In CDT we were working with plastics, LEDs and Batteries and since it was our project for the half term period beginning January to mid-February, I had a brilliant idea which I worked solidly and painstakingly on for six weeks.
Now, in year 8, maybe 9, there was a girl in the same house as me but a year below who I really fancied. She also fancied me, only sadly, not at the same time.
One assembly, which also happened to be Valentine’s Day, I shyly advanced a couple of rows in front of where my year sat and handed her over an envelope that was perhaps, upon reflection, rather bulkier than it needed to be.
I watched, hovering in a state somewhere between pride, humiliation and hope, as she opened the envelope and took out what, from 100 paces must have looked like some sort of idiot’s attempt at an IED.
In actual fact, it was a pink piece of A4 card folded in half (landscape, obvs) and with a heart shape cut out of the front by a stanley knife. The heart shape was filled with a two inch thick layered 3-D plastic heart shape with a red LED poking up in the middle, meekly - almost apologetically winking at her.
As she opened the card, on the inside left cover was taped a HR9V battery capped and maybe six inches of wiring taped at various points leading to the back of the heart. Clearly, this made the card’s weight balance rather left-heavy.
It was as she read the message that I saw her ears going through every shade of red right through to ribena purple.
‘Roses are red
Violets are blue
The weight of this card
Is slightly less than that of my lust for you’
Unfortunatley, it had taken me so long to file the plastic into the heart shape and delicately layer it, I didn’t have time to add in the musical element which I had planned to play Greensleves when she opened it… Oh, what might have been if I’d managed that!
