Everybody make the Big L sign...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.
I'm sure ya meant well, kid...
Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a 6,000-pound engagement ring inside a helium balloon.
Hey. Isn't that about 12000 bucks?
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.
Ooooooooooooooh. Bet that wasn't part of the plan.
"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."
Y'know, Lefkos, maybe we should see other people...
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.
Now she can stick it in your eye...
"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."
Geez, she sounds like an angel. Aren't you a...lucky man.
He is hoping the ring will still turn up. "It would be amazing if someone found it," he added.
And monkeys might fly outta...nah, nevermind.