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In your younger days, how shy or bold were you about asking a girl out?
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:37 pm
I was generally reserved and/or reticent, but every once in a while I would be very bold, usually with unsuccessful results LOL. "I can't bat for crap, but I think I'll give Paul Skenes a try." I also think the expression "there is a fine line between red arse and dumbass" applies.
There was a h.s. girl named Donna at Greenville High School She was super good looking. She would occasionally roll into Church's Chicken where I worked. I'm sure I looked great to the few girls that came, as I was wearing my shiny brown polyester pants, the official Church's Chicken shirt, and that stylish paper hat. Donna was always very nice to us (She was a Senior, we were sophomores).
One day, looked her number up in the phone book (long before cell phones) and asked her out. She was very cool, but of course said "no thank you." Asking her out was both bold and ridiculous.
She graduated and married, I believe, "some tough customer from New Orleans" (a bunch of small town Texas guys thought New Orleans was an exotic, dangerous place).
In a big city, a guy can ask out a ton of girls, just playing the numbers. In smaller towns, word would get out and you'd start being viewed as a weirdo LOL
There was a h.s. girl named Donna at Greenville High School She was super good looking. She would occasionally roll into Church's Chicken where I worked. I'm sure I looked great to the few girls that came, as I was wearing my shiny brown polyester pants, the official Church's Chicken shirt, and that stylish paper hat. Donna was always very nice to us (She was a Senior, we were sophomores).
One day, looked her number up in the phone book (long before cell phones) and asked her out. She was very cool, but of course said "no thank you." Asking her out was both bold and ridiculous.
She graduated and married, I believe, "some tough customer from New Orleans" (a bunch of small town Texas guys thought New Orleans was an exotic, dangerous place).
In a big city, a guy can ask out a ton of girls, just playing the numbers. In smaller towns, word would get out and you'd start being viewed as a weirdo LOL
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Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:41 pm to chinhoyang
You can just tell...
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:43 pm to chinhoyang
No game whatsoever.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:43 pm to chinhoyang
"My love for you is like diarrhea. I just can’t hold it back."
"On a scale of “1 to America,” how free are you tonight?"
"Do you know what my shirt is made of? Boyfriend material."
"On a scale of “1 to America,” how free are you tonight?"
"Do you know what my shirt is made of? Boyfriend material."
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:45 pm to chinhoyang
Shy as hell about asking out. I thought the game was that I should get to know them and be nice, then the natural next step would be for them to like me more than a friend. Got friend-zoned several times before I finally learned in college.
This post was edited on 4/21/26 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:47 pm to chinhoyang
Terrible. I hated and still do hate small talk, and there was an insecure fear of rejection. Dating apps really broke me out of my shell because that nonsense was out of the way. I started asking people out in the world easier after that too.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:49 pm to chinhoyang
After a few spectacular rejections I basically gave up until dating apps became popular.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:51 pm to chinhoyang
'Nice legs"
"What time do they open?"
This line just didn't have the effect I originally thought it might.
"What time do they open?"
This line just didn't have the effect I originally thought it might.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:52 pm to chinhoyang
I usually just asked out girls at McDonalds.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:53 pm to Recognizable Poster
quote:
"My love for you is like diarrhea. I just can’t hold it back."
"On a scale of “1 to America,” how free are you tonight?"
"Do you know what my shirt is made of? Boyfriend material."
2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 5:57 pm to SUB
quote:
Shy as hell about asking out. I thought the game was that I should get to know them and be nice, then the natural next step would be for them to like me more than a friend. Got friend-zoned several times before I finally learned in college.
Same here. But I was the one friend zoning girls. It all changed when the woman I was too intimidated to ask out because I just knew she was way out of my league and could do better than me, made her interest in me known to me. We’ve been married 30+ years.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:01 pm to chinhoyang
Not so much shy as clueless. I had a class in college with a girl who always smiled and talked to me every day. It wasn't until much later that I realized she spent the whole semester throwing mad hints I never picked up on.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:08 pm to chinhoyang
I was pretty damn clueless for the most part. Dated a girl from 9th grade until freshman year in college. She had to get one of her friends to tell me she wanted to ask her out. I never was the type to go hit on girls in bars and shite. I was only successful at that once and I knew her from the gym. Once I got a little older if I was interested I told her and if I got rejected oh well on to the next. It was never random girls I walked up to, it was always somebody I had talked to before through class or friends. Once I got on bumble/tinder I'd move from text to in person meet up as quickly as possible. At the end of the first meet up I was straight up about if I wanted to see them again or not.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:14 pm to chinhoyang
I didnt ask any girls out during my teen years. I just didnt want the hassle of a relationship and preferred doing my own thing even if that meant foregoing a supply of poontang.
Still like this to an extent, but I would miss coming home to a wife and kids.
Still like this to an extent, but I would miss coming home to a wife and kids.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:26 pm to chinhoyang
Very insecure relative to asking girls out in HS. And clueless.
This post was edited on 4/21/26 at 6:27 pm
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:30 pm to chinhoyang
If I was giving advice to young dudes today that were nervous about picking up girls, I’d tell them this trick.
Don’t go out trying to get “2 or 3 numbers” and being worried about rejection each time. Instead, go out and TRY to get rejected 10 times in a row. Make it a game with your buddies. Once you look at it that way, you won’t even get close to 10.
Getting rejected is like getting hit. Once you’re used to it, you don’t even feel it. And when you don’t feel it, it’s at that point when you are most confident.
Don’t go out trying to get “2 or 3 numbers” and being worried about rejection each time. Instead, go out and TRY to get rejected 10 times in a row. Make it a game with your buddies. Once you look at it that way, you won’t even get close to 10.
Getting rejected is like getting hit. Once you’re used to it, you don’t even feel it. And when you don’t feel it, it’s at that point when you are most confident.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:30 pm to chinhoyang
I’m 39, married with 2 kids and I still get nervous hitting on my wife in fear of rejection. So what does that tell you about my dating life before her? Dating sites and technology certainly made it easier. If it wasn’t for that I would still be single
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:32 pm to chinhoyang
Before online dating you had to be bold.
Got a lot of nos, but some yes mixed in too. That's the default setting though. The nos were usually very polite. Most of them say they have a boyfriend already. Probably true a lot of the time and still a good way to say no even if it's not.
Got a lot of nos, but some yes mixed in too. That's the default setting though. The nos were usually very polite. Most of them say they have a boyfriend already. Probably true a lot of the time and still a good way to say no even if it's not.
This post was edited on 4/21/26 at 6:33 pm
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:53 pm to JoeyP239
quote:get a job bartending. It’s like magic
If I was giving advice to young dudes today that were nervous about picking up girls, I’d tell them this trick.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:56 pm to chinhoyang
I was always pretty clueless about girls liking me. I definitely lost out on some prime opportunities by being young and dumb.
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