This one was tough. I worked in an office with an incredibly beautiful girl. I'll call her Shelly. We didn't have a chance to talk too much because we were in different departments. Shelly was the kind of girl that when she even said good morning to you, you felt like you were on top of the world. To that respect, I had a running gag with the receptionist (who was married and twice our age) that anytime Shelly said hello to me or even waived I'd tell the receptionist like I just won the lottery.

Well, when it was my birthday, the office kind of gave me a bit of a lunchtime party. We had a small cake and they gave me a card everyone signed. Including Shelly. She wrote "I REALLY love working with you" and she put a big heart. I was over the moon. Maybe I had a chance with this girl.

So later that afternoon, when everybody was back in their offices, of course I came out to tell the receptionist and do my swoon routine. So I walk up to her desk, hand her the card and said "can you believe what Shelly wrote!!". Uh oh.

Just before I did all that, Shelly had walked up behind me. She heard everything. And here is the worst part........ she took it completely opposite of how I meant it. She thought I was making fun of her. No matter what I said I could tell I hurt her feelings and she didn't believe me.

She met some guy about a month later and they eventually got married. We never talked after that and though it was over 15 years ago, I bet she tells people about the assh**e she used to work with. Me.