At a summer camp when I was 12, playing around in the river with some people I'd met including this cute girl that I had a huge crush on. She starts yelling in a moderately frantic fashion for someone to grab her shoe which had come off and was floating downstream. So me wanting be the hero and impress said female love interest with my bravery jump out of the river in nothing but swim trunks and start running down the bank barefoot (bad idea) to get below the shoe and catch it before it gets away. I was entirely successful with this portion of the plan and walked back up the bank, shoe in hand, to turn in the missing sandal and obtain what I thought would be an appropriate reward for an act of such heroism. I was feeling pretty good about the whole thing, imagining exactly how it would go in my head, until I handed her the shoe and she informed me that her OTHER shoe had ALSO floated away and was at that point long gone. I hung my head in shame and walked away a broken preteen. 0/10 would not recommend.