Hey Pandas, What's Something That Someone Did That Completely Swept You Off Your Feet? (Closed)

Not romantic but friend related- I got diagnosed with cancer in October 2020. I had major surgery scheduled only 2 weeks from the day I got diagnosed. I was in shock and didn't know what to do about taking care of my many animals-dogs, cats, chickens, ducks and geese. I knew it would be at least a month before I'd be able to care for them myself. I reached out to one friend, who, within 24 hours, organized a team of people to take turns feeding my animals, checking up on me and bringing me food until I could take care of myself. I'm on the shy side and it was hard to ask for any help at all, but the love and support I got was simply overwhelming. I'll be forever grateful.

Without me asking, my bff (also my ex from 10 years ago) got on a bus in his city, rode over an hour to my city, and walked to my house from the bus stop on unshoveled sidewalks 2 days after a blizzard that dumped 3 feet of snow on us. Why? To shovel my car out for me so I didn't have to do it. I didn't even have anyplace to go or any need to leave the house for the next 3 days, by which the snow was gone anyways bc temps rose and it rained so much the snow melted. Oh, and he's 46 and a 20+ year smoker, so it's not like he's some super healthy young guy, either! May not sound romantic in the traditional way, but damn, he treats me better than any other man ever has.

Was taking a martial arts class with a friend, and we were practicing Shaolin foot sweeps. (Basically you kick their legs and they fall over).
He accidently did it a bit to hard and I couldn't walk properly for a week.

He mailed me a card after we had gone out a few times and were definitely hitting it off, but hadn’t gotten too hot and heavy just yet..he just wrote something cute on a goofy card about how happy he was that we’d met and how every time he said goodnight at the end of one of our dates, he immediately felt like he couldn’t wait to see me again. It was really sweet, but what got me was that he actually took the time to get a card, buy a stamp and mail it to me, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it with all the junk mail that’s usually waiting in my mailbox. I almost never get personal mail anymore…who does? Amazon doesn’t count! My friends thought it was adorable. Ultimately we didn’t work out ( he was a nice guy, no big dramatic reason or anything) but my now-husband has always been impressed by the card-guy story. He’s like, “that is a KILLER move…doesn’t cost a lot, it’s thoughtful and it’s cute and kind of romantic if the girl is on the same wave- length, it’s just enough to sway a girl who’s kind of on the fence about you, but it doesn’t cross the line into creepy needy desperate guy territory. It’s brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that move when I was dating?” My response is, “ yeah, why DIDN’T you?!” Lol.

In high school, I had a French teacher, Madame Onda, who was little, feisty and totally inappropriate at times…we loved her! I don’t remember how it started, but her son and I (we’ve never met to this day) started flirting through her. One Valentine’s Day, Madam Onda showed up with a dozen roses and we all commented on how romantic her husband was. She then handed them to me and it turns out that they were for me, from her son, Pierre. I have brown skin, but I blushed that day. It was unexpected and romantic. I sent him a thank you card, and we flirted until I graduated from that school. 💐

I was 29 and had finally decided that I had had enough of my nine year on again- off again relationship. I had my heart broken to a million pieces in about a million different ways by my ex. I had come to the conclusion that some people are meant to be happy and some people were meant to be sad and I was just meant to be the latter. I had totally given up hope of finding the love of my life and I had decided it was time to just come to terms with that. I was set up on a blind date. He was good looking, funny, interesting and a great listener. We talked, went to a movie, walked on the beach, talked some more, watched videos, talked had breakfast, went to the park, talked some more.... It ended up being a 42 hour blind date. We had talked and talked about everything under the son, including about how I had given up hope of finding love or even of being happy. Yes, I know, kind of a bad choice of topics to have on a date. But he just went on to tell me how important it was to keep hope in my heart. He was sweet and caring and just amazing to talk to. At the end of our date when he dropped me off at home, I leaned into the car to give him a kiss and then walked towards my house. He called me back to the car. When I got back to him he held out his hand to give me something. When I looked into my hand, there was a rock with the word HOPE carved into it. I looked at him and said, You just happened to have this on you?" He just said You should always keep hope close. ...and I melted!!
The next day a brought a bouquet of flowers to my friend who set us up on the blind date with a note that said, Thank you for introducing me to the man I am going to marry. We will be married 22 years this May.

Chronically Ill my husband did every night with our baby. Also makes me coffee every morning. Best human I have met

I met a silly, clever boy who raced me up a hill to get away from our friends. He asked to kiss me, then asked if he could take me out. We will be married for ten years next week. Gentlemen, let the girl (or boy) you're interested in know, even if you think you're making a fool of yourself. Ladies (or gentlemen) let yourself have some fun, you never know how long the fun can last when you really get along.

Not romantic, but I recently had my first play at school. It was small, I was only on stage for a few minutes, but it was huge to me. Two of my older sisters came with their partners and kid, and my niece and her husband came as well. After the bows, when I went to look for them, I just expected to be taken home and that would be it- but instead, my niece gave me flowers, one of my sisters gave me pocky and chocolates, and the sister that took me home took me out for ice cream. It made the whole night really special, as I wasn't expecting any of it.

Today in my geography class my crush and friend were fooling around while I was sitting between them, and long story short I ended up being hit the head with a Chromebook. My crush is the one that accidentally hit me with it and for some reason his instant response was to just...pat my head I guess? Except he didn't end up patting and kind of just held his hand on the side of my head while he asked if I was okay. And, my gosh, if I had been standing up I may have not been able to stay standing. I swear sometimes he's so annoying, but I still fall harder for him every day because he does things like this. I don't think he's meaning to do this stuff, but honestly I'm glad he does.

I play an online game called sky children of light, on this game you can unlock a chat option. So, one day i was doing my own thing and i met someone who wanted to be my friend, little did i know i was about to become friends with one of the most awesome people in the world! What made him awesome was that not only did he have a since of humor, but he also had a serious side and was a great listener. You might be wondering what happened next, well we are still GREAT friends and still play together to this day and don't show any signs of stopping. The thing that really makes my heart jump is how he will stay up till' midnight just to talk to me! if you are reading this Emir, I just want you to know that I am thankful that I took that candle.

I had my adored cat Linus to be put down last week. this morning I went to the vet to pay the bill and discovered they paid to have a little urn with his ashes, and gave it to me as a present. I cried so much again. welcome back home, my love

My uncle was knocked off his feet, literally. His story knocked me off my feet. In his 80s, he had returned from the doctor's office and was telling me that the doc asked, "does anything else hurt?" And he said "my knee." "How long has it been hurting?" He thought for a second and said "about 62 years." Then he told me the story. In 1930 his small college was playing an eastern powerhouse, Bucknell. His knee got hurt when a Bucknell all-American fullback ran over him. My uncle died shortly thereafter from the other pain - cancer. I decided to look the story up. I found that the two teams met, and that the star fullback not only was an all-American but is in both the college and NFL Hall of Fame (he played for the Packers for ten years). Look up Clark Hinkle, who once scored 50 points in one game. My uncle added: "I always took comfort in the fact that my bad knee was courtesy of an all-American player."

The time in 7th grade I jumped on a frozen puddle to show my friends how grippy my shoes were

Ok this is going to sounds corny but here goes. Fell for a quiet girl a while back, spent a lot of time pinning for her (we're together now but this story happened during that time). One day we were at some event together and neither of us were having fun. Usually I'm the impulsive one but she just grabbed my arm and pulled me away and we booked it out of there. Eventually we found a spot to sit down and rest and we were both laughing pretty hard form our sudden dash. Watching her flop down on the grass out of breath and smiling after running away from everyone and just seeing that side of her made my heart go WHOOP and I've been hooked ever since. ...we did get in trouble for separating from the group though lol

Many years ago, right after my devastating divorce from a sociopath, I had gone out with friends on a Saturday night to a blues club, and met a guy while waiting at the bar for drinks. We hit it off, and spent the rest of the evening talking and laughing... it was the first really good time I'd had in a while. He asked for my number, but for a couple days, I heard nothing, and was very disappointed because I thought we'd sparked. Then on Tuesday he called and said "I don't know if you remember me, we met on Saturday night, and I have been dying to call you, but I thought if I called on Sunday I would seem too desperate, and then I thought no one calls on a Monday night, so I decided to hold on until Tuesday... is Tuesday too soon? I had a really good time, and I've never laughed so much while trying to suck in my gut before." I think I fell in love with him right then.

This isn’t a romantic one, but my friend knew I was single and sad last year on Valentine’s Day, so she texted me “HAPPY PLATONIC VALENTINES DAY, LOVE IS FOR LOSERS!!!” I started smiling at my phone and my sister asked me if my boyfriend had told me happy Valentine’s Day. Lol nope, even better, my super cool swaggy friend!!! :D I’m gonna return the favor with my other friends as well this year because it’s quite honestly genius :)

Boyfriend is having friends over tonight for a cold outdoor gathering/bachelor party for his friend. He's been stressing about getting the house cleaned (we're currently in the midst of a remodel so everything is nuts in here) and getting everything ready and perfect. When I got up this morning before work, I was making a mental checklist of all the tasks I had planned to take care of once I got home. I had a crummy day at work, but had every intention of cleaning tonight. Boyfriend looked exhausted when I walked in and informed me that everything had been taken care of and he wanted to make sure it was before I got home because he knew how tired I'd be.

It's the simple things, and he executes every single one of them.

(Group of guys aged 45-65 are sitting outside around a fire having a great cold time, while I'm in here drinking whiskey reading bored panda ;) )

I met my current boyfriend of 6 years on a dating app. He was the first guy who actually read my profile and asked me about stuff on it.

I was living in China (I’m Canadian) and met an Irish bloke when I visited Beijing. We hooked up and then he helped secure a cab to the train station. I ended up leaving (and thus loosing) my bags in that cab. I went back to the Hostel and that man helped me in every way possible. I didn’t speak good mandarin at the time but he did and drug me around town, paid for part of a new ticket as I didn’t have enough, tried to get my bags back as much as he could, bought me beer and food. He was a great lover to begin with but then went well beyond the extra mile. I still think of him often and actually recently reached out to him. Yeah, he swept me off my feet from the get-go but his kindness after the fact really left an imprint.