The couple held hands and leisurely strolled through the park, but while her thoughts were on matrimony his were on how best to break their engagement.

It wasn't that he didn't find her extremely attractive, that wasn't the problem at all. The problem was her abysmal ignorance. What she knew about the world around her could be written down on the back of a matchbook, and translated into several foreign languages as well.

While she chattered happily on about bridesmaids, wedding gowns and invitations, he could think only of words like insipid, shallow, air headed, twit, dumber than a doornail and vacuous. Now and again, he would make up little analogies like 'the dullest knife in the drawer' and 'elevator doesn't go all the way to the top'.

The wooing had been such fun, he thought to himself. How then could the winning be such such a bummer?

Chase not the more comely of lasses, my friends. Chase instead those possessing wit and intelligence. I say this 'cause you never know when the chasing might just lead to your being caught.