How Did These People Miss Such Ridiculously Obvious Romantic Plays?
It’s hard for a girl to let someone know they’re into them. Sometimes emotions get the better of us all, and words go out the window. Sometimes, though, you can be as obvious as possible and still strike out.
With that in mind, these Redditors reveal the biggest romantic hints they’ve either given—or totally missed.
1. Straight and Narrow
We were playing Life and he was the officer. The rule in the game is, if you spin a 10, he gets your “speeding fines.” After it happened, I literally pulled open my button-down and exposed my breasts and said, “What can I do to get out of paying this.” He said, “Ma’am. I am an officer of the law. Are you trying to sell yourself to me?” That was it.
A couple days of flirting and innuendo later, I literally had to spell out that I was trying to sleep with him. We’ve been together six years now.
2. Child-Sized Intuition
My now-husband and I were childhood friends and we reconnected when I was in college. A few weeks into dating, we were hanging out alone at his parents' house. Then this happened. Me: "I haven't seen your bedroom in a while." Him: "
It hasn't changed." Eight years later, we still laugh about that one.
3. Pikachu, I Don’t Choose You
My biggest missed sign has got to be sophomore year of college. I was hanging out with this girl late night on a Friday one-on-one in a common area, and we’re talking about trips we’ve taken around the globe.
She mentions that she got a pair of Pikachu panties in Japan and asks me if I wanted to see them...I said nah that’s pretty weird, and then left like 15 minutes later.
I still look back on that moment and get flushed with embarrassment.
4. Thanks, Hugo Weaving
So I actually slept with a girl before realizing she was actually into me.
She knocks on my dorm room door wearing a miniskirt and carrying a chocolate cake (a whole chocolate cake) and says she just baked it and was wondering if I'd like to try some.
I tell her that I'm not a big fan of chocolate (crushing her) but I was intelligent enough to add that I'd like try it anyway.
We set the cake aside. I invite her in and she asks what I'm up to. I tell her the truth, that I was about to start watching V for Vendetta, and she squeals that she loves that movie and asks if she can watch it with me. We lay down on my unfolded futon and start watching it together under a blanket (this was in the dead of Boston winter).
We're watching the movie and she starts making all these comments about Hugo Weaving. "I love Hugo Weaving so much." "God, Hugo Weaving is so hot." "Man, Hugo Weaving makes me hot." And all this time I'm like, "Yeah he's a great actor, I loved him in The Matrix." Another ten minutes of this pass before she just turns to me and asks if we can sleep together. And here I am thinking I'm the luckiest dope in the world and I'm so glad I picked a movie that had Hugo Weaving in it.
And my mind—my very underdeveloped pathetic mind—my very first thoughts were, "Hugo Weaving is such a great wingman" and "Darn, talk about being in the right place at the right time." It took me another year before I realized it was all a ruse to get to me. I could have been watching any darn movie at all the whole time with more or less the same result.
