Posted on 02/08/2005 8:30:07 AM PST by JohnathanRGalt
The cheating pair were on a seven-month break when they thought they had found their ideal partners on the net.
Over three months they cavorted in cyberspace, swapping dreams, making wedding plans and plotting how to leave their partners for good.
Bakr Melhem passed himself off as Adnan while wife Sanaa said she was called Jamila, an unmarried lady of culture who was interested in reading and was a devout Muslim.
Eventually they could contain themselves no longer and agreed to meet at a bus depot where the clandestine wedding plans would be finalised and their love confirmed.
It was there that the awful truth dawned on both parties - they were man and wife.
The Petra news agency said Bakr turned white and screamed: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" - the traditional way of ending a marriage.
Sanaa fainted.
The details of the case were revealed during the subsequent divorce hearing.
Escape
I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read
"If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape."
I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad
"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
And 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."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."
That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape
repeat chorus twice and fade out
LoL!...you beat me to it...I was humming that tune while I read the article....
lol I always loved that song.
Also, reminds me of Sleepless in Seattle.
That was my exact first thought...
Scary.
And I don't even like Manilow.
Has anyone else noticed that you never see Barry Manilow and Barbara Streisand in the same place at the same time??
The world wonders....
"It's okay to cheat... if you get 'permission' first." - Will Smith
That was the first thing I thought of, too.
Sounds like a bad movie of the week...
LOL! That was the first thing I thought of along with prolly every other person who reads this.
Rupert Holmes? Eeeewwwwww.....
Rupert Holmes is deeply saddened.
What a small small world. LOL
YOU ARE DIVORCED!!!
Is this anything like saying Beetlejuice three times?
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
This sounds like one of those internet hoaxes.
Hey, if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
And never gave a detail about themselves that would have led to either one to suspect that they were married to each other.
Must have been some deep stuff. Sheesh.
Sounds like the plot of at least one nineteenth century operetta. Probably more.
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
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