Posted: July 21, 2008 9:29:50 pm
Have you ever performed a grand gesture for somebody you cared about? Ever gotten one? A surprise trip to Greece? A proposal at a Royals game? Or is it the little things you prefer to get and give?
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Posted: July 21, 2008 10:38:34 pm
I'd take numerous little things over a lifetime than a few or one big deal. Who likes to stop doin the little things
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Posted: July 21, 2008 11:24:32 pm
I think grand gestures are kind of absurd. You still have to put in the day to day work. And unless they are rooted in more important things, they come across as uncreative. What's better, a dozen roses or one of your favorite flower? (if you're favorite flower is the rose the I don't know what to tell you.)
Posted: July 22, 2008 9:36:11 am
Both are important, and my husband is good about them both. For example, he met me for dinner with some friends the day after V-Day and had a beautiful pair of diamond and sapphire earrings to give me. We had discussed not getting each other V-Day presents, so he gave them to me the day after and said, "You didn't say anything about the day after."
Very sweet surprise.
He also does little things like gets me gas sometimes cuz he knows I hate getting it.
Hmm, I think I need to be better about it though.
Very sweet surprise.
He also does little things like gets me gas sometimes cuz he knows I hate getting it.
Hmm, I think I need to be better about it though.
Posted: July 22, 2008 9:25:54 pm
well i can't recall any grand gestures honestly. but i do know he tucks me in at night, and pops up to take me to lunch sporadically. he sends me text kisses regularly as well as other things...........so yeah, i feel he is one big grand gesture.
he did get himself a passport and has flown (which he hates) over both the pacific and atlantic oceans to take me to the exotic locales i crave. grand enough?
he did get himself a passport and has flown (which he hates) over both the pacific and atlantic oceans to take me to the exotic locales i crave. grand enough?
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Posted: July 23, 2008 10:04:23 am
sooooooo, it was brought to my attention that my husband did plan a surprise trip for my birthday last year. have i mentioned that he is awesome?
thephoenix said:
well i can't recall any grand gestures honestly. but i do know he tucks me in at night, and pops up to take me to lunch sporadically. he sends me text kisses regularly as well as other things...........so yeah, i feel he is one big grand gesture.
he did get himself a passport and has flown (which he hates) over both the pacific and atlantic oceans to take me to the exotic locales i crave. grand enough?
well i can't recall any grand gestures honestly. but i do know he tucks me in at night, and pops up to take me to lunch sporadically. he sends me text kisses regularly as well as other things...........so yeah, i feel he is one big grand gesture.
he did get himself a passport and has flown (which he hates) over both the pacific and atlantic oceans to take me to the exotic locales i crave. grand enough?
whoever said love is overrated must not be getting none
Posted: July 31, 2008 6:37:06 pm
among the many, took my fiance to look at a house, she loved it and after we talked about how it just wasn't the right time. I went ahead and bought it and the closing was on her birthday. The closing lawyers said I had pissed off everyone of the firm's significant others for my act. In the end, house is for sale and single.
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Posted: July 31, 2008 6:51:48 pm
the grandest gesture ever was my girlfriend buying me a tivo and a year's service. this was when digital video recorders were in their infancy. she even gave it to me two weeks before my birthday so i could record some soccer games i was going to miss due to work.
may not seem like a big deal now, but at the time i was floored. we were both poor. i am still rather poor.
i am not exactly the romantic type, but i was going to take this same girlfriend rafting in the ozarks for her birthday. we broke up before this happened. shucks.
may not seem like a big deal now, but at the time i was floored. we were both poor. i am still rather poor.
i am not exactly the romantic type, but i was going to take this same girlfriend rafting in the ozarks for her birthday. we broke up before this happened. shucks.
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Posted: August 1, 2008 1:30:53 pm
I know these two gestures may seem tiny to the average Joe, but to my wife and me, they were exceptionally "grand". Gesture #1 - When she and I were first dating years ago, I heard from her co-worker (she worked at a retail biggie) that she liked this particular white, stuffed, and very soft baby polar (teddy) bear that her store carried. So I bought it and had it gift wrapped. I surprised her that evening with the gift. She was not expecting a present, and had no idea what it was. When she unwrapped the gift and saw the bear, she started to cry. Brownie points big time.
Gesture #2 – Every year for Christmas when I was growing up, my mother would make these special shortbread cookies. It was the only time of year she would make them. Years later, when I was a grown, married man, Christmas time rolled around and I decided to make those cookies myself; even though I am not a cook or a baker. I looked over the list of ingredients from the family recipe. My wife suggested I get the synthetic, fake butter instead of the real deal. My attempt to bake those cookies with that artificial goo was a complete disaster. The dough would not stick together and I ended up throwing out the entire mixture. Needless to say I was extremely frustrated at my failed attempt at baking. I was so looking forward to those cookies I had enjoyed so many years before. I stewed on that the next day, the entire day, until I got home from work and realized that my wife (who had witnessed my unsuccessful efforts and subsequent depression) had baked me a huge batch of my mother’s homemade Christmas shortbread cookies. “I” started to cry... just kidding. We now have those cookies every year for Christmas.
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Gesture #2 – Every year for Christmas when I was growing up, my mother would make these special shortbread cookies. It was the only time of year she would make them. Years later, when I was a grown, married man, Christmas time rolled around and I decided to make those cookies myself; even though I am not a cook or a baker. I looked over the list of ingredients from the family recipe. My wife suggested I get the synthetic, fake butter instead of the real deal. My attempt to bake those cookies with that artificial goo was a complete disaster. The dough would not stick together and I ended up throwing out the entire mixture. Needless to say I was extremely frustrated at my failed attempt at baking. I was so looking forward to those cookies I had enjoyed so many years before. I stewed on that the next day, the entire day, until I got home from work and realized that my wife (who had witnessed my unsuccessful efforts and subsequent depression) had baked me a huge batch of my mother’s homemade Christmas shortbread cookies. “I” started to cry... just kidding. We now have those cookies every year for Christmas.
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