I saw this on Ameen’s blog and it was too good not to steal and post here. It amused me to no end.
Amman – A budding romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife, state media reported on Sunday.
Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly re-united Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa in an Internet chat room, the official Petra news agency said.
Bakr, who passed himself off as Adnan, fell head over heels for Sanaa, who signed off as Jamila (beautiful) and described herself as a cultured, unmarried woman — a devout Muslim whose hobby was reading, Petra said.
Cyber love blossomed between the pair for three months and soon they were making wedding plans. To pledge their troth in person, they agreed to meet in the flesh near a bus depot in the town of Zarqa, northeast of Amman. The shock of finding out their true identities was too much for the pair.
Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" — the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.
"You are a liar," Sanaa retorted before fainting, the agency said.
Source: [IOL] via [Ameen’s musings]
Aren’t Jordanians just hillarious. We are just unique people.
This story has made its way to Yahoo’s Oddly Enough news page, with an interesting photo to boot. Check it out: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050206/photos_od_afp/050206205930_f71rkpqa_photo0&e=2
Iyas, you are so mean 🙁 if this story is true, they really are in love with one another and cant live with out each other, so there. hehehehe.
anyway, valentines day is coming up and boy do i hate this holiday.
Yeah right. How was this story recorded with all the details down to their chat room nicknames? Who’s narrating the story? I’m with Jeff on this one, this thing has urban legend written all over it.