All Comments on 'Ablutions, Inc.'

Engagement in Norway can involve the MALE suitor catching a fish,gutting and cooking the fish. Preferably by boiling. The guts are fermented and returned to the potential mother-in-law the next week for ceremonial drinking. On successful completion of the fish presentation the future groom my set out to remove his intended from her household.

Stopped after 3 pages, too long and too slow

THIS IS FANTASTIC! Thank you so much, @anonymous, for this tidbit. As an author, i wanted to invent a 'tradition' that involve feeding someone, which had some embarrassment, and involved requiring a give-and-take between potential mates. The giving of fermented fish, as someone who has lived in Minnesota, Exactly Fits. Lutefisk as marriage proposal is... Just Right. Be wll, sir or madame, and accept my sincere thanks for your comment!

The more I read, the more I feel it was as if telling a dog a love story. Not a bad way to go, just different. I did like it.