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

irish life

...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

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

challengemaster

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

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

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

_Kaiser_

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

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

psycho, the bus is for transport not finding dates

Smellyirishman

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

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_

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_

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

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

tuxy wrote:

Hey next time a skanger thread comes up

A skanger thread in After Hours? Never!!

aequinoctium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

creggy wrote:

Best advice I've ever heard

x2

Kinetic^

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

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

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!

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

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

luckat

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

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

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..

Mexicola

Earthhorse wrote:

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.

Are you sure she wasnt a cop?
Or a DB inspector?

philstar

if the same girl gets on the bus tommorow, and sits besides you or near you again...well then ya ....go for it.;)

Tar.Aldarion

Mexicola wrote:

Are you sure she wasnt a cop?
Or a DB inspector?

My gosh, you could be on to something!

judas101

i successfully picked up a girl on a bus 2 weeks ago.

on the nightlink of all places.

classy or wha'?

skywalker

MooseJam wrote:

psycho, the bus is for transport not finding dates

The correct answer.

jor el

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

My gosh, you could be on to something!

No flies on Mexicola this morning.

Anyway, people who talk to complete strangers on a bus are weirdos, especially if you put in earphones and then the other person tries to ask you out. That's a definite no no. I think if the OP had made his move the girl probably would have smacked him in the gob, screamed and accused him of rape.

Of course if the gorgeous girl (or guy) starts the conversation with you then it could be OK. However, as some have pointed out on this thread, she could turn out to be a money grabbing psycho biatch or something. So you see, weirdos the lot of them, in every case.

magpie

I first met my fella on a bus

Shouldn't that be - "I first met me fella on a bus"?

Steve_o

Mexicola wrote:

Are you sure she wasnt a cop?
Or a DB inspector?

You're on the ball there Mex.....

Maple

it would have been alright if you'd struck up a conversation but you didn't so i think it best that you didn't ask her out.

layke

Was staying at a mates house in Kells when I got the bus home the following day. Unshowered, unshaven and hair all over the place I spotted this absolute dinger of a ginger. SO I just turned around and asked her if she was as bored as I was, you know to get the ball rolling. Well i got on really well with her, she told me she is from Kildare but was renting her student home in Dundrum. This was GF material, an abbsolute beaut and one that you could bring home to mummy.
Anyway I got her number on a peice of paper and as soon as I got home I checked my pockets and it was gone...FSKING GONE! Oh fate you dealt me a cruel hand that day. Thinking about it still stings.

philstar

Well..OP (irishlife).......any updates??

did u see her again today???;)

Lump

I saw an AMAZING bird on the tube last night, I was tempted, but bottled it in the end

sweet-rasmus

this hot person sitting next to you on a near empty bus thing happened to me before and i've always kicked myself for saying nothing. as in this case, we both had head phones on. once i got off, i looked up at him and he was grinning at me. such a lost oppertunity!! *sigh*

Tar.Aldarion

you can go back and try it if you like...

el tel

I was on a bus and had an aisle seat. This blonde girl gets on, carrying a bag and takes asile seat adjacent mine. She could have sat anywhere but she sat there. We briefly exchanged glances. A while later I took out a stick of chewing gum and noticed it was my last one. I don't know what possessed me but I decided to give it to yer one beside me. She looked surprised but cooly broke half of leaving me with the remaining part. We got chatting after that, thought I might have a chance here. Sadly though, I had to get off and the bus travelled onwards. I was waiting in a cafe at the stop kicking myself for not getting her number. As I sat there pondering my missed opportunity and twiddling the gum wrapper in my fingers in she walked holding her half of the wrapper in her hands. She had hopped off the bus for me! At this point I noticed that 'All Right Now' by Free was playing on the radio. :cool: By sunset we were apricot deep :cool::cool:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/last_stick.html

Niamho!

Aw its a killer! see.....on a Bus or something i wouldnt really find it too weird striking up a conversation or someone striking one up with me. (It'd probably work better than when you're on a night out!) but d'ya ever see someone in a Totally Random place and even if you wanted to you probably couldnt really talk to them? its worse when they pop into your head now and again too......Regret....its a Fooker!

Mutz

layke wrote:

Was staying at a mates house in Kells when I got the bus home the following day. Unshowered, unshaven and hair all over the place I spotted this absolute dinger of a ginger. SO I just turned around and asked her if she was as bored as I was, you know to get the ball rolling. Well i got on really well with her, she told me she is from Kildare but was renting her student home in Dundrum. This was GF material, an abbsolute beaut and one that you could bring home to mummy.
Anyway I got her number on a peice of paper and as soon as I got home I checked my pockets and it was gone...FSKING GONE! Oh fate you dealt me a cruel hand that day. Thinking about it still stings.

But your a bleedin roide Layke! I'd even have ya!

Check your pm

Victor

Girl 1. Well twisted when she sat next to me on the last bus. She feel off the seat as we went around the corner and I 'rescued' her. She put her head on my shoulder. Walked her home and snogged her. I r teh slut.

Girl 2. She gave me a chewing gum and we chatted. I asked for her number, she gave it to me. I phoned her. She wasn't interested. Crash & burn.

Girl 3. We happened to get the same bus, then the same DART. Sat together and chated. I asked for her number ... crash & burn.