Multiple stories are also fine!!!
Doesn’t have to be one story.
Three summers back I was painting my house which is a miserable job especially because the walls of my house were deteriorating '70s pebble dash. Little rocks embedded in stucco kept falling out making a mess on the deck and getting stuck in vehicle tire grooves. The paint has kept them from sloughing off ever since. I went to a home hardware shop to get more paint since I underestimated how thirsty the walls would be. Dirty, overheated, and grumpy with my mind on the shitty task.
I was blasting Battle Beast in my silver 2011 Nissan Altima (yes the meme car) and apparently my parking job was so quick, immaculate, and confidently within the lines that I made a lady swoon. Or because a tall guy hopped out, who knows.
Out of the car I’m briskly walking towards the entrance across the sprawling baking-hot asphalt parking lot when she ran up behind to stop me and commented on my 1337 parking skillz. Now idk about you, but personally in my lived experience it’s extremely rare to have a stranger approach you in a parking lot unless they’re up to no good, begging, or mad at you for some reason.
So I immediately hedged because I figured the “compliment” was passive aggressive and maybe I just fucked up or something. I asked her if she was upset with me for some reason. She said no, and reiterated what she said which wasn’t helpful and I figured that might also be sarcasm. So we stood there staring at each other as I ran back the last few minutes desperately trying to figure out what I did wrong. Eventually I blue screened and just said “okay” and turned around to continue my paint resupply mission, unsure how to handle the extremely awkward encounter with an admittedly attractive-looking woman, who in hindsight I think was being genuine.
We managed to run into each other indoors and both of us intensely avoided eye contact or saying anything further. Amazing.
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Does “never” count as a bad time?
A friend of mine’s sister was making comments about me and asked if she could kiss me with her husband sitting right next to us. That was pretty fucking awkward.
Was working a summer job as a cashier and some girl comes in. She’s flirty and asks for my number. I was surprised and kind of didn’t trust it, so I just blurt out “sorry got a girlfriend.” It all happened so fast. In hindsight, she was cute and I should’ve given her my number, but my brain froze in shock. It was also kind of weird being hit on with a line of customers behind her too.
At a strip club. Ma’am, this is a transaction.
Anyone. Anytime. Anywhere. I am somewhat oblivious that anyone could be at all attracted to my ass, despite all evidence to the contrary.
About a decade ago, a conservative coworker asked me out after complaining about trans people in bathrooms and calling us predators.
I’m trans
I guess that’s a compliment tha you pass at least? 😭😭😭
It’s the “we can always tell” crowd, ladies and gentlemen
Funny thing is I had only been transitioning for a few years at that point
I mean I started passing after only like a year of e and voice training tbf, even tho I was very suspicious of it
Is it? Sounds like Republican status quo to me.
I was 15 years old and on a schooltrip to Berlin. We smoked some weed at the hostel and i got high as fuck. I stepped into the elevator to go to my room to chill and this girl from a different class followed me. In the elevator she straight up asked me if i would like to go to her bunk for some fun and i was like “nah, im too high for that right now.” i was such a dumbass in my teens.
Given that you were high, skipping that offer was the better choice
Swing and a miss!! But hey, that was a good call.
You lot get hit on?
I had a stalker in high school. It really sucked, but because she was a girl and I was a guy, it was ‘cute’ not creepy or scary, but what was so much worse was how people reacted to it, for many friends/teachers they goaded it on. Even when she sent threatening letters to one of my girlfriends. She was the only one who didn’t think it was cute…
My first lesson in how insanely sexist the vast majority of people are. If i had done to a girl the type of stuff she did to me, I’d have been jailed. It went on and off for over two years.
On the flip sided, years later, she wrote me a random email and apologized profusely and thanked me for not taking advantage of her. So at least she got some help I guess?
I’ve had other incidents with mentally unwell women harassing me during the rest of my life, but none as involved or protracted as that one.
Maybe not the worst, but I called into HP server tech support and the girl on the other end was chatty. I wasn’t too busy and she talked me up for nearly an hour and a half, at the end asking if I was single and lived near Michigan.
Good on her for shooting her shot.
So this is pretty dark. My cousin committed suicide and at his funeral his roommate was trying to flirt with me and asked me out. Not at the wake, at the actual funeral service.
The most generous reasoning I could come up with for him was that he was very upset and alone and wanted to be comforted but he sure didn’t seem upset.
I think that’s a thing actually. Something about the reminder of death making humans want to reproduce.
It happens after wars too.
My cousin committed suicide. I got really horny as we were getting ready (ETA: for the funeral), so me and my wife fucked. 30 minutes later I was balling my eyes out.
Grief is weird.
This is so normal. I always sort of thought it was nature trying to replace the person who died. It does feel weird but is very common.
People meet at funerals, it’s common. One of my sister’s friends met her husband at a funeral 5 years ago.
I was around 15 years old, in an anime convention, while waiting on queue and nervous, I started talking to the guy next to me, he was around 30-35. I don’t remember the details but we ended up on the topic of the anime Kuroshitsuji for some reason, and while explaining something about that show or another anime (can’t remember as it’s been a long time) he grabbed my tshirt and pulled me close to him, like super close to his face.
It was ever so slightly awkward to be hit on by a guy with 20 years up on me, while not even giving him any indication that I wanted anything other than a normal small talk conversation, even if we were to ignore the age gap.
I hope you got away ok. Creepy pedo move on his part.
We were on a queue with 100+ other people, nothing crazy was gonna happen, I understand how a guy might be into someone younger and cuter, but one thing is that, and another way different is to act on such an impulse, ignoring all common sense.
Not defending pedos cause they are creepy as fuck, met my fair share on IRC back in the day, but you have to be a special kind of person not only to be into kids, but to openly put your hands on someone in a completely public space where everyone is actively seeing what you are doing.
Agreed. Putting hands on anyone without permission is bad enough. Context here makes it that much worse.
Common (anime) convention experience I’m sure. When I was 15 years younger, they hosted an anime convention at a local college and attendees would rent the dorm rooms during the summer. After official events for the evening ended, the DJ kept going in a dorm study room. Every stereotype occurred. Rank B.O. in a room too small and not ventilated for the amount of people in it at 2AM with underage girls trying to get picked up by any guy willing to cross that line. Fucking gross 🤢.
There were girls back in my youth, the 80s and 90s, who legit believed an older guy hitting on them was a mark of their maturity.
I’d like to think that died alongside smoking indoors, but clearly not. It’s men who are censured by women their own age because they lack that much value and appeal as an individual. They’re looking for someone too new at life to see them.
yep. creeeps
I had a drunk sunburned warty redneck try to give me a ride in his pickup truck. We were riding the tram back to the Disney World parking lot. He was very loud and insistent, much to the horror of the rest of the high school marching band mates around us, but he left without incident before we had gotten back to our buses. Someone let me know after he left that his fly had been open the entire time.
It was a very confusing experience for 16 year old introverted (male) me.
That scenario started out pretty bad, and it went downhill fast from there! Sheesh.
Work in EMS. Some guy tried to get my number while I was driving to the hospital with him in the passenger seat and my paramedic, his girlfriend, and sick baby in the back of the ambulance.
For me basically any time and place because I’m an idiot and do not understand when a woman is flirting with me. Except the one time I DID realize a girl was flirting with me but I was already in a relationship.
My wife apparently was cat calling to me at a con with her friend. Seeing two cute girls being bawdy I of course thought it was to someone else. We met and talked later but I did not know about the cat calls or put the thing together until she explained it to me after we were dating.
