http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306 For those of you who like to chastise me for being mean or bitter when I make fun of people, get your typing fingers ready, cuz I&rsquo;m about to poop all over what really is a very sweet gesture. According to the paper today, local resident Nathan Staker plans to walk to Anaheim to ask the woman he loves to marry him. The journey is meant to prove his undying love for his paramour. To me it just proves he&rsquo;s desperate and broke. Staker acknowledges he doesn&rsquo;t have the money to drive to Anaheim due to the fact he was recently laid off. (Ooo &ndash; he&rsquo;s a catch!) He doesn&rsquo;t have money for a ring either. He does, however, have a back pack full of beef jerky and spare pair of socks. Apparently Staker got the idea to walk to Anaheim after his girlfriend told him, &ldquo;My future husband should do things others wouldn&rsquo;t do.&rdquo; Hmmm. That leaves the door kinda wide open don&rsquo;t you think? Maybe there&rsquo;s good reason the others don&rsquo;t do those things. Whatever her she meant, Staker took it to mean he should walk 135 miles along the highway (which is illegal) to propose to his girlfriend because, according to him, &ldquo;She is the most smartest and beautiful girl I ever met.&rdquo; I just hope she&rsquo;s smarter than he is. For those of you who like to chastise me for being mean or bitter when I make fun of people, get your typing fingers ready, cuz I&rsquo;m about to poop all over what really is a very sweet gesture. According to the paper today, local resident Nathan Staker plans to walk to Anaheim to ask the woman he loves to marry him. The journey is meant to prove his undying love for his paramour. To me it just proves he&rsquo;s desperate and broke. Staker acknowledges he doesn&rsquo;t have the money to drive to Anaheim due to the fact he was recently laid off. (Ooo &ndash; he&rsquo;s a catch!) He doesn&rsquo;t have money for a ring either. He does, however, have a back pack full of beef jerky and spare pair of socks. Apparently Staker got the idea to walk to Anaheim after his girlfriend told him, &ldquo;My future husband should do things others wouldn&rsquo;t do.&rdquo; Hmmm. That leaves the door kinda wide open don&rsquo;t you think? Maybe there&rsquo;s good reason the others don&rsquo;t do those things. Whatever her she meant, Staker took it to mean he should walk 135 miles along the highway (which is illegal) to propose to his girlfriend because, according to him, &ldquo;She is the most smartest and beautiful girl I ever met.&rdquo; I just hope she&rsquo;s smarter than he is. en-us Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:59:16 PDT It would be neat to hike the old trails over the Grapevine. Hope he'll be &quot;packing heat&quot; and wearing a gas mask from&nbsp;Six Flags to Disneyland, though.&nbsp; http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_135981 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_135981 It would be neat to hike the old trails over the Grapevine. Hope he'll be &quot;packing heat&quot; and wearing a gas mask from&nbsp;Six Flags to Disneyland, though.&nbsp; <p>Rather than find that gesture romantic, I'd find it a bit unsettling.&nbsp; I have to go along with the askance glance at the unemployed issue and now the question is..who's is going to feed him and shelter him when he arrives broke, and hungry for something besides beef jerky?</p> <p>Hope she has a good job if she has no common sense.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_135988 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_135988 <p>Rather than find that gesture romantic, I'd find it a bit unsettling.&nbsp; I have to go along with the askance glance at the unemployed issue and now the question is..who's is going to feed him and shelter him when he arrives broke, and hungry for something besides beef jerky?</p> <p>Hope she has a good job if she has no common sense.</p> <font size="2">Love and common sense often are juxtaposed.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'd like to see the old trails over the grapevine myself.&nbsp; the gesture is a odd mix of sweet, quixotic and unusual. There is not enough information here for me to judge the young man's character, or the young woman's.</font> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136036 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136036 <font size="2">Love and common sense often are juxtaposed.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'd like to see the old trails over the grapevine myself.&nbsp; the gesture is a odd mix of sweet, quixotic and unusual. There is not enough information here for me to judge the young man's character, or the young woman's.</font> I think you've already revealed what you really think: what really is a sweet gesture.&nbsp; But nice try on the poop thing. :)<br /> <br /> I say let him try. If he fails, who are we to condemn him? If he makes it, what a story, eh? ;)&nbsp; <br /> <br /> Honestly, if he does make it and she decides to marry him, does it mean he'll always be out of a job? I doubt it. Anybody watching this kid walk that far will see he's got determination. Maybe he'll have a job by the time he (gulp) walks back home... LOL! Who knows?<br /> <br /> And I'm with Rob on this one (shockingly!).. I hope he stays <strong><em>safe</em></strong> along this journey (both from traffic and ruthless people). <br /> <br /> Spam code: WWLND&nbsp; What would love <em><strong>not</strong> </em>do? :)<br /> <br /> (Oh, I can hear it now... love wouldn't propose without a job, a ring, etc... Save it! I'm havin' fun! LOL!) http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136044 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136044 I think you've already revealed what you really think: what really is a sweet gesture.&nbsp; But nice try on the poop thing. :)<br /> <br /> I say let him try. If he fails, who are we to condemn him? If he makes it, what a story, eh? ;)&nbsp; <br /> <br /> Honestly, if he does make it and she decides to marry him, does it mean he'll always be out of a job? I doubt it. Anybody watching this kid walk that far will see he's got determination. Maybe he'll have a job by the time he (gulp) walks back home... LOL! Who knows?<br /> <br /> And I'm with Rob on this one (shockingly!).. I hope he stays <strong><em>safe</em></strong> along this journey (both from traffic and ruthless people). <br /> <br /> Spam code: WWLND&nbsp; What would love <em><strong>not</strong> </em>do? :)<br /> <br /> (Oh, I can hear it now... love wouldn't propose without a job, a ring, etc... Save it! I'm havin' fun! LOL!) I do think it is a sweet gesture, if not a little strange.&nbsp; It is just in my nature to poke fun. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136057 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136057 I do think it is a sweet gesture, if not a little strange.&nbsp; It is just in my nature to poke fun. I don't think she's just going to marry him because he's doing the walk. They've known each other for a couple years, according to the news reports, so I doubt that she'd be &quot;the laughing stock of women everywhere!&quot;... <br /> <br /> Yes, it's odd, but sweet nonetheless. Someone must've thought of it before, though. Think of some of the love songs that have been written... &quot;I would walk 500 miles..&quot;&nbsp; People sing about swimming oceans just to be with the one they love, etc.&nbsp; I guess he just decided to take it literally. <br /> <br /> I'm sure he's probably re-thinking things now. He's definitely learning to keep his word if nothing else. Maybe he's always been a man of his word and we are just learning that there are still young men out there (besides my sweet hubby, of course! :) that do that sort of thing-keep their word, however foolishly spoken his might have been.<br /> <br /> And if we think about it, what else does he have to do? ;) Oh yeah, look for a job.. I forgot! LOL!<br /> <br /> Edit:<br /> BakeDoc, <br /> Just because someone makes one spontaneous decision that happens to be on TV for the whole city to see (and criticize...) doesn't mean one has no common sense. I guess you've never done anything the least bit on the doesn't-make-sense-to-everyone-else-meter, huh? Too bad. Sometimes those have the sweetest rewards. :) I, for one, am rooting for this kid. I hope he makes it, marries her and they have a great story to tell their kids one day.&nbsp; It could happen. ;)<br /> <br /> By the way, Doc, did you mean &quot;stupid <strong><em>gesture</em></strong>&quot;?.. Just wonderin'... :)&nbsp; See what I mean? We can't all be perfect. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136060 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/baketown/14306/#c_136060 I don't think she's just going to marry him because he's doing the walk. They've known each other for a couple years, according to the news reports, so I doubt that she'd be &quot;the laughing stock of women everywhere!&quot;... <br /> <br /> Yes, it's odd, but sweet nonetheless. Someone must've thought of it before, though. Think of some of the love songs that have been written... &quot;I would walk 500 miles..&quot;&nbsp; People sing about swimming oceans just to be with the one they love, etc.&nbsp; I guess he just decided to take it literally. <br /> <br /> I'm sure he's probably re-thinking things now. He's definitely learning to keep his word if nothing else. Maybe he's always been a man of his word and we are just learning that there are still young men out there (besides my sweet hubby, of course! :) that do that sort of thing-keep their word, however foolishly spoken his might have been.<br /> <br /> And if we think about it, what else does he have to do? ;) Oh yeah, look for a job.. I forgot! LOL!<br /> <br /> Edit:<br /> BakeDoc, <br /> Just because someone makes one spontaneous decision that happens to be on TV for the whole city to see (and criticize...) doesn't mean one has no common sense. I guess you've never done anything the least bit on the doesn't-make-sense-to-everyone-else-meter, huh? Too bad. Sometimes those have the sweetest rewards. :) I, for one, am rooting for this kid. I hope he makes it, marries her and they have a great story to tell their kids one day.&nbsp; It could happen. ;)<br /> <br /> By the way, Doc, did you mean &quot;stupid <strong><em>gesture</em></strong>&quot;?.. Just wonderin'... :)&nbsp; See what I mean? We can't all be perfect.