In ninth grade, I would buy ice cream from the school cafeteria for the girl who I liked in hopes of garnering her affection.
In tenth grade, I broke a water pipe, destroyed a portable eye wash, and placed cafeteria buns – complete with poetry and props – on the desk of a biology teacher who wore her hair in a bun in order to convince a girl that she and I were meant to be together.
When I was 22 years old, I tried to fight two guys simultaneously in a parking lot in College Park, Maryland, in order to impress a girl who I liked.
When I was 23 years-old, I drank an unprecedented amount of alcohol in hopes of getting a girl’s attention.
When I was 32 years-old, I asked a girl to brunch while she and I were both sitting in our cars at a stop light, hoping that a little daring might win the day.
You’ll be surprised to learn that none of these efforts yielded the desired results.
But the Japanese puffer fish puts everything I did to shame. What it does to attract the attention of a female counterpart is nothing shirt of astounding.
The video is about two minutes long, but you’ll be thinking about it for days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQr8xDk_UaY