So me and my friend were talking about pickup and I was saying how I thought it was kind of BS and women don't really show interest in me anyway/I don't really get those sort of opportunities, but I don't really have problems talking to girls if I need to (I used to have pretty bad social anxiety though, but lets not get into that).
So yeah I end up telling him about some conversations I had with girls outside of work, cause I have to talk to all kinds of people at my job anyway and that doesn't really count, but yeah first one was this girl in one of my classes, never talked to her before, she asked me for notes. So she ended taking some pictures of my notes, which were honestly really general and messy... I don't think they helped much. Anyway afterword she seemed a bit disappointed and frankly I don't feel like she was even looking at the notes before taking pictures of them. Of course my friends response to this "omg she didn't want the notes, she wanted the D!".
Second instance was a girl at the gym. I like to keep my myself at the gym, I rarely talk to people unless I'm working out with a friend or something. So this girl starts working out on the bench next to me while there are other benches free that were atleast one bench away. Anyway I didn't think much of it, but she kinda kept looking at me, but I was kinda semi-staring at her, she was kinda cute and it's I can't really control where my eyes wander. Anyway I move around a lot and I notice she's always kind of close by and this is a fairly large gym. So then at one point she asks how many sets I have... on the preacher curl. This is like a kind of hard-core exercise for the biceps. This girl wasn't that big and I don't wanna be judgmental, but I've never seen a girl on the preacher curl before this. So I tell her I was about done and I get that same... like disappointed look. I admit it was kinda creepy but I kept her in my peripheral vision and watched her as she did the preacher curl and it was honestly kinda hilarious... she stopped after 1 set. Anyway my friend pretty much had the same reaction as the first girl and told me something a long the lines of I needed to have my dick removed for being so dense.
This is just one day, this sort of thing might happen like maybe 4 or 5 times a week to me and I didn't really think about it in that way. Also a note about the second girl, eventually some dude ended up talking to her, not sure if she was acquainted with him before, but they kinda ended hanging for the remainder of the time I was at the gym. So I guess she kinda just wanted attention from someone and I guess it just goes to show, if it's not you it's gonna be someone else.
I didn't bother to get either of these girls names, let alone phone number or any sort of contact info. Anyway yeah, am I dense and should feel bad and have my dick removed or some shit?
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To me, having no experience with relationships and having been told similar things before, it seems like they were just checking you out—looking to see if you'd make a good boyfriend. I think people tend to rush into shallow relationships far too quickly, so given that these women stopped being interested after they got past their first impressions of you, I think it's a good thing that you didn't end up with any sort of relationship. That said, it would probably be to your benefit if you express some interest in anyone you would consider going out with, if you want to be in a relationship—just remember that, just as with you, being too indirect could cause a misunderstanding or a complete lack of response. I think it's better to immediately interact with them directly, become friends with them, and then ask them out; going out based on first impressions alone is a stupid idea if you really want something that'll last.
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OT: first time is questionable.. Second time, sure, more likely, but a lot of girls like to talk to someone just to kill time and not because they're actually interested in you
Honestly bro, like the experiences you had kinda just seem like casual encounters to me. Sometimes just because someone is the opposite sex, guys tend to put nonsensical meaning behind their actions.
It's actually funny cuz I made a thread similar to this one back in like sophomore year of high school. I have some pretty weird stories. I copy and pasted them below. It's kind of cringy reading them again but still funny.
Craziest story
There was this one girl I had seen a couple times in junior high (7th grade) and I actually thought she was really pretty. And yes, she did have a nice body.......and was.......pretty developed up there if you know what I mean. Well i didn't really see her much after that until high school, freshman year. It was a normal day and I was opening my locker and notice that the girl was sitting a couple feet away from me with like 3 or 4 of her friends. While I'm walking over I hear one of the her friends say, "I know his name, I could hook you up." but I didn't think too much of it and continued to mind my own business. But while I was getting my stuff the girl said "hey kid"(.......why she referred to me as "kid" I will never know), I turn my head towards her not knowing if she's talking to me or not, "Ya you (and I think to myself, Oh so she was talking to me)......you're sexy"( ....WTF). I had absolutely no IDEA what the fuck just happened and was trying to process it in my head. So a girl I'd seen a couple times in junior high had stalked out my locker in one of the end wings of the high school and said I was sexy........what the hell do I do now. Like how do you respond to something like that? And keep in mind your talking to a freshman. But anyways, I tried to handle it the best I could. So I said "uh.......ok" and walked away. I did nothing else. I didn't even look at the four friends faces and still to this day don't know who the other four girls were that witnessed the whole thing. I really don't remember too much, it almost felt surreal and even the day after I kept thinking to myself if that was actually real or if my mind just made it up.
Not kidding, the day after I was walking towards the stairs and passed the girl, we didn't say anything to each other but after we passed, at the EXACT SAME MOMENT we both looked back over our shoulders and locked eyes.It was really awkward. I mean I bet the girl was really embarrased and to this day I haven't said anything to her.....she graduated and I'm a senior now. But come on, saying that to a boy whose name you don't know and have never met, let alone talked too, you practically walked into that one. A couple weeks after that I even saw a girl blatantly point me out to another girl thinking i couldn't see her and said "thats the guy she likes."
The same girl I was talking about before, I actually saw during finals week while waiting outside the school with a couple of friends. And as she walked by one of my friends said "thats my wifey right there"......if you don't know what that means, he was just basically saying she was hot....lol.
Chased through the hallways??
I had also, during the school year of sophmore year, been chased by a group of five girls through the hallway on my way to Biology class. I was walking and one of the girls said "you want to be my boyfirend"......and I said nothing following my policy of ignoring things like that. And then she said "come on!! Be my boyfriend!" I kept ignoring. Then one of her friends came up me to and asked the same thing. I realized I was going to be engulfed so I rushed out of the situation and quickly walked away.
Shy girl/ tutoring a girl that liked me
Sophmore year again, I was walking out of the cafeteria and locked eyes with a girl in her junior year. And she mumbled something to me. I am pretty sure she was asking me out or something, but she was so nervous she couldn't get the words out right and the cafeteria was pretty noisy too. I couldn't comepletely make out what she was saying so I said "uh....ok....cool" and walked away. I wasn't trying to be a douchebag but it was really awkward and I needed to pee....lol. I actually just signed up for peer tutoring at my highschool too. And my first day I walk in and see her at one of the tables......I try to avoid her. The advisor asks if any of the tutorees need help and she immediately raises her hand. Trying to get out of the situation I say "I....uhhh...only tutor in algebra 2/Trig".......and what do you know, the girl immediately replies with excitment "I take that!" So the advisor pairs us up and send us to a different room. And we walk awkwardly alone in the hallway. The whole time I tutored her she was staring at me and trying to flirt saying stuff like "oh you're so smart" and stuff in a seductive voice. AWKWARD.
Groped
Again the same year I was walking down the stairs in my highschool alone and a girl walking up literally grabbed ahold of my arm (she was literally stroking it!!), smiled and in an extremely seductive and girly voice said "Hiiiii." Then she laughed and left. She literally groped me..........lol highschool molestation. That happened to once more in the hallway with a different girl. I was walking and a random girl comes out of nowhere and groped my stomache and shoulder.
Wtf are you Keitaro from Love Hina (In terms of denseness at least)? Anyways, I`d rather be dense than too aware. I don`t know 60% of the people in my contacts lmao.
Alpha101 said: Honestly bro, like the experiences you had kinda just seem like casual encounters to me. Sometimes just because someone is the opposite sex, guys tend to put nonsensical meaning behind their actions.
100% this. I used to be terrible with this: the instant a female so much as glanced at me, I was already thinking up baby names. Slight exaggeration, perhaps, but you've really got to fight the urge to read too much into things.
Also, if you're right in believing that the second girl just wanted someone to pay attention to her, then you dodged a bullet there. There's no point in getting involved with someone if all they want out of it is for someone, anyone, to care about them, instead of wanting you in particular to care about them.
I'd have said the first girl was dissapointed at your notes lol.
But the second girl might have been a bit interested at that point. Don't feel bad though, not knowing how to react or just thinking she was only offering small talk is natural.
Trance said: I'm a guy and I can imagine buttfucking another guy. I don't find the thought repulsive, and I can even imagine kissing another man.
second situation: she was looking for company while working out and probably wouldnt have minded getting to know you. I can't say for sure if it's just a friendly interest or an attraction one but it sounds like she might have wanted it to be one if she liked talking to you.
Reminds me of that time I was waling down the hallway and licked my dry lips while looking at my feet walking then look up and see a girl lick her lipss looking at me and I was caught off gaurd not knowing what to do since I wasnt sure if it was jusst a coincidence or if she as messing with me tinking I was being a perv or if she actually was into me.