So this is one I didn’t even realize was a beta moment until like a week ago when my friend told me about it. Way back in my sophomore year we got this new foreign exchange girl in my class from Sweden that all the guys (including me) thought was ridiculously hot. We both ended up sharing the same social studies class together and we even sat pretty close to each other. So every day while we were working I’d occasionally look over and just kinda stare at her for a few seconds at a time. So this one day the teacher is running late so me and my friends are talking when I hear something fall behind me. Turns out cute Nordic girl had dropped her pen and me being such a swell guy with weird lanky arms I immediately bend down to pick it up for her and she flashes a smile at me and tells me thanks. I thought that that’d be the end of the little exchange, but to my surprise she keeps smiling and starts trying to talk to me. She keeps saying stuff to the effect of “aw you’re so sweet, I wish we’d talk more you seem so nice” and I just keep replying with really lame jokes like “ah well I’m just a gentleman yknow haha” for like five minutes straight before the teacher finally comes in and we get to work. I was kind of embarrassed because I knew I handled that in like the most socially exceptional way imaginable, but I eventually come to the conclusion that I really didn’t have a chance with her and things just went on as normal.
But oh buddy was I wrong! As it would turn out, I ran into my friend who was in that same class with me at the store a few days ago, and while we were remembering all the goofy shit that happened in school, that little encounter came up. That’s when this motherfucker says to me “oh yeah I remember her! You know she had a crush on you right?” And that’s when my heart went crashing down all the way to the floor. I coulda had a cute European gf back in high school, but my complete lack of social grace caused me to miss a once in a lifetime opportunity.
