Onion Breath

I heard a really funny shidduch story that happened to my friend’s sister. She was in seminary and she needed a place to stay for shabbos. So she called her cousin who she frequented often on Thursday night and asked if she should come. Her cousin told her “I’d love to have you, there’s just one small problem. My husband invited over five guys from yeshiva and they’re all really frum and would feel extremely uncomfortable if there’s a single seminary girl there.” My friend’s sister told her she really had nowhere else to go so her cousin told her to come for shabbos anyway and maybe they could figure out some arrangements for her for that meal.

Anyway, come Friday night and my friend’s sister had not found another place to go for the meal. So she and her cousin came up with a great idea. They realized the boys would not be uncomfortable if she was a married woman. So her cousin gave her a tichel and an old housecoat and told her to put it on and keep a straight face the entire meal. She sat next to her cousin and pretended to be nebach an almanah or divorcee. Okay, they manage to keep straight faces the whole meal and none of the guys notice anything strange. One of them even makes sure to be extra polite and kept making sure the food was passed to her and stuff. They are literally holding back from plotzing the entire time and her cousin kept covering up her tittering with lame excuses about finding her husband’s devar torah funny or whatever. Anyway none of the boys notice anything strange. after they leave, my friend’s sister, her cousin and husband plopped on the couch and laughed for about 45 minutes. after they calmed down the cousin realized that she needed a pillow for her guest and didn’t have any because the previous week she had given some out for someone making a simcha and didn’t get them back. So she sent my friend’s sister to a neighbour to borrow a pillow.

To make a long story short, the neighbor met my friend’s sister and was talking to her for a few minutes. She decided that she had a shidduch for my friend’s sister. she told her that she was a bit young and wasn’t dating yet she wanted to wait till she was done seminary. anyway, a couple of months later they went out… and you guessed it, in walks the guys who was being really polite to her at the table. He almost fainted then and there and so did she. But as soon as she told him the story he thought it was hilarious…..

They’re married with a kid!