Oh, god. I can't even begin to tell you how impressed I am with the narrator's skill at saying the groom's name. In fact, the narrator was all around stunning.
I now have the hard choice of deciding whether I like this story or
What Fluffy Knew better out of the stories in the
Women And Aliens History Month. This story was so frakking awesome. As a long-term resident of the south, this story strikes so many chords and the dialogue rang true. "Bless his/her heart" is like an extra-polite flip-off.
Congrats, Eric!
It would be bad ... but slightly funny if this actually happened. Tons of people leave their cell phones on during flights and even if they don't use the airplane mode, it doesn't affect anything so if you're not a compulsive rule-follower like me, it can be easy to get complacent about it.
On a recent flight, the flight attendant making announcements was saying, "Our box in the cockpit that tells us when people have devices on shows lots of people still using iPhones, and iPods, and Kindles, and laptop computers. We can't take off until you turn your devices off," etc.
I was tempted to turn on my phone just to spite the universe and people who tell absurd lies, but I'm a compulsive rule-follower so the FLIGHT WAS SAVED AND I'M A HERO. Not really.
I'm trying to figure out if I'd read Scattercat's
The Vow before. Excellent drabble.

I had no idea where that was going, but I ought to have realized.
