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

[Alleycat321]

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.

Oh god. I remember sending a blank text to a guy who I had met through work. He was a customer and I got his number from his file (this was before GDPR but still!) When he replied with ‘who’s this?’ I made up some story about how I must have accidentally text him. We did get chatting and actually dated for a bit. It’s embarrassing now thinking back. I was 28 so not even a teenager 🤭

I was always way to shy to do anything but quietly hope my crush would notice me, but at Uni the girl in the room next door to me was the exact opposite - she had a 'sex chart' on her bedroom wall ranking all of her conquests, and she would simply ask her target if they wanted to see it! They rarely declined.

OMG I did this too - nothing came of it funnily enough, although years later the same guy randomly sent me an email saying he'd seen someone who looked like me and made him think of me. Our social group had completely changed and we hadn't spoken in a few years. He did ask me out for a drink, but I had a boyfriend.

It worked on me because he was hot (we called it "fit" or "fine" back then 😅) and I wanted to shag him.

I shagged him. It was good. The rest is history.

I once bought a new bed and mattress that I didn't need because I fancied the guy that worked in the insanely expensive shop at the time. Cost almost 2 grand and I then had to rush to get rid of my not very old bed. Found out later he was gay!

In between A levels and uni I worked in a bar in a holiday camp. The guy I fancied smoked, so I started smoking so I could go on break with him. Nothing happened! I haven’t had a cigarette for 11 years but only recently gave up nicotine replacement, it’s cost me a fortune!!

Ive also done the driving past crushes houses with friends.

The worst one was when I was at uni, steaming drunk and said to my crush at a house. Do you want to have sex? He said yes… so off we went cringe

Did a lot of intense staring out the car window at inappropriate, much older men when I was a teen… some would pointedly (looking back, sarcastically) wave and it would make my day. Eurgh

Put up a hand-written A4 sign in the school canteen declaring my (anonymous) love for a guy two years older. Only I spelled his name wrong, caused much furore, all his mates teased him and he tore it down. Thought I got away with it but years later he ended up marrying my best friend from school, so no doubt she blew my cover!

Faked a party to invite a guy I liked over… but he and his mates were the only ones to show up so I had to not open the door they were incessantly buzzing (until a neighbour let them in the block and I was caught out. Mortifying)

Went to a cello recital when I was about 14 with zero interest in classical music to watch the guy I had a crush on play. Nothing happened.

Flirted as a teen with a much older man at a funeral (gah), developed a huge crush and wrote him an intense love letter - luckily intercepted by my mother who told me had genital herpes and was not to be trusted?! The hell?

Until my mid 20s I just had a series of intense crushes that nothing became of! Luckily the tables turned a bit later!

Bought the same coat as them and wore it 😬

In our teens a friend and I used to wander around town and hand out Certificates of Perfection to any guys we fancied. Never worked though 😂

This is actually really sweet. I bet there are still a few hanging around where men have filed them away and forgotten about them.

As a 6 year old with a crush, I walked across the classroom with a jar of pencils balanced on my head to catch the attention of a boy in my class. Reader, we are now married.

(OK, not really. Instead another child bumped into me, pencils went everywhere, and the teacher shouted at me. And the boy definitely never noticed).

My BFF and I typed up a pretty saucy letter on my dad’s PC. We printed out 4 or 5 copies and posted them via Royal Mail to the fittest boys at our 6th form. We didn’t achieve anything, because the letters were unsigned. I do wonder what their reactions were, and fingers crossed their mums didn’t open their post! 😂

Omg those were the days!!!

I was madly in love with a lad who worked as a butcher's assistant, and I used to loiter outside his shop, pretending to be fascinated with the display of lamb chops. My friends would roll their eyes, but loiter alongside me. He didn't take any notice of me - I was a skinny 14yo - until I blossomed, then he tried to get me to shag him. I'd gone off him by then though. And I don't like lamb chops to this day.