Honey, will you marry... Oh BALLONS!
It's the one moment every man wants to get right, but when London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.
The luckless 28 year-old's dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air. Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a $12,000 engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that she would pop the balloon as he popped the question.But as he left the shop, a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand and he watched the ring -- and quite possibly the affections of his girlfriend -- sailing away over the rooftops.
"I couldn't believe it," he told The Sun newspaper.
"I just watched as it went further and further into the air.I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me."
Hajji spent two hours in his car trying to chase and find the balloon, "I thought I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question," he said.
"But I had to tell her the story she went absolutely mad. Now she is refusing to speak to me until I get her a new ring."
He is hoping the ring will still turn up. It would be amazing if someone found it," he added.
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