Honey Boo Boo’s Daddy Proposes
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is back on Tv. My daughters love the show. Although I never turn on the reality show about a family living in Georgia, when my daughters are watching it, I tend to find something to do in the room and “sneak” a peek. Yes, I admit it, the TLC series is one of my weaknesses… I’m not proud.
I was watching this week, and 41-year old Sugar Bear, the father figure of the show, had planned to ask his girlfriend of nine years, 33-year old June (Mama) to marry him for the third time.
June is the mother of four girls under twenty and Sugar Bear fathered, the youngest, Alana (Honey Boo Boo). Sugar Bear loves his chewing tobacco, works as a chalk miner, and loves the 260-pound-plus, Mama.
As I was sneaking a peek at the episode, I wondered what it was that made June decline Sugar Bear’s first two proposals. She obviously loves the hat-wearing, seven-day-a-week-working miner. He’s the calmest member of a very loud, nose-picking, flatulating family, that lives alongside the railroad tracks. Sugar Bear seems to me the best thing that has happened to this family.
June’s not much of a romantic and has declined each subsequent proposal.
We all know how this is going to end, because the tabloids printed photos of the May wedding, with June wearing a camouflage dress and Sugar Bear in his orange vest. Yet, it was still an intense television moment as Sugar Bear was incredibly nervous as he took Alana to the local pawn shop to pick out June’s ring (he traded in a turkey deep fryer to get a better deal). Sugar Bear got rid of the kids, had one of the girls cook up some chicken, and sprinkled rose pedals from the front door to the family dining room which also serves as Junes extreme coupon stock pile (loads of toilet paper).
When June arrived home she wanted to know what the heck was going on. Sugar Bear had the family chicken in a cage on the dining room table alongside a nest with a plastic golden egg which he claims Alana said was laid by the chicken (I’m guessing the pawn shop ring is in there). Sugar Bear was stumbling over his words as he sat at the table in his “funeral shirt” (you know Sugar Bear is serious when he’s wearing his funeral shirt). He grabbed Mama’s hand and told her, “It would be a great honor…would you marry me and be my wife?”
What’s my point? Yes, this family is pretty silly in many respects. The couple is an interesting twosome, but I LOVED how serious Sugar Bear took this third proposal, and his attempts at creating a romantic atmosphere, even after nine years. There’s never any excuse at not giving in to romance… even if you have a chicken on the dining room table.
