Dumbest Thing You Did To Impress Someone?

cinnamongrrl · 05-05-2014, 11:23 PM

When I was a kid....I crossed a wicked high train trestle which spanned the Connecticut River...all to prove to my cousins that I wasnt chicken....

imperfect_cupcake · 05-05-2014, 11:57 PM

I was apprentice white water rafting and one of the guides brought his "bit on the side" german tomboy quasi girl friend. Who to me read "screamin dyke" (not exposed too much to cultural gender expression variation at that point in my life. She wasn't a dyke at all). So in a fit to impress I wanted to show her how safe the water was. She was a bit nervous of swimming in the river. I was trying to show her that even though there are rapids, there are back eddies that are safe to swim in, and I was demonstrating this to her by doing a back flip into one from the back of the raft.

I hit my head on a huge rock on the bottom of the river. As soon as I hit it, I thought fuck. oh well, committed now and kept turning, peeling off an inch wide strip of skin from mid scalp down my forehead and down my nose. scalp wounds bleed like fuck. so when I emerged from the water I had blood running down my head and my face. She screamed. excellent. that's just the reaction I was looking for.

the first aider, my mate Linea (hot and also looked and acted dyke to me, and wasn't) asked me how I felt and I said "sexy."

I had a concussion two weeks later that made me not recognise people I knew and recongise people I didn't know. for six months. that was entertaining. and I lost my spot in field school in africa because I wasn't allowed on the plane to fly with a concussion.

Mel C. · 05-06-2014, 12:27 AM

Looking back, everything I have done to impress someone seems pretty dumb. I need to ponder a little while to see if anything stands out as post-worthy.

WildHorses · 05-06-2014, 01:27 AM

I got a tat with the nickname I called her attached to it. VERY stupid.
I had it removed YAY!

homoe · 11-12-2015, 05:55 PM

I guess it's not really dumb but I did accompany someone to a vegan restaurant when what I REALLY wanted was a steak!

The things we've done to accommodate others when we should of just focused on ourselves!

05-05-2014, 11:23 PM	#1
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imperfect_cupcake Senior Member How Do You Identify?: feminine dolly dyke Preferred Pronoun?: Your Grace Relationship Status: I put my own care first Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In a gauze of mystery Posts: 1,776 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,426 Thanked 9,712 Times in 1,611 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I was apprentice white water rafting and one of the guides brought his "bit on the side" german tomboy quasi girl friend. Who to me read "screamin dyke" (not exposed too much to cultural gender expression variation at that point in my life. She wasn't a dyke at all). So in a fit to impress I wanted to show her how safe the water was. She was a bit nervous of swimming in the river. I was trying to show her that even though there are rapids, there are back eddies that are safe to swim in, and I was demonstrating this to her by doing a back flip into one from the back of the raft. I hit my head on a huge rock on the bottom of the river. As soon as I hit it, I thought fuck. oh well, committed now and kept turning, peeling off an inch wide strip of skin from mid scalp down my forehead and down my nose. scalp wounds bleed like fuck. so when I emerged from the water I had blood running down my head and my face. She screamed. excellent. that's just the reaction I was looking for. the first aider, my mate Linea (hot and also looked and acted dyke to me, and wasn't) asked me how I felt and I said "sexy." I had a concussion two weeks later that made me not recognise people I knew and recongise people I didn't know. for six months. that was entertaining. and I lost my spot in field school in africa because I wasn't allowed on the plane to fly with a concussion. Last edited by imperfect_cupcake; 05-06-2014 at 12:11 AM.

05-06-2014, 01:27 AM	#4
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11-12-2015, 05:55 PM	#5
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