This tweet about when we failed to spot someone flirting went wildly viral – 17 favourite responses

It all started when @adamm0rgan said this over on Twitter.

When you turn 35, you should win an itemized list of all the people you didn’t realize were flirting with you in your 20s.

— Adam Morgan (@adamm0rgan) August 2, 2022

And it went viral – wildly viral – and prompted some very funny, often relatable and occasionally jaw-dropping replies. Here are our 17 favourites.

1.

Isn’t that just the natural result of hitting 35?

I clearly remember suddenly realising that the girl who went back to student dormitory to try my collection of different teas might not have been *100%* focused on tea.

— Marios Richards (@MariosRichards) August 3, 2022

2.

Had a girl say she wanted to go home with me after a party. I thought she was offering me a ride so I said “no thanks, I walked here.” And left.

— uncle magic (@glasshalfberg) August 3, 2022

3.

Ha! Wait until you turn 45. All those same people will contact you on Facebook.

— Julia Franks (@JuliaFranks21) August 3, 2022

4.

My 40s have been an unfolding of this list as I run into people I knew in my twenties and they say things like “I had the biggest crush on you,” and I’m like what am I supposed to do with this information now?

— Mx. Bethany Daniels (@bfaithd) August 3, 2022

5.

Dude at my husband’s 10 year HS reunion went early. Drunkenly (on stage with a mike) declared his love for a former classmate. She was there. With her husband. And pregnant.

— Kathleen O’Neil (@KathleenONeil) August 3, 2022

6.

That one dude from college who complimented me once and at the time I thought it was criticism.

In hindsight, IT WAS A COMPLIMENT.

— Mare of Easttown’s cousin (@Edited_for_TV) August 3, 2022

7.

My wife and I were packing boxes and we found a note that someone had written me (when I was single) when I left a job for another state.

At the time I thought it was just friendly, but we re-read it and my wife was like, wow, she was hitting on you.

Had. No. Idea.

— Dave Kamper 🌹 (@dskamper) August 3, 2022

8.

I have a list of people I thought were flirting with me in my 20s but for sure were not. Does that count?

— Elizabeth (@ElizabethBRue) August 3, 2022

9.

You look forward to getting that list for 15 years and then, on your 35th birthday, it’s empty.

— Glenn Kelman (@glennkelman) August 3, 2022