Idiots in Love: Chronicles of Romantic Stupidity

By Leland Gregory

Here's best-selling humor writer Leland Gregory's sixth collection about everyday idiots-and this time they're in love! Readers are guaranteed to feel better about their own romantic misadventures after reading these jaw-dropping, hilarious tales.

Many people do crazy things in the name of love, but some people take things way too far. From failed seductions to botched proposals, from disturbing displays of affection to misguided marriages, Idiots in Love chronicles the stupid things falling in love (or falling out of it) can drive people to do:

* A female Coca-Cola employee became engaged to a Pepsi employee, and Coke demanded that she break it off, persuade her fiance to leave Pepsi, or resign from Coca-Cola. She refused and was terminated, but she later won a $600,000 settlement from the company.

* A woman in Hardwick, Georgia, divorced her husband on the grounds that he "stayed home too much and was too affectionate."

* A couple started divorce proceedings after 90 minutes of marriage.

* A Norwegian woman hid a ring in her boyfriend's porridge to propose marriage to him, but he accidentally ate the ring. Fortunately, he accepted the proposal anyway.

* In Whitesville, Delaware, it is illegal for a woman to propose to a man.

* A European survey revealed that one in nine people admit to sending themselves Valentine's Day cards.

Once again, Leland Gregory finds the absolute best and funniest anecdotes and one-liners that will have readers rolling with laughter at the amorous antics of idiots in love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740756699
• ISBN13: 9780740756696
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

If You Relish the Stupidity of Others, You'll Love This Book

These aren't traditional "short stories," they're dozens of laugh outloud funny, one paragraph anecdotes that will also make you wonder about how the human race has survived its own dopiness. Like the groom who divorced his wife shortly after their wedding reception because she made fun of her new mother-in-law's dancing. Or the guy who pretended FOR SEVERAL YEARS to be deaf just so his wife would stop nagging him. First, I suggest you go back to the top of this page and click on the photo of the book, where it says Search Inside. That will let you read a few of the pages and see how funny the stories are. Of course, that will also tell you whether or not it's your kind of humor. Besides being funny, I also like the book because the shortness of each story makes for easy "start and stop" reading -- all without having to stop laughing. It was perfect for my subway rides around the city, for grabbing a few quick laughs with lunch, and now it sits in my lobby for visitors who will (hopefully) only need a few minutes' distraction. Whether you just want some laughs in your life, desperately need to feel superior to someone, or would like customers who have to wait for you to be smiling when you finally get to them, I highly recommend this book.