40+ Times Throughout History People Tried to Do Kind Things Only to Have Them Backfire Massively

Love, as Andy Williams says, is a many-splendored thing. But on the other hand, as Martha and the Vandellas tell us, love makes us do foolish things. Maybe we spend hours sitting by the phone, waiting for a call. Maybe we spend hours stalking the person we like on Facebook and looking at all their old vacation photos.

Or maybe we set up an insane web of lies to convince their significant other to dump them, all the while pretending to be our crush’s friend, in the hope that our crush falls into our arms when their relationship falls apart. Although that’s beyond foolish—that’s pretty alarming.