Falling in love (or, more often, in “like”) is rarely a gracefully-executed endeavor. More often than not, we end up falling all over ourselves in an attempt to look desirable, cool and available (but not too available), and end up crashing and burning spectacularly — some more than others.
Slate's Nicole Cliffe recently asked her followers to share the most embarrassing stories of the things they've done in the name of love. And, spoiler alert: they're pretty cringe-worthy.
https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/975859068664295424
While you can't help but feel embarrassed for these poor folks and their former selves, you also have to admit that it's somewhat reassuring to hear that everyone is pretty much in the same awkward boat when it comes to matters of the heart.
https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/975876601379414016
Let's take a gander at some of the more entertaining and priceless responses, shall we?
21.
The one that haunts me is the time in high school I invited my crush over for a “movie night” and totally let him believe that there would be other people there when I hadn’t invited anyone. It was very transparent and we didn’t even make out
— Andie Biagini (@andieinitaly) March 19, 2018
20.
https://twitter.com/carolineframke/status/975867773724381185
19.
God SO MANY but maybe number one is just my teen crush who would regularly ask me to babysit his little brother for him so he could go on dates with other girls and I always did it because I thought… being reliable??… was a thing a 16 year old boy would grow to love???????
— summer anne burton (@summeranne) March 19, 2018
18.
Brought a boom box to school and played a Debbie Gibson song for a boy years before Say Anything came out.
— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) March 19, 2018
17.
I burned a CD for a guy I liked in high school with all his favourite songs and he gave it to another girl as a gift. 🤦🏻♀️
— Nicole Houston (@NicoleHoustonPR) March 19, 2018
16.
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/975911129053474817
15.
https://twitter.com/beevhumbug/status/975863159318876165
14.
https://twitter.com/socarolinesays/status/975864783663763461
13.
*reads thread*
Wait, so I'm the only one who ran down an icy, snowy street late at night – barefoot and in my underwear – and jumped on the hood of his car to keep him from leaving after a fight?
Clearly you people don't know from truly embarrassing love 😘
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) March 19, 2018
12.
https://twitter.com/TaraEDolan/status/975868933847896064
11.
https://twitter.com/lucydances/status/975864889624420352
10.
To this day the only song I can play on guitar is "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias, and that's because in college I taught myself so that I could "surprise" my girlfriend by sneaking into her dorm room and WAKING HER UP with it. She had three roommates.
— Burton Phillips (@burtonphillips) March 19, 2018
