Finding true love can be pretty tough for a lot of people, but a
female management supervisor from a fairly well-known San Francisco
advertising agency seems to think money helps. According to a leaked
email, she is offering $10,000 to any of her friends who can introduce
her to Mr. Right.
The unnamed husband seeker who sent out the email obtained by Agency Spy
had just finished reading the best-selling feminist book “Lean In” by
Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg. It was 11 PM on a Sunday night and she
realized this was the second self-help book she had read in month, she
was still single and she had just sprinkled dish soap on leftover pizza
so she wouldn’t eat two more slices. Things were not looking well, but
there was hope for her still. If Sandberg’s book had taught her anything
it was that she needed take a more proactive role in finding love.
After all, if she wanted to get a better job, she wouldn’t just sit in
the lobby of an employer’s building and wait for someone to offer it to
her, so why should finding a husband be any different. But instead of
going out and meeting new people she decided to write an email to all
her friends, offering to give them $10,000 on her wedding day if any of
them manage to introduce her to her future husband.
“I’m writing you today because I’ve decided to make an aggressive
action plan on finding that one fella that I get to hang out with
forever,” the woman writes in her email. “And I’ve recognized
two things that are important to this plan: (1) a great percentage of
marriages are the result of introductions by friends and (2) most people
do not give a lot of thought about introducing one of their single
friends to another one of their single friends. I get it. Introducing me
to my husband is just not high on your to-do list. But I think I have
an idea that might change that…” You guessed it, this is where she offers to reward her “closest friends” with cold hard cash.
“I will personally give ten thousand dollars to the friend who introduces me to my husband.
Here is how the referral program works:
Step 1: You set me up on a date with a man
Step 2: I marry that man
Step 3: I give you $10,000 on my wedding day
I know you’re thinking that this is nuts. Just plain crazy.
“[Redacted], you can find a husband without dishing out $10,000.” Well
for starters, thank you – I’m flattered. And secondly, I totally agree.
But the reality is finding a husband always costs money. I just
collected 1,000 insider points from Sephora and this isn’t because I buy
beauty products to impress my 4-year old nephew.”
Agency Spy
has redacted the email author’s name because they “don’t want to add
insult to injury if this idea backfires”, but says its sources claim she
is “dead serious” and that she’s “already gotten 100 potential dates”.
Offering to pay your friends a sizable reward to get a husband seems a
bit wrong, but you have to admire this woman’s honesty and her
go-all-out attitude, right?
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