Letter: An all-too-common tale of divorce

Saturday, March 18, 2006 | 7:10 a.m.

We have a 52 percent divorce rate in this country. Most adults take more time choosing an automobile than they do choosing a marriage mate.

Years ago I worked at an electronics company on the East Coast. In my division was a young couple about to get married. To all outward appearances they looked madly in love.

On one Friday I was walking with the future bride on my way to lunch. I asked her: You must be real excited about getting married to him this Saturday. Her reply to me: Oh, he's alright until something better comes along. I was glad I wasn't invited to their wedding. I would have had to have been in the raptures of alcohol to witness that disaster.

A few years later my only daughter came through my door with Mr. Right. I knew he was Mr. Wrong right from the get-go. I told my wife a few days before the wedding: Dear, our daughter will be divorced within a year. Her reply was: I'm sick of your negative attitude.

I was wrong, my daughter got divorced after two years of marriage, about the same time my wallet had a total meltdown.

You 52 percent who are divorced should stay single - and don't bet on the horses, you can't even bring in a human winner.

John Tominsky, Las Vegas

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