Sidebar: You're So Special

Let's skip ahead: yes, I am engaged.

But funny thing... I haven't told my best friends yet, but I've told a bunch of people online I don't really know. Like you, the reader.

The simple reason: I'm afraid. Very afraid.

I'll admit it: I am outright terrified of giving my friends too much time to plan the bachelor party. I made those guys too rich and too idle... and I have given them too much reason for revenge. This, for example. And this. And others that were psychologically far worse, and that I haven't blogged for the sake of privacy.

Oh, yes, and these friends aren't idiots. So they may already have anticipated my engagement and are already sharpening their knives. In fact, I haven't heard a lot from them recently...

I am so dead.

(Update since I wrote this on my computer, yes, I told them. And, yes, it's obvious they are planning something, probably involving a forced abduction.)