Would like to see the reverse of this thread: where GAF's advances fell on deaf ears. I don't have a story so I don't want to start.
I don't really have one of my efforts falling on deaf ears, but I do have a story of just sort of... unmeshed advances.
I sent a friend of mine a picture of some food that I had ordered in a restaurant. She asked me where I was, and I told her I was in Tucson. Well, she just happened to be on the freeway heading towards Tucson, about ten minutes away from where I was. She was travelling and said she didn't want to drive all night, so asked if we could share a motel room.
She'd always dropped me hints, but she'd also always had boyfriend (for instance, a 6'6" 260lb football player) so I'd never felt the need to escalate things with her. We get to the motel, and while we're outside she immediately starts in with the same kinds of verbal cues she always did, but even more aggressively this time. We get to the room, and the first things she says is "hey, let's push the beds together!" Before I even can say "alright, let's do it" she's already moved the night stand out of the way and is pushing her bed to mine.
We get into the now giant bed and I'm about to grab her when she says "alright, let's watch TV!" I respond with "uh, alright, sure..." and she grabs the remote and starts looking for stuff to watch. She looked through the guide for a little bit and then asked me what I wanted to watch. I say "well, I don't really watch TV. Put something on and I'll watch it." She insisted that we watch something I like, and when I couldn't tell her anything that I like, she got super bummed and all the energy was sucked from the room. She then shoved the remote at me and said "well pick something."
I found some Marky Mark movie, tuned to that, and turned the volume down. I tried to move closer, to touch her arm and similar things to get the ball rolling again, but none of that seemed to rekindle her interest. So after a few minutes of just laying there, looking at Marky Mark scowl confusedly, she says "hey, talk to me." Alright, this could still go somewhere I thought...
Except that it was about midnight, and my normally inadequate small talk skills have been mired in a fog of tiredness. So I grasp at any idea that might lead to any kind of conversation of any nature, but nothing I ask leads to anything more than a two or three word answer, and nothing I say gets anything more than a monosyllabic response.
She keeps on with it though, "talk to me, talk to me." Every failed attempt I made to get a conversation going made her face a little longer, and after every pause in between made me have to fight sleep even harder. I came to the brink: I was going to fall asleep if nothing happened, and she had said several times that if I needed to I could use her side of the bed. We had been friends for a while, so I thought that even if I had misunderstood what her intent was, we could still reasonably cuddle without too much awkwardness later, so that was my final play: cuddle with her, and see what I could make of it.
"Hey, do you mind if I come over there?"
"Oh, well, I sleep better on my own."
"Well, maybe just a few minutes, and if you can't fall asleep I'll move back over."
"No, the last time I punched someone in my sleep, so that wouldn't work."
A few minutes later I asked her if she'd really hit someone in her sleep, and she said yes. At that point, I had no ideas left. Sleep soon ensued.
