I've sent one like that. Well, slightly more veiled in some ways, slightly less veiled in others.

man, now I know what I do wrong. My love letters are massive tomes of stumbling inadequacy.

Sometimes people have crushes on each other, flounder around indirectly for a while, then more directly, and then something happens, and it's really awesome.

*blushes furiously*

Obviously, I have no idea who did that but thank you, it was very sweet and most unexpected.

Pardon me now while I crawl under the couch.

♪ Someone has a crush on me.... ♪

I'd make the little notes like Mike if I could, but instead I'll just say: somebunny has a crush on meeeee *sing-song*...

How was your weekend, Mats?

Dammit, I want someone to have a crush on me, dammit.

(But only the real kind! Not the just-trying-to-make-me-feel-better kind! Dammit!)

Aw, guys, look, I can see clearly how I got this started on the wrong foot. I used the FlirtingHearts site as an example of differetn means of communicating a crush. I'll never respond to the FlirtingHearts email, because, the website's process for revealing the sender is just not my style. I commented in-thread because I didn't know how else to thank whomever sent it.

I realize that threads take on a life of their own once you put them out there, but the thought that it would seem that I started this as a means for attention or place to gloat pretty much makes me feel selfish, stupid and a bit like a failure.

I've tried hard to avoid starting threads that encourage a sense of competition in bids for attention or the validation game via public exchange of sexual or romantic innuendo. I also realize that, for many, that kind of exchange is not only good fun but vital to their sense of worth as a person, but for others it can be both exclusionary and hurtful. Additionally, I realize that we're all adults here and make our own choices and that life involves all sort of bumps, bruises and compromises.

However, I want to be clear on my intent, even though I have no desire to control anything. I started this with a lighthearted discussion in mind of things people have done or experienced that were unexpected and memorably sweet. If fishing and gloating and the pouting and alienation that goes along with it is going to happen, so be it.

I heart the bunnies to bits and I'm certainly not asking for things to change, only for people to understand my own motivations and subsequent discomfort and dismay.

On preview: 'pup, there it is exactly. This seems like a good time for me to step back.

Sorry guys.

Aw, Fris, I was only kidding. Don't feel bad!

I was going to have a crush on you mudpuppie but it was just a make-you-feel-better one, so never mind.

On preview: don't sweat it Fris. I reckon we're all quite grown-up enough to exchange a bit of light-hearted innuendo without any attendant silliness.

Whyncha just all do like me and assume that heaps of people have a crush on you but they're all really shy.

Oh, yes, Fris, we're all just being silly. You are wonderful and we love you.

Dammit!

Yeah sorry about that pup, but if you're really nice to me I might develop a real crush.

(That wasn't directed at you, nomis. It was just a general, generic "Dammit!" Sorry for the confusion.)

I must be an old fart, because I am confused.

Oh now I'm disappointed at your lack of disappointment in my lack of crush. Dammit!

It's not disappointment, nomis. I just didn't buy that you didn't already have a crush on me.

Well now I've been outed and I'm sure it was clear that when I spoke of really shy bunnies I meant me. Blush blush blush. Hippity hoppity.

Let's be assertive people! Sitting at home pining for someone to have a crush on you is pointless.

I'll go out on a limb and say: I have a crush. And I bet they know who they is, too.

Oh, I would love it if I got a letter like that. : )

I have a couple crushes. But I probably wouldn't do anything about them because I'm shy like that. : )

Sitting at home pining for someone to have a crush on you is pointless.

And for the record, I know, because I had a Pine Fest, where I pined for 76 hours straight, and it did me no good. No good at all.

I'm late to this thread and I'm not sure if this qualifies as a weird crush thing. Back when I was just out of high school, I moved to Seattle to live with my sister and her boyfriend. I saw this guy all the time, everywhere I went, in completely different parts of the city. Sister kept telling me to talk to him but shy, me. One day we ran into him at Muffin Break and she locked the doors to her car, wouldn't let me in until I went back and asked his name. So I did. He told me. Weeks later, ran into him again and he comes up and says, "You're the one who asked me my name." Ended up walking with him for miles and hours and back at his house he made me a lettuce sandwich and played Patsy Cline.

Speaking of crushes: have y'all seen the commercial promoting literacy? A teacher catches a boy passing a note to a girl, snags it and reads it out loud to the classroom. My heart melts each time I see it.

I got a crush, but I'm scared to put email addresses in, in case it's a spamhaus :(

♪ ...it's the heart afraid of spamming that never learns to love ♪

I was thinking about some of these things just earlier today while I was at the dentist's.

Usually I don't indulge crushes. Unless I'm getting what I think are unmistakable signals from someone, I don't tend to let my mind run that way at all.

However, the one that's been developing chez moi over the last month or so is so relaxed and amusing and easy that I've just let it be. I don't think it can possibly do me or anyone else any harm. It's been nice letting it unfurl and stretch a little.

Plus, when you're stuck lying back in a squishy chair with your mouth propped forcibly open, it isn't always enough to watch the leaves turn silver and hear the tires swoosh in the rain through the office window. It's just better if there's someone you can daydream about at the same time.

Man, I walk away from the computer for most of the day, and I get a happy birthay post and one of my photos linked!

I got a crush email, too. I crush you too, whoever you are! But I'm not going to enter ten friends' email addresses in that harvester. Sorry!


But, to answer Fris' question, I got a crush letter way late once. Somebody I knew in hich school faxed a crushy poem to me at the college newspaper where I worked. Unfortunately, somebody slipped it into my sketchbook and I didn't find it for, literally, two years.

<sigh>

Since I'm not going to enter people's addresses into an email harvester either, no one whom I have a crush on will have received any of those emails on my behalf. Of course, if I have a crush on you, I've probably already expressed it in some other way. If you didn't notice, you probably just weren't paying attention. If you did notice, well, good on ya!

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I have a crush on you all.

Oh, I noticed mb. I noticed alright.

ok ok i admit it was me that emailed hot naked pix of my hot naked body to frisbee girl. just... please don't call the police on me.

uh... again. :(

flickr pls kthxbye

i'm a bit shy, but here is a recent (sfw) one:
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oh yeah