1

Helped a girl move into her new place and assemble the bed.

“We should test it out.”

Me, bouncing up and down on it: “seems fine.”

Sorry, Caroline.

2

I had the cute shy girl tell me, "wouldn't it be the craziest thing if we both just randomly went upstairs (at this party) and lost our virginity?!"

"Yeah! No one would believe it!" (Nervous laugh.)

And just let it sit there, thinking it was just a joke.

Sorry, Erin.

3

One time I invited a guy over, lit candles, put on romantic music, and wore the cutest lingerie I owned. He sat down, looked around, and asked if I was having trouble with my electricity since I had so many candles lit. Truly, Sherlock Holmes in the making.

4

Girl in college grabbed my arm and told me to come to her room. I said I had some reading to do.

5

Freshman year of college I was talking to this girl who lived like an hour and a half drive away. One weekend I drove down by her to go to a concert. Afterwards we hung out in her apartment until like 2:30 in the morning, when she tells me her roommate is out of town so I can spend the night. My response, “I’m good to drive” and then I drove home.

6

Eating lunch with my friends. The girl I was sitting next to would have made a great enemies to lovers story. We hated each other the first two years of high school but bonded over musical theater.

As we ate she held my hand. Like every time she wasn’t eating her hand went right back into mine. The whole meal. Someone had to see it happening! I never acted on it because she was super pretty and out of my league.

A few years later my grandmother ended up doing at home nurse care for her mom with MS. Turns out she talked about me all the time.

I am not very smart.

7

Way back around 1991, long before cell phones were common, (an important fact), I was in a toy store looking for a particular action figure. I asked a hot goth girl that worked there if they had it. She told me they typically get one per shipment and to call the store on the day of their shipment to see if they got one. We then spent the next 15 or so minutes chatting about comics and anime. As we were finally about to part ways she says, “if you call the store you might not get me, so call me directly,” and gave me her phone number.

I found the action figure in a different store later that day so I never called her. It was years later when it dawned on me she can’t check stock from her house. She didn’t give me her number to check on the shipment, she gave me her number because she wanted me to call her.

8

Back in high school I wasn’t popular by any measurable means, so I was gladly surprised when a girl I knew invited me to a party.

The details are kind of foggy now, but at some point she sat on my lap because the other chairs were “too hard.” After that her friends said they had to go, leaving the girl and myself behind, alone in her apartment, (parents were away).

I asked her if she needed help cleaning. She told me she was getting a bit tired and she could do with a massage. I said “Oh ok, I’ll let you rest. Talk to you tomorrow”…. And left.

The following week, she was kind of upset with me. It took me 7 years to understand what it all meant. Three years later we met up again, (school reunion), talked to her and confirmed what had happened.

It gets worse.

At the end of our reunion she told me, “you know, it is never too late to fix mistakes.” I smiled, said “yeah, if I had a Time Machine, right?” before getting in my car, driving off to home, parked the car, opened the door and got the fact that I blew up another chance.

9

Spent all night chatting with a girl at a house party in my teens. We ended up crashing in the same room. She asked me, "Do you want to share the bed?"

It was a single bed, I said, "nah, I'll take the floor."

I still facepalm every time I think of this. I was such an oblivious idiot.

10

Locked myself out of my dorm room. Girl who I had a crush on, who I had kinda noticed was also being flirty to me, was like "oh, it's late, don't wake up your roommate, you can come sleep in my room." Several years later I realized.

11

A girl and I had fooled around in my dorm room. She decided to spend the night. I got up to sleep in my chair because I was unsure if I should stay in my bed with her.

She yelled at me. 19 years and two kids later I think she likes me. But… she IS canadian.

12

In high school, a girl greeted me with a kiss on the lips every morning, several days in a row. The idea that she could be interested was so unimaginable to me that it only clicked like 10 years later. Yeah, building my self-confidence has required civil engineering-level work.

13

Walking her home after a party we were talking and laughing and I made a joke about snoring and she got serious and said, "you want to come find out if I snore?" and I made another dumb dismissive joke like, "what? No way!" Somehow ended up alone in my room that night kicking myself. I really liked her too. Never got a second chance. I think I probably embarrassed her too.

14

Many moons ago, when I, (15M), was watching TV with a friend, (16F), she got up to go to the restroom. When she came back, instead of sitting next to me, (we were sitting on the floor, our backs against the couch), she sits in between my legs (facing the TV), grabs my hands and places them on her now bra-less chest. We had never kissed or talked about anything beyond friendship. I just sat there and held them like an idiot. After she left, it hit me what she was intending, and I felt like a dummy. Called her later in the day, admitting my idiocy. The rest went more according to plan.

15

A girl literally wrote "I love you" on a paper and gave it to me and I thought she was pranking me broooo…

16

I was about 20 and chatting with a friend I’d known for ages and she said she’d be interested in a threesome with me, (I was single at the time). I said that’s great but I didn’t have a third person to join us. I still sit awake some nights kicking myself.

17

"I'd love to have a dance practice session with you," girl from my dance class. Took me about four years to realize what she was saying.

18

When my friend described his crush to me, and gave details exactly like me, he asked me what my type is, and he eventually did all the things I wanted, improved himself so that he could be like what my type is, and I still didn't notice why his physical appearance and behavior had changed.

19

Girl in highschool texted me at midnight on a Friday night literally telling me to come over because her parents weren't home. At that same time, I had a group of friends going to do a pokemon GO raid. My Articuno is pretty dang cool though.

20

A girl took her shirt off in front of me. It was ten years before it occurred to me that she might have been interested in something.