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There was a girl that I liked. I'd been asking her out for a few times, and in unconventional, or as some of my friends say, creepy ways. Lol.

I bought a domain name, <hernamehere>willyougooutwith.me and put it behind a tinyurl link. On her birthday I gave a gift to her with a piece of paper of that tinyurl.

If she visits that url, there will be a 3D envelope that she can click. If she clicks that 3D envelope, a 3 page letter will come out, with her photo on the first page that I stalk from Facebook (yeah I know I'm creepy lol), and then on the second page a sentence or two asking if she's willing to go out with me, and a list of restaurants. On the third page a form in which if she fills it out I will get a text message saying that she fills the form out.

Obviously she didn't fill the form lol, but I asked her several days later whether she saw the website, and she said yes.

My friends whom I told my attempt were all like "are you crazy? that's creepy as hell, no way she's going to respond", but hey, I just learned how to code (this was 7 years ago), and making the website was fun, so I went along with it.

Now that I think about it, it was indeed creepy. And it didn't help that I was just a FOB that didn't know how to be savvy around people. If I were to do it again now, maybe I'll do it differently lol.

After that one, I did a few other attempts, but in the end she was never interested in me at all. I am now happily married with another person.



FOB?


Fresh-off-the-boat, a (often derogatory) term for people who have just emigrated to the US.




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