I'm doing some informal research for my new romantic comedy project, and I figured I'd send out a call for help to my wonderful blog commenters/readers...and, run a contest at the same time! So, I'm looking for your answers to one or both of the following questions:
1--What's the most romantic, memorable way someone told you that he or she cares about you (or asked you to go out with them)? Or if not you, what about a friend or sibling? Dish those great wooing stories (especially high school ones, if you have them!).
2--What's the least romantic way? What horror stories stand out in your mind? The worse, the better. LOL
Fair's fair. Since I'm asking for you to share, I'll dish my answer to #1:
1--I remember this one guy I had a crush on was in college, and I was a senior in high school. We were talking about something or another, and then out of nowhere, he said, "I want my children to have your eyes." Talk about melting into a little girly puddle of goo! No, nothing ever came of it, but that memory certainly stands out for me. :D
To show my appreciation for your help, every person who leaves a comment answering one question will get one entry into a random drawing to win a $10 bookstore gift certificate, which will be emailed to you (you can pick where you want it from--Amazon, B&N, Borders, BAM, etc). If you answer both questions, you get two entries. Easy peasy, right?
Thanks for stopping by, and good luck! I'll leave this open a few days and announce the winner on Monday, May 25!
ETA: You can also comment on something YOU have done that fits under #1 or #2, in case you were the wooer in question. :D
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1. This guy and I had been dating a while but he knew I wanted to be exclusive. I was leaving for a week and was worried about the time apart. Just before I left he came over and said "Ashley I want you to know you'll be all I think about while your gone. Will you be my girlfriend?"
2. He was too nervous... so he made his little sister ask for him.
OMG, that made me spit out my tea. ROFL.
1--What's the most romantic, memorable way someone told you that he or she cares about you (or asked you to go out with them)? Or if not you, what about a friend or sibling? Dish those great wooing stories (especially high school ones, if you have them!).
I had this HUGE crush on a senior when I was a Junior. He was kind of a bad boy, and I was the EXTREME innocent girl. It would have never worked out. But my heart didn't care. We had Spanish 3 together and he sat behind me. Gosh, I can even remember his floppy brown hair that I wanted to touch....I digress. I have always been on the pudgy side, and very self concious about it. Well he and I teased flirted A LOT in this class, and one day he struck a nerve about my appearance. I was shockingly hurt and embarrased. At the end of class he had obviously noticed because I got quiet (which was very very odd for me). So as I was grabbing my bag to go he kinda gently grabbed my arm and said.
"Hey, I want you to know that you're beautiful and you shouldn't let anyone ever make you feel otherwise."
I will never forget that. My jaw just dropped and now I was speechless for another reason. Nothing ever did develop past our classroom flirting, but I remember how happy that made me feel.
hmmm best way? my dad met my mum and said "i'm going to marry you" and she agreed :) they've been together 33 years so far.
My fiance and i wouldn't have gotten together if one of our friends in college (age 17 so highschool for you guys) hadn't gone "so, are you two together?"
I looked at my guy and said "yes but he hasn't asked me out yet"
my guy agreed and then very quickly went "willyougooutwithme" :D bless him.
worst way? a guy i was strictly friends with (no romantic thoughts in that direction at ALL)turned around one chemistry lesson (in highschool) when we had just been told that if the gas escaped the container it was in, we'd all have to run or die. He passes me a note and it says "by the way, i love you" my reaction? "um, what?" this guy fancied every other girl in my entire class but always maintained that he didn't fancy any of the girls in my circle of friends, and DEFINATELY not me. yeaaah he ended up asking me out a total of 8 times, pretty much stalked me for three years and only gave up on a relationship after i got engaged.
...that a good horror story for you?
Shawn made me an awesome Powerpoint presentation to convince me to come see him in Denver after we met...i wish i still had it :(
Aubrey--OMG I can see why that left you stunned! I would have been too...awwwwww...
AJ--wow, LOL...both of your stories are GREAT examples! haha
Meg--AWWWW dude, I wish you still had that too. I'd love to see it! LOL
In high school, my boyfriend worked at a greenhouse owned by his uncle named "The Rose Garden." They grew roses almost exclusively and I was always bothering him about it. Where are my roses, why don't I get roses, you work at a rose greenhouse, etc. So one day he brought me roses to school and this evil girl I hated asked me if he picked them off a grave! I was so embarrassed and furious. But a few days later, I came home from play practice to find twelve DOZEN roses on my porch. I gave about five dozen to friends of mine to give their girlfriends so the romance was spread around.
And the day I met my future husband, he asked me to marry him. Love at first sight. Best of all, we met on the same street where his grandfather proposed to his grandmother.
Hi! so glad I found your blog! Can't believe I haven't stumbled upon it before.
Okay, here's a romantic gesture story that doesn't paint me in the prettiest light:)
When i was in school I had a two yr long dist relationship. I was starting to feel that indescribable magnetic pull toward one of my guy friends so I broke it off with long distance boyfriend. Twelve hours later (the exact amount of time it took him to climb in his car and drive across numerous states to get to me) he showed up at my doorstep looking disheveled as one only can after a twelve hour drive. He just stood there in the threshold with big brown sad eyes and said nothing. Just the big theatrical gesture - he came. And the first words I said - "this doesn't change my decision". OH MY GOD how could I be so cruel??? I cringe in memory.
It's one of those things when people ask you if you have any regrets - yes, I regret how I handled that. but still, the decision was right, because the magnetic force field that was pulling me away, it pulled me to the man who became my husband.
I'll answer #2: I purposed to my wife naked...long story, but I'll leave it at that.
worst is having someone tell you all about his tivo and how he needs to got through it and decide what to keep to transfer to tape and what to delete...also, how he wouldn't tivo "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" because he didn't want his tivo to think he was gay and find gay shows for him. NOT KIDDING!
I have a few for you. LOL.
There was this guy I was insanely attracted to and every time our paths crossed we totally hit it off. Problem was, every time we'd reconnect one of us was always in a relationship. After a really long time of not seeing each other, he happened to show up again on the day I found out my then-boyfriend was cheating on me. He said, "I think we've been dodging fate long enough," and then asked me out to coffee. *Swoon*
I dated this guy from Argentina in HS. His English wasn't the best. So anyway, he gave me a card for something or other (don't recall) and it said, "your the best thing that never happened to me." LOL. Obviously it was a sign. We dated for such a short time that it might as well have never happened. I still have the card.
This is one of my worst but it's not too bad, just very unromantic. There was a group of people I hung out with in HS. We had an equal number of guys and girls. My friend got the not-so-brilliant idea to turn us into a dating club. Well, all the girls, except me, had their sights on their specific guy they liked in the group, so I got left with the guy that nobody wanted. I didn’t want to go out with him but my friend said we HAD to go out or it would totally ruin the club. So she made him ask me out and he finally did by saying, "I guess we have to go out since we're the last two left." Um, yeah. He could have at least tried to make it worth my while. LOL.
And...
If you want to go farther back, I have a fourth grade story. There's this country song by George Straight called "Check Yes or No." I copied the chorus down on a note and gave it to the boy I liked. He checked "yes" but he broke up with me an hour later (via a friend) on the playground. I thought it was pretty romantic for fourth grade though.
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This isn't a real romantic way of being asked out, but I thought this statement was one the the most romantic things ever.
I have really sweaty palms when I get nervous around a guy, and I was holding my boyfriend at the times hand and I kept apologizing for my hands being so gross and he grabbed both of them in his hand and looked at me straight in the eyes and told me "I have gross dry hands, it just means that your hands were meant to be in mine."
It's a kinda morbid story but I loved it.
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I was with a guy friend in Sams Club and we were talking about how cheap everything was and he was like "WOW! Everything is so cheap."
I told him that it was more for couples.
he looked me dead straight in the eyes and was like "Let's get married, then we can get so many cheap things!"
It was just, awkward.
I had a guy tell me (after a month of dating) "not to put you on the spot or anything, but my uncle runs a bridal show, so if we got married the whole wedding would be free." Snort
I have a few for you-
My first college boyfriend wooed me my sitting in the quad with friends one night and improvising songs on his guitar about how I needed to give him a chance. He had lyrics about how beautiful I was and would I please give him a chance. This lasted for half an hour and all my friends thought it was great. We ended up dating for awhile, so his songs worked.
Another college boyfriend-we were on the college improv team together so our first date was to see Comedy Sports in Chicago. We stayed for a free improv jam after the show to hopefully get some ideas for our troupe at school, but it turned out to be really raunchy, so we left. I noticed the boy taking notes during the improv jam and thought he was taking notes for our troupe. When he dropped me off at my apartment, he pulled out a piece of paper and said "I wrote us a special script to end the evening with" and he had lines for each of us about I had a great time, I'd love to see you again, and ended with our first kiss. I thought it was pretty creative!
My husband wooed me by talking about Star Trek with me (yep I'm a nerd) and watching the shows with me. He also dressed up as Ron and I dressed up as Hermione for the Harry Potter four movie. He also surprised me one night by kissing me out of the blue after months of flirting-it worked!!
The worst-I had a guy trying to flirt with me and talk to me about how "I know this guy who is a really great kisser-you should go out with him" (trying to not so creatively talk about himself-UGH!) The worst part? My parents were sitting right next to me!!
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