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30 Times People Hilariously Failed To Notice That Someone Was Obviously Hitting On Them
However perfect or imperfect your lives are, dear Pandas, there’s one thing that unites us—regrets. These come in as many flavors as Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, but probably the nastiest of all are regrets related to missed relationship opportunities. It’s sad and hilarious at the same time to realize how many times people missed out on love and passionate kisses because they naively misread the situation.
New York-based comedian David Drake shared how he completely didn’t get the very obvious hint back in a high school sleepover that the girl he liked was trying to seduce him by tickling him. He only realized the truth later and keeps thinking about the lost opportunity. His Twitter followers then shared their own similar experiences, and the combined awkwardness and secondhand embarrassment are so big, you might just say ‘oh no, no, no, no, no, no no!’ aloud, Pandas.
Scroll down for the most powerful romantic situation misreads, upvote the ones that got to you the most, and let us know in the comments if you’ve ever not gotten heavy hints that someone was into you. When you’re done with this list, Bored Panda has another post about obvious hints that people failed to notice right here.
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Elliot Fowler 4 years ago
Guys might still not get the hint cause a girl telling you directly that she wants to f*@K U might be so unbelievable to some they think it is a prank.
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Tolga ÜSTÜN 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah. Cause McDonald's or other fast food restaurants are known for customer services...
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Tolga ÜSTÜN 4 years ago (edited)
After I read this I hug a chair in my room for 5 minutes with my hands arround it. Than I kissed it and it kissed back. After 5 minutes of huggin even chairs are kissing back. But we can never know if she'd get mad. You are right... :)
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AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
some of these are innocently adorable, you my dude, are dumb as a box of rocks. THREE TIMES???
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Monica Martinez Castañeda 4 years ago
And us girls, as we think it was SO OBVIOUS and, therefore, have been rejected, never try again because we think that was your polite way to reject us... :(
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Veronica Sjöberg 4 years ago
This is bad advice in general though even if it worked for them. I've met many guys who think I'm just playing "hard to get" when I'm really not interested. If you don't say yes it's generally a no, and you should take it that way (even if a clear "no" is better).
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Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
The assumption underlying many of these is that all guys should be DTF anytime a woman wants to, even if she's a stranger. That seems kind of gross.
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Happy_Pandalover 4 years ago
Ok, i got to say he sounds quite rude. How do you bring home someone, let them sit alone and make food only for yourself?
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Tolga ÜSTÜN 4 years ago (edited)
This will be your ghost and haunt you forever when you try to sleep...
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Tolga ÜSTÜN 4 years ago
"Seni aptal çocuk!" That's "you silly boy" in Turkish... There read this...
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Jon Steensen 4 years ago
He should have asked her why she didn't ask him out if that was what she wanted. I think we are long past the days when only men could ask women out. If you want something to happen in your life take some initiative and make it happen.
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Tolga ÜSTÜN 4 years ago (edited)
I can understand you don't want to see a lady in the tub. But man... A swiming cat is once in a life time scene...
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Peej Maybe 4 years ago
Guilty of something similar. Got off a bus 2 stops early at my stop rather than escorting the girl I really fancied all the way into town to make sure she got her bus, because I was meeting friends for a LAN party that night. And they didn't show up. Though it worked out OK in the end as reader, I married her (many many years afterwards when I woke the heck up!)
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Backpacking trip? Friends? Skinny dipping? Yeah, that's a real thing that really happened /s
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Kaa 4 years ago
Guys - obviously you didn't ~feel~ it in these situations. There's nothing wrong with going home, turning down an invitation from a girl, not getting hints. You were obviously not ready. Don't see it as a "missed chance". You both didn't vibe, and just making out or f*cking just because there's this opportunity is not really cool or manly.
Kanuli 4 years ago
Yea. I kinda had a situation like this. There was a girl in a school course, and they did attendance of all classes every morning, so we only saw eachother there. One morning our eyes met and kept meeting. And we both smiled and blushed. Later that week a friend of hers asked for my number. Which I rejected, since I was so afraid of anyone doing prank calls or fooling with my number, that I didn’t give the number. That was that. I am not that sad though. Around that time I got to know another girl, which I fell in love with 1 1/2 months later, and she became my first girlfriend. We are together 16 years now, and to us we were glad that we actually never had anyone else before us. Sometimes I do this butterfly effect thinking, but my now wife brought me to places (literally and metaphorically) I am sure no one on earth could have achieved that. Also moved countries which might have saved my life, long story. So sometimes it’s just meant not to be?
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
Actually I like this a whole lot more than the polar opposite, where a woman can't talk to a guy about the weather without him thinking she is really into him and absolutely wants to do him in the club bathroom right now. Guys, just because you are male doesn't mean you have to jump at every opportunity to get laid or you are somehow "unmanly". As Kaa said, something about the situation obviously didn't work for you, so you subconsciously passed. That is perfectly fine, too!
Sareaesque 4 years ago
Given the number of posts about guys who mistake someone being nice for leading them on and then can't take no for an answer, this was wholesomely refreshing.
Kaa 4 years ago
Guys - obviously you didn't ~feel~ it in these situations. There's nothing wrong with going home, turning down an invitation from a girl, not getting hints. You were obviously not ready. Don't see it as a "missed chance". You both didn't vibe, and just making out or f*cking just because there's this opportunity is not really cool or manly.
Kanuli 4 years ago
Yea. I kinda had a situation like this. There was a girl in a school course, and they did attendance of all classes every morning, so we only saw eachother there. One morning our eyes met and kept meeting. And we both smiled and blushed. Later that week a friend of hers asked for my number. Which I rejected, since I was so afraid of anyone doing prank calls or fooling with my number, that I didn’t give the number. That was that. I am not that sad though. Around that time I got to know another girl, which I fell in love with 1 1/2 months later, and she became my first girlfriend. We are together 16 years now, and to us we were glad that we actually never had anyone else before us. Sometimes I do this butterfly effect thinking, but my now wife brought me to places (literally and metaphorically) I am sure no one on earth could have achieved that. Also moved countries which might have saved my life, long story. So sometimes it’s just meant not to be?
Load More Replies... Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
Actually I like this a whole lot more than the polar opposite, where a woman can't talk to a guy about the weather without him thinking she is really into him and absolutely wants to do him in the club bathroom right now. Guys, just because you are male doesn't mean you have to jump at every opportunity to get laid or you are somehow "unmanly". As Kaa said, something about the situation obviously didn't work for you, so you subconsciously passed. That is perfectly fine, too!
Sareaesque 4 years ago
Given the number of posts about guys who mistake someone being nice for leading them on and then can't take no for an answer, this was wholesomely refreshing.
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