HERE COMES THE BRIDE!

“Our Love Is Here To Stay,” is a great love song which has been ‘our song’ for many couples and marrieds. It’s interesting that men and women seem to need romantic songs to celebrate their love. Hit Men don’t seem to have that need to prove their love for their vocations. Unless that song is “Bang, Bang You’re Dead.”

If love songs work don’t knock them. Falling in love is a tricky business and for every couple that does whatever ‘crutch’ or symbol they use is okay with the Geezer. In my own case, I once found myself mysteriously attracted to drinking bottles of tequila on the rocks and after a long bout sipping the potent booze woke up 15 hours later in Reno sleeping next to a Bulgarian lady shot-putter. Her beard woke me up.

Since people get married for different reasons it shouldn’t surprise anyone when a seemingly unmatched pair decides to tie the knot. We’ve all heard of May/December romances – the most famous recent one was Anna Nichol’s brief union with a 90-year old zillionaire. She obviously held his nuptials enough for the gent to leave her most of his fortune. But a news item from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia caught my attention. It seems a 33-year-old man married his “love child.” The bride happens to be a 104-year-old woman. The natural question is “Why?” His answer is, “our mutual respect and friendship had turned to love.”

Ooooookay! Obviously Muhamad Noor Che Musa’s elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. This bizarre connubial was his first marriage and his wife’s 21st. Muhamad, an ex-army serviceman had been living with his mother. Aha! I can understand being attracted to an older woman – especially if that woman happens to be Linda Evans or Brigitte Bardot but not one old enough to be the grandma of your grandma.

The groom said he found peace and a sense of belonging after meeting Wook Kundor, whom he said he initially, sympathized with because she was childless, old and alone. “I am not after her money, as she is poor,” the gallant hubby proclaimed. If this yutz believes that there will be an off-spring from this marriage it can be blamed on the fact that he was stuck by lightening while licking a stamp and now has the intelligence of wall-eyed pike.

I have put in my dib for their pick of the litter. This romance gives hope to all of us out there who are still looking for Mr. or Ms. Right. Instead of a computer dating service we should all start hanging around Senior Citizen Homes.