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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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.
Comedian David’s post got more than 95.4k likes and was retweeted several thousand times. But the biggest victory wasn’t the impressive numbers. No. The victory was getting people to open up about the moments of regret that still haunt them to this very day. And let’s not forget the comedy gold hidden between the lines of these tweets.
The thread is perfect proof that far more people have the types of regrets that sometimes keep us awake at night than you’d think.
Flirting with someone is one thing, but it’s also important to consider where the relationship might go afterward. Previously, Bored Panda spoke with dating and relationship expert Dan Bacon about how to tell if the person you met is someone that you would like to marry.
“When you meet your wife, you know you want to be with her and only her. There’s no question in your mind about that. However, that doesn’t mean that you know you want to marry her from day one though,” he explained to us.
Yeah. Cause McDonald's or other fast food restaurants are known for customer services...
“You know you are ready to marry a woman if you have never thought of breaking up with her for real. I say ‘for real’ because sometimes a couple will have fights in the early days and threaten a breakup, or temporarily think about breaking up in the heat of the moment, but then change their mind,” the expert noted.
“It’s only a problem if a guy secretly wishes he had a different woman, regularly imagines breaking up with his girlfriend and falling in a love with a new woman, or worries that his girlfriend probably isn’t the right woman for him,” Dan told Bored Panda.
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... :)
some of these are innocently adorable, you my dude, are dumb as a box of rocks. THREE TIMES???
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... :(
“In cases like those, she’s not the one for him and he will almost certainly not be willing to do what it takes to make the marriage work in the long run, which will result in cheating or a divorce at some point.”
For the dating expert, marriage means finding the right person to be with for life. He also shared with us that it’s vital not to give in to peer pressure.
“If you’re going to get married, it has to be with the right girl. You shouldn’t ever marry just for the sake of it, to impress family or friends, or to do what others are doing,” he warned.
“A family member of mine got married because his friends were all getting married, so he followed along with their lead. He then ended up going through a painful divorce 5 years into his marriage after having two children. He and his ex-wife still aren’t on good terms to this day because she is bitter about what happened.”
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).
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.
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.
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...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!
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.
This is so much better than the creepy "prev in the dms" kinda posts
In most of these it's obvious that the guy didn't want to but felt bad about saying no because it goes against what they "should do/want". I see nothing wrong with a guy just don't want to f**k even if "the whole class was into her" or "she was super hot". It's ok to say no anyway.
Thank you, Veronica! There's this insane notion out there that any guy is going to be dtf whenever there's an opportunity.
Load More Replies...My son is 14 and on the autism spectrum. , I've told him, if he likes a girl, to tell her. "Hey, I like you. I think you're cool" (or whatever similar to that) and then if he doesn't understand her answer to tell her specifically, "Ya know, I'm autistic and don't understand, I genuinely don't want to make you uncomfortable, can you clarify for me, please." Honestly more people need to do this. Males and females and whatever inbetween and ALL ages
Oh boy do I relate to a lot of these. Lol. Sadly, I'm in my 30s and I still find it hard to read signs.
Same but I feel that as women get older they stop trying to flirt like this and are a lot more upfront.
Load More Replies...My best friend had just finished studding to become an electrical engineer and landed a great contract abroad for 3 months. The first night he was away we were hitting the clubs and decided to invite his girlfriend to keep her company. Because of distance she ended up crashing at my place. She came into my room and said, 'I'm not used to sleeping alone, can I get in and cuddle up with you?', because I have the emotion of a paper clip I said yeah. She striped naked, climbed into my bed and shuffled her back into me. After a few minutes she starts moving her backside, rubbing it against me. I said, 'Can you stop moving please, it's really distracting and I'm trying to sleep'. Next day I called my friend so see how he's settled in, he said 'It was had trying to sleep without [girlfriend] with me', I responded with 'I would have thought it was easier, she fidgets all night!' He, knowing me well enough, said, 'Talk me me through last night, from the beginning!'. I felt stupid afterwards.
"Talk me through last night," is an amazingly rational response. I hope you're still friends with this guy.
Load More Replies...I guess people should just say what they want rather than using cues and hints that could be misinterpreted or missed.
Refreshing that not all men are sex driven assholes. Good for you guys. 👍
When I was about 17 or so a girl who I was keen on but I wasn't sure she felt the same way used to pick me up from my parents house and we would go for a drive..she was a couple of years older and this went on for about a month...one day we were parked up and she leaned into me and said.." I've started using the pill" I said " oh.. ok" Then she responded "but I haven't had the chance to find out if it works yet" Me " oh right..I need to get home now,I've gotta be up early"
Sometimes women drop hints that men don't see. Sometimes men see hints that aren't there. This can be confusing.
obviously hints are not an effective method of communication. i know i'm weird, but i don't know why people bother with flirting. You talk, you decide you like someone, if you think there's a mutual attraction, you ask. And it doesn't have to be as mechanical as i'm making it sound; "hey, i'm really enjoying talking to you and i think i'd like to kiss you" was given a "yes, please" more often than not.
Load More Replies...Never once in my life have I missed the hint. Of course I would in no way accept every one of them, but I still treated them with respect. "I'm so sorry. You are absolutely beautiful but I can't spend the night because ________."
How do you know if you never missed a hint? Also: humble brag.
Load More Replies...there are way too many for me to remember, one that sticks in my mind was on the train back from a gig in London with my brother having a beer, an absolutely stunning girl got on and made a bee line over to me and asked if she could share my beer - I've always been a bit funny about stuff like that so I offered her one of her own, she called me an idiot and started kissing me, after about 20 minutes of kissing and dry humping she whispered in my ear "this is my stop do you want to walk me home?" I was like well I don't need to get off here, but it was really nice meeting you - my brother has literally never let me live that one down! An older guy sitting in the same carriage even looked at me and shook his head as she got off
It's not just guys. Back when we still just worked together, we're leaving the bar one night and my coworker said he wanted to kiss me. I was like, "dude, you're drunk." Twenty years later, after we both married and divorced from other people, he called me and finally just said he always had the hots for me, could he come visit (he was in DC, I was in Kansas). Our 10th anniversary is this year. 🤷♀️ At least I finally figured it out. Granted, he had to literally spell it out for me but ...
Years ago, I was 19, I was in Edinburgh for the festival and bumped into some people I knew from London who were there doing a play in the Fringe. One of the guys was someone I'd had a crush on for quite some time. Anyway, went to see their play which was a very late night one - if you don't know the festival, it's huge and especially on the Fringe you have stuff going on all day through to late at night. It ends, we're all heading off to where we're staying. The guy who I have a crush on is waiting at the bus stop with me, my bus is turning up and he says " ... or you could come back with me and stay over at our digs." and I reply "No, it's fine the bus is here now so I'll head back to mine." I'm on the bus and it's just moving away from the bus stop when my brain kicks in and realise I've just turned down the chance of a night with this beautiful man. What an oblivious, utter twat I was. I still think about it from time to time years later.
I'm glad I'm not the only clueless man running around. I don't know how many times I was propositioned by a woman, and it just went right over my head. Life is a hoot sometimes.
It is true that women often seem to expect us to be mind readers, but these guys are just plain stupid.
Now I'm going through my mind listing all the times I was too dumb to read the overt signs. Alone in the dormroom: "My lips are chapped- who would want to kiss me" she said lying back on her bed looking at me. Me: "I'm sure someone would" At a party: "It's noisy here! If only *we* could find someplace quiet" Me: "Good luck with that!"
I'm honestly surprised at the number of girls who were basically saying "I want to f*ck you" in not so subtle ways. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I have never had a one night stand & told a computer date (now my husband) that I don't have sex with strangers (don't get me wrong, I really wanted to, but a girl's gotta have rules). He respected me so much more because of it.
This post is frustrating, there are only incomplete stories that don't make sense, flat-out liars inventing themselves a fake better life, and self-loathing overthinkers who blame themselves for missing a chance that actually never happened.
was at a birthday party that was a pajama party theme. There was a girly there who kept on sitting on my knee. I was to involved chatting to some other guys. Took a couple of days for it to finally dawn on me. We have just celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary - 43 years together. Yes, I'm slow
Haha when I was a teen, there was this boy I had a huge crush on for yeaaaars! Every time I tried a move he wasn't responding and when he tried something it was me that wasn't interested anymore. One day though, we seemed finally in the same space and both willing to be with each other. We were at a local small show and he asked me if I wanted to sit on his lap to watch the last dance. I said yes. It looked like it was starting to go somewhere. And after that we gather with some friends, sat all together and started talking. A friend of mine brought some Chocolat cake and he took a bit. He asked if I would like to taste it and proceeded to put a piece of cake in-between his lips and teeth. Hoping I would get it with my mouth I guess. Dumba** me just said "no thanks I'm good I just brushed my teeth". I remember a friend of mine hitting me so strong on the arm like Wtf. I still remember her big blue eyes wide open, I could read in them how big of a mistake I just made. We flirted with each other for years until I went to college and left the town. 7 years after he wrote to me on Facebook. I was already with my now husband but I couldn't help but ask him "was it just me or was there really something between us?" he replied "would my answer change anything to your current life situation?" of course I said no. He just told me he kinda remember finding me pretty ^^ so I guess I will never have a proper answer!
I was on a date in a movie theater. I could tell the guy was kind of shy about making a move, so I waited for a "scary" part and intentionally pretended to "jump" and grab his hand in the process... he thought he had just gotten in the way and pulled his hand away 🙄. Eventually he figured it out though... we've now been together for 18 years.
I remember, for my Senior year of high school, students were encouraged to record a short video segment saying what they would miss most about their time at that school. The whole montage was played back on our last day. One of the clips, a girl I barely knew name-dropped me specifically as what she would miss most. I didn't realize what that meant until almost half a year later. Probably just as well for her, given what I've remembered about myself since then! I don't think she was into dating girls.
Oh my god. I thought I'm the only idiot in the Universe who don't get hints. But I'm glad there is milions of us :D I had several situations in my life where i did'n get hint and acted like total Idiot. One time there was some party (kind of anniversary or wedding) and there was one stunning girl who I asked just to dance. We had great time dancing for an hour or two. And there was moment when she whispered to my ear "You know There is no one at my home now". And I said something like "so you are lucky you are so you are not bored at home now". She looked a little bit confused after that. But we kept dancing and I left home after party. Ant after 3 or 5 years on random day I just like "Whait a moment...." I thint I was quite low self confidence at relations with opposite sex at that moment so I think my brain just refused to believe that such a beautiful girl would show interest in me. I think I was so could not get hint if she told me straight to go ant have sex to her place :)
Ok i can not read this, because it triggers my own awkward story´s in my head, again. Like the one time as a teen, waiting for the bus. Sitting down and read a comic book, because i´m heavy into comics and never grow out of that. And a girl comes to me and ask´s if she can read it too and i said "no!", because i want to read it. And i was a boy that heavily wanted a girlfriend. I blame my introvert self for that experience, so i do not look that ignorant. :)
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.
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...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!
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.
This is so much better than the creepy "prev in the dms" kinda posts
In most of these it's obvious that the guy didn't want to but felt bad about saying no because it goes against what they "should do/want". I see nothing wrong with a guy just don't want to f**k even if "the whole class was into her" or "she was super hot". It's ok to say no anyway.
Thank you, Veronica! There's this insane notion out there that any guy is going to be dtf whenever there's an opportunity.
Load More Replies...My son is 14 and on the autism spectrum. , I've told him, if he likes a girl, to tell her. "Hey, I like you. I think you're cool" (or whatever similar to that) and then if he doesn't understand her answer to tell her specifically, "Ya know, I'm autistic and don't understand, I genuinely don't want to make you uncomfortable, can you clarify for me, please." Honestly more people need to do this. Males and females and whatever inbetween and ALL ages
Oh boy do I relate to a lot of these. Lol. Sadly, I'm in my 30s and I still find it hard to read signs.
Same but I feel that as women get older they stop trying to flirt like this and are a lot more upfront.
Load More Replies...My best friend had just finished studding to become an electrical engineer and landed a great contract abroad for 3 months. The first night he was away we were hitting the clubs and decided to invite his girlfriend to keep her company. Because of distance she ended up crashing at my place. She came into my room and said, 'I'm not used to sleeping alone, can I get in and cuddle up with you?', because I have the emotion of a paper clip I said yeah. She striped naked, climbed into my bed and shuffled her back into me. After a few minutes she starts moving her backside, rubbing it against me. I said, 'Can you stop moving please, it's really distracting and I'm trying to sleep'. Next day I called my friend so see how he's settled in, he said 'It was had trying to sleep without [girlfriend] with me', I responded with 'I would have thought it was easier, she fidgets all night!' He, knowing me well enough, said, 'Talk me me through last night, from the beginning!'. I felt stupid afterwards.
"Talk me through last night," is an amazingly rational response. I hope you're still friends with this guy.
Load More Replies...I guess people should just say what they want rather than using cues and hints that could be misinterpreted or missed.
Refreshing that not all men are sex driven assholes. Good for you guys. 👍
When I was about 17 or so a girl who I was keen on but I wasn't sure she felt the same way used to pick me up from my parents house and we would go for a drive..she was a couple of years older and this went on for about a month...one day we were parked up and she leaned into me and said.." I've started using the pill" I said " oh.. ok" Then she responded "but I haven't had the chance to find out if it works yet" Me " oh right..I need to get home now,I've gotta be up early"
Sometimes women drop hints that men don't see. Sometimes men see hints that aren't there. This can be confusing.
obviously hints are not an effective method of communication. i know i'm weird, but i don't know why people bother with flirting. You talk, you decide you like someone, if you think there's a mutual attraction, you ask. And it doesn't have to be as mechanical as i'm making it sound; "hey, i'm really enjoying talking to you and i think i'd like to kiss you" was given a "yes, please" more often than not.
Load More Replies...Never once in my life have I missed the hint. Of course I would in no way accept every one of them, but I still treated them with respect. "I'm so sorry. You are absolutely beautiful but I can't spend the night because ________."
How do you know if you never missed a hint? Also: humble brag.
Load More Replies...there are way too many for me to remember, one that sticks in my mind was on the train back from a gig in London with my brother having a beer, an absolutely stunning girl got on and made a bee line over to me and asked if she could share my beer - I've always been a bit funny about stuff like that so I offered her one of her own, she called me an idiot and started kissing me, after about 20 minutes of kissing and dry humping she whispered in my ear "this is my stop do you want to walk me home?" I was like well I don't need to get off here, but it was really nice meeting you - my brother has literally never let me live that one down! An older guy sitting in the same carriage even looked at me and shook his head as she got off
It's not just guys. Back when we still just worked together, we're leaving the bar one night and my coworker said he wanted to kiss me. I was like, "dude, you're drunk." Twenty years later, after we both married and divorced from other people, he called me and finally just said he always had the hots for me, could he come visit (he was in DC, I was in Kansas). Our 10th anniversary is this year. 🤷♀️ At least I finally figured it out. Granted, he had to literally spell it out for me but ...
Years ago, I was 19, I was in Edinburgh for the festival and bumped into some people I knew from London who were there doing a play in the Fringe. One of the guys was someone I'd had a crush on for quite some time. Anyway, went to see their play which was a very late night one - if you don't know the festival, it's huge and especially on the Fringe you have stuff going on all day through to late at night. It ends, we're all heading off to where we're staying. The guy who I have a crush on is waiting at the bus stop with me, my bus is turning up and he says " ... or you could come back with me and stay over at our digs." and I reply "No, it's fine the bus is here now so I'll head back to mine." I'm on the bus and it's just moving away from the bus stop when my brain kicks in and realise I've just turned down the chance of a night with this beautiful man. What an oblivious, utter twat I was. I still think about it from time to time years later.
I'm glad I'm not the only clueless man running around. I don't know how many times I was propositioned by a woman, and it just went right over my head. Life is a hoot sometimes.
It is true that women often seem to expect us to be mind readers, but these guys are just plain stupid.
Now I'm going through my mind listing all the times I was too dumb to read the overt signs. Alone in the dormroom: "My lips are chapped- who would want to kiss me" she said lying back on her bed looking at me. Me: "I'm sure someone would" At a party: "It's noisy here! If only *we* could find someplace quiet" Me: "Good luck with that!"
I'm honestly surprised at the number of girls who were basically saying "I want to f*ck you" in not so subtle ways. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I have never had a one night stand & told a computer date (now my husband) that I don't have sex with strangers (don't get me wrong, I really wanted to, but a girl's gotta have rules). He respected me so much more because of it.
This post is frustrating, there are only incomplete stories that don't make sense, flat-out liars inventing themselves a fake better life, and self-loathing overthinkers who blame themselves for missing a chance that actually never happened.
was at a birthday party that was a pajama party theme. There was a girly there who kept on sitting on my knee. I was to involved chatting to some other guys. Took a couple of days for it to finally dawn on me. We have just celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary - 43 years together. Yes, I'm slow
Haha when I was a teen, there was this boy I had a huge crush on for yeaaaars! Every time I tried a move he wasn't responding and when he tried something it was me that wasn't interested anymore. One day though, we seemed finally in the same space and both willing to be with each other. We were at a local small show and he asked me if I wanted to sit on his lap to watch the last dance. I said yes. It looked like it was starting to go somewhere. And after that we gather with some friends, sat all together and started talking. A friend of mine brought some Chocolat cake and he took a bit. He asked if I would like to taste it and proceeded to put a piece of cake in-between his lips and teeth. Hoping I would get it with my mouth I guess. Dumba** me just said "no thanks I'm good I just brushed my teeth". I remember a friend of mine hitting me so strong on the arm like Wtf. I still remember her big blue eyes wide open, I could read in them how big of a mistake I just made. We flirted with each other for years until I went to college and left the town. 7 years after he wrote to me on Facebook. I was already with my now husband but I couldn't help but ask him "was it just me or was there really something between us?" he replied "would my answer change anything to your current life situation?" of course I said no. He just told me he kinda remember finding me pretty ^^ so I guess I will never have a proper answer!
I was on a date in a movie theater. I could tell the guy was kind of shy about making a move, so I waited for a "scary" part and intentionally pretended to "jump" and grab his hand in the process... he thought he had just gotten in the way and pulled his hand away 🙄. Eventually he figured it out though... we've now been together for 18 years.
I remember, for my Senior year of high school, students were encouraged to record a short video segment saying what they would miss most about their time at that school. The whole montage was played back on our last day. One of the clips, a girl I barely knew name-dropped me specifically as what she would miss most. I didn't realize what that meant until almost half a year later. Probably just as well for her, given what I've remembered about myself since then! I don't think she was into dating girls.
Oh my god. I thought I'm the only idiot in the Universe who don't get hints. But I'm glad there is milions of us :D I had several situations in my life where i did'n get hint and acted like total Idiot. One time there was some party (kind of anniversary or wedding) and there was one stunning girl who I asked just to dance. We had great time dancing for an hour or two. And there was moment when she whispered to my ear "You know There is no one at my home now". And I said something like "so you are lucky you are so you are not bored at home now". She looked a little bit confused after that. But we kept dancing and I left home after party. Ant after 3 or 5 years on random day I just like "Whait a moment...." I thint I was quite low self confidence at relations with opposite sex at that moment so I think my brain just refused to believe that such a beautiful girl would show interest in me. I think I was so could not get hint if she told me straight to go ant have sex to her place :)
Ok i can not read this, because it triggers my own awkward story´s in my head, again. Like the one time as a teen, waiting for the bus. Sitting down and read a comic book, because i´m heavy into comics and never grow out of that. And a girl comes to me and ask´s if she can read it too and i said "no!", because i want to read it. And i was a boy that heavily wanted a girlfriend. I blame my introvert self for that experience, so i do not look that ignorant. :)