One of my roommates was catching the rest of us up after our Thanksgiving apart, and she told us something kinda disturbing and unexpected. Apparently, her uncle was asked by one of his friends to be the best man in his wedding. To a mail order bride.
Like, for real this guy is going to China soon to pick up the wife he bought.
This has a Law & Oder: SVU episode written all over it.
I just didn’t think this really happened! I mean, I know in history it did, even in America from one coast to another (for example, see the movie or read the book “Sara, Plain and Tall”). But now? How is that not outlawed for being flat out creepy?
And apparently this guy was married before and has a son in college, but how do you tell this type of thing to your family? I can just see him at Thanksgiving dinner, “Oh son, by the way, after I drop you back off at school, I’m heading to China to pick up your new mommy. Pass the yams, please?”
I can’t even quite wrap my mind around it. None of us could. So we Googled “mail order bride” and a legit website seemed to come up where you could actually pick what country you wanted your wife to come from. But it’s so creepy!!!
