Isn''t it.... ROMANTIC???

[Gypsy]

So... what is the worst/weirdest/funniest romantic gesture you have personally experienced or had a close frend experience?

Mine:

1. Guy I dated for two months got stressed (juuuuuuuuuuuust before we broke up, give you one guess why) one night and decided to CARVE my 'cutesy' nickname for him into his leg. With ink. So it was kinda like a tatoo

. Only really freaky. Never dated another 'bad boy' again. It's amazing how quickly something like that will rip the blinders right off of your eyes.

2. One of my closest friends dated a guy who, for Valentine's Day, bought himself a laptop from bestbuy and got a 'free' $100 dollar gift card as a rebate. That (no card, nothing else) was her Valentine's day present (and he TOLD her where the present came from

).

You're turn!

 

[PaulaW]

hehe... fun thread!
In highschool, my now best friend, tried to ask me out on a date pretty much the second time we ever spoke. He got so nervous that he started rambling on and on so he banged his head on a locker (on purpose) to stop and then walked away. I didn''t know what to do!

One of my first boyfriends decided that roses/cut flowers were a waste of money, so instead bought me plastic ones. With glitter even!

My other best friend went on a date with this really sweet, but socially inept guy. It happened to be raining the night of their date and he brought a huge golf umbrella to walk her to his car. Right before she goes to get in, he CLOCKS her with it knocking her glasses off and giving her a slight black eye! No apology or acknowledgement at all... he basically pretended it didn''t happen! Needless to say, things didn''t really work out.

 

[princesss]

I''d been dating a guy for a while, and he decided it was time to tell me he "loved" me (he didn''t mean it, but he apparently decided it was time to at least say it

)

He had a tattoo of a heart on his leg. So one day I go over to his house, and I notice his tattoo has been coloured in with a red sharpie, and he''d written around the tattoo so it read "I <3 princesss". Only he had the letters backwards and one letter was facing the wrong way. He moved about 2 weeks later and we broke up. THANK GOODNESS. (Though I still kind of wonder how long it took for the sharpie to wear off.)

 

[Gypsy]

Date: 4/28/2009 10:45:30 PM
Author: PaulaW
hehe... fun thread!
In highschool, my now best friend, tried to ask me out on a date pretty much the second time we ever spoke. He got so nervous that he started rambling on and on so he banged his head on a locker (on purpose) to stop and then walked away. I didn''t know what to do!

One of my first boyfriends decided that roses/cut flowers were a waste of money, so instead bought me plastic ones. With glitter even!

My other best friend went on a date with this really sweet, but socially inept guy. It happened to be raining the night of their date and he brought a huge golf umbrella to walk her to his car. Right before she goes to get in, he CLOCKS her with it knocking her glasses off and giving her a slight black eye! No apology or acknowledgement at all... he basically pretended it didn''t happen! Needless to say, things didn''t really work out.

WOW plastic flowers with glitter. That''s... something. HAHAHA! I can''t imagine the look on your face!

LOVE the umbrella story! LMAO. A black eye. And NO apology.

PRINCESS! Tick, tock, tick, tock! YOU MUST TELL ME YOU LOVE ME NOW!!!

As for the sharpie at least it wasn''t a knife followed by ink (CARVED, there was blood, ick!). I still wonder if he got an infection or anything and WHAT exactly your damage has to be that stress makes you carve your own flesh.

 

[October2008bride]

My hubby has really good romantic intentions with gifts, but often fails miserably (not recently, mind you).

For my birthday during our first year of dating, he got me a cute basket of stuff for a movie night. PJ''s, wine, candy, a coupon book for movies from blockbuster, a few packets of mud masks etc, and it was all in a big popcorn bowl.

It was really sweet in theory, but I know that the mud masks came from under his mom''s bathroom cupboard, and the movie coupon book was half used!! He had clearly just added it into the basket to try to be cute, not realizing it had been used. Ha.

That one was nothing compared to Christmas number 1.

In his romantic cute fashion, I got a hand written letter inviting me to "Hubby''s Spa" where I would get treated like a queen and pampered. In the basket (he loves baskets there was some bubble bath, a candle, and a bunch of baggies of things like epsom salts and cornmeal.

So on the spa day, he ran a bath for me with the bubble bath and epsom salts and a candle. I relaxed. It was lovely. I came out of the bathroom and he had laid a towel on the bed. I lay down.

He proceeded to rub dry cornmeal all over my skin with some oil. I guess in theory it was supposed to be a scrub, but it was really rough and I was freezing since I was lying on a towel on my bed and unlike a spa, there was no heater or anything to keep me warm.

He then tried to give me a massage but the cornmeal didn''t all come off so that was scratching my skin too.

It was freakin hiliarious!!! It was super cute - what he was trying to do anyways - but ohhh how it failed. I still crack up thinking about it.

Next time he just got me a gift certificate to a spa

I also had an ex-bf in undergrad who had a romantic gift go bad. I used to be addicted to Coke (the drink, not the drug) so for Valentine''s day, he got one of those huge water jugs (the ones that go upside down in a dispenser) and filled it with Coke. He even made a jumbo label.

Of course, as he walked it over to my place, the pressure of the carbonation and the fact that the cap was just stuck on the top worked together to make the whole bottle EXPLODE as he was walking.

When he arrived at my place, he made me close my eyes. When I opened them, he was sitting there, sticky and wet.

Again - I died. It was so funny. Super cute and thoughtful though!

 

[whitby_2773]

i have three that spring to mind....

my best girlfriend and her fiancee at their engagement party had just been presented with a gift from everyone present. they stood up for my friend''s fiancee to make a thank you speech, and in a magnanimous ''we''re a couple'' type gesture, he reached up to put his arm around her while he spoke. unfortunately he didn''t reach up high enough, and ended up elbowing her (hard!) in the temple and knocked her off her feet - in front of about 120 people.

the second one was my husband. i''ve always made suggestions for gifts, and he has regularly said that he wanted to come up with his own gifts. so i think - ok - Christmas is coming up - let him have at it. so it comes to Christmas eve - late -and he has no gift. he heads out, and comes back very pleased with himself. on Christmas morning he presents me with a plastic shopping bag filled with kitchen utensils. no card, not wrapped, and it cost just under $40. (he left the docket in the bag) last time HE ever got to pick a gift himself! tho he''s improved a lot now...

the last one was a boyfriend of mine and i. we were going away for the weekend, and he wanted to do something kind of fun and sexy. so he bought this very aromatic massage oil and offered to give me a ''romantic'' massage. about 5 minutes in, i start to feel a burning sensation in places where nobody wants to feel a burning sensation! so i say - let me look at that oil pls! and it''s oil from the cooking aisle - infused with CHILLIES! took aaaaaages for the burning to go and the redness to subside. not good!

 

[Linda W]

My husband has my name tattooed on his arm

 

[Gypsy]

Aww Linda.

But that IS romantic, cause it''s you two, ya know?

 

[Linda W]

Date: 4/29/2009 1:19:51 AM
Author: Gypsy
Aww Linda.

But that IS romantic, cause it''s you two, ya know?

ha ha ha Gypsy. I thought it was romantic after the shock wore off. He went to Street Vibrations with a neighbor a few years ago, when he still had his motorcycle. He came home and said "I have a surprise for you". He showed me and I went

. His friend had his wife and all three of their kids names tattooed on his arm.

 

[Gypsy]

Linda, I would have reacted the same way! John has a tatoo too. And wants another (though not my name) AND he wants a motorcycle. Our men are going to get on line white on rice when they meet.

 

[Linda W]

Date: 4/29/2009 1:42:04 AM
Author: Gypsy
Linda, I would have reacted the same way! John has a tatoo too. And wants another (though not my name) AND he wants a motorcycle. Our men are going to get on line white on rice when they meet.

Well Rick was in a serious motorcycle accident and I almost lost him. It will be when hell freezes over, before he gets another one. He talks about getting another one every dang day.

 

[swingirl]

First Christmas-- my boyfriend gave me a frying pan!! I guess I had commented on what a nice frying pan he had at his house. After that I really watched what I said! Joke''s on me, I married him. But I pick out all my own jewelry!

 

[AdiS]

When I broke up with my ex, initially we weren''t on very good terms. Unfortunately, we had the same friends, so we were still seeing each other frequently. So one night we had an argument which started as a friendly conversation.

Anyway, I had a pretty nasty cut on my hand (pocket knife accident) and he noticed it. When I got home we continued the argument with text messages. At one point he accuses me of not giving a &$# about him and our relationship and I reply that he couldn''t possibly know how I feel. Suddenly he responds that he''d just cut his hand in the exact same spot where mine was hurt so "he would know exactly how I feel at that very moment".

I thought it was kind of creepy but strangely romantic at the same time. Yeah, I''m a weirdo.

When DH and I got married, I had the first letter of his name tattooed on my ankle. It was a funny thing to do since he doesn''t like tattoos at all.

But he took care of my tattoo while it healed despite mumbling and grumbling. Peculiar romance on both sides. lol

 

[bee*]

I went out with this guy once when I was about 16. We went to the cinema and he gave me a lift home afterwards with his friend and the whole way home they made animal noises-they were seriously mooing, barking etc. So needless to say that was the end of that date. When we met a few months later, I asked him why he did that and he said that he thought it would impress me as he knew I loved animals

 

[Ara Ann]

This is a cute thread! I am LOL at all of the cute stories (loved the chili oil Whitby!)...and the umbrella one too, classic!


I have several ''funny romantic'' stories, but one of the cutest happened on our wedding night...(this is G rated, don''t worry!)... My husband and I were dropped off at our hotel the night of our wedding...both of us still in our full wedding attire, I had my bouquet, hubby carried our two bags of luggage...we ambled through the lobby and saw several other couples checking in, also in wedding gowns and tuxes...it was kind of neat, we all smiled at each other as we passed... After checking in, we made our way to the elevators and stood, waiting for one to arrive. It took quite a while and as we waited, an older couple came and stood just behind us and asked us about our wedding, etc....the elevator doors finally opened and hubby picked up each bag and carefully stepped into the elevator, set them down and turned back to me, to assist me with my dress while entering the elevator...I was beaming at him, waiting for my prince to take my hand, but just before he could step toward me, the elevator doors quickly snapped closed! He disappeared behind two brown elevator doors!! I was stunned, but it was SO funny, the couple behind me laughed along with me...the bride who was left on her wedding night. Thankfully he was able to stop the elevator and open the doors before it took off, but boy was he red faced when he reappeared! It was too cute.

And also, on our honeymoon, the fire alarms in the hotel went off 5 out of the 7 nights!! THAT was not romantic or funny...

Hubby also tried to be ''practical'' about gifts...when we got married, I had to give up my piano, we had no room for it in our first place...he knew I really missed my piano, so for our first Christmas, he had a bright idea and got me something "really special" - of course, being a girl, I start thinking something "really special" meant BLING of some kind...so I anxiously waited for Christmas to arrive. Finally the big day...he hid my gift somewhere and went off to get it and came back with a flat, rectangular box...did not look like jewelry to me...but I was still hopeful...until I opened it, to find a Casio Mini Keyboard....to "replace" my piano! LOL! The sentiment was SO sweet, but yeah, you ladies understand...just wasn''t what I expected!

 

[steph72276]

These stories are so funny! Mine is embarrassing to write, but it is hilarious. My best friend in high school had never done more than kiss a boy....we were in our Junior year and she started dating a Senior. For Valentine''s Day (only a few weeks into dating), he brought her a gift bag and when she opened it up, there were edible panties inside

. Needless to say, she told him things were not going to workout! The funniest thing about the story is that now he is married and they still live in the same town and next year, his daughter will be in her class

.

 

[LadyBlue]

Date: 4/28/2009 11:41:41 PM
Author: whitby_2773
i have three that spring to mind....


my best girlfriend and her fiancee at their engagement party had just been presented with a gift from everyone present. they stood up for my friend''s fiancee to make a thank you speech, and in a magnanimous ''we''re a couple'' type gesture, he reached up to put his arm around her while he spoke. unfortunately he didn''t reach up high enough, and ended up elbowing her (hard!) in the temple and knocked her off her feet - in front of about 120 people.


the second one was my husband. i''ve always made suggestions for gifts, and he has regularly said that he wanted to come up with his own gifts. so i think - ok - Christmas is coming up - let him have at it. so it comes to Christmas eve - late -and he has no gift. he heads out, and comes back very pleased with himself. on Christmas morning he presents me with a plastic shopping bag filled with kitchen utensils. no card, not wrapped, and it cost just under $40. (he left the docket in the bag) last time HE ever got to pick a gift himself! tho he''s improved a lot now...


the last one was a boyfriend of mine and i. we were going away for the weekend, and he wanted to do something kind of fun and sexy. so he bought this very aromatic massage oil and offered to give me a ''romantic'' massage. about 5 minutes in, i start to feel a burning sensation in places where nobody wants to feel a burning sensation! so i say - let me look at that oil pls! and it''s oil from the cooking aisle - infused with CHILLIES! took aaaaaages for the burning to go and the redness to subside. not good!

OMG!!! oil ifused with chilles!!!!!!

 

[Shoopy]

I was dating one of Mr. Fiery''s best friends. I didn''t know the guy was married. The wife received an anonymous tip that her husband was having an affair. It was Mr. Fiery that left the tip. He had called me maybe a week or so after the guy and I stopped dating.

What can I say...he couldn''t resist me

 

[elrohwen]

My last bf dumped me on Feb 6th, so I was kind of joking around with my friends that I needed to find a new Valentine to make me feel better. I was talking to future FI online one night and I said "I'll give you a beer if you will be my Valentine." And he typed back "I just shaved 'I *heart* Elrohwen' into my chest hair." Lol Laughing my butt off certainly made me feel better! We started dating about 2 months after that and the rest is history! What can I say ... he had me at "chest hair"

ETA: Just to be clear, he didn't actually shave anything into his chest hair. At least not that I know of

 

[tlh]

Date: 4/28/2009 11:41:41 PM
Author: whitby_2773
i have three that spring to mind....

my best girlfriend and her fiancee at their engagement party had just been presented with a gift from everyone present. they stood up for my friend''s fiancee to make a thank you speech, and in a magnanimous ''we''re a couple'' type gesture, he reached up to put his arm around her while he spoke. unfortunately he didn''t reach up high enough, and ended up elbowing her (hard!) in the temple and knocked her off her feet - in front of about 120 people.

the second one was my husband. i''ve always made suggestions for gifts, and he has regularly said that he wanted to come up with his own gifts. so i think - ok - Christmas is coming up - let him have at it. so it comes to Christmas eve - late -and he has no gift. he heads out, and comes back very pleased with himself. on Christmas morning he presents me with a plastic shopping bag filled with kitchen utensils. no card, not wrapped, and it cost just under $40. (he left the docket in the bag) last time HE ever got to pick a gift himself! tho he''s improved a lot now...

the last one was a boyfriend of mine and i. we were going away for the weekend, and he wanted to do something kind of fun and sexy. so he bought this very aromatic massage oil and offered to give me a ''romantic'' massage. about 5 minutes in, i start to feel a burning sensation in places where nobody wants to feel a burning sensation! so i say - let me look at that oil pls! and it''s oil from the cooking aisle - infused with CHILLIES! took aaaaaages for the burning to go and the redness to subside. not good!

I just spat water at my computer!!! I get a visual of you running around screaming "it burns, what is this stuff!!!!"

 

[sunnyd]

This was sooo awkward. It was my freshman year of college, I''d been sorta seeing this guy. I told him after a couple of weeks that I didn''t want anything romantic to come of our relationship (friends only please!). He invited me up to a Christmas party with his family and I agreed. We exchanged gifts. Mine for him was sea-monkies. His for me was pj''s his mom helped him pick out.

PLUS a card that said something about being more than friends. I was so annoyed then, but I was stuck 2 hours from home (he''d picked me up from my house). He''d also informed his entire extended family that I was his girlfriend. Sooooo awkward.

 

[whitby_2773]

Date: 4/29/2009 11:42:17 AM
Author: tlh

Date: 4/28/2009 11:41:41 PM

Author: whitby_2773

i have three that spring to mind....


my best girlfriend and her fiancee at their engagement party had just been presented with a gift from everyone present. they stood up for my friend''s fiancee to make a thank you speech, and in a magnanimous ''we''re a couple'' type gesture, he reached up to put his arm around her while he spoke. unfortunately he didn''t reach up high enough, and ended up elbowing her (hard!) in the temple and knocked her off her feet - in front of about 120 people.


the second one was my husband. i''ve always made suggestions for gifts, and he has regularly said that he wanted to come up with his own gifts. so i think - ok - Christmas is coming up - let him have at it. so it comes to Christmas eve - late -and he has no gift. he heads out, and comes back very pleased with himself. on Christmas morning he presents me with a plastic shopping bag filled with kitchen utensils. no card, not wrapped, and it cost just under $40. (he left the docket in the bag) last time HE ever got to pick a gift himself! tho he''s improved a lot now...


the last one was a boyfriend of mine and i. we were going away for the weekend, and he wanted to do something kind of fun and sexy. so he bought this very aromatic massage oil and offered to give me a ''romantic'' massage. about 5 minutes in, i start to feel a burning sensation in places where nobody wants to feel a burning sensation! so i say - let me look at that oil pls! and it''s oil from the cooking aisle - infused with CHILLIES! took aaaaaages for the burning to go and the redness to subside. not good!

I just spat water at my computer!!! I get a visual of you running around screaming ''it burns, what is this stuff!!!!''

the funny thing is that when i looked at the bottle, it said ''Spicy Hot Oil'' - or something like that on the bottle. THEY meant - ''spicy'' - as in spices - as in chillies. HE was thinking - ''spicy'' - as in sexy - as in having a hot evening with his girl.

(i was thinking - ''idiot'' - as in BURNING - as in - ''get this stuff OFF me!'')

just goes to show how where your head is at a particular time can affect how you interpret your surroundings!

 

[tlh]

I''ll be careful next time I ask the DH to "spice up" our love life.

 

[doodle]

when i was in high school, the guy i was dating at the time brought me flowers and a card...the flowers were picked from the bushes in front of piggley wiggley, and he had wrapped aluminum foil around the stems to make it look like some sort of packaging. the card was a folded piece of notebook paper with "some flowers (not the word but an illustration of two flowers) for my flower (insert another illustration). did i mention it was written in crayon, which he stole from his kid brother?

would've been cute if we were about 11, but this guy was 22!

once when i wasn't feeling well, my husband stopped at mcdonald's on his way home and got me a mcflurry thinking the ice cream would make my throat feel better. he was so worried about getting in the house to see how i was feeling that he forgot to bring it in, so he had ice cream melted all into his car's cup holder the next morning, and he was so disappointed that i never got it.

ETA I also had a bf get me a doughnut for an anniversary once. as if that wasn't odd enough, he accidentally sat on it.

 

[tlh]

my bf (nowDH) got me a soniccare toothbrush for our first Xmas together. I am nutso about my teeth, so you''d think it was perfect right? NOPE, I was like, a toothbrush? He''s now got it down pat. Functional gifts = perfect for HIM. PRETTY GIFTS = perfect for ME.

 

[elrohwen]

Date: 4/29/2009 1:01:36 PM
Author: doodle
when i was in high school, the guy i was dating at the time brought me flowers and a card...the flowers were picked from the bushes in front of piggley wiggley, and he had wrapped aluminum foil around the stems to make it look like some sort of packaging. the card was a folded piece of notebook paper with ''some flowers (not the word but an illustration of two flowers) for my flower (insert another illustration). did i mention it was written in crayon, which he stole from his kid brother?

would''ve been cute if we were about 11, but this guy was 22!

once when i wasn''t feeling well, my husband stopped at mcdonald''s on his way home and got me a mcflurry thinking the ice cream would make my throat feel better. he was so worried about getting in the house to see how i was feeling that he forgot to bring it in, so he had ice cream melted all into his car''s cup holder the next morning, and he was so disappointed that i never got it.

ETA I also had a bf get me a doughnut for an anniversary once. as if that wasn''t odd enough, he accidentally sat on it.

lol You might win the prize with that one.

 

[OUpearlgirl]

I was kind of seeing a guy before I left for college. We knew that it wouldn't work long distance, so we were just enjoying having fun together for the summer. The night before I left I had a few people over. He came and right before he went home he gave me a present and told me to open it when he left.

I open the present and there is a nice card saying that he would miss me and how unfortunate it was that we couldn't have met later in life.. There was a little bag with a jewelry box inside. I was thinking ohh how sweet, he got me a necklace or something to remember him by.

Nope. A lock of freakin' hair!

Sick. Out.

 

[tlh]

Date: 4/29/2009 1:18:42 PM
Author: OUpeargirl
I was kind of seeing a guy before I left for college. We knew that it wouldn''t work long distance, so we were just enjoying having fun together for the summer. The night before I left I had a few people over. He came and right before he went home he gave me a present and told me to open it when he left.

I open the present and there is a nice card saying that he would miss me and how unfortunate it was that we couldn''t have met later in life.. There was a little bag with a jewelry box inside. I was thinking ohh how sweet, he got me a necklace or something to remember him by.

Nope. A lock of freakin'' hair!

Sick. Out.

WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!! did you make a voodoo doll of it>?

 

[OUpearlgirl]

Date: 4/29/2009 1:20:58 PM
Author: tlh

Date: 4/29/2009 1:18:42 PM

Author: OUpeargirl

I was kind of seeing a guy before I left for college. We knew that it wouldn''t work long distance, so we were just enjoying having fun together for the summer. The night before I left I had a few people over. He came and right before he went home he gave me a present and told me to open it when he left.


I open the present and there is a nice card saying that he would miss me and how unfortunate it was that we couldn''t have met later in life.. There was a little bag with a jewelry box inside. I was thinking ohh how sweet, he got me a necklace or something to remember him by.


Nope. A lock of freakin'' hair!


Sick. Out.

WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!! did you make a voodoo doll of it>?

Hahah no! I''m pretty sure I showed it to my other friends and then promptly threw it away!

 

[MonkeyPie]

Oh, I have a REALLY good one.

So I dated a few guys on the internet in the last of my teen years, and one of them flew down from Connecticut to come see me. He stayed for a few weeks, and I took all over the place. Dude was loaded - his dad is HR director of a bunch of Marriots in Washington, DC. Anyway, we are in the mall one day and we pass this woman wearing the prettiest bracelet - it was silver with a flower kind of design, a string of them like a tennis bracelet. I told him I thought it was so pretty, and teasingly told him I wanted one. He got this funny look on his face, and a minute later excused himself to the bathroom.

He was gone a loooong time, and I wondered if he had actually gone off to buy me something sparkly. I was getting pretty stoked, and he finally comes back with a box. It''s from Zales, and I am so excited. I open it up, and it''s the exact same bracelet as the woman was wearing. I thought, "Oh how sweet, he actually found the same one because he knew I liked it!" I then notice the box is meant for a ring, and the bracelet is not exactly shiny and brand new...looks worn. I turn it over, and on the inside was an engraving - "To Bumblebee, with all my love."

HE STOLE THE WOMAN''S BRACELET! I still have no idea how he managed this, but needless to say, that was the last time we met.