guyrocket,
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One time. At band camp...

In high school a friend of a very attractive popular girl asked me if I liked popular girl. I thought she was playing some kind of prank on me so I said no. It was not a prank. She really did like me. To this day I wish I would have said yes.

vacuumflower,

There are many things further down the road to go wrong with attractive popular girls. 2 most catastrophic cases in my life are with those such as them.

Admittedly I’m the one who mainly failed them due to misunderstandings and passiveness, but when a girl (being all that popular) is used to boys being rather active and competitive and social, and then you are here just cause she happened to like your looks, this may end painfully, for you more than for her.

There are also cases from the post, only I may have noticed, just wouldn’t risk losing an existing good friendship for possible romance.

ImplyingImplications,

One time a girl in my computer class kept asking me for help. She’d ask me to stand behind her and point to where she should click. She asked if the view was nice, which was weird since it’s just a computer screen. Eventually, she decided I should move her hand while it was still on the mouse. That happened a lot and I always thought “wow this girl really doesn’t get computers.”

I was in my late 20s before I realized she wanted me to look down her top and touch her hand. She must have been thinking “wow this guy really doesn’t get women”

ryannathans,

Fuck that’s the best cringe story yet

ImplyingImplications,

t-thanks

TheBat,
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Baka

RedAggroBest,

For all the sadcringe in this thread. This is true cringe. I feel the pain in my soul. She did basically everything but put your hand down her shirt.

weksa,

8th grade. A girl tells me in the presence of classmates, “I love youuuu.” I just think it’s a joke/prank so I reply, “I’m too young!” Later she privately asks me if I meant that. It didn’t click for me until high school.

Fresh out of an all-boys high school, so no interaction with girls since 8th grade. Freshman year college, fall semester. Classmate says she’s cold and hooks her arm in mine on the walk to lecture. This happens every day. Another classmate asks if we’re dating, and I say no, she’s just cold.

Same semester, same class, in a lab section, it’s warm. I ask my lab partner (different from arm girl) doesn’t she feel hot, why not take off her sweater. She looks at my and says, “I’m not wearing anything underneath.” Next day in lecture she’s dresssd up really nice and sits next to me.

Every day in this lecture these 3 girls sit with me. My high school buddy who’s also in the class tells me, while we’re studying, he thinks it’s hilarious that I’m surrounded by girls. I shrug it off.

cows_are_underrated,

That isn’t even the slightest true. There hasn’t been a single moment in my life where I was in the situation that I talked with a woman outside of them being my classmates(and even then those conversations were mostly questions and the rest being things I or them said in a bigger group). I never had a real conversation with a women so there’s absolutely no chance that I missed flirting since there was no situation where flirting could have occurred.

Sitting here writing this I realise how bad my social life/skills are.

eldain,

If they weren’t communicating at my wavelength anyway, it wouldn’t have lead to anything 🤷‍♂️ Natural preselection.

bonus_crab,

my partner of 3 years was so dense i was worried she was trying to reject me subtly by just not a acknowledging my flirting .

Eventually i had to just say “come over and lets have sex”, for her to get it. If we hadnt already known eachother for a decade I wouldve just given up because I wouldnt want to be labeled a creep in my friend group.

Katana314,

Unfortunately, I think sentiments like these lead so-labeled ugly “creeps” to start seeing false positives.

Just communicate clearly. It’s the safest thing.

jdf038,

The replies in this thread make me feel better for being so oblivious in college.

I still cringe at it but I’m glad I got past it. Again like many of you I don’t know how on earth I got married.

fosforus, (edited )

Lol nope. I like them, they flirt with me, I 100% notice it, and do nothing. Now that I’m married, it’s not a bad choice, but I did the exact same thing back when I wasn’t.

I don’t know how I got married.

imasnyper,

I once had a girl straight up say, “I’d do you”, to which I stumbled and mumbled out nothing much in reply. I don’t think I realized until about 5 years later I could have had sex that day :(

ivanafterall,
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She was probably just being nice.

objectionist,
@objectionist@lemmy.world avatar

again you really can’t tell, she might be canadian and is just nice as a profession

ivanafterall,
ivanafterall avatar

"Alright, let's do it!"

"Not, like, for REAL. It was a figure of speech. Jesus, creep."

Iron_Lynx,

This… is surprisingly familiar…

SaltyIceteaMaker,

Ha jokes on you i always run away from women

tpyoman,

Lies.

TheWanderer,

I can’t take it anymore 😭

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I was just thinking about this girl I worked with at a summer camp who suddenly said “you have amazing eyes” while I was talking to her. It was genuinely like two years later until I realized she said that because she was into me. I wasted the whole summer chasing a Dutch girl who, when I asked her at the end why I hadn’t gotten anywhere with her, said “I was disappointed in your physique.”

MrsEaves,
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The true tragedy is when you get all the social signals and you have the thought “man I wish I could just date multiple people at the same time” and it doesn’t occur to you to try that because… ???

Now I’m old and have to work 1 1/2 full time jobs to pay my bills, so. That won’t be happening.

starman2112,
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A person could tell me out loud “I’m flirting with you” and my awkward ass would still find a way to fuck it up

Nelots,

You never know, they might just be Canadian.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I had a girl in high school (high school!) literally say to me “when am I going to get to feel that dick of yours inside me?” and I blew it, thought she was just joking.

Andrew15_5,
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By asking them “Why?”

Resistentialism,

“I’m flirting with you,”

“Why? Don’t lie to me.” Whilst I’m making a mental list of absolutely everything why that’s complete bollocks

vacuumflower,

Imagine a girl you like putting a hand on your shoulder, looking into your eyes, saying some gentle word I don’t quite remember due to being mesmerized by those eyes, and you know what I did? I just looked back uneasily for a few seconds, then nervously took her hand off my shoulder, shook it a bit, released it and awkwardly smiled. (That even wasn’t her last attempt to make me happy against my best efforts ; ended bad anyway.)

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