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How to ask cashier out for date
There joined a new cashier in my local food product market.
My Question is how can I ask for her number, or ask her out for a coffe while she is only sitting at the cash point?
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How do I tell my new boyfriend that I make a lot of money?
As someone who has been the boyfriend in this scenario, tell him. I can completely understand your concerns but you need to find out sooner rather than later.
What if he treats me differently?
He ...
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How do I ask my dad's friend if he's interested in me?
The default reaction of people these days is "I'm not gonna judge", but ...
I'm going to go there.
But first I'll address your actual question, then you can stop reading. ;D The problem is that ...
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How to ask cashier out for date
I find the other answers very unusual, which illustrates there must be some kind of cultural difference at play.
Where I grew up (the UK) it is completely normal, typical and acceptable to engage in ...
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How to quickly end a date?
Reddit has a lot of threads regarding this question.
Generally, the most honest way to do this, according to what I've seen on that particular forum, is to gracefully say,
"I'm sorry but this ...
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Judging by the answers already given, I'm apparently alone in that I find the whole thing kind of...funny?
I'm picturing putting myself in the girlfriend's shoes. My boyfriend sits me down, very ...
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How to clearly communicate that you're asking someone on a date?
and made it as clear as I could that it was going to be just the two of us and that it's not going to be like our regular interactions.
This sounds to me like you did not explicitly mention the word '...
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How do I tell my new boyfriend that I make a lot of money?
If he's the type of person who will treat you differently once he knows, it might be good to know this sooner rather than later.
You say,
He often offers to pay for things and I try to go halfsies ...
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I post from the perspective of being a vegetarian myself and my boyfriend eating meat.
I think it's very important to talk more to her. It's important that you respect each others diets and this ...
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How to ask cashier out for date
You could do it this way;
One thing you could do, since you go often to that store, is:
start building a basic "relationship" with the cashier.
Meaning; talking to her each time you go shopping, ...
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How to ask cashier out for date
Don't.
Being friendly is literally part of their job description. There's no way to know whether the "signs" you are picking up on are actually signals and not them just doing their job.
Ask ...
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You are a man, she is a woman. If there were a reliable way of reading her intentions, half of all books, movies, plays, songs, operas and other artwork would not exist.
You need to approach this ...
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How do I tell a love interest I'm probably too old for her?
It’s not much of an answer—Kate Gregory’s is much more useful—but it’s “answer-ish” and I don’t think it’s appropriate for a comment, so:
You are blowing the age gap out of proportion
I am thirty, and ...
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How can I respond when someone asks me when I'm going to get married to my girlfriend?
Welcome to the world of adults and the responsibilities of forming adult relationships. Your relationship status is not just your concern; you are part of broader communities which included society ...
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How can I respond when someone asks me when I'm going to get married to my girlfriend?
When this happened to me, I just said (my girlfriend and I had already talked about it, so we knew what we wanted to say, and how):
we're way too young and have a looong list of things to do before ...
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How to tell someone I'm uninterested in them romantically?
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How do I ask my dad's friend if he's interested in me?
My only question is: How do I approach a conversation about this with him (if there is any to be had). I don't want to be some sort of home wrecker, but he is giving me signals as if he wants ...
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How to quickly end a date?
You can always say "I'm sorry, but this isn't working for me. Goodbye." At any time.
That said though, it would usually be strange to say that so soon. The only reasons generally would be if the ...
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How can I know whether a female house guest is interested in more than a friendly visit?
People use a number of different signals to indicate that they are interested in physical intimacy. The signals someone uses will depend on how comfortable they are with you as well as their ...
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How do I tell my new boyfriend that I make a lot of money?
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How can I respond when someone asks me when I'm going to get married to my girlfriend?
Have you tried making a joke such as,
"Never - we plan on living in sin forever."
or
"Until just after our first child."
or even
"Until people stop asking..."
and then when they look ...
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How to ask someone on a date when dating isn't usual in your culture?
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Girlfriend, vegetarianism and me not wanting to change
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