I recently tried an online DNA dating service, where they match couples based on genetics. It was a little creepy, but I actually met an awesome man through the site. Guys - what's the craziest thing you've ever done to get a date?
Wise-Ass says:
In college I sang and played the guitar outside a girl's dorm window to get her to go out with me. Except I can't sing or play the guitar. Her roommate tossed out a cold, dead pizza that landed at my feet. I took that as a no.
Mystery Man says:
The craziest thing I ever did for a date was to pretend to be interested in her deep, involved and totally impenetrable personal problems. Total insanity on my part, but, hey, she was seriously hot, putting habanero into the shade on the Schofield Scale.
Girls' BFF says:
Back in my spritely college days, I found myself enamored with a certain damsel, no distress. Well, I'd made it very clear that I wanted to take her out on a date, but my advances were met with resistance and rebuffedness, though we were friends. I devised a plan to sweep said damsel off of her feet. I searched high and low for the prettiest dozen roses I could find, spending nearly four hours traipsing from flower shop to flower shop in search of exotic pleasures and happening upon them on my last stop before disappointment. Well, at 4:30 a.m. the next morning, I woke up and drove the 30 minutes to her house (got her address from a common friend - stalker much?) to place them there so that she could wake up to them before her morning run at 5:00 a.m. I placed the flowers there and wrote out this lovely poem - a sonnet really - intended to woo her into dating me, at 5:00 a.m. I sat and watched from afar as she opened the door saw the flowers, read the note, then promptly called me to tell me, thanks but no thanks. At 5:00 a.m. Womp womp womp. Luckily, we ended up dating later for a significant length of time and I saw her naked on lots of occasion.
Funny Guy says:
In college I fell in love with a Puerto Rican acting major. She had jet-black hair, almond shaped eyes and a smile that could launch 1,000 boners. She was cast in the school's production of Midsummer's Night Dream. So I volunteered to be a stagehand. Each night I wished her good luck before she went on stage. I learned what the cool Spanish pop songs of the day were and brought them up in conversation.
By closing night I knew more of Marc Anthony's Dimelo than was healthy, AND had the ultimate date to the after party. ¡Hurra! [Funny Guy Bows]
Chic Geek says:
Back in high school I stood outside of this girl's house and blared Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" from a boombox. Unfortunately, it turned out that John Cusack had done the same thing in a movie several years prior. Boy, was my face red!
Then there was the time that I told a girl that I liked to meet me on the roof of the Empire State Building. It was magical, like that popular movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. You know the one. "Joe Vs. the Volcano."
Oh! I got another one. One time I was a subway token taker and I noticed this gal fall on the tracks. So I followed her to the hospital where she was in a coma and pretended like I was her fiancee. Turns out, her family loved me! Of course, I was living a lie, but it all worked out in the end. (Though there were plenty of comedic misunderstandings.) When the girl woke up, she said, "What happened?" I replied, "A lot happened...while you were sleeping." We all had a good laugh from that one.
To be honest, I've never done anything all that crazy in the name of love. Though isn't just the act of asking someone out crazy? You put yourself out there, without knowing if you'll be loved or rejected. Sometimes, it takes a little bit of crazy to find love. (I think that was the tagline for the Drew Barrymore vehicle "Mad Love.")
Reformed Player says:
The craziest thing I have ever done to get a date was also the lamest. Lame because it was creepy and could have backfired. I totally slipped a chick a "Do you like me" note on a napkin with my number. Granted, I had had a few. So I was feeling... risky. I made sure the note was cute and semi-serious. I handed it to her as I left and wouldn't you know. She called me the next day. We actually went on a couple of dates before I found out that she was actually in a committed relationship with the bar I met her at.
Poems... always a big no no.
No matter if you claim it's a sonnet or whatever.
I don't know, I would love to get a poem from a guy!
It's hard to get a poem from a guy and it's not funny ahah.
Poems are never lame.
Unless you swipe the lyrics from really bad songs, of course.
How about if it's a poem in Shakespearian English with a line such as 'thy hair is as soft as the morn's snowfall'.... :P
Limericks are better than poems.
"There once was a man from Venus..."
etc.
"There once was a fellow from Venus,
and a lady who made him feel speechless.
He wrote her a rhyme
to ask for her time,
and she was impressed by his sweetness."
Hahaha--not quite what you were thinking, I suppose. ;-)
hahha I agree