NationStates Jolt Archive

So I was walking to Uni last week, along a small lane leading to campus (on of the major student thoroughfares for those living off campus) and noticed someone had painted onto the road

"People makes mistakes"

The next day this was joined by

"My memories of you will remain after this paint has gone"

followed by

"& I've made loads"

and then today this was also joined by a

"I love you"


From this I can only conclude that someone fucked up with their partner is trying to get back in their good books in a spectacularly public and ninja-like fashion.

So my question to NSG (to avoid this just being an amusing anecdote) what acts of public declarations of romance have you seen/participated in? Bonus points if done in a ninja like fashion.

How big is the writing on the street?

I would say the individual letters are about half a foot - not gigantic but decent enough size that you can read them from a distance. I'd add that calling it a street is a bit big - it's a small dead-end lane (well dead-end for cars).

I suppose I'm going to be the one who opens the airlock of cynicism and sucks all the romance out of the spaceship of life here.

"People makes mistakes"

They certainly did there. If you're writing on public spaces with paint, you might want to proof-read yourself as you go. Also, 'people make mistakes' is one of the worst non-apology apologies I've heard in a while. Unless you want her to conclude that, yeah, people do make mistakes, and you're one of them, try a little harder. Thirdly, spray-painting sidewalks isn't romantic, it's vandalism. Someone who's not you is going to have to clean that up now, so knock it off.

I'm a fairly private person, so I'm not big on public displays of...anything, really. Plus, it seems to me like big public displays usually end up being more about the person making them, then the person they're intended for.

They certainly did there. If you're writing on public spaces with paint, you might want to proof-read yourself as you go.

Actually that's my failure in transcribing :p

Also, 'people make mistakes' is one of the worst non-apology apologies I've heard in a while. Unless you want her to conclude that, yeah, people do make mistakes, and you're one of them, try a little harder. Thirdly, spray-painting sidewalks isn't romantic, it's vandalism. Someone who's not you is going to have to clean that up now, so knock it off.


Hey I never said it was a good romantic gesture

In the early days of my marriage I as ou drinking with a freind and on the way home thought it would be a nice romantic getsture if I got home and coverd the bed in petals.

So I vandalised many a garden with the help of my freind, got arm loads of petals home and threw the all over thebed.

My wife when she woke up to find herself with mouth full of flowers was not that impressed. However she did laugh it off and forgave (once again) my drunken shinanigans. I guess she realised that although the plan divised as it was in drunkeness come from the right place.

Actually that's my failure in transcribing :p Hey I never said it was a good romantic gesture

Alright, I'll concede the first point then, but the second and third still stand.

As for 'making loads', I've made loads as well, it's a useful skill and an entertaining hobby, but it's tough to do in any kind of quantity and bullets are easy enough to buy, unless you need specialty.

So, Eofaerwic, let me turn your question back on you: have you ever made any grand romantic gestures?

So, Eofaerwic, let me turn your question back on you: have you ever made any grand romantic gestures?

Nope! Don't have a romantic bone in my body, as several of my ex-girlfriends will attest.

Which is why I tend to be amused at other people's big romantic gestires.

I'm much the same way, so it's good that my current inamorata is fairly shy and would be horribly embarrassed by any big public to-do.

Which doesn't mean she doesn't appreciate the little gestures, and those, I can do.

I used to date someone who lived near a metro (subway/undergound/light rail, whatever you want to call it) station. One day, I went there and wrote on all the posters that depicted models: "Not as beautiful as (the name of the one I was dating)".

I used to date someone who lived near a metro (subway/undergound/light rail, whatever you want to call it) station. One day, I went there and wrote on all the posters that depicted models: "Not as beautiful as (the name of the one I was dating)".

Aww, romantic vandalism.

I done it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGmxNNf7-2U) (but it was more her window at like 2am)

less romance more epic

I used to date someone who lived near a metro (subway/undergound/light rail, whatever you want to call it) station. One day, I went there and wrote on all the posters that depicted models: "Not as beautiful as (the name of the one I was dating)".

you'd be kinda fucked if you missed one :p

Thirdly, spray-painting sidewalks isn't romantic, it's vandalism.

Of course it's romantic if it is done in a romantic context. As with the OP.

It's not as if 'obeying the law' is some sort of prerequisite for romance.

Thirdly, spray-painting sidewalks isn't romantic, it's vandalism.

It can be more than thing.

The following conversation was spelled out across a few days in one of the men's room stalls at university. This is what bored Yale freshmen men do:

"all property is theft"

"so is this quote"

"thus I am vindicated!"

"well I vindicated your mom last night."

"....dad?"

The following conversation was spelled out across a few days in one of the men's room stalls at university. This is what bored Yale freshmen men do:

"all property is theft"

"so is this quote"

"thus I am vindicated!"

"well I vindicated your mom last night."

"....dad?"

Ours was more lowbrow.

"Any ladies want to see my dick?"
"When will ladies ever be in here?"

So my question to NSG (to avoid this just being an amusing anecdote) what acts of public declarations of romance have you seen/participated in? Bonus points if done in a ninja like fashion.

My wife (who worked at the same workplace, at the time), had flowers, chocolates, and a teddy bear delivered to me in the middle of the working day. That was pretty awesome.