Dumbest Thing You Did To Impress Someone?

[Cuddles]

Mine happened not to long ago. A coworker I was crushing on was in my office for a few mins and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" song came on my iPod. So naturally... I tried to imitate some M.J. moves and sing along. I thought I was doing good, had her laughing till I went to do a weird M.J. kick in the air and knocked rolls of coins ALL over the floor; and I thought I had her laughing before! Sheesh.

One other time with a different female coworker... she was sitting in my office chair; they have wheels & we have a hard, stained concrete floor of sorts. So I thought it'd be fun to dance in the chair and twirl her around in hers.... till I sent her toppling over the side! =O

Your turn! =)

[RNguy]

Heck cuddles don't feel bad , I will post something in your thread for you . Nice to meet you by the way . Anywho , here you go : many years back , my buddy and I were at wallyworld wal mart right at Xmas time when only 4 out of the 379 cash registers were operating :) . Anyways, we had been in line for about half an hour , like everyone else ticked off because of the long nonmoving line . There was a beautiful gal in front of us and I mean stunning . Finally , it was her turn to check out and she put all of her items on the moving belt except the huge bag of kitty litter that she left in the buggy . This was when scanners were attatched VIA a rubber cord but the cord wouldn't stretch . I said here , ill get that for you ma'am and picked up her bag of kitty litter and the bag ripped and the litter spewed everywhere , even all over the moving belt and jammed the belt . Haha . She said way to go a!@hole . Seriously , what Do you say after that except to finish it off with a classy line like now our checkout looks like a litter box and well nobody was real thrilled :) that was sooo long ago and my buddy still thinks its the funniest thing hy ever saw . Hys not right in the noggin though :) what I learned was no good deed goes unpunished and I learned that kitty litter bags should be left in the buggy and scanned there and also I think wal mart should open the other 379 closed registers ....... Peace - RNguy

[girl_dee]

paid off her credit card.

[Morgan]

Bought her a $5000 Les Paul after we were together for a week and paid off all her debts, we were together 5 years and I bought and bought and bought, it still was not enough.....boy was I ever an idiot. (a broke one)

Yes I have learned my lesson.....

[girl_dee]

i don't even know what a Les Paul is.
:|

[LaneyDoll]

i don't even know what a Les Paul is.
:|


It is a guitar, very nice one in fact.

:sparklyheart:

[girl_dee]

It is a guitar, very nice one in fact.

:sparklyheart:

OH. damn that's a nice giftie.

[Blade]

I bought a piece of her art work to the tune of $500. Yes I still have the piece and every time I look at it I go. OK stud how'd that work out for you? Although she looked like Faith Hill, she couldn't sing but she sure could paint.

[tonaderspeisung]

i tried to learn how to walk on stilts and ride a unicycle

[Mr Nice Guy]

I stood outside and played a guitar I couldn't play and sang a song that I was making up as I asked her out. I was younger then.

[Kenna]

I killed a snake with a huge pipe wrench....and jumped back each time I landed a hit. I tried to look all tough wielding that wrench.... but the "hops" backwards gave me away.

[Glenn]

Showing off my new/old muscle car... in nowheresville...drivin like I stole it.... late at night...over snow and ice...all six of us stoned...lost with the gas tank on E...then the cops...

[RNguy]

I bought a piece of her art work to the tune of $500. Yes I still have the piece and every time I look at it I go. OK stud how'd that work out for you? Although she looked like Faith Hill, she couldn't sing but she sure could paint.

Haha nice :-)

[ScandalAndy]

Found out that this person I was going to go out with for the first time was really into heels, so I wore my tallest pair with a short-ish skirt. Apparently worked too well, because they forgot to put gas in the car and i ended up helping push in that getup!!


And then there was the time I was trying to be all badass doing donuts in the snow in the abandoned store parking lot, until we ended up in a ditch because the snow had drifted and we couldn't tell where the asphalt ended. Snapped my friend's tow chain, and ended up calling every friend I knew so we could put boards and kitty litter and everything we could think of under the tires and have my 90lb. little sister in the driver's seat, the rest of us up to our waists in snow pushing a T-bird backwards out of a snowbank. Good times!

[1QuirkyKiwi]

I was 14 when a new family moved into the next street where my friend lived. One of the kids I thought was gorgeous, so we invited them both to play.

Sooo, there’s me attempting to chat up the one I had the hots for when, it turns out she was in fact a very feminine looking boy!

Needless to say, I felt sick, was so disappointed and embarrassed that I ran home in tears.

Since them, I’ve never tried to impress anyone; take me as you find me, lol!

[Cuddles]

Lol, it's great to see I'm not alone in doing silly things too!

[Turtle]

There was a new girl in class in fourth grade. I was walking her to the office and ran backwards to show off, tripped, fell, sprained my wrist. Not so cool looking :|

[chai~]

I tried to be butch, or at least andro. I use the term very loosely!!!

The women I was hanging out with all poo pooed my long hair and nails, nail polish, lipstick, jewlery, heels...my femme~ness.

I wasn't a "real" lesbian to them.

In their opinioin, I was sitting on the fence so that I could slip back into the het world if I got scared.

I let the pressure get the better of me eventually.

I cut 12 inches of hair off, scrubbed my face clean, cut my nails off.....you don't want me to go into the painful details do you?

I was miserable of course. I withdrew inside myself, but tried to behave "like one of the guys."

I spent less and less time with these women in the following weeks, until I completely disappeared from the group.
No one ever called to check on me, which was fine, because my hair was growing out again, and they wouldn't approve!

I went back to my wicked femme ways and have never attempted to be someone else since. I learned that lesson pretty damn quick!

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[msW8ing]

Back in my 30's when i had more money then common sense...was deeply infatuated with a hawt dyke that was a friend for a lil over a year..."borrowed" Hys truck while Hy was at work..recruited my cousin and his friends..put a 4" lift kit, big ol mudding tires, KC lights and roll bar on it. (Hy talked about doing that for a year when Hy had enough saved up)Put a big ol bow on it...Happy Birthday...umm yeah it impressed Hym..we dated all about a month before it went sour..not only cost me a ton of cash..but also a friendship. Learned my lesson i did. :|

[Tcountry]

Good lord....just one?

Most of mine involve trying to be someone I am not ... doing something crazy or spending way too much money...
... car I have never driven, clothes I will never wear, house no one lives in, trashed credit score...& that one (wicked awesome fun) $400 dinner... :)

Good memories tho for sure ...
*tip hat*

[ScandalAndy]

In my school, 7th grade was the earliest you could be in the high school musical. This was THE big production of the year, and one of the major events (aside from the homecoming football game, and the corn festival). EVERYONE wanted to be in it, especially me. I had only been in this town for two years, so i was still a "new kid" and wanted to do really well and get a great part so I could make friends and fit in.

Everyone was talking about how "hair" was going to be the musical, so I prepared an elaborate song and dance number, LOTS of choreography, there was a chair involved. There were about 20 of us waiting for them to start the auditions, so I was practicing my choreography. One of the seniors asked me what I was doing, so I told them. They said "okay" and went back to their seat. After about 15 minutes, they started rehearsals.


We were called on stage one at a time and asked to sing 3 lines from a pre-selected song, while standing still.

oops.

Needless to say, my "theatrics" did nothing to improve my popularity, but I DID get the part of "Pepper" in Annie, which was what the musical ACTUALLY was.

[smouldering]

I would have to say the dumbest thing that I have ever done that I absolutely regret to impress someone was getting a stupid tattoo.. someday I will have it covered up.. Doh!

[Gemme]

I really don't remember the stupid things I did to impress folks. I know I did them but it's been so long, I can't remember what they were.

I know that I've done the bought stuff I didn't need or want and pay off someone's bill things but those fall under the title of 'stupid things you did for your ungrateful partners', which is a completely different thread.

**edited to mention that the partners I make reference to are loooooong in the past and NOT Ebon or, to my knowledge, on this site**

[Sassy]

i don't even know what a Les Paul is.
:|


:| .................. *dies*

[Gemme]

i don't even know what a Les Paul is.
:|


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[Oiler41]

Bought her a $5000 Les Paul after we were together for a week and paid off all her debts, we were together 5 years and I bought and bought and bought, it still was not enough.....boy was I ever an idiot. (a broke one)

Yes I have learned my lesson.....

Amen

Glynn

[Kätzchen]

Well, it was a long time ago (back when I was in my early 20s) and as it was, I was with a bunch of girlfriends from school and we were invited to an after-work-school party... up in the hills. Mixed company, of course.

I still have this trait to me but I've never forgotten what happened the day this happened:

There was this obnoxious smarty pants who dared people to outdo them in practically everything they did. Finally, toward the end of the party, this person dared us to see if any one of could climb to the top of a particular tree. Of course, about this time, I was sick hearing them do this and said to myself -- 'Let's see what you have to day about this when I get to the top'. Boy, oh boy, did we ever have a lot to say when it was all said and done. Once I got to the top of the tree, I realised how far up I was and of course, because I get motion sickness at the most inconvenient times ever (plus I can be a klutz at times too), I looked down and became so dizzie that I lost my balance and came flying down all the tree limbs that would not only save my life, but also hurt me too. Once I recovered, I was still lying on the ground laughing hysterically with my friends.


I've never forgotten that day, ever.

Everytime I am tempted to best someone, that memory comes to the front: immediately.

[cinnamongrrl]

When I was a kid....I crossed a wicked high train trestle which spanned the Connecticut River...all to prove to my cousins that I wasnt chicken....

[imperfect_cupcake]

I was apprentice white water rafting and one of the guides brought his "bit on the side" german tomboy quasi girl friend. Who to me read "screamin dyke" (not exposed too much to cultural gender expression variation at that point in my life. She wasn't a dyke at all). So in a fit to impress I wanted to show her how safe the water was. She was a bit nervous of swimming in the river. I was trying to show her that even though there are rapids, there are back eddies that are safe to swim in, and I was demonstrating this to her by doing a back flip into one from the back of the raft.

I hit my head on a huge rock on the bottom of the river. As soon as I hit it, I thought fuck. oh well, committed now and kept turning, peeling off an inch wide strip of skin from mid scalp down my forehead and down my nose. scalp wounds bleed like fuck. so when I emerged from the water I had blood running down my head and my face. She screamed. excellent. that's just the reaction I was looking for.

the first aider, my mate Linea (hot and also looked and acted dyke to me, and wasn't) asked me how I felt and I said "sexy."

I had a concussion two weeks later that made me not recognise people I knew and recongise people I didn't know. for six months. that was entertaining. and I lost my spot in field school in africa because I wasn't allowed on the plane to fly with a concussion.

[Mel C.]

Looking back, everything I have done to impress someone seems pretty dumb. I need to ponder a little while to see if anything stands out as post-worthy.

[WildHorses]

I got a tat with the nickname I called her attached to it. VERY stupid.
I had it removed YAY!

[homoe]

I guess it's not really dumb but I did accompany someone to a vegan restaurant when what I REALLY wanted was a steak!

The things we've done to accommodate others when we should of just focused on ourselves!