13-02-2003 21:15									#1
	Obvious signals from women/men that you completely missed. Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

or, "Dammit! I could've gotten laid!"

God, anything to get this place from the usual ideology/politics threads. Given the ages of the lot of you, I can't expect this thread to get a lot of stories ( ), but some will pop up I'm sure. At least this will help clue some of you in when a girl wants some action... or maybe not.

I was twenty and diagnosed with a case of terminal geekiness when it came to women. Oh, I didn't wear taped-up glasses or want to debate every little factoid with them, but, even though I wasn't a virgin then, I was rather self-conscious and still found it hard to approach the lovely lasses. I had already (unknownst to me) met my wife, but we were going through a 15-month breakup at the time, so no guilt here.

So, one evening me and my buddies went out. Of course when you're in school, the serious bar-hopping begins around 9:30-10:00pm. I don't drink, so I was always welcome on bar-hops as I could drive. We go to... oh, what's the name... the 40-Watt, a bar in Athens, GA.

Everybody's drunk and dancing to the music... except me, that is (remember: terminally geeky!) I just hung out in the back of the place, looking uncomfortable and bored, with soda in hand. Then she approaches... a comely vixen with kinky brown hair, and a slight alcohol-induced stagger to her step.

"Hello", she said fetchingly. "Are you not having a good time?"
"Well, I'm here as a designated driver, though their dorm is only 5 blocks away. I don't know... the music is real loud and I don't like yelling at people."
"Well, let's go to the back so we can hear ourselves"

So, we go to the back where we engage in the usual college-age getting-to-know-you chatter... What's your major... Where are you from... Are you in a frat/sorority... What did you think of Professor X... During the conversation, she tosses her hair back a few times, touches me on the arm quite often, and makes the typical suggestive, but "innocent", jokes re: sex. You know, the typical stuff that happens when you're measuring each other up for a pants plunder.

Except me. Except this night. TOTALLY clueless - I still remember thinking at that time that the poor girl must be bored and waiting for her friends to finish their drinks, so she found somebody to talk to. STUPID!!! STUPID!!!! STUPID!!!!

Get this: she even invited me back to her place.

DING-DING-DING-DING-DING-DING!!!!!! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Or do we....?

No! Mr. Honorable here had to ensure that his drunken louts of friends were competent enough to stagger 5 whole blocks home.

Totally missed it. The signals were as clear as my local FM 50,000 watt "We Play the Power Hits" station, but I totally missed it.

Oh, and when did I finally get it you ask? When one of my friends said, on the way home, "Dude, that girl was hot. Why didn't you pick her up and take her to her place?"

AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! :bangs head on steering wheel:

So, when did you totally misread the signals? When did you ignore a girl who wanted you bad, or, when did you hit on a girl whom you led yourself to believe that she wanted you bad?

	13-02-2003 21:20									#2
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Wow... nothing as bad as that...

	13-02-2003 21:26									#3
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What are you, a complete moron?

	13-02-2003 21:28									#4
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Once when I was 11 a girl phoned me up and asked me out but I said I couldn't. She said she was Sarah but I had no idea who she was and there were 3 Sarahs in my class. Plus I was 11, wasn't really that interested in girls then. I still don't know who that was.

	13-02-2003 21:28									#5
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I wuz dat nite, Doris.

	13-02-2003 21:29									#6
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This thread made me sad.

	13-02-2003 21:30									#7
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How so, DaShi?

	13-02-2003 21:32									#8
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I'm clueless about girls, but not that pathetic.

	13-02-2003 21:33									#9
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT How so, DaShi?

Because I can't slap you upside the head from over here.

	13-02-2003 21:33									#10
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Felch X: I'm not usually that pathetic either, but that night I was on The Clueless Express, non-stop to Loserville.

	13-02-2003 21:34									#11
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quote: Originally posted by DaShi Because I can't slap you upside the head from over here.

Don't worry - I've taken care of that for you, already.

	13-02-2003 21:34									#12
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I can't believe you turned down a chick who was asking you about Professor X... although maybe it's a little odd she didn't choose one of the cooler X-Men.

	13-02-2003 21:35									#13
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The barhopping begins at 9pm? Yeesh, we're in the pub by 8 pm on a Friday. Sometimes 4 pm.

How's this for shooting yourself in the foot:

Went out drinking with my cousin two years ago. Met a very nice friend of his and we started talking. Getting along great together, all green lights on the gaydar front.

He has to change out of work clothes before we hit the club. He invites me back to his place. I go. He offers me a drink. I accept it. AND THEN I MAKE THE DUMBEST MISTAKE I COULD POSSIBLY HAVE DONE. I go to the toilet and, out loud (obviously I'm drunk enough not to know how loud I'm speaking nor to consider how thin the walls might be) wonder if I may have gotten the signals all confused. He overhears this, decides not to make a move, and we head off to the club.

I meet him again this year and I DIDN'T have any of the signals mixed up and he was WELL PREPARED to **** me until my spine snapped.

I had shot myself in my metaphorical foot with a figurative shotgun that night.

(Though, happy ending: I got that **** and several others this year. )

	13-02-2003 21:36									#14
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I am fairly clueless

Jon Miller

	13-02-2003 21:38									#15
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Wha? S H * G is censored? I sound like a right dirty old bastard cause Sh*g looks exactly like F**k when all stars

	13-02-2003 21:38									#16
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"and he was WELL PREPARED to **** me until my spine snapped."

Well, that's a pleasant image. Thanks, Starchild!

	13-02-2003 21:48									#17
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To be honest... I think all the signals I've missed I missed and so I don't know what they were.

	13-02-2003 22:03									#18
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Well, there I was, driving home with a friend and a girl we knew from college. She apparently had been abandoned by her friends in the bar, and we were driving her home.

I think she really wanted to have sex that night. I left my buddy home and proceeded to take her to her home. She said: "You know, this night could end in a different way". I knew that she wanted to do it. "Come on, Alex! You can't miss on this opportunity!", I thought.

But then something incredibly sad hit me in the head; a sudden and desperate sense of affliction that I cannot explain. I realized that I didn't want to do it. I just smiled and drove her home. She was obviously disappointed. We never had a conversation again.

	13-02-2003 22:15									#19
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That makes sense. You suddenly had that feeling of not wanting to have meaningless casual sex, possibly because you realised it was just her way of getting over her own sense of lonliness and abandonment and she was embarassed that you turned her down and probably feeling a little bit more sorry for herself.

	13-02-2003 22:30									#20
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I often realised missed opportunities (or what appear to be) 15 minutes or so later

I want to turn back time, but it doesn't work

Jon Miller

	13-02-2003 22:36									#21
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I sometimes miss the 'I want a kiss goodnight' signals on first or second 'dates'...but other than that...nothing nearly as bad as what you posted about. Shoulda banged her like a screen door in a hurricane

	13-02-2003 23:02									#22
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Be happy, that you can actually talk to girls, you like... Whenever I meet a nice girl, I want to get to know better, I just stand speechless (And thereby I never get to know girls )

There was one time, I spent a vacation with my friend, who had some other people with... don't know if they were familiy or just friends of family (Btw, I was just 10, and my friend was 8)... One of the "other people", where a nice girl (about a year older than me) I wanted to get to know better, and several times, she made it obious that she wanted me to make the first move, to get to know her... but because I'm the way I am (= can't make the first move... just have no clue at all what to do, when to do it), I didn't make the first move... after the vacation, I never saw her again

	13-02-2003 23:04									#23
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This missed opportunity absolutely drove me bonkers for a while. Within weeks I have pretty much convinced myself, that out of the 3+ billion women on the planet, Ms. Stagger Step was undoubtably the Best Ever in Bed, the sort of lay a man thinks about when he's 80 and trying to get it up for the wife "for old times sake."

Of course, I never saw her again. Not too sure I wanted to, as I also convinced myself that Ms. Best in Sack was laughing at me with all her friends.

	13-02-2003 23:21									#24
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A girl who is a good friend of mine has often made suggestive moves, ranging from : "my last bf said that you and i could be perfect. i never thought about it that way *smile*". And things like "if i thought i stood a chance with you, i'd try and be your gf".

But I wasn't interested, so I chose to ignore all those signs. And I'm happy I did, as I'm very happy with my current gf.

	14-02-2003 00:06									#25
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT This missed opportunity absolutely drove me bonkers for a while. Within weeks I have pretty much convinced myself, that out of the 3+ billion women on the planet, Ms. Stagger Step was undoubtably the Best Ever in Bed, the sort of lay a man thinks about when he's 80 and trying to get it up for the wife "for old times sake." Of course, I never saw her again. Not too sure I wanted to, as I also convinced myself that Ms. Best in Sack was laughing at me with all her friends.

She probably had a venereal disease.

	14-02-2003 00:11									#26
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That's the spirit!

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quote: I had already (unknownst to me) met my wife, but we were going through a 15-month breakup at the time, so no guilt here.

JohnT

Well then it all worked out. Why are you worrying about what might have been?

	14-02-2003 03:06									#28
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When I was in 11th grade, I was on a field trip in Gettysburg, and when I was at lunch with some friends, one of the girls in my history class kept emphasizing the point that she didn't have a date for the prom, and she was staring at me every time she said that. Clueless as I was (and still am), I didn't catch on, and, to make a long story short, I didn't go to the prom.

	14-02-2003 03:20									#29
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About six months ago, a girl from my English class at college invited me to her 18th birthday do. I went along, since I never turn down an invitation like that. When I arrived (I got there a bit late, so most of the guests had turned up), she greeted me, took the crappy card I'd bought her at the last minute, and then suggested that I sit next to her best mate.

First things first, although I got on quite well with the girl who's party it was, we were not huge mates. However, I was very good mates with her best friend; we both have the same sense of humour, which is always a good thing, and we did all the same subjects at college (we'd been in the same class for two subjects, so we saw each other quite a lot), and as a result we'd become quite close. She was single at the time, and quite attractive as well.

So, when her mate suggests I sit in the space next to her, what do I do? I refuse, and take the seat opposite her. First mistake.

Throughout the party, she's being very friendly with her cousin's best mate, who's visiting from Exeter. Despite this, she still talks to me quite a lot and she's very touchy-feely, which she never was at college. I, being a moron, don't respond to this.

The day after the party, she goes down to Exeter herself for three weeks to visit relatives. During this time, she meets some lad and starts going out with him. And all because I don't have the guts to respond to her signals.

When I finally get a bit of courage, I arrange to meet her. I admit to her that I like her, and she tells me about her boyfriend. I take this well on the outside, but inside I'm kicking myself.

And we've barely spoken since. I've spent the last 4 days trying to write an e-mail to her, and so far I've got myself a subject and that's it.

	14-02-2003 03:32									#30
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I turned down an impulsive threesome because I was in a relationship. And I was dumped 2 days later.