Posted on 02/06/2005 3:25:44 PM PST by LibertarianInExile
A budding romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife, state media reported.
Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly re-united Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa in an Internet chat room, the official Petra news agency said.
Bakr, who passed himself off as Adnan, fell head over heels for Sanaa, who signed off as Jamila (beautiful) and described herself as a cultured, unmarried woman -- a devout Muslim whose hobby was reading, Petra said.
And they drank Pina coladas, too!
HAWHAWHAWW!!!!!
You just can't make this stuff up!
"Oh Darling you sound so wonderful. Not like that other woman who tried to ruin my life ...
The shock of finding out their true identities was too much for the pair.
Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" -- the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.
"You are a liar," Sanaa retorted before fainting, the agency said."
And that scene took place in a bus depot....
Internet romances have had some really bizarre episodes. My son, in 2002, when he was a senior in high school, had a friend who lived with her somewhat erratic mother. The mother found "the love of her life" on the internet. The 'love' said he was a thirty something hetero male, and had a job and house in Arkansas. 'Love' was dumb enough to give the address of his home in Little Rock.
The mother insisted her daughter go with her on a surprise visit to meet her 'love', and they both had the experience of meeting 'love's' parents when they knocked on the door. The parent's 16 year old daughter confessed to being the one who had been chatting with the mother on the internet all that time.
My favorite part of all this is imagining the moment of recognition by the dumbass husband:
"Wait a second...nicely scented with fresh camel...worn but nice burkha...but I recognize that burkha--JAMILA! YOU BITCH!"
I just hate it when that happens.
"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."
So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..
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