31 People Who Wanted To Be Noticed By Their Crush So Bad, They Stopped At Nothing To Get Their Attention
Let's face it: We've all done some pretty silly and embarrassing things while trying to impress a crush. So, when Reddit user Trinityyy000 posted, "What's the weirdest thing you've done for a crush?" on r/AskReddit, the replies quickly filled with many wholesome and hilarious anecdotes. Here's what people shared:
1."It was at a dance. I tried to impress my crush with my dance moves but hit a water fountain and ripped it off the wall. She was not impressed."
2."He was going away for a one-week holiday. I desperately wanted to say goodbye, so I stole my mother's car late at night before his departure and drove across the city to see him. I didn't have a license and had only practiced driving a bit. The drive there and back went mostly fine. But while there, I parked way too close to another car and ended up denting it on my way out. I got caught, but luckily, I just had to pay their insurance."
3."I gave a crush a picture I'd drawn of a car (I always drew cars on notebook paper back then), thinking that she might be impressed or something. Yeah, it's super awkward. That's not the worst part, though. A few days later, there was an art contest, and since that was the best picture I'd drawn to date, I decided to ask for the picture back (temporarily) so I could enter it. She said she didn't have it with her and would bring it later if she remembered. Yeah, I'm sure she trashed it and didn't have the heart to tell me! Double awkward."
4."I pretended to need glasses for a while in high school because he thought they were cute on me, so I wore my friend's glasses that I didn't need. Now I need glasses for real."
5."My then-crush accidentally threw away her retainer. I dug through the trash at our high school to find it for her. I admit it made me look desperate, but she seemed to like me a little more after that. We have been married for almost 10 years now."
6."I bought her a pregnancy test on our first outing together to check if she was pregnant by the last guy she slept with. It was fairly awkward, but we were mostly hanging out as friends that day, and I'm not the kind to get caught up on stuff like that."
7."The girl I liked was going to school to be an astrophysicist. I bought one of her course books off eBay and read everything to help her study."
8."I once baked a cake shaped like his favorite video game character. It was a mess!"
9."I quit lacrosse and joined my high school musical because my crush always got the female lead. I got the male lead, and despite our characters being love interests and kissing on stage, it didn't work out. But a cheerleader who was way out of my league pursued me because she saw me in the show, and we dated for quite a while."
10."One day, he told me he was cold, so I told him I'd knit him a scarf. I spent an entire weekend knitting like a madwoman to give him the scarf for Christmas. I handed him the scarf, and he said, 'Lol, I thought you were kidding. I don't wear scarves.' I grabbed it and told him I suffered to make the scarf and would never forgive him."
11."I once wrote a whole song and performed it in front of my class just to impress my crush. It was super embarrassing."
12."I once asked a girl I liked out on a date, and she suggested going and getting a haircut together. Well, I didn't need a haircut, so I sat there awkwardly waiting for her. I had a hard time making small talk while the staff heard everything."
13."I read the entire Twilight saga over winter break. No, it didn't work."
14."I took his shoes home with me and cleaned them."
15."I took Russian classes to impress my crush. It didn't work out with them, but at least now I know some Russian."
16."I walked 45 minutes through a snowstorm to her house and shoveled her double-wide driveway. Thankfully, I got sex out of it."
17."I watched Gilmore Girls because I knew she liked it, and I wanted to have a conversation starter, lol."
18."I took her horseback riding and then got kicked by her horse."
19."I used to bring two cosmic brownies daily for lunch in elementary school because he liked them. He would sit with me every day at lunch to get one."
20."I learned a song on guitar just to impress a crush even though I barely knew how to play."
21."I posted music videos to my Facebook feed (knowing he'd see them) that expressed how I felt towards him. I still cringe and have stopped doing this."
22."I once started playing tennis to impress my crush, but I loved it so much that I completely forgot about him and didn't have time to think about anything else. Priorities, right? 😅"
23."I wrote a poem and left it in their locker, hoping they'd notice me. It felt awkward but kind of sweet at the time."
24."One time I baked heart-shaped cookies and spelled out their name in frosting, and it looked so messy, I lied and said my little cousin made them."
25."I learned Latin, then forgot it once the crush went nowhere."
26."I learned to juggle. Nothing says 'date me' like poorly coordinated hand-eye skills."
27."I pretended to have a boyfriend to see his reaction. Yeah, it was foolish, but I was 18 then."
28."I wrote a secret love letter with an anonymous name to my crush, but my friends caught me, so now the whole campus is teasing me."
29."I was a huge misfit during my high school years, and at every opportunity possible (Halloween, her birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day), I snuck a card in the locker of a popular girl I had a huge crush on. She saw me doing it once and surprisingly didn't get mad."
30."I googled 'how to casually laugh' and spent hours practicing in front of the mirror."
31.And: "I wrote a story where she was the main character and gave it to her. This was in the second grade, so it was a cheesy superhero story. She started tagging me a lot more when the class played at recess after that, so I guess it worked?"
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Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
