What is the most stupid thing you have done to get someone you fancy to notice you?

Gromt · 23/09/2025 15:10

😱That's insane, OP.

As a teenager, so so many. I've NC.
Every party I went to, I had so much cleavage and tit on show. An embarrassing amount of tit when I look back at pictures. I was always first on the bar or on the pole dancing like a seasoned stripper. I once put on a bit of a sex show with a pal at a house party to get attention of a guy I liked.

Outside of party contexts, I transported drugs to get the approval of a guy I liked. I lied that I'd been sexually assaulted to get a guy to feel sorry for me. I told another guy I was moving to Japan so he'd realise he only had a short opportunity window to shag me.

I've done boxing since I was very young. At a sparring class when I was about fourteen, I kicked seven shades of shit out of a girl who'd not long started the sport in an attempt to impress the guy who's dad ran the club.

Some worked, some not.

On my third night at university, there was some flirty chat and banter among our kitchen group. One of the guys said to me "I bet you've got a banging body under this" and pulled at my collar, looking down at my tits. I said "Do you want to know for sure?" And then proceeded to take off my clothes down to my underwear. I wasn't remotely drunk enough to justify this behaviour.

Reader, this collar-pulling guy is now my husband.

DeedlessIndeed · 23/09/2025 15:13

Alleycat321 · 23/09/2025 14:50

I fancied a guy at work. I poured hot water from a freshly boiled kettle over my hand and asked him to help me (I said it was an accident) in an attempt to get him to notice me. He bandaged my hand for me and was very kind but that was it, Nothing happened between us.

Jesus, how on earth were you not hospitalised? A friend slipped and accidently poured boiling water from the kettle over the back of her hand and had to have a skin graft.

ComtesseDeSpair · 23/09/2025 15:16

I ran an ultramarathon, without training. It was a win-win, really: we’re now married, and I discovered I really like and am good at running and it’s been a hobby ever since.

Sliceofbattenberg · 23/09/2025 15:19

Pretended to move house so I could throw a housewarming party. It worked, we got married.

singthing · 23/09/2025 15:50

Mine seems super pathetic in comparison, but back in the days of Nokia candy bar phones, I'd send him a breezy* SMS which was addressed to my large group of friends and confirming our exciting social plans. Whoopsie silly me for accidentally including you on it...

I have no idea what the hell I was hoping would happen, given the plans (and the friends) were entirely in my imagination. I was such a twat! I did this on more than one occasion too...

(*Like Monica phoning Richard, breezy!)

Gromt · 23/09/2025 15:53

@singthing Your post put me in mind of attention-grabbing through constantly signing in and out of MSN messenger with increasingly provocative usernames

Negroany · 23/09/2025 15:55

Picked a load of sloes and froze them 🤦🏻‍♀️

It worked, but he turned out to be useless.

tripleginandtonic · 23/09/2025 16:04

Alleycat321 · 23/09/2025 14:50

I fancied a guy at work. I poured hot water from a freshly boiled kettle over my hand and asked him to help me (I said it was an accident) in an attempt to get him to notice me. He bandaged my hand for me and was very kind but that was it, Nothing happened between us.

That is boiler bunny territory OP.

FullOfMomsense · 23/09/2025 16:06

Gromt · 23/09/2025 15:10

😱That's insane, OP.

As a teenager, so so many. I've NC.
Every party I went to, I had so much cleavage and tit on show. An embarrassing amount of tit when I look back at pictures. I was always first on the bar or on the pole dancing like a seasoned stripper. I once put on a bit of a sex show with a pal at a house party to get attention of a guy I liked.

Outside of party contexts, I transported drugs to get the approval of a guy I liked. I lied that I'd been sexually assaulted to get a guy to feel sorry for me. I told another guy I was moving to Japan so he'd realise he only had a short opportunity window to shag me.

I've done boxing since I was very young. At a sparring class when I was about fourteen, I kicked seven shades of shit out of a girl who'd not long started the sport in an attempt to impress the guy who's dad ran the club.

Some worked, some not.

On my third night at university, there was some flirty chat and banter among our kitchen group. One of the guys said to me "I bet you've got a banging body under this" and pulled at my collar, looking down at my tits. I said "Do you want to know for sure?" And then proceeded to take off my clothes down to my underwear. I wasn't remotely drunk enough to justify this behaviour.

Reader, this collar-pulling guy is now my husband.

Please tell me you've sought therapy since this stage of your life?

DiscoBob · 23/09/2025 16:10

Stripped off my clothes and offered them a blowie?! I think I was surprised when that one didn't always work! 🤣😐

Gromt · 23/09/2025 16:12

FullOfMomsense · 23/09/2025 16:06

Please tell me you've sought therapy since this stage of your life?

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I have not sought therapy. But I can confirm I'm a perfectly normal, well-adjusted, functioning adult member of the human race. Somehow 😂

Bobiverse · 23/09/2025 16:17

Gromt · 23/09/2025 16:12

I have not sought therapy. But I can confirm I'm a perfectly normal, well-adjusted, functioning adult member of the human race. Somehow 😂

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But… how did that chat up line even work on you?
Someone pawing at you and asking if you’ve got a banging body under there whilst staring at your boobs… that’s ick. That’s definitely ick territory. I’ve had similar and those men absolutely did not get to have a look.

I mean, I guess you sound similar to each other and there’s a lid for every pot and you found each other but that guy would have been known as “the creep” when I was at uni. No one would have stripped off for him.

ginasevern · 23/09/2025 16:20

I followed a male colleague into the gents (after he'd had enough time to pee) and literally ambushed him. I ripped his shirt open and snogged him passionately. We were married for 26 years until he died 9 years ago. Just to clarify we were both young and single.

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Alleycat321 · 23/09/2025 16:20

I had to attend my GP surgery for treatment for weeks afterwards.

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AndSheDid · 23/09/2025 16:22

Gromt · 23/09/2025 15:10

😱That's insane, OP.

As a teenager, so so many. I've NC.
Every party I went to, I had so much cleavage and tit on show. An embarrassing amount of tit when I look back at pictures. I was always first on the bar or on the pole dancing like a seasoned stripper. I once put on a bit of a sex show with a pal at a house party to get attention of a guy I liked.

Outside of party contexts, I transported drugs to get the approval of a guy I liked. I lied that I'd been sexually assaulted to get a guy to feel sorry for me. I told another guy I was moving to Japan so he'd realise he only had a short opportunity window to shag me.

I've done boxing since I was very young. At a sparring class when I was about fourteen, I kicked seven shades of shit out of a girl who'd not long started the sport in an attempt to impress the guy who's dad ran the club.

Some worked, some not.

On my third night at university, there was some flirty chat and banter among our kitchen group. One of the guys said to me "I bet you've got a banging body under this" and pulled at my collar, looking down at my tits. I said "Do you want to know for sure?" And then proceeded to take off my clothes down to my underwear. I wasn't remotely drunk enough to justify this behaviour.

Reader, this collar-pulling guy is now my husband.

Funny. Anyone to pulled down my collar to look at my breasts would have got seven shades of shit kicked out of him.

Goditsmemargaret · 23/09/2025 16:26

Bobiverse · 23/09/2025 16:17

But… how did that chat up line even work on you?
Someone pawing at you and asking if you’ve got a banging body under there whilst staring at your boobs… that’s ick. That’s definitely ick territory. I’ve had similar and those men absolutely did not get to have a look.

I mean, I guess you sound similar to each other and there’s a lid for every pot and you found each other but that guy would have been known as “the creep” when I was at uni. No one would have stripped off for him.

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Oh bore off

Bobiverse · 23/09/2025 16:27

Goditsmemargaret · 23/09/2025 16:26

Oh bore off

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Do you have any female friends who would jump on a guy who used that line on her? Because really… that’s the guy you swerve.

Bladderpool · 23/09/2025 16:29

I worked in a big engineering company, the ratio of men to women was about 5 to 1 so there was always someone to fancy. I was in “the office” and used to stalk the corridors with an empty Manila envelope in my hand, trying to look purposeful. When I spotted someone hot I’d drop the envelope in the hope they’d pick it up and start a conversation. I had a pretty high success rate, still married to the final guy!

Goditsmemargaret · 23/09/2025 16:30

Mine are really boring, mainly keeping a friend company while she practiced her driving up and down streets where blokes we fancied lived. Mine lived on a cul-de-sac nowhere near us, he told me years later he knew exactly what we were doing but wasn't sure if it was for me or his brother.

Goditsmemargaret · 23/09/2025 16:32

Bobiverse · 23/09/2025 16:27

Do you have any female friends who would jump on a guy who used that line on her? Because really… that’s the guy you swerve.

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I would imagine they had lots of chemistry building up to this point; she did marry him. Or else they didn't but this incident showed they were pretty similar personality wise. So it's the guy YOU swerve and the guy SHE marries.

Goditsmemargaret · 23/09/2025 16:33

singthing · 23/09/2025 15:50

Mine seems super pathetic in comparison, but back in the days of Nokia candy bar phones, I'd send him a breezy* SMS which was addressed to my large group of friends and confirming our exciting social plans. Whoopsie silly me for accidentally including you on it...

I have no idea what the hell I was hoping would happen, given the plans (and the friends) were entirely in my imagination. I was such a twat! I did this on more than one occasion too...

(*Like Monica phoning Richard, breezy!)

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I've received various versions of these and always assumed they were intentional. It was sometimes a very handy way to get back in touch so I don't think your approach was what off.

AndSheDid · 23/09/2025 16:34

Goditsmemargaret · 23/09/2025 16:32

I would imagine they had lots of chemistry building up to this point; she did marry him. Or else they didn't but this incident showed they were pretty similar personality wise. So it's the guy YOU swerve and the guy SHE marries.

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Yeah, well, I don’t think most of us would consider minor sexual assault a great bonding experience between assaulted and assaultee.

kellygoeswest · 23/09/2025 16:35

Goditsmemargaret · 23/09/2025 16:30

Mine are really boring, mainly keeping a friend company while she practiced her driving up and down streets where blokes we fancied lived. Mine lived on a cul-de-sac nowhere near us, he told me years later he knew exactly what we were doing but wasn't sure if it was for me or his brother.

When I first passed my driving test me and my friend would do drive by's... we had a little route we'd loop where we drove past our crushes houses (one also on the tiniest cul-de-sac where I struggled to do a 7 point turn).

Obviously we also felt the need to scream the guys name out the window as we passed...

VioletSkies89 · 23/09/2025 16:42

This post just makes me miss being young, wild and carefree!

MoominMai · 23/09/2025 16:46

Sliceofbattenberg · 23/09/2025 15:19

Pretended to move house so I could throw a housewarming party. It worked, we got married.

This here is genius!