Making a complete fool of yourself in front of the girl you have a HUGE crush on-C/D?

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So i was just delivering some paper to the math lab (that's one of my jobs as a student worker) and the most beautiful girl in the school was in there working on something, and when i reached down to take the box of paper from the dolly and put it in the corner of the room, i grabbed the box by its lid (there's a strong plastic band wrapped around the middle so the lid doesnt just fly off) lifted it, and the lid snapped in half and the box fell to the floor with 2 reams of paper falling out of it).
WAY EMBARRASSING! so I have to say DUD

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Christ, welcome to the story of my life.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

classic - you got her attention right¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

On the contrary, everyone makes mistakes and if she looked up, it meant she noticed you, so classic. Any publicity is good publicity, or so they say

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Making a complete fool of yourself in front of the girl you have a HUGE crush on-C/D?

not just classic, but Urgent & Key (i believe this is my first correct use of the term).

― Huckadelia (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

HA. how about taking a long bus journey home after a day in the capital, sitting next to a very nice, interesting, smart and fine looking woman, who you seem to be getting on w/more than well, when suddenly YUOR FUKCING NOSE STARTS STREAMING HUGE AMOUNTS OF MUCOUS FOR NO APPARENT REASON AND WILL NOT STOP, MUCH TO THE UNDERSTANDABLE DISGUST OF YOUR TRAVELLING COMPANION AND ERSTWHILE NEW 'FRIEND!!!1!!!1!!@~@~~@~@?~'#'#'
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this happened to me many years ago, but i've got over it now, as you can see.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe she'll think your cute, an idiot, but cute!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

dual x-post
+ if she was nearby and didn't help you pick-up, you know she's not worth it.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Norman is always bringin it to the next level!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost: dyson I hope you are talking about the reams of paper.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Once time when I was swimming with some friends at a place in Brandon called Curran Park (they have a huge round pool there that's sort of like a giant version of a little kid paddling pool) I was trying to style the girls sitting beside us all day (well, this meant I was looking over at them periodically and cracking jokes - no wonder I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 18). I went in to swim and was goofing around swimming right up to the edge of the pool where the water was less than a foot deep. Of course when I went to stand up right in front of where these girls were sitting the trunks stayed in the water. As Seanny C will attest, THE WATER IS FUCKING COLD IN THAT POOL. The girls just giggled and my buddies almost died from laughing. I think we just packed up our stuff and left a few minutes later. Smooth.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

she wasn't too nearby, and was working on homework, plus i had it all covered in about 3 seconds

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Never underestimate the power of sympathy as a way of getting a woman's attention. A year or so back in a club I was heading across the dancefloor to find my friends, slipped on a puddle of lager, went utterly arse over tit and was attended to by an American girl who was all "ohmygod, are you alright?" Then she found it funny. Half an hour later we were kissing.

I wouldn't recommend it as a contrived tactic, mind.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Felonious, just keep remebering that scene from "Broadcast News" where Holly Hunter glances over at William Hurt at a journo party just as he awkwardly stuffs an entire canapé in his mouth - it's the moment where she finally lets herself fall for him

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Trust me, sometimes making a complete ass of yourself totally works.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

see, the "sometimes" is what im worried about.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah... sometimes...

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a huge crush on a french girl once at uni, but couldn't get up the cojones to talk to her until just before summer break. When I did, she was really cool and obviously aware of my interest as she was utterly unsurprised at being approached. We made plans to get together when she got back as she was going back to France for the summer.

The following fall, I kept seeing this really cute girl on campus who looked somehow familiar, obviously looking at me and smiling. I realized I must know her from somewhere, but where? For the life of me I could not remember her name. By the time I finally figured out where I knew her from, she no longer smiled at me and just looked angry when I saw her, I was afraid to approach her as I still couldn't remember her name and was ashamed of being such a chump. By the time I finally remembered her name (Delphine) I was far too embarrassed to speak to her. Then she moved into an apartment two buildings down, so I saw her EVERY DAY. When I moved across town that summer, she moved into a building a block away. When I would see her, she gave me this amused look like "wow, this fool again".

After graduation, I didn't see her around town and kind of forgot about her. One day I was in a coffee shop meeting with a student from an LSAT class I was teaching and I happened to look up at the counter. There she was, Delphine, standing in the coffee shop and obviously back in town again, and she looked over straight at me just as I knocked my glass cup of coffee off the table, all over my crotch, and shattered into a million pieces on the floor. The end.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You ass.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

my god man.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

'we never love someone as much as when to us they seem ridiculous'

― $, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

at first I thought "math lab" said "meth lab," and I was like wo.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

'we never love someone as much as when to us they seem ridiculous'

no wonder i was Mr January

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, that's a great story webcrack!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's pretty funny now, I can't even read it without laughing at the absurd level of my own stupidity. That last time, though, that was the topper, the girl in question didn't stick around to watch me mopping the coffee off of myself but I could see that she was quite amused. I was still young enough to think that it would have been horribly uncool just to stop her in the first place and say "hey, where do I know you from?" Live and learn, I guess.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think dropping paper on the floor = making a complete fool of yourself. To make a complete fool or yourself I think you have to say something crass, like "why do African American audiences completely ignore indie, prog etc?" or something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I dated this one guy who I had known for a long time and thought he was a reasonable fellow, and then in one day he was super rude to a waitress and then made a racist comment while giving a tour of his city. Making a fool of yourself is fine, making an ASS of yourself gets you thrown out of my life.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm quite fond of the old get-a-bit-tipsy-then-drop-my-glass trick, followed by furious blushing.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"I don't think dropping paper on the floor = making a complete fool of yourself."
well, i wasnt offensive in any way, but the awkardness of my coordinately-challenged blunder spread through the room like an asparagus fart.
i really need to get around to asking this girl out. the suspense is killing me.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"By the time I finally remembered her name (Delphine) I was far too
embarrassed to speak to her."

With a name like that who could blame ya!! *makes dolphin noises*

Sorry, I'm kinda drunk right now (about time!) on white wine, like the pussy I am, while listening to 'Siberian' polka-surf music. Yes, the Red Elvises...those in the know, pat yrselves in the back. GORSH, it's been one o' those days!!

Oh yeah, when I was 15, I was trying to look cool in front o' this gurl I liked a lot, so of course I tripped in front of her and fell flat on my face like the fool I am. After she proceeded to mock me, she actually stopped being a bitch to me, and became one of my best friends. Later on, I introduced her to a friend of mine who became her make out buddy for a while. I had a significant other by this time, so I didn't care anymore.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

At college while sitting on the brick railing of a bridge over a lake, I called to a (very cute) girl from my home town. She was on the sidewalk 15 feet away, to my left and behind me, aside the lake. Thinking I was well over the ground where I sat, I flipped my legs to the other side and hopped off to go talk to her. It was about 12 feet down to the algae crusted covered corner of the lake. By the time I climbed up the steep muddy bank to the grass next to the sidewalk she was gone. I didn't have time to worry about that as my keys came out of my shorts in the water and I didn't know how I was going to get into my room without every possible person on campus seeing me.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

awesome, keep the embarrassing stories coming. they're practically inflating my ego.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, don't knock asparagus.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Does puking on them count?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

On girls or asparagus?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i wanted to talk to this mousy girl so badly, as she seemed very quirky and cute. A friend convinced me that giving her a single rose woudl be a great introduction. i had never done such a thing before, but stood on a corner for an hour waiting her to show up one day. i was so nervous that i was clutching the rose with all my might. it actually felt good to feel the thirns biting into my skin. When she appeared at her usual time, without aword, i shoved the rose into her hand, with a smattering of blood from my hand on it.

I knew that the intro was messed up, but that friend convinced me to try again, only this time with cookies. It seemed like terrible idea, but bakign the cookies calmed me down. i had about thirty of them, and left at his place for the next day. When i returned, his roommate had come in drunk, and ate all but four of them. I tried to hand her a bag of cookies anyway, but she firmly asked me not ever to speak to her again, which was probably quite wise of her.

― nope (badgerminor), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a great thread! My freshman year of college, I was in the dorm cafeteria for breakfast. The dining hall was just about empty, me and maybe 2 or 3 other people. I threw my keys down on a table in the middle of the dining hall and went and got pancakes with lots of strawberry topping (yum). I put my tray on the table and started to sit down...The tray, the pancakes, and large amounts of strawberry topping went flying all over me, and the plate shattered on the floor. I'd put the tray in some sort of precarious position on top of my keys without noticing. The few witnesses to this dramatic event naturally cracked up laughing at me. Among them (of course) was a cute guy that I'd noticed before.

Some time later that cute guy approached me at a party and commented on my strawberry topping incident. We ended up being friends for all 4 years of college, and for a while after that. I made out with him once too. (and then avoided him for a couple of weeks, because I'm a dumbass)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I do kind of subscribe to the idea that you fall in love with people's ridiculousness, but this guy who didn't like me claimed it was because I was too clumsy.

― Amity (Amity), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally agree Amity. The guy I'm into has all manner of strange habits and mannerisms and I don't think he'd be half the guy he is without them.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Too clumsy? If you don't mind my saying, there's obviously something wrong with him. Clumsy is great!

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I fancied a girl (and truthfully still do, for all the good it does me) while I was at Chapel Hill last year. I get very tongue-tied around people I like, so embarrassment aplenty. One particular highlight: I get into the elevator in our dorm, and she pops in behind me. We talk about how the day's been going and so on, and I'm feeling good. I haven't screwed up yet! Suddenly she laughs, and says "um, the button?" I've been standing next to the lift controls, but being so wrapped up in the conversation completely forgot to take us to our floor.

Result: red-face, tongue-tied, and an hour spent in my room cursing myself for being an idiot. Again. Yay!

― carson dial, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you considered that she might have been making a clitoral reference? (I realize that in all probability she wasn't, I just wanted to make you feel bad.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

clumsy has its moments, as long as it doesn't involve, say, dropping my tv remote control in a glass of cordial or something like that

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan: thank you so much *pulls trigger*

― carson dial, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

You have to practice long and hard in order to really pull off the goofy thing. Everyone has stupid things happen to them a the worst times, so you MUST have the aplomb to take it one step further. If you drop a reem of paper, dive on it like a fumbed football and scream like a little child. Then pick up a single page and yell "Yes!" while pumping your fist in the air.
This will do nothing good for your sex life, but if you follow this course of action, email me.
This post is an example of me doing something stupid. Now if only I have the guts to hit "submit"

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i just slipped and fell down a flight of stairs, landing right in front of the guy i used to have quite a crush on. so you could say that i literally fell at his feet. bah.

― fiofio (fiona), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i love this tactic! so classic, especially if done on purpose.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been standing next to the lift controls, but being so wrapped up in the conversation completely forgot to take us to our floor.

Any girl who doesn't think that is somewhat cute or charming ain't worth your time. (I once thought of starting a thread on romantic things you've done that the other person completely fucking misses...)

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

do it!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the most beautiful girl in the school

...far too many girls in this world to get totally bent over one...

― Pinche Pendejo (Pinche Pendejo), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, furious blushing = THE most attractive thing in the world.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

yesterday afternoon i was sitting on a bench and she came and sat down by me and talked for a while, so i guess it worked. i'm still hitting myself for not asking her out. but i decided last night that i will at least get her number the next time i see her, else ill have to hang myself for being so timid under such obviously favorable circumstances,

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That's so cool! Yes dude, get the digits! **strangling and gasping for air sounds**

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yesterday afternoon i was sitting on a bench and she came and sat down by me and talked for a while, so i guess it worked. i'm still hitting myself for not asking her out.

Surely you don't want to look TOO desperate! It may put her off.

(haha what do i know)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

never ever ever put anything in terms of "ASKING OUT". the whole concept of "asking out" or "not asking out" or whatnot is unnecessary preamble for high skool fules. skip that part and the next time you're hangin and havin a good time just be all like "i kind of have a neck thing, can i take photographs of your neck?" slam-dunk baby - every time!! alternatively you can suggest you go for a cup of coffee and if she's like no then you can be like "i hate your neck anyway"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, next time. It sounds like there will be a next time. :)

Also, bnw OTM. When I'd read that post, I'd thought it was something that the girl would most likely find adorable.

xp--a neck thing?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

hickie?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"alternatively you can suggest you go for a cup of coffee and if she's like no then you can be like "i hate your neck anyway" "
see, that's part of my hang up. i dont really drink coffee (or have a neck thing).

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you Forrest Gump at all?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i think he/she/it is

― johnny fitz (johnny fitz), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

and i think it's a dud

― johnny fitz (johnny fitz), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

you just PRETEND! to drink coffee, or have a neck thing.

get her to the coffee shop and drink coke. pretend to take photos of her neck and... then.. just neck her!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i like NEX and i cannot lie!

dude Felonius do you realize you've ALREADY HAD YOUR FIRST DATE w/her??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

if you must get nervous, now you can do it retroactively!

also it means you get to kiss her immediately and without warning!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

care to elaborate?

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

welcome to every day of my life lately.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

really? who's the girl? what have you done?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

she came and sat by you on the bench = FIRST DATE, you dolt! the next time that happens it'll be your second one! and so on. (the immediate kissing thing was a legalistic interpretation of the classic ladies' rule about NO KISSING on the first date)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i got the first date thing, it was just the kissing that went over my head

― felonious in class, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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