Holy smokes! Hot from the Associated Press comes the story of a man who lit himself on fire before proposing to his girlfriend.
Draped in the heat of desire and a cape soaked in gasoline, Oregonian Todd “I’m burning for you” Grannis hot-footed his way up a 10-foot scaffold, ignited himself, and then dove into a swimming pool.
Still a bit hot under the collar and all fired up, Grannis pulled himself out of the pool, knelt down on one knee while his buddy hot-potatoed an engagement ring to him, and fired out the worst string of puns ever burned into the air (until this article was written, anyway).
“Honey, you make me hot,” he confessed to Malissa Kusiek, now in the hot seat in front of 100 people. “I hope I’m getting the point across that I’m on fire for you.”
She smoldered for a minute, angry at the danger of such a steamy stunt. But once she realized he wasn’t just blowing smoke, she melted and said, “yes.”
“At first I was mad, because I thought, ‘He’s not a stuntman,'” Kusiek said. “Then, of course, the tears started flowing. Of course I said yes. I was so thrilled.”
He got the half-baked idea from his stuntman buddy, Eric Barkley, who stoked out a picture of himself on fire and said, “”You could do that.” The suggestion sparked an interest.
The fated match was struck when Kusiek, the owner of a local hair salon, lit him up while cutting his hair.
“I kept telling her sometime before I’m 50,” said Grannis, the co-owner of an Internet wholesale company. “She wasn’t expecting it. She had no clue.”
When asked if he smoked after sex, Grannis replied, “I don’t know. I never looked.”
