This has got to be the first of its kind in the Cape karkop world. Granted, we’ve seen many a celebration over the years, but this takes the cake.
It started at the beginning of the year, with a guy knowing he wanted to pop the question, knowing that it needed to be something big, and knowing that she would expect that too.
The pressure was on, to say the least. So Myron Vyfer, 24, of Eerste River, decided to get creative, and when he went down on one knee and proposed to his now fiancé Kayle-Ann Thomas at the Team Honda Charity Show last weekend, in front of a crowd of karkoppe, it was the culmination of months of planning.
Myron says: “I’ve wanted to propose since the beginning of the year but I just didn’t know how. When we had talked about this kind of thing before, in passing, she said to me that any proposal would need to be big, and that everyone must know and see.”
So the ou had his romantic task cut out for him, until it occurred to him, as he puts it: “Why not propose at the show, and make history at the same time?”
Myron, who drives a 1999 Honda Ballade with air suspension by SlamWorx, confesses to not knowing how to break the ice, as it were, and start his proposal speech. So he asked all his friends, and they asked their friends, and when the day came rolling by just about everybody but Kayle knew there was this proposal about to happen.
Kayle says: “Yes, I had been expecting him to ask me, but I was so surprised and overjoyed and overwhelmed that I hardly knew what to feel. So I cried.”
She says she knew that something was up when Myron took the mic and declared that he had a special announcement. He says that when he started to speak, it all just came from the heart.
And at that moment, on the sports field across from Gordon High, last Saturday, Kayle said “yes” to being Mrs Vyfer. Congratulations.
Bobby wanted to know what kind of wedding they had in mind after this great start.
Myron says: “So we’re getting married next year. This was the short, and that will be the feature movie. It’s going to be small in numbers, family, but big in effect.”
It’s a good thing Myron has gold wedding rims already on the cabbie. And from that high point, the day proceeded to a low(ered) point.
Anyway, the day itself was a success, with people pulling in from all over to mix with the like-mindeds and put their cabbies out on display in the hope of some silverware.
The next best thing, after the engagement of course, was the limbo. This competition has become a staple attraction at shows over the last few years, since the first bright ou invented it. The idea is to drop your car as low as it can go, and cruise real slow under the limbo pole while everybody else gather round and check you out.
Back then, and this is only a couple of years ago, it was quite an undertaking as the owner would need to get the toolkit out and manually lower his vehicle. Things have long since changed though, with much of the lowering taking place via cellphone controls and air lift suspension doing the hard work.
But that doesn’t detract from the fun, not one bit, as mense line up to test their ride height against the Cape’s kwaaiest gedropte karre.
It’s all about taking things to a new low.