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

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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.

It's making me cringe!

Makes me wonder if men done any of this to women would we all still find it funny or would it be, call the police.

Me too.

Oh dont get me wrong, I still cringe over some of the things I got upto, but it was mostly fun 😂

Two different guys wrote me the most awful poems, that was cringe territory.

I saw a guy I really fancied in an antique shop on my way home when working out-of-town.
The next day I called in to have a look around and chatted to him a bit.

The next week I called in and bought a stone lion for £90. and we chatted some more.
The next week I called in and bought a set of brass fire-irons for £50 and chatted to him a bit more.
The week after I went in bought a Chinese ginger jar for £90. We chatted some more but that's a far as it went.

The next week I decided that if I didn't get a date this time, I would quit.

When I got there I noticed it had been re-arranged and there were a lot of pictures and statues of male nudes. When someone came to serve me it wasn't the same chap.
Apparently, it had been taken over by two guys who were obviously gay.

They tried to sell me some plaster cherubs painted gold. I declined.

So I ended up heartbroken and broke to the tune of £230😭

Girl's high school next to a mirror image male eqivalent. Contact was forbidden and I'm sure our headmistress would have installed barbed wire and conning towers to police it if the budget had allowed.

By nabbing a science room bench overlooking the drive, we could surveille the forbidden ones, who came in and out at different times to us, of course. Me and a friend (4th year so about 15) decided on the 2 we liked, conveniently also friends as they went about together. Close observation eventually paid off and we discovered they went through the park exit about 15 minutes after we were let out. We spent DAYS devising a "survey" about their favourite music (which would of course by happy coincidence be ours) and finally positioned ourselves at the bottom of the path with clipboards, fighting off the little first years who were the only ones interested in what we were doing.

It was all a bit of a let down because as soon as our quarry came within sight, we looked at each other, shrieked and ran. The admired ones were, of course, oblivious.

Single sex schools have their benefits but did rather breed this sort of thing before social media.

ETA Conk and Roge (I have no idea how we foound their names/nicknames out) were also of course unaware that we'd agreed to be each others chief bridesmaid and planned these weddings in some detail, otherwise they might not have been so unconcerned.

I love these stories, keep them coming 🤣

That poor girl you beat up. I hope she was and is ok. You sound delightful!

I wrote my friend a poem in Latin telling her I loved her. I am cringing even as I write this but at least no clothes were removed...

When I was about 12 I had read in a magazine that you 'eye someone up' if you fancy them. I went swimming with a friend and there was a sexy lifeguard.
I sat on the edge of the pool for about 20 minutes, soaking wet with hair all wet, in a swim suit and swim hat, staring like a lunatic at this guy and moving my eyes up and down Just staring intently with moving eyes😂 as I really didnt know what eyeing up someone was or how to do it. Then i just kept staring at him the whole time from around the pool.
And I was upset that after that he didnt invite me on a date 😂

@HaveapropertyThat is brilliant 😂😂😂😂

In my early 20s I moved to a new city. I was vulnerable and stupid and I had an affair with a married man in his 40s who had children. I am 40 now and the shame is awful.
I look back and can’t belive I got swept up in it.
I take my full part in it and I’m so ashamed to the poor wife. The man was a sleaze bag.

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OMG OP, that is insane!

I threw a whole party just to get one man to come (he stayed the night, I went out with him for ages)

I was seeing a man who wasn't keen enough for my liking so I put my perfume on his light bulbs and radiators and phone (an old fashioned one attached and with a cord!) so that he couldn't stop thinking about me - as the lights and radiators heated up the perfume smell came out. He even said "I couldn't stop thinking about you" 😁

I once sent an accidentally on purpose text pretending to confirming a date with a boy to (attempt to) pique another boy’s interest and whenever I think of it I cringe at how obvious it was and what a desperate fuckin psycho I acted like!

I faked an interest in a school club he was active in. Student Athletic Trainer. The problem was, they REALLY needed help so I was then pulled into attending games where I had to assist with medical issues. Since they were in need of so much help, I never got scheduled at the same game as he did. It ended up being fun, but got me no closer to him than if I had never joined the club.

Oh dear. I am, shall we say, not well favoured physically. Just looking in the vague direction of a guy that I fancied would see him running in the opposite direction or trying to find himself a handy girl to use as a shield. If I'd taken off all my clothes I have a dreadful feeling that I would just have been handed a towel and left alone to sort myself out!

I've had plenty of men but none that I have pursued to any extent!

I used to open beer bottles with my teeth to impress boys.

As a result, I now have a very expensive gold crown.

@TheStroppyFeminist
This one is brilliant 😂😂😂😂

Haha, how long have you got? Not sure if they're stupid or just enterprising...

Gorgeous guy living opposite my friend's mum's house (where I was lodging). Would only see him out of the window either very late at night/very early hours of the morning (assumed some sort of shift work) getting in/out of his car, going in/out of his house. Couldn't engineer an accidental meeting at those hours so left my name and number on a post it under his windscreen wipers. Saw him find it, read it, put it in his pocket. He didn't call though, and literally the day after was the first day I'd ever seen a woman with him, so I guess he had a girlfriend and mental, note leaving, women were not top of his list.

Another gorgeous guy working in the office above mine - different company but we shared a kitchen. I could see him coming down the corridor from my desk and so would get up and offer to make everyone in the office a tea (about ten people) so I could spend the next five minutes chatting to him. This went on for months - no one else had ever offered to make all the teas, not sure they worked out why I was always offering. Did result in a short relationship but ultimately we weren't compatible - stayed friends though.

Met a client (again gorgeous, obvs) but he was peripheral to the contacts I had at the company and spoke to everyday and so couldn't really engineer talking to him that often. I did find out their company played in a softball league though. So I set up a softball team at our company and we played in the league - games always followed by the pub. That relationship lasted five years!

Finally, joined new company and met an amazing bloke, that I clicked with, at a management get together in Wiltshire, of all places. But he was based in the Philippines. So, after only about four weeks, I renegotiated my role, to one out of Manila. We've been together 25 years. 😊

I sound mental. I promise I'm not. 😁

This reminds me that an old friend of mine told a woman he liked at work that he was having some casual birthday drinks at the pub with friends, if she’d like to join. Except it wasn’t his birthday, so he then had to rope said friends into pretending it was. Fortunately (or unfortunately), whilst she came to “birthday drinks”, nothing else ever came of it, so he didn’t have the awkward task of explaining the following year why his birthday wasn’t always in August.

At 14 I roller skated up and down past a boys house every day for a month. It didn’t work. My best friend can still collapse herself laughing over it 40 years later. He was recently a pall bearer at her dad’s funeral and she was desperate for me to wear skates.

I have thrown many, many parties to invite an unsuspecting chap into my lair.

Aged 14 me and my friend fancied a guy we’d seen walking a dog in the park, we didn’t have a dog and were usually in the park for all the wrong reasons (drinking buck fast). We started offering to walk all the neighbors dogs in order to make ourselves look wholesome and relatable when we were stalking him. He never acknowledged us once which was probably for the best as one of us was clearly going to be very disappointed if he’d picked the other.

I honestly wish I'd thought of this. It is inspired.