Gamer Girl Drops Flirty Hints to Her Clueless Gaming Buddy, Wagering Physical Intimacy in Exchange for a Win in Mario Kart Then Getting Repeatedly Friendzoned Instead

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 30, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

Boys are thick sometimes. 

You could be giving off the most obvious signals that you're interested in them romantically and it'll take nothing short of a siren sound and a megaphone to get the message through their skulls. KISS ME, YOU IDIOT! But notoriously the guys who are the worst at catching a girl's subtle signals are the gamer dudes. You'd think that after years of spotting the flicker of a sniper scope halfway across the battlefield map, gamer guys would get better at seeing our romantic signals–but no. Blinded by their competitiveness and desire to annihilate the 1st place driver with a blue shell of doom, most gamer guys would need flirtations to be written out in plain text before realizing that this was their opportunity to check out Princess Peach's castle bedroom.

None have experienced the true frustration of sending shy-girl 'kiss me' vibes to their buddy more than the girl in our next story. After routinely spending the afternoon with her male gaming buddy, she started to catch feelings for him. Too shy to make a move on her own, she'd wager 'anything he wanted' if he beat her at Mario Kart. Unfortunately for them both, he took that as a challenge, whooping her in the game, requesting stupid platonic prizes, and repeatedly shoving her into the friendzone without ever realizing her true intentions… until years later.

Scroll for the story of teenaged awkwardness compounded by a crush that might even sit at the top of this gamer guy's 'Regret List' for the rest of his life.

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    You missed out on your shot with Princess Peach because of how good you are at Mario Kart.
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    TIFU by doing "anything I want" with my friend if I won games of Mario Kart against her.
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    My friend and I would enjoy playing video games together, but on several occasions, she would want to up the stakes and make things more interesting.
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    Her proposal was that if she won a game of Mario Kart against me, she could do anything she wanted with me, and if I won, I could do anything I wanted with her. Little did she know how good at Mario Kart I was.
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    The first couple of victories were harmless enough. I'd win the race, and I'd say things like "you've got to talk like Wario for the next race," or "I get to borrow your DVD's," most of which was wildly amusing and diabolical for me to ask of her.
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    But the thing about it is that I kept winning, and being the dope I was, I thought I was on a hot streak getting all this free stuff from her and I played it up like I was some kind of pompous court jester gallivanting across the courtyard.
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    Every now and again, she'd put the same offer back on the table, and I'd keep winning, and she would make her frustration known the more she kept losing races in Mario Kart.
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    And it didn't help that I'd brag about my victories within our circle of friends, celebrating with invisible trophies and spraying imaginary champagne.
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    It wouldn't be until we were older and grown apart that she would disclose to me that she was a little upset by the whole thing, because she would practice playing Mario Kart for HOURS before racing against me in the hopes of winning.
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    And the reason she wanted to win was because she found me to be handsome and didn't know how to initiate this attraction she had.
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    The whole time, she was hoping that I would ask for a kiss from her whenever I would win, but me being the dumbass I was kept asking to borrow her Linkin Park albums and to draw buff kittens with sleeve tattoos.
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    So not only did I miss my shot with my friend, I also broke her heart every time I would clench victory from her on the final lap, performing the miracle last second overtake monouver or cackling like a cartoon villain whenever the spiky blue shell of doom would nuke her dreams.
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    TL;DR My female friend wanted to win a game of Mario Kart against me so she could kiss me but never won, and I kept winning and asking for anything except physical intimacy.
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    OffusMax 1 day ago Youth is wasted on the young
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    Angel_OfSolitude. 1 day ago I get she was trying to be cute, and I approve, but she really should have just gone and asked for it after a few rounds of failure.
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    Pac_Eddy 1 day ago Nailed it. She didn't have the guts to take that last step. It's hard to break out of the friend zone. You need to be direct.
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    Old-Zookeepergame429. 1 day ago Not a FU. A kiss is temporary, Mario Kart glory is forever
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    kosmonautinVT · 1 day ago Sounds like he could have had the glory and the kiss. OP giving off some real sad sack Shy Guy energy
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    caughtinatramp · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago You missed out on your shot with Princess Peach because of how good you are at Mario Kart.
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    • jrdc24 1 day ago Just say anyone as terrible as her at Mario kart isn't good enough for you, don't contact me again.
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    CriticalBlacksmith · 1 day ago My guy you couldn't let her win ONCE??? Yeah you are a gamer at heart Imaoo
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    shadowtoxicrox 1 day ago ignore women, gotta stay on that mario kart grind
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    how-unfortunate 1 day ago • Consider this, though: You didn't take advantage. It's kind of good that your first (or any) thought wasn't, "Well, she said anything, time to demand physical intimacy."
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    What if that wasn't what she had in mind? Would've been a messed up moment to try to navigate. It's a double-edged sword for a guy (assuming OP is a guy, apologies if incorrect). Don't presume a
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    woman is interested, but also always go for it if it even looks like a window? Maybe all people should just communicate clearly, but that's just me. I had a couple
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    ladies later in life let me know that I squandered opportunities, but I was just like, well, that's a shame, but I'd rather have missed that opportunity than to have ended up coming off like a thirsty creep to someone I liked.
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