Hi, friends!
In honor of today being Valentine’s Day, the topic of the NOT is when you were around an awkward romantic gesture.
In ye olde days of high school, I had a guy friend (we’ll call him George) who was super into his girlfriend. She was pretty dense and was dating him because it was high school and at the time she didn’t better options. I don’t mean that to say she was mean to him or rude, it was just always obvious he cared more than she did.
So Valentine’s Day rolls around, and we’ve got a group date situation happening. My boyfriend at the time got me a box of Russell Stover’s (sweet of him, and totally appropriate for high schoolers who haven’t been dating for more than a few months). Bestie’s boyfriend gets her a cute picture frame with a picture of them in it. George gets his girlfriend a cute teddy bear … with a gold necklace on the bear. And bestie and I are watching like when the fuck is she going to see the necklace…how does she not see it… for the love of god notice it fucking already. Finally bestie makes some comment like wow George that’s a really pretty necklace just to end the situation. So fucking awkward.
I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn George and his girlfriend broke up before school was out for the summer.
My whole romantic life was an “awkward romantic gesture”. So, I’ll celebrate this instead…
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I’ve never been into Vday. You know what I have always been into? Jason Statham and Josh Hartnett! I was just reminiscing about the movie Spy and how I miss Statham and the internet delivers me this action comedy trailer! I didn’t watch it all or with the sound on because spoilers.
When did she realize they had broken up?
This isn’t about me but about two of my coworkers. I worked at a resort hotel and my manager was this real hardass named Valentina. My best friend Isabella worked the front desk with her boyfriend Rocco. Although no one was supposed to know that Iz and Rocky were dating. One day Valentina out of the blue reassigned Rocky to the pool area, which I thought was weird. Iz shrugged it off because it was Valentina’s hotel to run. Valentina put in this real creep next to her at the front desk, where Rocky was, and still Iz was like, “He’s a little weird but I think he’s just lonely.”
THEN one day Valentina up and gives Iz this beautiful little brooch that must have cost a fortune. For no reason. “Iz, something is definitely up.” “Oh no, Valentina is just being nice, when you have worked here as long as I have you see that she has a nice side. She doesn’t have a boyfriend so I think she does things like this for us instead.” All she ever did to me was scream at me in barely understandable Sicilian, but whatevs.
I don’t know what happened after because I got canned for being drunk on the job (to be fair to Valentina it was the third time I got caught and Valentina had a strict “three strikes” rule) but I hope whatever it was Valentina got her issues settled.
I can almost hear a harp and haunting operatic vocals in the background of your tale.
I’m betting she saw the necklace and was ignoring it.
I was a 46 year old divorcee on Tinder. I can write the book on awkward!
i did see some fairly glum looking teenage girls leaving my neighbourhood school yesterday with roses
i imagine that means they got them rather publicly from the wrong boys….
but that could have been their happy faces….resting teenage face is hard to read