A Funny Thing Happened at Our Wedding Reception
May 10 Daily Writing Challenge
May 10 — Julia A. Keirns — **Weddings:** May 10 is our 38th wedding anniversary. Write about your wedding day or someone’s wedding day. Do you have a funny wedding story to share? Or you could choose to tell us about a special anniversary party.
We celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary a couple of months ago. Naturally, our memories drifted back to that day long ago.
It was a small wedding at my wife’s parish church in East Oakland. A kindly old priest from some South American country — Peru, I think but it may have been Paraguay. Any other country down there that starts with a P? — was the celebrant. We had to have a few talks with Father Prieto before the wedding and I couldn’t understand a word he said, either then or during the marriage ceremony!
After the wedding, we went to a reception at our new apartment near Oakland’s Lake Merritt. It was a brand-new building and we had not moved in any furniture yet. So, we rented tables and chairs and hired a caterer.
About a dozen people had to use the bathroom during the first hour or two of the reception. One of my cousins — I won’t say exactly who, but all my family knows, and it’s been talked about for three generations now! Anyway, my cousin was about the 13th restroom customer.
He had to flush a couple of times, as a matter of fact. But there was something wrong.
Steam was coming up and scalding a tender part of his body!
Apparently, someone connected the hot water to the toilet, and it took a number of flushes for the water to get hotter and hotter and hotter!
There were a lot of stories and jokes told that night, but none were as funny as this one that really happened!
Happy Anniversary to Julia! Maria, too!
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