Asking Online Friend For Coffee

LegacyUser · 14-03-2014 4:30pm #1

I know this is a relatively small issue towards what else is here, but I figured I'd post anyway.

I've known this guy online for almost a year now. We met on Twitter after a friend tweeted us saying that we would get on well and we should follow each other. We did and we get on great.

He's got a new job right down the road from where I work part-time and where my college is. I pass by the building five or six times most days. I am thinking I will probably bump into him in the area at some stage over the next few weeks or months, as I spend a lot of time just going about the place.

If I do see him walking by, should I say hi? I'm afraid he wouldn't recognize me, although we were once at the same gig and when I was home he tweeted me "I think I saw you tonight." I'd love to ask him would he like to grab a coffee sometime because I'm kinda into him and genuinely want to know him better. But is asking someone to go for coffee too date-ish? Online we're in a lot of the same social circles (if that makes sense) so I wouldn't want things to be awkward between us.

Thanks.

Tokyo · 14-03-2014 4:35pm

It's a coffee, not a marriage proposal. So why not ask him. Doesn't have to be date-like - all you have to say is "seeing as you are now working down the road from me, want to grab a coffee sometime when you're free?" And see what happens from there....