Not what she was expecting...
After the beginnings of the recession, my girlfriend and I had to leave our flat and move in with our respective parents again. Unfortunately, my girlfriend of 3 years couldn't get a job in the barren wasteland that was oop north, whereas I quickly found agency work with long hours and shit pay.

We made occasional trips to places, she came down for a couple of weeks at a time, only returning north to sign on again. I only went to her place once in our entire relationship - her family were not normal, but that's not for this qotw.

Anyway, I soon found my eye wandering, she was out of sight and mind for weeks at a time, apart from the the odd telephone call, there was little preventing me from seeing this lovely lady round the corner. After a kiss, things got a little serious, I weighed up the options and decided to do the honourable thing and go up to see the soon-to-be ex.

I needed to do it now, 'cos next weekend it will be her birthday and you don't want to be a douche and break-up with her on her birthday.

What I missed completely was that it was the middle of February, the only day I could go up was Saturday. The 14th.

I've got a pretty good memory with public transport, so even though I'd only taken that trip once, I knew which bus and vaguely the right stop. I saw the Chinese take-away place we went to on the corner and remembered how grim everything was up north. This was her road alright.

What I'm useless with are door numbers.

So that's how I ended up outside my girlfriend's window on Valentine's evening, break-up flowers at the ready and called her asking her to look out her bedroom window.

(Not only did this help confirm it was her house, but also checked if she was actually home so I didn't have to talk to her parents at the door)

Oh man. She was so happy for like 2 minutes tops.
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 21:46, 6 replies)

pitch this
as a plot for a movie :-)
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 3 Jan 2013, 21:57, closed)

Can I be played
by Ryan Gosling?
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Fri 4 Jan 2013, 10:18, closed)

You'd lose

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 15:03, closed)

breakup flowers? you cheapskate. you should have got her a breakup diamond ring!

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 22:09, closed)

The fuck are break-up flowers?
Sorry I shagged somebody else, here's some floppy chrysanths from the Esso garage.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 23:31, closed)

Ha ha!
You utter bastard, I hope she kicked you in the balls.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 4 Jan 2013, 9:36, closed)