One businessman father in a Salt Lake City is laying the ground to search for women who may have some wife material for his 48-year-old son, Baron Brooks.
It's been about a week after he put up a newspaper ad and announced that he was searching a wife for his son, Baron Brooks, who told the Spokesman-Review daily that Arthur Brooks, his father, was responsible for the $900 ad in the Coeur d'Alene Press.
"My father did this without my consent," Brooks said in a phone interview Monday. "I can't even describe to you how embarrassing and ridiculous this is."
However, he doesn't know what to do about it now. He has decided to wait till the interview is over.
"And then I'll have words with my father separately," said Brooks, who owns two health food stores. "Who knows, it can't hurt. Who the hell knows?
"What am I supposed to do? He already did it," he added. "No sense in defusing a bomb once it's already gone off."
Baron is resigned to the fact that he would have to permit his 78-year-old father to let things take their course.
The criteria for prospective brides included their age, height, and political opinions. The daily advertisement also told the women that they could touch base with the father at an Idaho resort Friday for interviews to be conducted on Saturday.
Here are some juicy tidbits from the advertisement:
"You will probably be between the ages of 34-38 but that can be flexible," the ad says.
"You will be attractive being height and weight proportional." Brooks is pretty firm that "If you are five-foot-eight and like to wear high heels it may not work."
Brooks is quite liberal about welcoming women with children from a previous marriage. Even religious orientation does not worry him too much.
But Arthur Brooks seems to be rather spiffy about working women, and frames the ad as if the son asked: "I would expect that if we have children you would be a stay at home mom."
He is also quite firm about a couple of conditions.
"If you voted Obama or plan to vote for Hillary you are not for me," he stated.
It all sounds like a lot of hogwash, but if you are a girl looking for a husband, do you think you can fit this bill, and would like to apply? If so, read the advertisement here. Even if you've crossed the date, perhaps there is some room.
The advertisement seems to be clear about one thing, though. It doesn't look like it would encourage same sex applicants, so if you belong to that category you can drop the idea.
