Hopes of Marriage Drift Away

Reuter's reports from London on a man who lost a $12,000 dollar engagement ring. The amazing part is that the plonker hopes she doesn't find out what an idiot he is and yet he describes the whole incident to a reporter.

LONDON (Reuters) - It is the one moment every man wants to get right—and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong. The luckless 28 year-old's dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air.

Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a $12,000 engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that she would pop the balloon as he popped the question.

But as he left the shop, a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand and he watched the ring—and quite possibly the affections of his girlfriend—sailing away over the rooftops.

"I couldn't believe it," he told The Sun newspaper. "I just watched as it went further and further into the air. I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me."

Hajji spent two hours in his car trying to chase and find the balloon, without success. "I thought I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question," he said.

"But I had to tell her the story—she went absolutely mad. Now she is refusing to speak to me until I get her a new ring." He is hoping the ring will still turn up. "It would be amazing if someone found it," he added.

He hopes that that the person who finds his dream proposal deflated with the $12,000 ring intact, will give him a ring. Really? Leanne got off easy. Surely she can do better than Hajji. In a just world, the man wouldn't be allowed to reproduce.