20+ Of The Dumbest Things People Have Done In The Pursuit Of Love

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mattstaff
Jul 2, 2019 1:00 PM EDT

We do some mindless stuff in the name of love, or even, an innocent crush. There's just something that short circuits in the brain when you find yourself helplessly infatuated with that person that caught your eye. Then, if you're really unlucky, you take it a step further and make the kind of move that comes back to haunt you in the middle of the night, years later. 

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    Text - MossBone 11h My plan was to pretend to fall but actually save myself right before to catch her attention and look cool. Well, sometimes things don't go as planned and that's why I have a scar on my hip.
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    Text - Behelmeted98. 10h In kindergarten, I proposed to my crush by yelling across the playground. U... didn't get an answer back In high school, I got some presents for my (different) crushs' birthday (barely talked to her in person because I was painfully shy, but always talked to her on AlM) Went up to her awkwardly with a red face, gave her the presents, said happy birthday and walked away immediately out of sheer embarassment. She told me later she liked the gifts
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    White - jettim76 10h Moved to Australia.
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    Text - Caitlincxs 11h (I was young!) Called crush's phone every 60 seconds for an hour (no answer, repeat). I figured she'd pick up once she got home and I wanted to talk to her ASAP. Unfortunately, she was on the phone with someone else the entire time, getting the "you have another call" notifications about incoming calls, just wasn't responding to them. After about the 60th time she picked up and screamed WHAT!?!?!?!?! and Itried to worm out of it like it wasn't me that had just called her ov
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    Text - pnwboi 7h I had a crush freshman year of high school, always talked on myspace but hardly in person even though we spent a lot of time together and I would walk her to 6th period drama class. One day I felt like I hadn't spent enough time with her so i went into the classroom, I figured there was so many students (probably 40-60 kids) the teacher wouldn't notice. So there i am sitting in the classroom, not even next to her( it was a poorly thought out plan) After about 30 minutes the teac
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    Text - NodoBird 8h I was VERY little I was at a playground on the swings next to this girl I had a crush on. My dad just gave me an underdog (super duper swing boost for those who aren't familiar) and I got the BEST IDEA I turn to the girl next to me, and in the best badass voice my pre-pubescent self could manage, I said "watch this." I let go of the chains hoping to be able to balance, but instead I shot off backwards like a rocket and immediately blacked out. Ended up being dragged back home
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    Text - un-original_content 7h Gave the girl a copy of Nicklebacks "Far Away" in hopes that expressing passion and desire through Chad Kroegers chocolate bars would be enough to avoid making any awkward confessions myself.. Found it a week later at my aunt's house with explanation. Definitely still causes me a cold sweat from time to time.
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    Text - wareagle_au1966 6h In 4th grade, we had a celebrity day where we would dress up as celebrities and set up like a wax museum. Parents and other teachers would come and could hear a little spiel we had prepared about our celebrity. Had a crush on a girl named Allison, so naturally, I dressed up as NASCAR driver Bobby Allison. Full jacket and helmet and all. Looking back, I can't believe that thought this was a good idea.
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    Text - -Words-Words-Words- 11h When I was 12 I had a crush on a girl in my grade school. During our school's 7th grade dance, I didn't realize that as I was trying to psych myself up to ask her to dance, I was actually following her around and she was VERY aware of it. She had to ask another kid to tell me to stop following her around and that I was being creepy. I ended up marrying another girl from my grade school class and we all got together like 20 years later at a bar and I got to apologiz
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    Text - Makafzrst 11h I used to pole dance on a lamppost outside a boys house when I was 13
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    Text - bea_arthurs_vagina69 9h I made some mix CDs in the early 2000s to express my feelings to my girlfriend. I may have even left them as a surprise under her windshield wiper at her job.
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    Text - tictactrace 11h In 7th grade l bought chocolate for all my friends on Valentines Day. I bought an extra one on purpose to give to my crush and play it off as extra one and that it wasn't specifically for them. I forgot about one of my friends and they asked for it when I said "oh look there's one more, haha who wants it" I pretended like I didn't hear him and gave it to my crush. He told me he was allergic to chocolate and gave it back to me. I gave it to the forgotten friend. My crush la
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    Text - GertieJiffy 9h In 12th grade I had a huge crush on this guy in one of my classes. I knew his favorite book and movie was Fight Club, so I Googled everything about it (along with watching the movie). On Valentine's Day, I sent him a card that said I want to have your abortion and gave him my phone number.
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    Text - cepi1993 11h Back in my Guild Wars 1 days I drew a heart by dropping a few hundred gold coin bags in an instance i opened privately, recorded it with my trial version of fraps, edited it with Windows movie maker, put a Sum41 song in it, uploaded it publicly on youtube and send the link via msn messenger to my girlfriend. she didn't know what guild wars is or what I am doing there. we were 12/13 or something like that.
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    Text - laurelblue23 12h When I was 11 I tried hitting on a grocery store cashier.
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    Text - s_hinoku 10h I wrote a heartfelt letter after I broke up with her. Whenever I think about, I want to shrivel up under something.
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    Text - yeetgodmcnechass 11h I got a rose witha message on it and gave it to my crush at the time. I don't even remember what the message said but after that she went from being friendly to kind of cold. I dodged a bullet though because it turned out that she was kind of nasty on the inside and made fun of me for liking her.
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    Text - Shas_Erra 7h Wrote anonymous poetry and hid it in a girl's textbooks. For six months. Brooding and hormonal 13yr old me thought it the most romantic and deep piece of literary work to grace our century. Declarations of love backdropped against Gothic iconography, like Bram Stoker's wet dreams. To make matters worse, my handwriting was (and still is) awful, bearing a closer resemblence to Cuneiform than English That poor girl must have thought she was being stalked by the bastard love-chil
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    Text - Mad_Aeric 7h I wrote a girl a poem confessing my attraction, and asking her out. Now, to be fair, I had my socially astute sister proofread it first, to make sure I wasn't doing something stupid. She transferred out of the two classes we had together, and told me never to talk to her again. She avoided me for the next two years, then I never saw her again
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    Text - ryanino 7h Not really crazy, just weird... A girl I was over the top in love with was leaving to go back to college at like 6am so I woke up extra early just to surprise her at her house with a gift. That gift? A folded wrinkled picture of her and her friend where only half of my body is in it, not even really knowing I was in a picture. I thought I was so romantic at the time but I'm cringing even typing this.
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    Text - MasterPip 9h Lost a good GF in my early 20's (late 30s now) because I was insecure. She went out with her girls one night and said she would call around 11 to let me know what she was doing (she wasnt sure if she was going to stay awhile or leave early and come see me. I was a night owl btw).I probably called her nearly a dozen times by 2am. I dont know why. I just got it in my head that she was being pursued by countless better looking and more successful guys than me. I was never like t
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    Text - swampjedi 10h Woo boy. I told her I "had my eye on her." Then I realized the next step was asking permission to date her (yeah) and decided I wasn't about that life. I was so embarrassed that I ghosted. I still cringe today. I was such a loser. Found out recently she's dying of cancer in her mid 30s, so there's that to make it worse.
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    Text - arinyblack 6h I was 13, and liked a boy in my class. During quiet classwork time, the teacher would play popular music. At the time, "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift was all over the airwaves. When it came on once, I started mouthing the words to him from across the room and literally everyone else in the class noticed this EXCEPT him. Got some weird looks. He definitely knew I liked him and didn't like me back. Now a decade later, based on social media, I definitely dodged a bullet t
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    Text - Yamuna522201-5h OK. This happened almost 12 years ago! I am from India. I had a serious crush on this girl in my class. What did l decide to do? Consult a special astrologist to know whether the girl will ever love me back or not. The kicker is, this place is around 20 hours travel from my city!! The journey involves overnight travel by train and bus and a couple of hours of waiting. It's so embarrassing to think about it that I haven't told anyone about this, including my wife. I still c
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    Text - sunnynightmares 7h I had a huge crush on this guy from 4th to 6th grade. Tried to follow him home tons of times. One time, it was raining and I saw he was not using an umbrella so I ran and held an umbrella for him. He was shocked and asked me why the hell am I following him. Oh, bursts into tears when I found out he had a girlfriend and was changing schools in high school. Wrote him love letters and such. He told me kept a few of them but he lost it in a flashflood. I also spied him ever
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    Text - Tyroge 9h After going to a dance with this girl and some friends, I had a dream about her, causing me to wake up around 4am. texted this girl at 4am saying "I'm mad at you! I had a dream about you and it woke me up, and now I can't stop thinking about you." I followed that text a few minutes later with another text saying "Sorry, that was awkwar... Hopefully I didn't wake you up too." She thought it was weird (as she should have), but strangely enough it all worked out in the end. We were
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    Text - sketchysketchist 4h Send a message No reply. Send a message No reply. *Wait a few weeks. Send a message No reply. *wait a few months* Send a message No reply. *Move on* Her: Lol, that's so funny? Here's a meme I found. Send a message. No reply. Repeat.
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