jennifer, Welcome to the show. Hi, everybody
Speaker 1: for your email said you got yourself into an awkward
Speaker 1: city situation with your boyfriend recently. What's his name? Um,
Speaker 1: his name's Cody. We've been we've been dating for a
Speaker 1: little over a year now. He's he's really great. Oh
Speaker 1: that's cute. Yeah, we've been talking about moving in together
Speaker 1: once my lease is up in a few months. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is like you're you're in this for the
Speaker 1: long haul. Yeah, things, things has been great. A couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, I got off to work at the
Speaker 1: end of the day and Cody texted me that he
Speaker 1: was nearby and asked if I wanted to grab dinner
Speaker 1: with him at a restaurant there. Okay, this all sounds
Speaker 1: great and normal. Yeah. Yeah, just kind of a rough
Speaker 1: day at work. It was just you know, well, that's
Speaker 1: good timing you're having a bad day. Yeah, it really
Speaker 1: cheered me up. So I go to meet in there
Speaker 1: and halfway into the meal, he gets down on one
Speaker 1: knee and suppose it to me. Oh my god, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you were not expecting that at all the
Speaker 1: way you tell this story. I was caught completely off guard.
Speaker 1: I was like, still in my work clothes. I had
Speaker 1: no idea this was coming. She was in work clothes.
Speaker 1: I mean, her nails probably weren't done, like she didn't know.
Speaker 1: I just froze, like I totally froze, and then I
Speaker 1: like apologize. I was like, ah, I'm sorry, this is
Speaker 1: just so unexpected, Like I just I made it so awkward. Wait,
Speaker 1: that was the first thing you said after that was
Speaker 1: the first thing I said, Oh, well, I'm still frozen,
Speaker 1: and people are staring at us, like people eating at
Speaker 1: the restaurant. All the servers at the restaurant has like
Speaker 1: literally stopped working and they're like waiting to see what happened.
Speaker 1: It's just so painful. And so he kind of stands
Speaker 1: up and like says to me, like, hey, can we
Speaker 1: go outside? Wow? Yeah, because in his mind he's just
Speaker 1: expecting it. Yes, oh my god, are you and the
Speaker 1: entire restaurant erupts into applause. He's more mature than me.
Speaker 1: I would have just started crying. You're like, hey, you
Speaker 1: out of the restaurant. Well, she didn't say no. She
Speaker 1: didn't say no yes or no no. Why why do
Speaker 1: you think you didn't just say yes? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I got embarrassed. Okay, this isn't something that we've
Speaker 1: ever talked about. We've never talked about rings. I've never
Speaker 1: told him like, hey, you should ask my sister if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that. Wow, oh my god. So at
Speaker 1: this point he's standing up in the restaurant, You're still frozen,
Speaker 1: and then what happens he asked him, was like, can
Speaker 1: we go outside, like we can just talk to two
Speaker 1: of us, and like I apologized again and was like, look,
Speaker 1: I just was expecting this to maybe happen, like after
Speaker 1: we moved in together, you know. And then he was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well can I try again? And then he like got
Speaker 1: down on one knee. No, no, it was just weird.
Speaker 1: There was someone's dogs like pooping and it was just
Speaker 1: like god, so he just failed, yeah, and so I don't.
Speaker 1: I just kind of like I got down with him
Speaker 1: and was like, hey, like can we just like talk
Speaker 1: about this late, Like I don't know, it just got
Speaker 1: It's just been so awkward now was two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and like I want to fix it. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. I need help. Like we did something
Speaker 1: in a very vulnerable public way, and yeah, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: going on the radio talking to you guys like maybe
Speaker 1: I keep Graham gesture my way. I gotta say, though,
Speaker 1: you should not feel guilty at all, Like you know,
Speaker 1: as much as this guy sounds like a hopeless romantic,
Speaker 1: like dude, you guys hadn't talked about it. He's doing
Speaker 1: it in public, He's putting you under crazy amount of pressure.
Speaker 1: But ring did you get a look. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just like it's not very fair to you. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, though, I really do want to marry him,
Speaker 1: Like I did give him every signal that like if
Speaker 1: you were to propose, I would say yes, even though
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about it. You know, Like, so you
Speaker 1: really feel that way, Jennifer, You feel like you actually
Speaker 1: do want to marry this guy. You're not. You don't
Speaker 1: just feel guilty because he proposed and you want to
Speaker 1: make him feel better. No, I really want to marry him.
Speaker 1: I just was like this awkward weirdo. I just ruined it,
Speaker 1: and I really really want to fix it. Have you
Speaker 1: told him like, hey, I really do want to marry you.
Speaker 1: That was just bad timing because we haven't been hanging
Speaker 1: out in person, Like I don't know how to say
Speaker 1: that over texts, Like I feel like that's not enough.
Speaker 1: And now every time you see a dog on the
Speaker 1: street going number two brings you right back to that
Speaker 1: moment too. Yeah all right, well man, so it sounds
Speaker 1: like we're going to be calling your your boyfriend here.
Speaker 1: You almost said fiance didn't say yes yet. It's not
Speaker 1: quite there, but we're going to try and help smooth
Speaker 1: things over with him and let him know that you
Speaker 1: do really want to marry him. Kay, this is making sure.
Speaker 1: This is a big, grand romantic gesture, which obviously he
Speaker 1: likes a lot. Yes, a song will come back. We'll
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of advice and then let
Speaker 1: you call your boyfriend when we do your awkward Tuesday
Speaker 1: phone call. It's awkward, it's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I never thought we'd hear a more
Speaker 1: awkward marriage proposal than what happened to Brooke. She got
Speaker 1: asked the big question in a swamp. It was actually
Speaker 1: the high desert, opposite the romantic high desert, next to
Speaker 1: the pile of dead grass and tree limbs in the
Speaker 1: vacant lot in the wilderness. But one of our listeners,
Speaker 1: Brook just beat you. She got proposed to in a
Speaker 1: restaurant and she wasn't prepared for it, so she told
Speaker 1: her guy, wow, sorry, this is just unexpected, and then
Speaker 1: he took her outside and proposed to her again. Well,
Speaker 1: all she could cut her on was a dog pooping
Speaker 1: that was walking by, so she couldn't say yes to it.
Speaker 1: But now it's been two weeks and she wants to
Speaker 1: let her boyfriend Cody know I do really want to
Speaker 1: marry you. I just handled it wrong. Yeah, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we have some good advice before she makes this phone
Speaker 1: call and how she can do that. Brook, what do
Speaker 1: you think you know? He is down, This man is
Speaker 1: at his ego is at the lowest point it's probably
Speaker 1: ever been, and he just needs some good ego stroking.
Speaker 1: You need to tell him why you love him. You
Speaker 1: need to just lay it on thick, build him back up. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can do that, okay, Okay, likes him. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: never tried a compliment on him before. We'll see how
Speaker 1: that goes. I know, Jose, what do you think I
Speaker 1: think we can all agree, especially you, that that was
Speaker 1: a cringing moment, super cringey. Yeah. I guarantee you. He
Speaker 1: has replayed that a million times over and over. Yea
Speaker 1: his head. So my suggestion is, no matter what you do,
Speaker 1: don't bring up what happened. Just focus on them now
Speaker 1: and go from there. Yeah, that's what really good at
Speaker 1: That's legit. Okay. Yeah, do that Do you feel like
Speaker 1: that helps you? Yeah? I think that helps good. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't I've never heard anybody say that we've helped
Speaker 1: them before. I'm shocked and I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: how did this go wrong? Though? Like he loves you,
Speaker 1: he wants to marry you. You guys just weren't communicating correctly.
Speaker 1: You're gonna let him know you're on the same page,
Speaker 1: like this is going to be fantastic. Yeah, as long
Speaker 1: as no dogs walk by wing, then I think we'll
Speaker 1: be good. So I'm gonna dial his number right now.
Speaker 1: We'll back away and let you do your thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much. I'm going to take your advice.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start with the compliment to kind of
Speaker 1: get this all right. Good luck. We'll be here, ready
Speaker 1: to jump in when you need us. Here we go. Hello, Hi, honey,
Speaker 1: Oh hi babe, how are you. I didn't recognize the number.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm okay. It's so good to hear your voice.
Speaker 1: It's so nice to hear your voice. Yeah you too,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm okay? My day off just yeah, relaxing.
Speaker 1: I was actually looking at um some pictures of us
Speaker 1: from when we first met, and I was just thinking,
Speaker 1: how you're even more handsome than you were when when
Speaker 1: we met. I would say, you're like minimum twenty percent
Speaker 1: more handsome, like your stock's going up. Well, hold the
Speaker 1: phone because I just moved okay, so I'm moving French
Speaker 1: around it, and I moved that dresser out from by
Speaker 1: the bed, and I put an extra bedside table. So
Speaker 1: now there's one on your side too. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you have no idea. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: how many times I've kicked over that water glass on
Speaker 1: the ground. Thank you. Sorry, never again. Well now I
Speaker 1: won't wake you up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Thank you you can though. Um. Oh, yeah, I'm calling
Speaker 1: because I I just wanted to say that I am.
Speaker 1: I am so sorry um about what happened. Um oh,
Speaker 1: I did not want to embarrass you. It's and I
Speaker 1: didn't react that way because I'm not sure it wasn't
Speaker 1: because I don't know what I want or I don't
Speaker 1: know if I want that with you. It has nothing
Speaker 1: about it. I wasn't expecting it like I had like
Speaker 1: my work sneakers on, you know, like I just don't
Speaker 1: weren't like, no, I know, it's all on me. It
Speaker 1: was all I mean, I could not have like there's
Speaker 1: no rush, it's funny time. I totally surprised you. We
Speaker 1: hadn't talked about it before, so I just feel bad
Speaker 1: about that. So don't even worry about it. But but
Speaker 1: you know that I that I do want to marry you,
Speaker 1: right like oh okay, well, I mean yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but then also no, you know, like it was yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: until then I asked you to very me and then
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm not It was just I'm not
Speaker 1: just saying that though, like like I guess what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say is is I I want you to
Speaker 1: ask me again? Oh okay, Well that's different, um, because
Speaker 1: I wasn't planning to do that and again anytime. And
Speaker 1: I'm a little trump. I just wasn't ready in the moment.
Speaker 1: I just knew it, but not because I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: about you it ye can will you give me another chance? Yes?
Speaker 1: But here's the deal. If all right, if you want
Speaker 1: to be engaged to me, we gotta go the other way.
Speaker 1: We gotta reverse it. We chance you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: ask me kidding right, Nope, Nope, nope, that's it. I've
Speaker 1: been doing already, and you know I've been thinking about it.
Speaker 1: It's only fair that if it's going to happen now
Speaker 1: after after that, you got to ask me this time
Speaker 1: you really want me to propose to you? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I guess I guess that's fair. All right, Cody, will
Speaker 1: you marry me? What? Um? I need to think about it.
Speaker 1: What who this? Hey, Cody, you're on the radio right
Speaker 1: now with Brooken Jeffrey in the morning. It's a surprise proposal.
Speaker 1: We didn't even know. Are you kidding me? Not? Sorry? Sorry, Cody,
Speaker 1: I just I was trying to do something public and
Speaker 1: romantic like you did, get out of my comfort zone
Speaker 1: you know. Wait, wait, wait, I'm a little confused. So
Speaker 1: so we're in the radio. Yeah, that's something that we
Speaker 1: do occasionally called an awkward Tuesday phone call. We were
Speaker 1: trying to help Jennifer because she felt horrible after how
Speaker 1: your proposal went. Oh my god, which I gotta say,
Speaker 1: good for you because we got to listen to your
Speaker 1: conversation for owning. I mean you you handled it really well, Cody, though,
Speaker 1: was awesome, well until the end. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I handled it well today after having some time to process. Yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: I haven't been handling it all that well by myself. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I can understand. It's Okay, she told us about how
Speaker 1: the proposal went down at the restaurant. Well, both of
Speaker 1: the proposals. I'm just saying, I understand why you feel
Speaker 1: a little bit weird about the whole situation. Did you
Speaker 1: tell you about the doggie dukie? Yeah it is Jennifer.
Speaker 1: Why did you just propose to him? Because I love
Speaker 1: him and he asked him too, and I want to
Speaker 1: marry him like I want Mary, because I know you're
Speaker 1: not used to this, but you know, you gotta go
Speaker 1: get a ring for him. Yeah, may have to ask
Speaker 1: for a hand, not even now. You just don't do
Speaker 1: it over the phone. Well, I don't know if he
Speaker 1: is twenty percent more handsome than he was a day
Speaker 1: so she couldn't resist, Like haven't you guys been together
Speaker 1: like a year? But but also also I was just kidding,
Speaker 1: like when I said I don't know, I have to
Speaker 1: think about it. I thought we were just joking on
Speaker 1: the phone. Okay, okay, wow, can we redo? Are we
Speaker 1: gonna actually do it? Yeah? You do? We want to
Speaker 1: try it again. I don't know. That doesn't feel very much.
Speaker 1: It's like I don't like it. Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't I mean don't want me to ask you. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no. I want to ask you. I want
Speaker 1: to ask you. I want to do it up. I
Speaker 1: want to do it up right. Okay, we'll let you
Speaker 1: do it right now if you like. No offense to
Speaker 1: the radio people of the world, but I think I
Speaker 1: could come up with something a little more romantic than that.
Speaker 1: We have a bed of music that we can play.
Speaker 1: We can play whatever music you want. Yeah, random, let's
Speaker 1: pick something. Yeah, you're not going to get that anywhere else.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I appreciate it. But now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to do something that somehow that tops the previous
Speaker 1: thing that I did. Okay, I think I don't think
Speaker 1: you'd have to work hard for that, Cody out not
Speaker 1: just do it in private? Okay, yeah, do it in
Speaker 1: front of that new bedside table beside tables hot water. Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to take care of my baby, that's all. Okay.
Speaker 1: When you do finally propose, will you do us one
Speaker 1: thing and send us a picture or video if you
Speaker 1: get them. I want to picture of the bedside table.
Speaker 1: Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning,