I proposed right before we went to dinner. She started to cry. And continued to cry as we went to dinner, and through most of dinner. At one point the manager, cook, waiters and busboys were all giving me dirty looks like I was abusing her. She was crying because she has most her family in Mexico. Just her brother and her became citizens. When the staff found out why she was crying, that felt bad for me. Before that they were getting ready to lynch me. It took five days to get an answer. That was some twenty years ago.