15 women share the worst way someone tried to flirt with them.
Flirting is an art.
Successful flirting requires the right amount of confidence, patience, and intuition about how other people are feeling. If you come on too strong and can't pick up someone else's vibe or body language, it can get creepy fast.
But if you don't lead with some confidence, it can just come across as awkward fumbling, and the flirtation attempt won't take off in the first place.
In a popular Ask Reddit thread, women shared the worst way someone tried to flirt with them, and it's a comprehensive list of what not to do.
1. From alionheartedgirl:
When I was 15, a 13-year-old boy came up to me and offered to show me his rock collection. Then he asked if he could see my boobs. I politely declined the latter request but the rock collection was pretty cool.
2. From MongooseLovesOctopus:
Once a guy asked me when I was going to divorce my husband so I could marry him, when I was visibly pregnant.
3. From lannieb:
'You'll do.'
4. From c74r3byw:
'Nice tits, shame about the face.'
5. From yousneakysnake:
I work at Starbucks and I was making drinks and calling names when I had to call one out to a 'Big Daddy' he responded by saying 'awww yeah right here baby.'
6. From Jarmige:
'Is your Dad in prison? Because if I was your Dad, I'd be in prison.'
7. From lucyberry:
A dude behind me in a gas station kept going on about 'That's the biggest a*s I've seen, and you a white girl.' He asked everyone in the gas station if that wasn't 'the biggest booty you ever seen.' I really did not know how to respond.
8. From Snilje:
Said with the flattest, most Finnish accent ever: 'I want to see your p*ssy lips'. No smile, no gestures, just a motionless stare.
9. From abrial_alshar:
At a karaoke bar. I had just finished singing, and a drunk guy lurched over to me and said 'that was so good that I sh*t and pissed myself seven times.'
10. From Erythrina:
I was walking to class, and this guy comes up to me. We proceed to have this conversation:
Creepy Guy: Hi. I've seen you around campus. You're very pretty.
Me: Aw, thanks. I'm [name].
Creepy Guy: I've seen you in the dining hall and walking into the math building and walking out of the math building and getting your hair cut and going into your dorm.
Me: Uh... (walks off really quickly)
11. From ratchelle:
Getting a drink at the bar when all of a sudden, an absurdly tall and extremely hammered albino man shoves his way in to say 'Hi I'm from Kansas and I want to f*ck you so bad.'
My response? 'I'd rather not be f*cked badly, thanks though.'
12. From 1_2_chachacha:
A cop once asked me out at a roadblock (sobriety checkpoint). Everything was going fine, as I hadn't been drinking at all.
Cop: So, when's the last time you had an alcoholic drink?
Me: A few weeks ago maybe?
Cop: Well, would you like to go get one with me later on tonight?
So awkward!
13. From frecklesmcgee:
My lady friend and I went out to a restaurant one night and some guys had sent us drinks just as we sat down, before we had even removed our coats.
Anyway, we sent them back without even really seeing what kind of drink it was, and some guy came over as we opened our menu and called us 'kind of mean' and told us we 'were probably lesbians' and it didn't matter 'it was just water anyway.'
I was like, why would you send over water? The restaurant would have given us glasses anyway.
TL;DR - we're mean lesbians who hate water.
14. From lucybluth:
While a group of us were out at happy hour, one of the guys took pictures of me without my knowledge then sent them to me with texts that read 'Lookin sexxxy,' 'great a*s,' etc. I was pretty weirded out.
Edit: Because people keep asking, it was a work happy hour and we were coworkers so he got my number from the corporate address book.
15. From QuaereVerumm:
'Have you ever dated a black guy? Cause I've never dated an Asian girl.' I was walking down the street when a black guy said this to me. Not even, 'Hey,' or 'Hi, how you doing?' No, he just comes out with that.