I was 17 and my GF’s birthday was a few days before Christmas. So I spent around 200 on little diamond earrings as sort of a combined gift. This was fine.
Then I did some and thinking and thought I could fold those in as a Valentines day present. 200 dollars was a big deal in high school. 66 dollars per gift… Way better than my friends were doing.
This did not go over well.
I took her out to a nice dinner at our favorite place on V-day. Surely that was enough. NO, IT WAS NOT… So I say I need to use the restroom. This turns into a horrible mistake. So I run up to a flower shop and it was 10PM, they were closed. And I by run I mean run. I don’t drive. Then I run around looking for flowers that I can pick. It was freezing and all I could find were some weeds that looked kinda like flowers.
I lost track of time.
It took me around a hour of looking in yards for a few weeds. So I get back. My romantic gesture was not well received.
I walked home that night (she had a car).