The Disappearing Wife
Your worst nightmare. You are waiting in the International terminal at an agreed upon time to meet a flight from Tokyo. Your wife has been gone in China for 6 months (SIX MONTHS!) visiting her family. You wait and wait and she never shows up. You are going nuts! You go on national TV to talk about your missing wife, whom you met on an internet dating service. You are worried because, well, she isn’t exactly equipped to be independent when she gets back.
Sumei Hu, 38, has no money, no credit cards, no cell phone, no way of being reached and speaks limited English, Frasch said. The couple has been married since November 2005, after meeting on an Internet dating service.
There is video footage of her clearing customs, so you know she was one the plane. She just seems to have gotten “lost.” Then comes word that she’s alive! She just doesn’t want to see you or ever go back to Sheboygan again.
I’m guessing that half of a Wisconson winter was enough to convince her she made a mistake.
I’m also guessing that divorce and deportation are in her immediate future.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:32 amI got about 3 lines into the story before assuming she’d done a runner. I wonder if mister man didn’t really come to a similarly swift conclusion.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:31 amStill, who’d want to pass up the chance to live out their days in the cultural oasis of Sheboygan, famous for its “bratwurst, lake surfing, and the tallest flagpole in the U.S.”
One commentor on the Chicagoist: “Attractive woman from China married for less than a few years to a guy in Sheboygan, whom I’ll just go out on a limb and assume is a bratwurst-eatin’, beer-swillin’, overweight, pasty Green Bay Packer-lovin’ cheesehead, and she doesn’t want to go home…”.
Hey, JP, what part of Chicago you from? Can you reconfirm this fact for us?
March 7th, 2008 at 9:04 amHah! Note that was a Chicagoan talking about someone from Wisconsin, NOT vice versa.
For some reason, there is some sort of good-natured(?) “thing” that goes on between Chi-town and Chesseland. It was started by some radio DJ, long after I left Chicago.
I will admit, however, to have spent my high school years in an all-boys Catholic boarding school (St. Bonaventure) in Wisconsin. . . Sturtevant, Wisconsin to be exact. The school is no longer in existence, having been converted into a prison. . . Which is precisely how I remember it.
Oh. . . To answer your question, Betty. . . The southwest suburbs. Oak Lawn, to be exact. Where there were bratwurst-eatin’, beer-swillin’, overweight, pasty Bears fans.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:07 pmI’ve been to Sheboygan a few times, and I think it’s a nice place. Of course I’ve never had to live there, and I’ve never been in winter. My uncle (now living in Beloit) was born and raised there and still owns the house he grew up in. If nothing else, Miesfeld’s Meat Market has some of the best summer sausage (and brats - don’t forget the brats) in the midwest.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:16 pm*lol* Ah, people are gullible. I can’t believe he really thought she was lost.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pmI love the expression on that guy’s face. He seems genuinely disappointed. He should’ve gone with a Russian…
March 8th, 2008 at 12:12 amwell,how do you Deal with a re-appearing Wife (?) Marie.
*I slung in Deal as an in-yolk - Jon*
all the best to (all of you)
Paul
March 8th, 2008 at 9:33 pmGee, Bruce, you know you’re scraping the barrel for nice things to say about a city when you start praising the bratwurst…
March 9th, 2008 at 8:23 am