Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Reading GAFfers post about high school as if it was some ancient past makes me feel young. I'm still in high school, and, like many here, interpret blatant romantic advances as friendly gestures, which has lead to a lot of awkward moments. But I'm still allowed to make those mistakes, right?
Right?! D:
If there's any advice you should take from this thread it is that if a girl even says hello, you need to straight up ask if she is DTF.
I haven't contributed to this thread yet in a story capacity. I'm mostly clueless about signals and shit, and I've been with my now-wife since I was 17 (now 29) so I'm never on the lookout for the signals either, but there have been a few instances:
When I was at school I had a massive crush on a girl in most of my classes. We would flirt outrageously and playfight and talk for hours but she had an on/off relationship with a douchey guy. Looking back, I realise that if I had just manned up and asked her out we probably could have gotten together.
I actually did ask her out once, but it was on the very last lesson of the last day of term. We were walking back to our tutor rooms (different 'homerooms' to you yanks) and so I asked her hurriedly "hey I really like you, do you want to hang out over the summer, maybe go see a movie?" and she just giggled coyly and I THINK she said "not yet" but the corridor was loud and we were going in separate directions and I was all GODAMMIT. When we came back to school after summer she was back with her douchey boyfriend and it was never the same. And then she dyed her hair ginger by accident and it was all over.
Postscript - she now has 3 kids and is fatter than me, bullet dodged.
Recently after playing a show with my band, I was offstage and sweaty and on an adrenaline comedown which makes me quite antisocial and ill feeling, but loads of people were coming up and being super nice about the show. This one really quite attractive blonde girl comes up to me and asks "What's your name?" and I just tell her the name of the band and she hits my arm and says "No, YOU silly!" and I just looked at her a bit weird and mumbled my name before indicating the direction of the bar, making my excuses and getting out of there. It wasn't till later I realised where she was going with it - it's not like I would have reciprocated but it's nice to get some attention.
Recently a friend of mine keeps telling me about her ideal man and keeps kinda describing me. She wants a musician, big guy, a bit rough round the edges, beard, tattoos. I can kinda see what she's angling at but it's not going to happen and it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. I mean, it's nice but I can't, and she knows that. But it did take me a little while to twig what she was saying.
So yeah, it doesn't happen to me very often but when it does I kinda freak out like a kid still.