Upon first meeting my wife-to-be, my entire future flashed before me. Already I could foresee this girl as my life partner, the mother of my children and the person I would wrestle with for legroom in the kotatsu.
Yet there was one twist I could not predict: That this cute woman, to whom I would pledge my utmost devotion, would soon become the object of my utmost dread.
That being -- a teacher of the Japanese language.