David Letterman married Regina Lasko, his girlfriend of 23 years last Thursday.
Letterman said on the "Late Show" on Monday night, "On Thursday, at 3 p.m., March 19, 2009 at the Teton County Courthouse in Choteau, Montana, I was married to Regina Lasko."
He told the audience, "Regina and I began dating in February of 1986, and I said, 'Well, things are going pretty good, let's just see what happens in about ten years.'"
He went on, "I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years, and I...honestly, whether this happened or not...I secretly felt that men who were married admired me…like I was the last of the real gunslingers, you know what I'm saying?"
The day of the wedding he, Regina, and their son Harry got in a pickup truck to go to the courthouse and then things started to go awry. Letterman related the story: "We've got to drive into the courthouse and it's muddy, and we're supposed to be there at 2, and it's me, Regina and Harry in the truck, in the pickup truck … So we get two miles from the house and we get stuck in the mud - I mean, turn the truck over, stuck in the mud."
He walked two miles back to his home "into a fifty mile per hour wind," and said that he thought to himself, "See, smart ass, see, see, you try to get married, this is what happens. See, well, you've got nobody to blame but yourself. Could have happened any other day, but you wait now, see, this is what you get."
After he managed to get a different car to get back to his wife and son, he said, "So then we get in the car and Harry says, 'Are we still going into town?' and I said, 'Yes, we are,' and he gets very upset because mom had told him if I wasn't back in an hour, the deal was off."
There are two things that interest me about this story. First, women (and men) tend to rate external beauty as a prerequisite for dating/marrying a man like Letterman (wealthy, handsome, charismatic). Second, Letterman's thinking of himself as "the last gunslinger" is interesting.
Regina's physical appearance should be noteworthy to single women who think only the 20 year old beauties can snatch up the quality men. Regina is a normal woman with the normal beauty that we all possess. There is so much more than initial physical attraction that goes into the kind of attraction that holds a man for 23 years. There is a lot of information available that can guide a woman to the kinds of qualities that keep a man intrigued, and take him from single to committed. I read about these things daily, too much, and I like to share the ones I find particularly insightful.
