Would you ask a person out... on the bus?

irish life · 18-07-2007 07:03PM #1

...Just for future reference nothing else.

I got on the number 27 bus at Coolock a couple of hours ago. The following stop a drop dead gorgeous girl gets on. She looks Spanish. The bus was fairly empty, maybe 7 or 8 people downstairs. She's walking up the isle and I'm praying she sits beside me. She does. First thing I was thinking is why did she not sit on the empty seat across the isle. I'm not complaining. Anyway, she puts her ear phones on full blast (my type of girl

) and I spend the next 25 minutes staring at her reflection in the glass. I don't know if she was looking back as she had some sort of shades on but I'd like to think she was.

Connolly station comes and it's my stop. She just moved her legs slightly for me to squeeze past and that was the last of it.

I spent my journey home regretting not asking her out. Even just slipping her my number on a piece of paper. My instinct just tells me she'd have said yes which is the reason I'm so annoyed with myself. Anyway, who'd have the guts to ask someone out on bus/train/luas?

muckwarrior · 18-07-2007 07:05PM

Surely if she had that in mind she wouldn't have put her earphones in?

challengemaster · 18-07-2007 07:06PM

do you normally keep a/many piece(s) of paper with your number on it whilst travelling/day to day stuff? or always have a pen/paper?

Earthhorse · 18-07-2007 07:15PM

I was chatted up on the bus once.

I was smoking a spliff down the back and this lady comes up, asks me for my name, number, home address; all business so she was.

She said she'd write me but I never did hear from her.

Crumble Froo · 18-07-2007 07:20PM

personally, i wouldnt. but i wouldnt be averse to being chatted up on the bus (y'no.. if i was single ...)

_Kaiser_ · 18-07-2007 07:26PM

Earthhorse: LOL

Anyway, to answer the OP's question. I did this once. Was on a bus heading down the country and got chatting to this girl in the seat across the aisle. Had a laugh so just before getting off, I suggested we meet up for a drink sometime.

She said yes..

score, right?

Wrong.. After listening to her make racist remarks about people (loudly and within their earshot), and having her drag me around town shopping (as opposed to the few drinks and bite to eat we'd arranged only 2 hours earlier) THEN looking at me as if expecting me to buy her a €400 coat (still the first date remember!) when her credit card was declined....... well, needless to say there was no second date!

Be careful what you wish for OP!

J.S. Pill · 18-07-2007 07:26PM

Speaking of odd places to be asked out...

A friend of mine went for a haircut in Peter Marks in Wexford. The girl who washed his hair gave him her number when he was done. My friend said she sounded eastern european.

This struck me as a highly unusual thing to happen in Ireland so I said that she probably saw that sort of thing going on all the time on the Polish dubbed version of 'friends'.

MooseJam · 18-07-2007 07:30PM

psycho, the bus is for transport not finding dates

Smellyirishman · 18-07-2007 07:32PM

I got talking to a really friendly girl on the PATH over here and was I not already involved I probably would have asked her out once we had reached our stop. That said, I wouldn't just slip a piece of paper to someone and hope they got in touch or just blurt out "Hey you, you look like you want me, want to date?". In your position, I might ask her what she was listening to because it sounds good, anything to start a bit of conversation first.

Paddy Dignam · 18-07-2007 07:34PM

I think she may have suspected you of being some kind of loon had you asked her out, or even left your number.

It's a pity that she stuck the headphones on. If she was reading a book you could have made small talk about it. Or if she wasn't reading you could have 'impressed' her with a classic Stan Laurel line - "A lot of weather we've been having lately!". Instantly she'd think you were a good guy. Maybe

_blank_ · 18-07-2007 07:37PM

irish life wrote:

...Just for future reference nothing else.

I got on the number 27 bus at Coolock a couple of hours ago.

Which stop in Coolock?

In anyway, it was the 27 bus, it was probably a knack-fest. I wouldn't make eye contact with anyone on that bus.

(before the pc brigade weigh in. I'm from Coolock, and use the 27 service)

(and no, this doesn't belong in the Dublin Forum)

_Kaiser_ · 18-07-2007 07:39PM

seansouth wrote:

Which stop in Coolock?

In anyway, it was the 27 bus, it was probably a knack-fest. I wouldn't make eye contact with anyone on that bus.

(before the pc brigade weigh in. I'm from Coolock, and use the 27 service)

(and no, this doesn't belong in the Dublin Forum)

I can back this up having also used the 27 for years as well.

I'm guessing it was at the UCI though

tuxy · 18-07-2007 07:39PM

Earthhorse wrote:

I was chatted up on the bus once.

I was smoking a spliff down the back

Hey next time a skanger thread comes up could you post in it and stand up for your kind?

Collie D · 18-07-2007 08:15PM

tuxy wrote:

Hey next time a skanger thread comes up

A skanger thread in After Hours? Never!!

aequinoctium · 18-07-2007 09:13PM

A friend of mine went for a haircut in Peter Marks in Wexford. The girl who washed his hair gave him her number when he was done.

i'm going there tomorrow!

Anto McC · 18-07-2007 10:28PM

I seen a bloke ask a woman for her phone number,on a packed bus and she just laughed at him although he genuinely didn't seem to be embarrassed about it or anything,whereas i'd melt on the spot.

mikemac · 18-07-2007 10:31PM

seansouth wrote:

In anyway, it was the 27 bus, it was probably a knack-fest. I wouldn't make eye contact with anyone on that bus.

(before the pc brigade weigh in. I'm from Coolock, and use the 27 service)

QFT!

irish life · 18-07-2007 11:03PM

seansouth wrote:

Which stop in Coolock?

In anyway, it was the 27 bus, it was probably a knack-fest. I wouldn't make eye contact with anyone on that bus.

(before the pc brigade weigh in. I'm from Coolock, and use the 27 service)

(and no, this doesn't belong in the Dublin Forum)

I got on at the northside shopping centre. I was actually at the bus stop and a car full of young lads came along with a water pistle. They stopped and soaked a woman standing at the bustop reading. She was from the north and hadn't a clue what was going on, nearly crying. The lad was about 25. Idiot.

undecided · 18-07-2007 11:13PM

I first met my fella on a bus. Mind you didn'taccept offer of a night out did however tell him where my local was he came up to me in my local a week later .......that was 11 years ago!

Mind you wont know what to tell the kids when they ever ask!

Anto McC · 18-07-2007 11:50PM

undecided wrote:

Mind you wont know what to tell the kids when they ever ask!

Ask about what? Quantum physics?

Just tell them the truth,it's not that hard to believe.

2 stroke · 18-07-2007 11:58PM

Everytime you meet a girl you fancy. Try your luck, you may never meet her again. Every time you get turned down is one closer to a ride.

ironictoaster · 19-07-2007 12:31AM

2 stroke wrote:

Everytime you meet a girl you fancy. Try your luck, you may never meet her again. Every time you get turned down is one closer to a ride.

Best advice I've ever heard

MAYPOP · 19-07-2007 12:48AM

creggy wrote:

Best advice I've ever heard

x2

Kinetic^ · 19-07-2007 12:51AM

J.S. Pill wrote:

A friend of mine went for a haircut in Peter Marks in Wexford. The girl who washed his hair gave him her number when he was done. My friend said she sounded eastern european.

Tesco doing petrol.........McDonalds doing salads..........and now Peter Marks doing hookers........what next?

Also.......no "me doing yore ma" replies either, k thanks

2 stroke · 19-07-2007 12:54AM

A friend of mine has this theory that in a club at any moment, one woman in thirty is aroused and can be talked into casual sex, and he spends a lot of time trying to prove it. His hit rate is about one in ninety.

FunkZ · 19-07-2007 12:55AM

2 stroke wrote:

Everytime you meet a girl you fancy. Try your luck, you may never meet her again. Every time you get turned down is one closer to a ride.

I have to start thinking like this more! Can't wait till college!

19-07-2007 12:58AM

Once met a gorgeous girl on a train from Cork to Tralee a few years back. Got chatting, she was initially wondering why we were stopped for so long (it being a single track line). Either way, could have gotten somewhere but I was 21 and she was 15 so I decided not to go any further.

2 stroke · 19-07-2007 01:00AM

There is an brothel near Peter Marks in Wexford. Number was probably for there.

luckat · 19-07-2007 01:02AM

She's probably not going to go out with a total stranger. But if you said "A bunch of my friends are meeting to go bowling" (or something equally harmless) "and would you like to come along?" she might.

Of course, then you have to organise a few friends to go bowling (OSEH) so she won't be shy. But that way, you'll get to know her a bit calmly.

Terry · 19-07-2007 02:03AM

Met a girl on the train from Maynooth to Leixlip.
She got off at my stop having agreed to come back to my friends house ( I invited her). Turns out she wasn't interested in me. Wanted my friend.

I would have no problem askin a girl out on a bus, but only if I was sitting next to her and we struck up a conversation.
I don't really like the idea of just getting on a bus, walking up to a random stranger and asking her out.

mawk · 19-07-2007 03:47AM

Terry wrote:

I don't really like the idea of just getting on a bus, walking up to a random stranger and asking her out.

hehe

GUY: "HEY YOU!!!! GET ON ME!!!!"
GIRL:"..Im sorry, do i know you?"

now thats the kind of mental image i can chuckle about at this time of night..

Would you ask a person out... on the bus?

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