An Ohio woman enjoying a Valentine's Day lunch with her boyfriend said she was shocked when he used the side of a city bus to propose marriage.

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Laura Kalamets, 29, said she was eating lunch Monday at the Thorpe's Market Avenue Grill in Canton with boyfriend Mark Rose, 39, when he called her attention to a Stark Area Regional Transit Authority stopped across the street, the Canton Repository reported Tuesday.

"I looked at it, and I almost didn't really put two and two together," Kalamets said.

She said the bus was emblazoned with a red advertisement reading, "Laura, Will You Marry Me?"

"I about had a heart attack," said Kalamets, who accepted the proposal. "I was really shocked. ... I've seen it on TV, and I never thought in a million years, it'd be like this."

She said the proposal was capped off when Kirt Conrad, the executive director of SARTA, got off the bus and delivered her a bouquet of red roses.