| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 11/5/2007 8:40:45 PM | I actually did meet someone in the grocery store --- by the produce aisle --- it wasn't mellons, but how about oranges. He was actually an old neighbor when we were children. I didn't live in the neighborhood anymore, but was visiting my parents and ran out to pick up some fruits. I looked horrible. I guess since we were old neighbors, it didn't prevent him from making contact. We actually wound up dating for a while after that.
Now, I try to be at least put together when I head out my door. ... well, at least clean.. 
But I was just thinking about this topic the other day -- I tend to run through the grocery store with a purpose of just getting my groceries and not paying any attention to anyone else in the store. But yesterday, I picked my head up from my cart and actually looked around. No one made eye contact with me, but I did notice a lot of married men looking at my, um, mellons?  | |
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 11/6/2007 10:18:48 AM | .
Most people are obviously there to buy food, not to pick up dates.
Exactly! But, as in other circumstances, there’s no reason to not be polite with the people around me. Just because I talk with a woman most certainly does not mean that I have any interest in dating her. Fact is, chances are rather excellent that I do not.
Sure, we have a few female frady-cats around here who will not even make eye contact with a man they do not know while out in public. Not too many, though. At least, not around me, anyway.
I guess that much of what was discussed here concerns how to pick up someone while shopping. I have no interest in that. On the other hand, meeting people while shopping is easy and happens a lot.
While voting today at city hall, I had occasion to talk with two women I have never seen before. Why not talk with them? We were waiting in line for over 15 minutes. What am I supposed to do, just stand around like a mute dummy? Now, the next time we see each other we will say hello. And so it goes. . . .
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 11/6/2007 5:15:24 PM | | Picking up chicks at the grocery store---wasn't that an old episode of Happy Days? I don't view grocery shopping as a pleasant experience and I am there to buy food. I assume women are there to buy food also and maybe it is just someplace they do not have to worry about some guy hitting on them and frankly I have no interest in doing it myself. Every public place does not have to be somewhere where the game is on. | |
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 12/31/2007 2:50:18 PM | "Here in New Zealand there is a rumour that if you have your bananas pointing upwards in your trolley that means you are single"
You call shopping carts "trollies"??? Get out of my face!!! LOL, jk jk! | |
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Ronyag
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Joined: 9/21/2007
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mer123
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Joined: 8/10/2007
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 12/31/2007 6:29:30 PM | Hey, you're already shopping, might as well have some fun with it. Next time I go shopping, I'll buy some big red ribbon and put it on my cart, along with the bannans pointing up, and see what happens. I bet I would get some interesting looks anyways, shy not, could be fun. As far as not being able to tell if the guy is single or not, how can you really tell anywhere, such as on here in lovely pof land?
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 12/31/2007 6:41:30 PM | | Seems like you have the right idea just need to try it out. Try thinking if it was you, what would need to be said to get your attention. Just try asking after you break the ice, the longer you wait, the harder it seems to get it out... | |
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 12/31/2007 6:47:57 PM | mer123 wrote:
Hey, you're already shopping, might as well have some fun with it.
I work the night shift and usually go to the supermarket after work. I am not there to have fun--I just want to buy my food and get the hell home so I can get some sleep. My guess would be that most women are at the store for the same reason--to buy their food and get the hell out of there. This is real life and not an episode of "Happy Days". | |
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naeco
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Joined: 12/16/2007
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 12/31/2007 6:53:17 PM | This is a story about a friend of a friend. Apparently this guy went to the front doors at Wal-Mart and decided to start asking women for their phone numbers. He'd pick an attractive woman, and just ask her for her number as she walked in the door. After about 45 minutes of this, security asked the guy to leave the premises, as they said he was harassing customers. However, he did walk away with several numbers and a few dates out of it.
I guess some guys have it, and some guys don't. Unfortunately, that's something I DON'T have. | |
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 12/31/2007 6:55:19 PM | OP, the salad bar is what works for me. It's easy to start a conversation about mundane things, by asking "have you tried this?"...like the soup of the day, etc.. And, if she's interested, we have a brief conversation. I then say, "wow, I'd love to talk longer, when you have a chance. Have you ever gone to .....(name an upscale bar nearby)? " and then suggest an evening to stop after work for a drink, etc..
It's no biggie to do. Not a high percentage turn out to be a good match, but easy enough to make a date. | |
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 1/1/2008 3:52:22 AM | Most people are obviously there to buy food, not to pick up dates.
And you see this as a problem when in FACT....
That's the GREAT Thing about it!!!! 
The BEST place to get a date, is being in an environment where people aren't there to pick up dates. ;-)
I never approach women in a grocery store because it's very rude and most women don't want a random man approaching them while they are shopping. I don't want to feel like a stalker.
Um...you need to educate yourself the difference between "being a stalker" and actually being a normal bachelor in day to day life. Man up, dude.
It's comments like this that make person wonder why they are STILL single. They dont' have the balls to say anything to a woman.
Where I live though, I've tried to approach women from time to time, but its a small town mentality, and most women are taken, so are typically taken aback by any guy that tries to talk to them.....alot of them have "Live-in Boyfriends" or are married 22 year olds with one in the oven.
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 1/1/2008 4:41:33 AM | Hmmm.
Actually, I think you touched on something that makes people all over go "What?"
I don't know about you but I don't think that I know of anyone who met a girlfriend, boyfriend, or SO through that method of even tried it. So I tend to think that this was one of those instances where it really happened once a long, long time ago and it has evolved into the Urban Legend status as people repeat that one success story.
Seriously, a couple of the posters mentioned a few of the possible scenarios in the produce section. As a woman, isn't it way more likely that someone trying that on you would tend to creep you out. As a guy, wouldn't you tend to sound silly at trying such a line? | |
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| What's this about meeting people in grocery stores!
Posted: 1/1/2008 7:40:11 AM |
I don't know about you but I don't think that I know of anyone who met a girlfriend, boyfriend, or SO through that method of even tried it. So I tend to think that this was one of those instances where it really happened once a long, long time ago and it has evolved into the Urban Legend status as people repeat that one success story.
As I posted earlier, I've found it easy enough to do, but it's such a "shot in the dark", compared to knowing someone before a first date, as you do from online dating, that I haven't done it much since my divorce 8 years ago- maybe 6 times in the periods when I've been between relationships.
However, I met my ex wife, and we were married for 19 years and have two children, in a check out line. So, yeah, in my life it HAS happened, and if I really felt a need to do my own version of "speed dating", I'd do it again. | |
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