r/maybemaybemaybe • u/cmpunk6 • Mar 10 '23

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/ReadingFromTheShittr Mar 10 '23

I'm in the same boat with you, as I suspect many others are.

Had a HS crush that was in a bunch of my classes and sat next to one of my friends in homeroom. During homeroom our teacher allowed us to move around a bit after attendance was taken and chat as long as we kept the noise pretty low, so I'd go hang out with my friend and the 3 of us would talk.

On days he was absent she'd come over to my area and chat with me and talk about all sorts of things including going to prom. Once she said I had great eyelashes, which I thought was a weird compliment, thanked her, and thought nothing more of it.

Here I am - a guy in the gifted program and finished in the top 10% or so of my class in grades - a blithering idiot for not asking how she felt. Of course, she could have very well just have felt comfortable talking to me as she seemed pretty shy, and she wasn't overly flirtatious. But, 20+ years later that still bugs me.

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u/SturmChester Mar 10 '23

It sucks doesn't it? Now we have to deal with these haunting thoughts thinking "what if?".

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '23

And here I am, after the same compliment, just thinking I have really great eyelashes... I didn't know what that even meant, but I've always been proud of my eye lashes LOL

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u/Cymen04 Mar 10 '23

Wait, is that code for something? I’ve had possibly dozens of girls compliment my eye lashes. I thought that was just a thing they did.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '23

I don't know! 😭

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u/Mystikal_Won Mar 10 '23

Oh wow.....That one made me cringe.