I’ve always been the fat guy who had crushes on girls out of my league.
I graduated high school in 1980. Around 1990, I realized the cute lusciously-zaftig valedictorian girl in my class who kept asking me for my school pic & I just never got around to giving her one (and I had plenty)- well, I mighta had a chance.
I saw her at the reunion before last- still pretty & friendly but lean, muscular, kinda sun-aged & seems to prefer her own gender, so I just didn’t ask.
My junior year of high school I was deciding between two girls to ask to a dance. A super-hot sophomore and a cute junior. Both seemed into me enough to take the risk. I picked the cute junior, but she actually was batshit insane and already had a boyfriend (something she didn’t reveal until our second date).
The other one was sane and is now a well-adjusted, successful artist and still super-hot. It might never had lasted (or even begun), but damn did I pick wrong.
A nice, attractive Chinese-American girl hinted to my dense self in high school that I should ask her out, which I didn’t. Awhile back I found out that she had gone on to a respected career as a film actress.
The important one however did not get away. 
Find out years down the line that there was this one hot chick I could have totally nailed if I hadn’t been so oblivious? Yeah, fortunately the universe seems to have spared me this indignity.
Something similar happened to Hollywood star Gene Tierney. From Wiki:
*Two weeks after *The Male Animal * [her stage debut] opened, one evening before the curtain went up, there was a rumor that Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox had flown in from the coast and was in the audience. During the performance, he told an assistant to make a note of Tierney’s name. Later that night, Zanuck dropped by the Stork Club, where he saw a young lady on the dance floor. He told his assistant, “Forget the girl from the play. See if you can sign that one.” It was Tierney. Zanuck was not easily convinced that the two women were one and the same. Tierney was quoted after the fact, “I always had several different ‘looks’, a quality that proved useful in my career.” *
I thought I could do better.
Turns out I couldn’t :smack:
That would explain my confusion. “Dogzilla knew more than one Chip? There aren’t that many Chips out there.”
[QUOTE=Gene Tierney]
I always had several different ‘looks’, a quality that proved useful in my career.
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And all of which really worked well.
Maybe you just haven’t realized it yet. It’s given that guys are clueless idiots. 
Most definitely. I just saw her in Laura. She was quite a beaut.
Since then, I’ve met another Chip – the brother of my BFF. This time, I was 100% absolutely, positively sure it wasn’t the same Chip. (I had to interrogate him: “Did you work as a bartender at The Union in the early 1990s?” :dubious: Are you* sure*?)
You could have dated Lucy Liu?! And your wife is the important one? You are one lucky guy.