Could be the same one!
Well I thought it was a nice idea
the next call you get will be from her uncle...
I'll bring the Chloroform, you'll need it when she hits you over the head with a John Lewis frying pan...!
you need to write a song and perform it in the shop
nothing is real until you meet.
I hope you manage to get assisted by her, and not another shopping assistant. A 6 foot tall, with a beer belly, called Frank.....
PS, Has she sent you pics of her boobies on snapchat yet?? 😉
I was just about call Houns to the thread- this thread has Gym Girl written all over it!
The best thing to do is turn up wearing a leotard with her face printed on the front and invite her out for a rohypoccino.
John Lewis.
Never knowingly under(blind)fold.
Ha, well it was an idea! Doubtless the reality is it would go down badly, cost a fortune and she doesn't actually want to meet me anyway. Oh well.
Someone I know* proposed on the ground floor of Peter Jones. Successfully
I know Peter Jones is tall, but even so...!
I'm sure it should be a nice idea and that is how proper relationships start - but the cynic in me thinks there are some people out there who only want a specific bit of a normal relationship.
They just want the attention and the dialogue but without any of the commitment/risk/physical side . . . . They've turned to apps . . . Whilst the rest of us have STW 😆
Yeah, but the 'someone you know' was in an actual relationship with the recipient already, weren't they?CaptainFlashheart - Member
You may be lucky.Someone I know* proposed on the ground floor of Peter Jones. Successfully.
*ahem.
Weren't they? 😯
😉
Is your name Mark Corrigan?
😆
Will they be on an episode of catfish soon
Doubt it, we didn't "meet" through a dating site
I say do it.
There's a small chance you'll make a girl really happy, walk off into the sunset (after exiting through homewares).
The much more likely scenario is you'll make a large number of middle-aged mountain biking engineers (mostly with doctorates) happy by relating the story on this here thread.
It's win-win.
For a great contingent of STW, merely talking to the opposite sex is "a bit stalkerish". In fact, exiting their bedrooms where the curtains have been drawn all week while they've been coding feverishly and encountering another human is a bit stalkerish. So, y'know, faint heart never...and the rest.
Don't do it, you should never mess with someones work place, she won't be able to relax, especially when ambushed.
Why not hide in the shadows outside her place of work, and then follow her home, wearing a mask for added excitement?
You could then burst in through her front door, shouting, "SURPRISE!!!".
Imagine the look on her little face.
Nah I'm not much of a walker I'll just hide in the bushes and wait until she gets home. Dressed as a hedgehog so the neighbours don't spoil the suprise.
What you don't realise is that she is driving to your work tomorrow,with her own hedgehog suit
I'll take the Welliphant costume from work and she can admire the length of my trunk!!
How many months has this been going on? I'm just surprised that it could go on for more than a couple of weeks before one of you suggested it would be nice to meet in person.
This could be a film. Most likely on crime watch though.
Get who ever is running the background music in the shop to shove some Jennifer Warner and Joe Cocker on, put on a white naval avaitor outfit and go for it....
Ex colleague of mine had a similar long distance thing going on with a girl 400 miles away. 6 months backwards and forwards on text apparently? Bought her gifts etc but had never met. He even started calling her his girlfriend one day whilst out for lunchtime drinks.
We very delicately explained to him, in the nicest (and possibly quite old fashioned way), that she couldn't possibly be his girlfriend, because he hadn't f****d her yet 😉
Seriously though dude, man up, if you're chasing the right person then dating should be simple, ask her out on a date, is she can make it then great, go and see her. If she can't make it but offers you an alternative date then great, shows she's keen so reschedule. If she gets back to you and declines more than a couple of times for some reason (too busy, other stuff on etc) but doesn't offer an alternative date then she's either not serious or she's playing you (and probably loads of other schmucks) for attention so sack her off an move on.
Oh and please don't ever buy a girl a gift until you've at least met her a few times. Girls can smell desperation a mile off and sending gifts at this stage just looks far to 'needy'.
Sorry mate but I'm experienced at this stuff, just departing my wisdom. Choose to do with it what you will. Good luck 😉
Yup. It does indeed seem ridiculous. Never mind.
You are in the friend zone (about 275 miles into it!). Do not drop in without talking to her - creepy.
Note - I have done this and brought pizza and beer. I think we can all agree it was a little stalkerish. (I broke out of the friend zone and we have now been married 21 years - but not sure the pizza and beer helped)
If you really like her talk to her and arange to meet up!
It's very easy to build up romantic notions and scenarios in your mind if you're romantically inclined, don't have a real idea of a person based on real interaction and have been on your own for a while perhaps.
Distance can make this more so I think.
Meet her.
This could be a film.
It is [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338427/ ]Shopgirl[/url], with Steve Martin and Claire Danes.
Ol' Steve rolls into the shop and gets her to help with buying a pair of sex-gloves. Which he then posts to her, LIKE A STALKER.
🙂
Sorry mate but I'm experienced at this stuff, just departing my wisdom
Says the guy who thinks you can't call her a girlfriend until you've f***ed her.
Call me old-fashioned but what happened to holding hands?
Sounds like a totally shite plan. You'll put the her in a really difficult spot turning up unannounced at work making sex faces. That's not acceptable, you'll look like a freak and potentially get her in trouble with her employer.
You may not want to hear this, but if it was going to go anywhere you would have met by now.
Get yourself a fleshlight and make yourself cross eyed instead.
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Lets try and be a bit more positive here, the modern world enables such relationships and this may be one of them. I understand what the OP is saying about an arranged meet may have certain pressure with it too.
So how about you ignore the surprise, find a day when she's off and agree to get a train to meet her half way, pick a nice city of town on the major rail network, go for a stroll, a bit of lunch, maybe a beer. If you hit it off then arrange a "proper" day out there and then, if she doesn't turn up or you don't get on then you've only lost half a day and the cost of the train ticket.
This is rapidly becoming my favourite thread ever.
It's hard to pin down the best post, but this one
I say do it.There's a small chance you'll make a girl really happy, walk off into the sunset (after exiting through homewares).
The much more likely scenario is you'll make a large number of middle-aged mountain biking engineers (mostly with doctorates) happy by relating the story on this here thread.
It's win-win.
is pretty damn good. 😀
I thought this was a creepy idea even before reading it properly and realising you haven't even met her..
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agree to get a train to meet her half way, pick a nice city of town on the major rail network
That's inevitably going to mean they meet for the first time in Birmingham New Street station, outside WH Smiths.
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Hasn't New Street been renovated? That could be quite lovely!
Meet in the prosecco bar in NewSt
I think the idea is nice and shows you like her and want to see if this has the potential to turn into something good. You just have to be careful you don't put her off by shocking her to much.
As you can see by the post here lots of people will just say it's creepy and weird so it's likely that her friends might jump to the same conclusions. Assuming you don't get locked up that is!!
Ask her if she'd like to meet up and if she does and if it goes well then start the romantic wooing.
Sounds like the plot for a Hugh Grant film.
Oh and don't get too hung up on the outcome. You'll often find that people in real life are nothing like how they appear from online dating, texting etc. Either that or you just might not click when you meet in person. That's why meeting up quickly and moving on are so important before you waste too much time and your emotional health chasing the perception of what she's actually like that you've built up in your own mind.
Equally she could be ideal - but you'll never know unless you meet her, and if the only way she'll agree to meet you (well not actually agree as such) is for you to arrive unannounced then things are not looking good. If she agrees to a date then that's way different.
I'm a little late to this party.
You are Tom Hanks, she is Meg Ryan - do I get to claim two fivers?
I'm so glad I'm married. If I end up single again, no way would I go through all this modern dating nonsense.
