Quirky Man Woos, Eventually Marries Woman By Quirkily Faving Her Tweets
LatestThe New York Times’ Vows section is a great place to read painfully dull love stories about couples with higher net worths than you. They tend to be about people who are so blinded by love of their love that they share every part of it—from the paint-by-numbers first date to the outfit she wore when he proposed—as if to say, almost threateningly, “Tell us this is the most romantic thing you’ve ever heard.”
Yesterday, they shared the story of Andrew Gregory (one of the Gregory Brothers – remember the Kimmy Schmidt theme song?) and Casey McIntyre, two young Brooklynites who, after meeting in a Starbucks in TriBeCa, found love, lost it, and found it once more. It’s cute in the predictable way all love stories between people who seem generally decent are cute; they met, they fell in love with each other’s idiosyncrasies, one of them proposed, and now they’re happier than they’ve ever been. Great.
But, like all good Vows stories, this one is filled with stray details that make you wonder why on earth you’re spending time reading hundreds of words about the alleged love between two strangers.
There’s the part about free-spirited, well-traveled women being painful hippies who are bad for earnest men: