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Bride misses her own wedding

April 3rd 2010 02:47
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A drink with a friend before your wedding is a tradition Siobahn Watson was determined to follow. Now she wishes she hadn't.

Watson, 24, of Manchester, England, a telesales assistant, was engaged to Aaron Todd, also 24, a bricklayer. A white Rolls-Royce had been hired, the bridal party's gowns had been designed, fitted and paid for, guests had been invited and a lot of money had been spent on the function at which everyone would celebrate the happy day.


Unfortunately, Watson's final drink as a single woman turned into something of a final fling as a single woman. Not all the details have been released, but we can read between the sheets.

Some hours before her wedding, Watson went out for that fateful drink with the unnamed "friend". They drank. They drank some more. At some point Watson lost her mobile phone. At some other point, the two stopped drinking and went to a motel.

We know only two things for certain that went on in that motel room. One is that Siobahn Watson went to sleep. We know that because we have been told the other thing that happened: she woke up.

She woke at about the same time that she was supposed to be saying, "I do."

Later, Watson was quoted as saying, "When I realised I had missed my own wedding, I started shaking. I could not believe I had been so stupid."

Aaron Todd, who had spent longer than expected standing, alone, by the altar, while friends and family tried continuously to ring Siobahn on her lost mobile phone, was quoted as saying, "She won't get a second chance.''


dailystar.co.uk; image: firstpersonsingular.org


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Fun and games in a committee room

July 14th 2009 20:04
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One of the more potent forces for the reshaping of social awareness is the committee room. Fill it with people on a government salary and the results can be truly astonishing.

It was in one such committee room in Sheffield, England, filled with employees of the National Health Service, that the decision was made recently to increase awareness amongst school children of the value of orgasms.

The result of the committee meeting — or possibly a series of them — was a leaflet, distributed to parents, teachers and youth workers, headed "Pleasure" and bearing the catchy sub-heading "an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away".

The first question asked by every student presented with one of the leaflets by a caring, sharing parent, teacher or youth worker was, "What's a leaflet?"

A leaflet, boys and girls, is a communication tool which was prevalent in the age before social media.

The authors of the leaflet say it is meant to "update" sex education by telling students about the benefits of enjoyable sex. For too long, they said, sex advice has been about the need for safe sex and committed relationships while ignoring the main reason that people have sex.

Part of the leaflet says, "Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes' physical activity three times a week. What about sex or masturbation twice a week?"

Where would we be without committee rooms?

First posted on the Cutting Through blog; original material: www.telegraph.co.uk


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