Who: John Dawlish & Adam Savage When: Thursday, February 1st, 2004 Where: Kings Crown Pub, London What: Adam has an important question to ask John Rating: Low
Nervous didn't begin to describe the way Adam felt. He'd never actually done this before. Married four times and not one of them had begun with him requesting permission to propose. Adam had always thought it a silly tradition and chauvinistic to boot. A woman wasn't a piece of property after all. But this time, Adam knew things were different. He and Helen were an unusual couple to say the least. He was old enough to be her father, he was best friends with the man who was her father, so to speak. And their relationship hadn't started innocently by any stretch of the imagination.
It had been over a year since he and Helen became an item and Adam knew it was time to make things more official. Truthfully, he'd wanted to marry her within a month of shagging her for the first time, but Adam resisted. They would've been married and divorced in a year if he'd gone that route. This was the right way to do things, he told himself.
But, nothing could happen without taking to John first. And even if his friend had said a year ago that Adam had his blessing, that hadn't been real. It hadn't been the proper way to do this. So, with the ring in his pocket, Adam had left work at a normal hour for once and headed to the pub. Securing he and John a table against the far wall, he ordered himself a stout and a drink for John.
He knew John approved, but Adam couldn't stop feeling as though he might vomit at any moment.