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Have you ever sat across or opposite someone attractive on a train or bus and by the end of the journey found yourself besotted with him or her?

― lucifer, Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

every day, lucifer

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Every single day of my life.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

absolutely.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

most of the time it's just the romance of knowing that you're unlikely to be ever actually acquainted with the stranger that makes them oh so attractive. The unattainability factor.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

a couple of years ago though i was besotted with this stranger girl on the tube and then she raised her eyebrow at me and we eyebrow-flirtted for a while and then it was my stop and we smiled and I alighted.

she didn't follow.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

A few years ago I was sitting opposite this girl who was really cute. I was checking her out really obviously and she looked straight back at me and smiled the nicest smile I've ever seen. We just kept looking at each other for like 10 minutes, and then I got off the tram without saying anything to her.

Granted, I had a girlfriend at the time so I wasn't really in a position to follow it up, but I would have liked to talk to her and find out what she was like.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

aw I hate it when that happens, the spark with a stranger that's ignited but unfortunately there's just no fuel there.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Wow, this thread is like that scene in Citizen Kane... on loop.

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

All the fucking time.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

I got introduced to the last one - she's an old friend's girlfriend, and looks a bit like my girlfriend.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

you know, if it really is like that, there is no harm in just writing your number down, and saying "hey, you want to go for a drink?". sure, they'll probably just throw it away, or more likely, have a good feeling, consider calling it, and then throw it away, but its hardly like you've lost anything

Reading Saramago on the Piccadilly Line

haha

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

happens all the time when i'm in nyc. not so much in london.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

English guys are such skeezes.

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

was on the bus last night and this lovely girl sat opposite me. she kept looking and smiling, 20 mins later i was ready for asking her for a date. i always fall for people i don't think i'll have a chance with. ah well!

― lucifer, Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

-- charltonlido (...), January 13th, 2005 10:46 AM. (gareth)

I've done that a couple of times in the past - never got any call.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

have we already had a thread on the topic of "Which tube line has the best passengers"?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I remember sitting on the floor in Euston station next to an extremely attractive girl. Some pompous-ass-yuppy-dude walked in front of us and slipped on a piece of food, he didn't fall just moonwalked forward slightly and carried on. This made us both snigger and sparked us talking a bit.
I was *dieing* to ask her for a quick drink in the bar before our trains arrived. I bided my time and I really was going to do it but my hesitation proved to be my undoing and before I knew it a friend of hers suddenly appeared and they went for a drink together instead.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

some drunk girl flirted with me once too. i was on the northern line back to highgate eating my mcdonald's extra value meal (i mean, hardly a romantic setting) and this girl was there opposite pretending to eat chips like i was doing. and then i did the whole pretend twee-fucker curling up looking scared shielding my chips thing. which made her laugh and going "hahhaa i like it!" if i had offered her some chips there and then maybe we would have dated or something. but i was really hungry and so my chips won the race for ken's affection.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god that sucks so badly.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

I mean, uh, no offense. But I think it's my intense aversion to the phrase "I like it!" that did it.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

did you shake your tic-tacs at her though?

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― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

u&k here, or on the bus really, is headphone leakage etiquette.

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

i saw this guy playing pinball at the rainbo in chicago, but was with my ex (we'd broken up only 2 days before) so i couldn't say hello. there was serious eye contact, and it seemed like he was interested. i went back the next week at the same time, but he wasn't there.

about a month later, i was on the red line going home from shopping, and saw him on the other end of the train. he didn't see me, and got off at the next stop, before i could say anything. i SO should have followed, but hesitated too long, the doors shut, and i never saw him again.

that's the story of 'mr pinball'

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

best way to flirt with someone wearing headphones: figure out what they're listening to and mouth along to it!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

I used to live with a girl who initiated a quick knee-trembler to remember in the loo of a Thameslink to Brighton with a fellow passenger she'd got chatting to. She was always doing mad things like that though...

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Sex or chips? Sex . . .. or . . .. chips . . . .

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I have actually. We started talking (about VU, Loud Reed et al). He was very sweet. Then he said goodbye and I didn't know who he was nor where he lived.

Also started talking with a guy at a concert who was friends with my favourite band. I was too shy to talk to the guitarist so fled the scene. I saw the guy again years later. We were obv both still quite *interested* in eachother but both too shy to say anything. hah

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

best way to flirt with someone wearing headphones: figure out what they're listening to and mouth along to it!

tomorrow am, me on the bus: 'WHEN THE PIMP'S IN THE CRIB MA!''

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

best way to flirt with someone wearing headphones: figure out what they're listening to and mouth along to it!

I can vouch for this technique. It works better if you dance a little bit too.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

A guy attempted making the moves on a bus once, or more accurately coach: this brought the 'when-to-mention-girlfriend' question into sharp relief.

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

I have actually asked for a number while leaving a tube. I was wearing a horrible shirt and fifteen. I think this was on the piccadily line. I did not get ass.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Although tempted to ask them out or to give my number, I doubt I ever will. I can’t do it in a club or pub, never mind on public transport in the cold hard light of day. Don’t fancy an eyeful of pepper spray for starters.

― lucifer, Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

One of the moments I rue the most in my life was when a gorgeous girl started chatting to 15 year old Matt DC on the train from Orpington into London. She just casually started chatting to me in the way British people (or Londoners at least), just don't do and we continued talking all the way to Charing Cross. Then because I was an awkward teenager who didn't do things like that I neglected to ask for her phone number and kicked myself for weeks after.

I once gave a red rose to a girl I started talking to on a night bus. That went down pretty well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

you just referred to yourself in the 3rd person

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

she was crap at sex

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't accept I was the same person back then.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I mean, uh, no offense. But I think it's my intense aversion to the phrase "I like it!" that did it.

andrew i know, this girl is foreign though and I was certain that if she knew a better phrase she'd have said it. "fancy a snog" or something.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Foreign! Yay!

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

i know right! olé!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

damn your old miles

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 13 January 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Do I have to be the one to namecheck Erica Jong?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

this happened to me in moscow, some cute girls were sitting opposite me, who both looked pretty cool (in russia = sk8ter girl). they were giggling and looking at me and whispering to me some shit, but i didnt know what to do so i just listened to my walkman and pretened to doze of. what a gimp. they dropped a piece of papaer in my lap when they got off at Aviamotornaya, the stop before mine, ii looked at it and it said (lit) "Hi! youre happy!" i presumed/hoped "happy" in this content meant "cute" or something, it was on some weird condom advice booklet, they seemed to have been to an exhibition about safe sex or somethign?! after that i always wondered if they would get on at aviamotornaya, but i never saw em again, i wonder what happened to them now - Aviamotornaya was the site of the most recent metro bombing in moscow, last year....

althoguh nothing has ever arisen (geddit) as a resutl of these sort of random encounters, i suspect ken is probably right, the frisson of possibility is prob. bette than any consequence. maybe. *runs off and cries*

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

You guys, there's a movie all about this.. it's called "On the Line," starring Lance Bass.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I take the bus to work just about every day, and yeah this shit happens all of the time. Unfortunately the only cute individuals I ever get around to talking to (or try to talk to me) always end up being fucking teenage girls who work at the mall. Which is hot if youre into sex crimes and stuff...

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I was once hung over on a tram one morning and about 12 turkish girls who would've been around 16 years old all got on and sat surrounding me completely. Naturally, sitting there with no book, music, or video game to keep me occupied, the de-facto 'leader' of the group singled me out and started interrogating me.

It was an amazing conversation. We were on a tram headed to St Kilda, where I live. They were going to the beach, I was going home. St Kilda has something of a reputation regarding street prostitution, and they were asking me if it bothered me, etc. I was telling them how there are different areas for the men, women, and transexuals. At this they expressed disgust/surprise, "I don't understand why anyone would want to be with a one of those!" I proposed that it was mainly men who were bi/homosexual, yet still attracted to the "female" form, etc etc. They were like "Gee, you're smart..." and then after a pregnant pause the ringleader asked "You're not gay, are you?" and a couple of her friends pounced on her shouting "Shut up! He doesn't look gay!" It was great.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Hahah! Thats a great story :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

sometimes people give blood.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Eh?

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

The single worst encounter I've ever had on a train was the summer before last, on the way back from the pub, reading Mason and Dixon. Two girls, clearly drunk but not unattractive, sat in front of me. Then one of them opened her mouth.

"What you reading? Is it the Karma Sutra? It is, isn't it! EH, EVERYONE, E'S READIN' THE KARMA SUTRA!"

I was so embarassed I got off the train four stops early and waited for the next one.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

poor matt. i got a punch in the face from a girl on the bus because my friend opened his large unwise mouth. that was embarassing, even now when i think of it i go red and get annoyed.

― lucifer, Friday, 14 January 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

this shit never happens to me. i should probably do something about this constant scowl, i can't believe i still have a massive problem maintaining eye contact with women (esp. those i see just walking down the street, on trains etc.)

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 14 January 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

i have no idea what my girlfriend actually looks like

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 14 January 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

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