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Good Advice
Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.
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Sounds good. I have also heard of using untangling a string of Christmas lights as a slightly more low-tech test.
I’ve never had to untangle Christmas lights, but it sounds gnarly.
Haha, I’ve heard that before from him and always thought it was great advice.
I would fail the test.
Any person I marry (if I ever get married) will have to pass a ton of patience tests – dial-up internet, Christmas light untangling, my mother…. lol…
Mothers. That’s a patience test.
Bill Murray crashed some guy’s bachelor party recently and told all the guys that the way to tell if someone is the person to marry is to go on a vacation together to a place that’s hard to get into and hard to get out of. If you’re still together, that’s the one to marry.
I know a hard-to-please man who met a woman he really liked and traveled with her to Africa as his litmus test. It was a difficult trip and she was amazing. They’re married now.