I'll share another of my screw ups.

At the same time as it was meant to be romantic, it was also meant to be funny.

Her birthday was coming up. I was low on cash. So, I grabbed a block of wood, and set out carving an intricate heart. Took me 34 hours in total.
At the bottom, I carved "You give me wood."

I wrapped it up in a box, and gave it to her. She opened it up, and found only the carved words. She got mad, and kicked me out. Turns out, the heart had broken off, and fallen under my workbench. Right through the bottom of the box.
So, I did what any man who'd recently been kicked out of girl's house would do.
I heaved it through her window with a note tacked to it.
"I give you wood now."