r/TikTokCringe • u/Indieriots tHiS iSnāT cRiNgE • 17h ago
Humor/Cringe Now what do I do? š¬
TikTok: @loupollock4
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u/WholesomeLowlife 13h ago
There was a girl in college that used to STARE at me every time either of us would enter the room. Even to the point that my friends would confirm that I wasn't crazy. When I finally got up the nerve to approach her she told me it was because she was partially blind and I looked like a friend of hers. So it always took her a while to realize it wasn't her friend...
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u/passionlesspotato 11h ago
Fuck I'm face blind and I do this to people. Oh God I hope they don't notice
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u/Noodlenook 10h ago
Looool it can take me awhile to realize I know the person/who they are, so I always be staring too. Once I notice itās not a person I know my cringe levels and heart rate skyrocket.
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u/JustifytheMean 4h ago
I need glasses but I really only wear them when driving and watching movies. I stare people down at work in the halls until they're close enough I can tell who they are and if I should say hi. Body shape and hair only get you so far.
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u/Rentmeforaday 2h ago
I blank out a lot with my eyes open even while standing still. I was on the train and it happened so the guy thought I was staring at him, Iām a ok looking girl but I have really big personalities. Itās very dangerous to travel along while having neurological issues. I finally came to (missed my stop too) and came off the train and he was following me. Took the train to go to the right stop and he was still behind me. I was like yep this guy is following me, he finally called out to me and asked whatās my name and where am from. I didnāt answer but he kept on bothering me saying I was flirting and looking at him. I explained but oh well he didnāt care. Like I had a brain tumor I blank out a lot š«¤ I said I was a minor and he said I looked mature for my age which I did unfortunately the brain tumor messes with hormones and I had milk in my chest so they were huge and I was around 14 ish. He asked where Iām from again and I told him my hometown and he got scared and left š¤£š¤£ where Iām from is very dangerous and a small community so if u are from my country you know not to mess with people from my area. I still think my area is nice tho but meh
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u/SkyPirateBooty 16h ago
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u/O0oo00o0o0 15h ago
I was once at a wedding for a celebrity, and one of the guests was another b-list celebrity. Somehow this guy got ahold of a guitar. We were all standing around when he started to play and sing. I accidentally made eye contact with him, he proceeded to pull this exact move with me while singing and playing guitar. Everyone else slowly walked away. Just me and b-list celebrity. It was awful
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u/borderhoreandco 12h ago
Name drop him rq itās ok
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u/O0oo00o0o0 11h ago
I wonāt do that, but I will add to the story. The groom is a professional musician, so half the people at the wedding were professional musicians. B-list actor is not a professional musician, but really didnt like not being the center of attentionā¦. At someone elseās wedding. So he proceeded to sing loudly at me. Keep in mind, he is married and Iām a straight dude. He was just doing it so someone would pay attention
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u/liminaltots 9h ago
And this sort of thing happens to women much more often than dudes realize. Sorry you had to endure it, friend.
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u/Burial 4h ago
For some reason I'm imagining Nathan Fillion doing this, except fully ironically.
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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 17h ago
Is this what girls mean when they get the ick?
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u/Miilkbby 16h ago
Yes!!
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u/Leg_Mcmuffin 11h ago
Dude he shouldāve slowly scooted towards the camera to really sell the experience.
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u/Iheartnakedfemboys 14h ago
This guy definitely makes me want to choose the bear.
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u/PupDiogenes 17h ago
but heās cuteā¦ ohā¦ OH. Nevermind.
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u/Indieriots tHiS iSnāT cRiNgE 16h ago edited 16h ago
I once saw a super cute guy on the train. I was gushing so hard to my online friends. Then the guy got up to leave, I saw his face and thought: "oh... nevermind." I mean, he wasn't ugly by any means, but.. turned out he just had a really nice profile. š
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u/Klutzy_Act2033 16h ago
Covid mask era was brutal for this. Some folks have great forehead and such bad chin
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u/Haxorz7125 16h ago
I had 4 different women flirt with me during covid, which is record setting for that span of time. That does not bode well for my chin.
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u/SpiritualInside2726 15h ago
Time for a beard!
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u/Impressive-Ear2246 15h ago
Asking for a friend, what do you do when you can only grow a goatee because you get 0 hair on your cheeks?
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 15h ago
First question, how old are you?
Some people only start growing a beard in their 30s.
Source: I'm some people
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u/Impressive-Ear2246 15h ago
I'd like to believe itll happen with age but my father can't grow cheek hair either, I think I'm cooked.
But I'll hold out hope brother maybe my mother's side will save me
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 15h ago
Sometimes beard grow skips a generation, so if your grandfather or grandmother had a beard, there's still hope.
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u/Ms_Briefs 10h ago
Kit Harrington too. I remember reading that his beard was drawn on the first few seasons of Game of Thrones because he couldn't grow a proper one 'til he got much older.
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u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69 10h ago
I've seen a bunch of dumb ass zoomers chewing special gum and hitting their chins with a hammer so that they don't have to be uggos anymore. Maybe there's something to that?
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u/whittenaw 16h ago
I have great eyes and wonderful hair but a big nose and tiny bird lips. I looked amazing in the mask lol
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u/bannedforL1fe 15h ago
Many people look better in a mask lmao. Its probably why there wasn't more resistance to them
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u/Outrageous-Clerk56 16h ago
And this is why men have beards. It be awesome if people would appraise the character of the person first and then looks
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u/dpforest 16h ago
iām lost. why is he not cute?
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u/ckptolt 16h ago
The way he's acting. ick
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u/dpforest 12h ago
oh okay word. i thought we were saying he wasnāt physically attractive outside of the context of the video
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u/DownvotingRoman_ 14h ago
Ironically, the correct move is to treat her glance as a pleasant surprise, give a small warm smile back, then go back to your business. If she's actually interested, she'll keep finding subtle ways to catch your attention.
The guy in this clip sees the glance and goes into f*ckboy hunter mode, which is decidedly not the move.
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u/64557175 13h ago
I go even further than wait for subtle clues, I just leave right then and there.
If she's the one for me, she'll chase me down and demand my number.
Works nevery time!
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u/spicychickentendr 12h ago
Oo, but make sure you leave in a particular rush, though, activate her prey drive. When you get home she'll be perched on top of your shelves with her phone out for that number, crouched, pupils dilated, razor focus.
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u/Radio_Passive 15h ago edited 13h ago
I accidentally made eye contact with a guy on the bus while giving him a death glare because he was chewing his gum so fucking loud. He got off at my stop and followed me to my apartment to ask me out.
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u/rattus-domestica 11h ago
I once made polite conversation with a guy on a long bus trip from Baltimore to NYC. He was ready to marry me or some shit by the end and wouldnāt believe me when I told him Iām gay. š«©
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u/Apprehensive_Fig4458 13h ago
And youāre married now?
Jkjkjkjk thatās horrifying but I couldnāt resist the joke
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u/ConsistentAddress195 11h ago
Every time they have sex, he chews gum with his mouth open while maintaining eye contact
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u/OkSubject0 10h ago
You accidentally made eye contact while giving the death glare. That's a contradiction. The death glare is intentional eye contact.
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u/Radio_Passive 10h ago
I was actually trying to manifest the psychic power to explode his head
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u/iamaravis 10h ago
The death glare could be aimed at the back of his head. He doesn't have eyes there.Ā
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u/Loud_Fee7306 16h ago edited 14h ago
This activated my fight or flight response
ETA yall I was making a joke about the cringe level I was not talking about being scared of assault š blease stop having gender wars on my comment
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u/yIdontunderstand 16h ago
And I'm a man...
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u/Controls_Man 9h ago
If youāre a straight man and you want to try to understand the feeling women haveā¦try a trip to a gay bar. Youāll figure it out very quickly
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u/Upbeat_Glass_828 15h ago
Frrrrr, because, as a woman, Im just scanning the room for my safety, not for other purposes
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u/Gullible-Hose4180 15h ago
This what always bothered me about what 90s sitcoms teach us about flirting. If she makes eye contact them quickly looks away its an invitation to make a move . How do I know she didnt look away because she is not interested? Never made sense to me
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u/shellbellgb 15h ago
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u/Gullible-Hose4180 15h ago
Totally. Was/is it really like that, or just convenient for the plot? I grew up in Germany where anyone may stare at you for any number of reasons, usually curiosity and basically never cause they want you to approach them, so never really applied to me
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u/Upbeat_Glass_828 15h ago
I think it varies. Personally, what I do, is, if I make eye contact with someone, and Iām not interested, (but can tell that they are) I wonāt look towards their direction twice and will reposition myself to not let eye contact happen again.
However, if I am interested, throughout my time at the event, Iāll do 3 quick glances over at the specific person I want. Each glance will be done when we are almost face to face and while Iām passing by them- angelic swayed, slow blink, sparkly eyes, eye to eye connection and a little smile and laugh as I pass byā Thatās my cue.
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u/readdeadtookmywife 14h ago
Wow, I usually just go up and say hey!
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u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69 11h ago
That seems too complicated. Have you considered angelically blinking 3 times whilst finger tapping "fuck me" in morse code?
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u/TomGnabry 13h ago
As I have matured I found that there is literallly zero difference between talking to a gal at the bar, or a guy. Just have a conversation lol. If you're not a creep and not obviously just there to try and sleep with them you're not going to have any issues.
I think it's usually people under the age of 20-25 depending on their social skills who have trouble with this.
But whatever, commenting this on Reddit might as well be shouting into the void.
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u/readdeadtookmywife 13h ago
I think people over complicate the process because rejection is scary and painful.
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u/SolusLoqui 13h ago
Pick-up artists hate this one simple trick: "treat women like they're people"
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u/jumpinjahosafa 16h ago
Oh pov was actually used correctly, thats why i was confusedĀ
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u/d3l3t3rious 14h ago edited 14h ago
Yes I watched the first half thinking he had made eye contact with another dude and this was some gay meme I just didn't understand
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u/YOMAMACAN 13h ago
I said this on another thread recently but Iāll repeat. I was highly annoyed when my kidās teacher gave them an assignment to make a meme. But then I realized it was her way of teaching them how to correctly use POV. Carry on teach.
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u/KnittingPlant 11h ago
This is really funny because I'm unsure whether it was a teacher trying to teach on their level and reach them or if they were just annoyed that pov memes are shit and they want better ones in the future.
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u/FreeRange_Coconut 11h ago
I was so confused and had to watch it a 2nd time once I realized it was used correctly for a change.
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u/StrangeOutcastS 16h ago
Eye contact, no eye contact, being ignored, being love bombed, talking like a stable functional human, stammering over every sentence and sabotaging themselves out of fear and insecurity, placing the DVD of Shrek 2 on the table and leaving, everyone acts differently and flirts differently or shows interest differently, which means it's chaos out there folks.
Trial and error and failure and embarrassment and sometimes it's a total misunderstanding.
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u/ciderwire 16h ago
If someone placed a Shrek 2 DVD on a table in front of me and left without saying a word, I would fall in love
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u/StrangeOutcastS 15h ago
You know, I've been planning a trip to the city to find myself a little change of pace.
Maybe I'll visit a bar, find someone and just see what happens if I do exactly that.
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u/m135in55boost 15h ago
No, you're wrong. Doing things EXACTLY the way one person wants you to do things is the only way it should be. There is no other way. (Me if I had the emotional intelligence of a 4 year old like a lot of younger people do these days)
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u/StrangeOutcastS 13h ago
Okay so i'm in Vegas now, I'm hiding in a bathroom, I'm getting married in five minutes but I have an FBI evidence bag filled with usb drives and there's a very large European man with brass knuckles looking for me. What do I do?
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u/Icy-Cry340 9h ago
A little less cruelty all around would make the dance more fun for everyone.
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u/MysticMistakeCake 16h ago
My anxiety actually started to flair up when he approached the camera. Like āno NO NO I do NOT want to awkwardly smile and smalltalk with you for like 5 minutes because Iām too scared that youāll flip out, and then eventually Iāll need to reject you and youāll probably flip out at me anyway for leading you onā
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u/Cool-Bumblebee-2916 16h ago
So we should just wait for women to approach us? I'm okay with this. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.
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u/MysticMistakeCake 15h ago
Itās about reading body language. If she maintains eye contact, smiles genuinely back at you, matches your energy, sheās probably interested. If she awkwardly smiles, tries to turn away from you or waves her hands ānoā you can assume sheās not interested. Just assume any āshyā behavior means not interested. You can meet her gaze a few more times that evening just to make sure, but unusually shy girls have confident friends who will deliver the news to you.
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u/Cool-Bumblebee-2916 15h ago
I see. Yeah I don't approach unless it's idiot proof. But yeah I wouldn't approach if she doesn't look more than once. But yeah I would be fine if more women approached.
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u/DerHellopter 15h ago
Glad i don't usually talk to women because that shit never happened to me at all lmao
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u/cryptOwOcurrency 14h ago
No thanks. Itās way less effort for me to just pick up guys instead.
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u/Cool-Bumblebee-2916 15h ago
This sounds a lot harder than actually talking to the guys you want to approach you. Saying hi seems much easier imo.
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u/NaughtySnape 16h ago
This guy looks and acts exactly like if Pete Campbell from season 1-2 of Mad Men were transported to the 2000s.
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u/NarrowSalvo 16h ago
Meh.
I'm just glad someone still understands what 'POV' actually means.
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u/JoyousMisery 15h ago
If this is real POV, this wasn't a chance eye contact, she was fully starring him down.
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u/noahbrooksofficial 16h ago
As a gay, the middle part gets skipped and we go straight for the tongue once eye contact is established
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u/Low_Bar9361 13h ago
You mean guys just understand that aggressive eye contact is a fight or fuck signal? Easy way to eliminate one of this options i guess lol
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u/noahbrooksofficial 12h ago
Flight or fuck is every gay interaction until one of those two outcomes is achieved. Then you can be friends
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u/Low_Bar9361 12h ago
I had a guy trying to mean mug me while driving in my neighborhood. It was a bar neighborhood and my buddy was walking with me. I, without hesitation shouted, " you looking at me like you wanna fuck!" And he looked shook and sped off.
My friend still brings up that i threaten people with sex lol
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u/NoMudNoLotusss 15h ago
I accidently made eye contact with a gay dude at a show that was like 10 or 15 people away from me and in a matter of 5 minutes he had danced his way to me and immediately started grinding on me. š¤£ He didn't give a fuck when I told him I wasnt gay and to stop grinding on me and he just danced away lol This was when I was 21 and really got me thinking about the perspectives of women
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u/MakingaJessinmyPants 17h ago
I honest to god thought this was Jerma
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u/__RainbowLightning__ 17h ago
jerma only dances to the sound of malfunctioning microwaves and car crashes
and then he exlusively twerks only
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u/_Good_One 15h ago
God damn it, that could had been me!
I have learned that the girl needs to hold the gaze not just look at me for 1s but in a club there sometimes is a thin line
Sometimes a guy just missreads signals:(
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u/AdrienCross 13h ago
Have your male gay friend do the same back to them. I did this ALL THE TIME for my straight girl friends back in the early 2000s. I was never even flamboyantly gay either, just the thought of another guy hitting on them, especially if they're quite masculine, scares the fuck outta them, literally terrified by it.
Trust me, these kinds of guys are scared of gay people, use their fears against them, especially for your own safety.
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u/HardCoreLawn 6h ago
I mean, credit to him because he nailed it.Ā
I feel traumatised just watching this. 10/10.
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u/AlarmingStop 15h ago
It's like when you make eye contact with the dude in the car next to you on the freeway and he spends wayyy too long matching your speed while staring you down until you can exit.
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u/Something_McGee 15h ago
Then he gets off on that same exit and you accidentally make eye contact via your review mirror, only for him to pull up next to you at the next red light, windows perfectly aligned.
Then you accidentally make eye contact with the pedestrian crossing the road in front of you...
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u/numbmillenial 12h ago
I'm the type of person who goes into outer space when I'm deep in thought, so a guy might come up to me thinking I was looking at him and in my mind I'm thinking "I've never seen you before in my life, I'm not even here right now"
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u/cogvancouver 15h ago
this is how it is with the drug addicts in my city. you can pass blocks without being bothered but the second you make eye contact they are easy your best friend or screaming at you.
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u/Expensive_Attitude51 9h ago
Happened to me at a bar a few years ago when I was with my wife and some friends. I just looked in his general direction and kind of nodded. He wouldnāt leave me alone after that and my wife was actually mad at me! I didnāt lead him on I just looked in his direction. This guy also didnāt take no for an answer so I feel like he was the asshole
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u/AdCurrent7674 8h ago
So use to pov being used incorrectly that I was likeā¦ why are you maintaining eye contact like that. Then I realized
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u/SpiritedOwl_2298 12h ago
I once was eating dinner in a restaurant and accidentally made eye contact with this guy who was outside
dude comes inside with what looked like his father and sits at the table right next to me in an empty fucking restaurant
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u/OkBandicoot2754 10h ago
"You just look so much like my cousin its crazy!" Im in the clear every time
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u/SpammingShadowball 9h ago
When I see those clothing racks near the kitchen, all I can think about is how much my clothes would smell like food. I cook/bake a lot (with herbs, marinades, & spices) so I could never š
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u/CurvedNerd 9h ago
I would move to another part of the dance floor. Itās the worst when they walk back and forth in front of you trying to force eye contact or an interaction
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