CONFESS!!!!! What's the craziest thing you've done for love

[LynneSin]

As you know, our dear boy Magic Rat is going to see Clay Aiken & Kelly Clarkson tonight with his girlfriend (it's love). Personally, I'd rather have root canal without anesthesia while watching videotapes of Bush speeches than to see those 2 in concert. But then again, I'm not in love with anyone in particular right now.

But I have been and I'm still thinking what crazy things I've done for love (I'm not overly sentimental). However, what is the craziest thing you've done in the name of Love.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Got married.

Pretty nutty, huh?

[dae]

41. Can't criticize you, I did the same thing.

:)

[GOPisEvil]

2. I would do anything for love...

..but I won't do THAT.

</Meatloaf>

[DS1]

21. If I were a judge

I'd fine you for reckless ear-worm dumping, and then have Kurtwood Smith hose you down like a horny teenager

[Bertha Venation]

3. Left my family & beloved home and moved 2,600 miles across the country.

I miss family & hometown desperately, but I'm happy in Maryland and I'm glad I moved. I needed to be with the love of my life. I am right where I need to be. This is where I belong.

Edit: I didn't move 2.600 :eyes: miles for Mrs. V. I moved 2,600 miles.

[pagerbear]

4. Had my coworker lie

...and say I had food poisoning and therefore was not likely to answer the phone if they called me at home while I was on my way to spend the weekend in Amsterdam with a man I'd fallen for online. Did I mention he doesn't speak English? Or that he already had a lover?

[WilliamPitt]

5. My girlfriend was in a really bad mood a few years ago

She's a big fan of slapstick Chris Farley-esqe comedy. So I threw myself down a flight of stairs screaming like Farley to cheer her up. She laughed for about an hour.

For those who may ask, no, I wasn't hurt. I wanted to be a stunt man when I was younger, and taught myself to fall without injury a long time ago. :)

[LuLu550]

6. Moved from NY to LA for one guy

and NY to England for another.
And no, I'm not still with either of them!

[bleedingheart]

7. ice skating

I went ice skating to make a guy happy and nearly killed myself...
I have the coordination of an 11 month old...so you can imagine the disaster...

[felonious thunk]

8. I'd moved to take a job

and my wife was still working in the old town. Instead of just staying in the new place, I'd drive the 5 hours one way, at least 3 or 4 times a week so that I could still sleep beside her at night. Get there around 10, and then get back up at 4 do it again. I did this for about 6 weeks.

[southpaw]

9. Divorced my faithful wife and mother of my two children...

for a home-wrecking slut! Fucked up my life, basically.

how's that?

[arwalden]

24. Ouch!

-- Allen

[peacebuzzard]

35. refreshing to see guys actually regret doing stuff like that.....

I was faithfully in love myself once and was dumped with no warning by this dude I was crazy about. As it turned out, I am much better off alone. Happier, healthier and lots of time on my hands. Sorry for your situation,...

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. I went to NYC to protest the war

Sorry Lynne, I should have revealed my true feelings for you earlier. Alas... ;)

[LynneSin]

12. You stood us up that night

:cry:

[THUNDER HANDS]

13. your beauty intimidated me

Now that you've dropped like, a small automobile's worth of weight, I'm sure you'd stop the protest dead in its tracks if we went there again. :)

[LynneSin]

20. Have I told you recently you're full of crap!!

:shrug:

:P

[THUNDER HANDS]

25. tee hee

I'm such a stinker. :D

[LynneSin]

27. I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS

I'm doing my Skittles imitation

[TXlib]

37. Yes, I had to check the author to see who was writing.

[Wickerman]

11. Took my girlfriend to see the Bee Gees

way back in 1979. Arrgh - it were painful! I laughed until it hurt.

[WilliamPitt]

14. Cazart! Another memory!

Paid mad cash to take a high school girlfriend and her friend to go see Bobby Brown at the Boston Garden. Somewhere, in the space-time continuum, that awful awful night is still going on and on and on...

[Wickerman]

18. ouch

oh fuck, that would stick with you.

[WilliamPitt]

29. Why?

Why would you do that to me?

[Wickerman]

43. Bwaaa haaa haaa!

sorry, it just seemed, so... right. Frankly, I can't even imagine how painful that was. Sorry. :P

[histohoney]

15. Wadded shin deep

out in the water to help push his car out of the low spot he was in. Worked for 2hours to mop up the water on the inside of his car.

The love part, I never asked why he was nutty enough to drive through an area marked for high water!!!

[DS1]

16. Coughed up a downpayment on a car

it had to be done :shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

17. Sent Skinner a dozen roses

It backfired when EarlG felt snubbed. :o

Elad won't even return my calls now. :cry:

[LynneSin]

19. So that's how you got back to DU

I knew you did something fishy!!!

[arwalden]

22. Quit My Teaching Job And Moved To A New City

who would have guessed that ten years later we'd still be going strong.

-- Allen

[bif]

23. Agreed to a Big Fat Greek Wedding

The whole thing was more like the movie than you could believe. All in all, it wasa blast.

[VelmaD]

26. Thinking about this makes me sad...

I'm not sure I've done anything crazy for love since I was 15 and I snuck out of the house and walked across my hometown in the middle of the night to see my boyfriend at the time.

There has been a sincere lack of crazy love in my life since then. :(

[Robb]

28. Went and saw what's-her-name in Vegas

Name escapes me... they built a whole theater for her. :shrug:

Made it through the whole thing... my sister-in-law's boyfriend, however, was another story. Swear to god, the man fell asleep in his chair about halfway through! My hero! :)

[grannylib]

30. Hitchiked alone at night to a NORML convention in a city to which I'd

never been, wasn't sure where the thing was being held, all in hopes that this guy would be there...and he was, and it all worked out, for about 3 weeks *LMAO*

[Bill of Rights]

31. Waited and waited and waited

and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited

for this str8 woman to get into me. We ended up together for two years, but I sure had to wait.

[Zynx]

32. Ate a really nasty thing at lunch today on a dare.

[Amaya]

33. Went against my better judgment ... n/t

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

34. Helped a boyfriend run from the law

He evicted a scumbag from a building he managed and didn't quite go through the legal process... the scumbag and his friends were literally gunning for him, and the police wanted a word with him too...I hid him out, we traveled around the country for awhile, then I helped him relocate...after some time had passed I finally talked him into coming back, and nothing bad happened to him. And after doing all that, all that for him, he wouldn't come with me to the animal hospital when one of my cats had to be put to sleep. So I broke up with him. Jerk. x(

[Hell Hath No Fury]

36. When I was 18...

I had my Mom gift wrap me into a big box for my boyfriend. I sat in that thing for close to a half hour before he finally got around to unwrapping me. As he opened the lid I burst out and recited a luv poem.

Did I say I was 18 at the time? :)

[LWolf]

38. Believed what

the person in question said to me.

[everythingsxen]

39. Uh...

It's a long story...

Sold everything I could so I could move across the country based on a few phone calls, a picture or two and a whole lot of internet chatting.

Now I have the braaaaaain worms!

*giggles uncontrollably*

Love conquers all!
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[AlienGirl]

45. Uh...

Started going out with someone I'd never met before in person just cause I liked his braaaain-wormy mind! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

46. MADNESS!

:loveya:

[AlienGirl]

48. HAVE YOU THE BRAAAAAAIN WORMS?

:loveya:

[everythingsxen]

49. Have I mentioned lately...

How spooky I find you? :loveya:

[AlienGirl]

51. You scary man...

:loveya:

[Dogmudgeon]

53. Jeeze, get a ROOM, you two!

Fer cryin' out loud, have a little respect for the dead, will ya!

--bkl
Love Is Like Sniffing Glue

[AlienGirl]

54. The dead?

If only you knew... ;-)

[Dogmudgeon]

55. I probably do ...

... but I'd hedge my bets at half.

On the other hand, I've had a storied love life.

Have you ever had the internal conflict of being happy that you have so much to look back on when you're on your deathbed ...

... but being bummed out because it put you on your deathbed to begin with?

Well, have you, Bunky?

--bkl
Lord of the Second Bardo
and Third Base

(Note: All material herein :))

[SOteric]

40. Scaled the roof tops of strange people's houses in Houston.

* Made love on a rooftop in the pouring rain.
* Spent $400 on a cup of coffee
* Paid full fair for a 3-day turnaround on a trip to Hong Kong.

[KenLayedOff]

42. I'm still trying to forget that day

I. Must. Forget.

[populistmom]

44. Crazy? Love?

I have done nothing crazy for love. I am a boring person. Oh sure, every once in awhile, like maybe every 12 or 13 years I consider something crazy, but it always seems to allude me nonetheless and ultimately, I go back to my existance as the rational, sweet, nicey nice woman that I am. Comfortably fucking numb. Pass the Zanax Laura, it's a wild night here in Stepford.

[youngred]

47. Went Back nt

[VOX]

50. Called the wife of the guy who was putting the make on my girl...

It was a horrible, horrible mess, but I loved this woman enough to hang in there during this bit of excessive weirdness. However, I wasn't about to go into the Valley of the Wimps for her.

For privacy's sake, I can't be specific as to why I couldn't go directly to the guy and simply take him off at the kneecaps. As much satisfaction as that would have given, suffice it to say that it was impossible for me to do.

It was a bold and risky play, but it seemed to me that someone had to bust up the tea party. Having tried more conventional methods, and well beyond the pain threshold, I picked up the phone (she was listed) and changed the shape of things.

Years later, I still feel badly for being the Babylonian messenger to a person who was (until I called) living in blind ignorance. I admit that, at that moment, I was acting solely to protect my own interests.

Somehow, this hail-mary maneuver miraculously worked. The chastened interloper skulked off over a far horizon.

And the woman for whom I stood and fought? We got couples counseling, and learned to reduce the urgency and toxicity of this episode. We learned to truly *communicate*, as corny as that may sound.

Four years ago, our mutual trust thoroughly knitted, she became my wife. :loveya:

[Dogmudgeon]

52. Oh, the things I've done!

• Allowed her to insult me in front of her friends without saying a word.
• Went "without" while she spent weekends boffing her married boyfriend (and not me).
• Lied to her mother so she could see her married boyfriend.
• Helped her move. (Compare to: the Augean Stables.)
• Cured her daughter of night terrors. (I told her to make a fierce face at the monster and scare it back.)
• Was the only adult who could ever keep her daughter from being a complete brat -- without hitting her.
• Drove her ex and all her art supplies from Philadelphia to Atlanta and back again during the worst heat wave of the summer AND developed heatstroke in the process.
• Lots of other stuff I almost regret having done.

Plus, I've prostrated myself almost as much for employers.

Well, like they say about the Holocaust, "never again!"

--bkl
Issues? What issues?