PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

Loren Lentz wanted to make his marriage proposal memorable, but maybe not this way. The farmer from Deer Park, Wash., decided to pop the question to Jody Schaefer by spelling his intentions out in 150-yard-long letters in one of his fields. He tilled the soil into the shape of the words using a tractor before surprising his girlfriend with a plane ride. But when the couple was airborne, Lentz saw with horror he’d written the ‘J’ backwards, spelling out, “Lody will u marry me?” Luckily, Schaefer saw the funny side—and said yes.