Never make a promise you can't keep

She was young and stupid (obviously) and should have known better (but didn't) so promised that, if the day came when they were both over 30 and still single then they would marry each other instead of growing old alone. Nice. So some years , okay; many, many, many, years later she's at a funeral. His mother walks up and begins to 'chat'. Nathan is still single and off somewhere exotic changing the world and leading the life of a legioneer... "So you divorced?" Mother Dearest finally gets around to questioning... "Yes," she admits. Mother Dearest digs through her handbag and comes out with what suspiciously looks like a ring box. "Nathan and I have talked," she says, "and he asked me to give you this..." Ouch. A tall blondish vision of manly-ness walks by just in time to be grabbed by the arm and pulled over. "I remarried," she stammers. "This is my new husband." You could tell by the look in her eyes that the mother didn't believe a word of it...