By golly I'm manly, me.
I don’t lack self-confidence, but I’ve got this irrational fear that if I try to chat someone up that I’d come across as a bit seedy.

It’s a bit stupid really, I couldn’t walk up to a girl and chat her up as she’d know I was chatting her up as I fancied her and wouldn’t mind hanging out of her and that wouldn’t do. I’d look like a right perv. Even though I did fancy her and I did want to sleep with her, that’s why I was contemplating chatting her up in the first place.

This also leads me to having some unmanly reactions when I’m approached by a girl.

A girl came up to me in the pub and told me I was gorgeous (I am, yep). I responded by being confused and asking her if she was on a hen night, as I hadn’t shaved for a few days and figured she was doing one of those checklists things where she needed to kiss a bloke with a beard or something.
Not that I actually had a beard, just stubble, but that seemed a logical enough reason for me to ask.

Another time in a nightclub I was stood near the DJ booth next to the dance floor waiting for my friends to get back from the bar when this group of girls walked towards me from the dance floor.
This in it’s self made me nervous, and then I realised that I probably looked like I was stood there for the footfall on the way to the dance floor. So I got embarrassed and stared at the floor. On the way passed one of the girls pinched my cheek and gave it a shake and said "bless" before walking off. Weeps! The shame!

This missus likes it though, she says I was so bad at chatting her up and took so long to ask her out that she doesn’t have to worry about me straying. Not that I would anyway. I know when I’m on to a winner.
( Dervel OTBC, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 16:59, 4 replies)

You are me...
...AICMFP
( TheMattInAHat has a particular... odour..., Mon 14 Dec 2009, 19:00, closed)

This
"I couldn’t walk up to a girl and chat her up as she’d know I was chatting her up as I fancied her and wouldn’t mind hanging out of her and that wouldn’t do. I’d look like a right perv. Even though I did fancy her and I did want to sleep with her, that’s why I was contemplating chatting her up in the first place"

...is it in a nutshell.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 9:45, closed)

I used to get that too.....
you're not the only one! I just thought it was so undignified. *raises nose*
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 10:15, closed)

It really is
The whole operation needs to be replaced with a ticket and queue system.

Do you mind if I go in front? I've only got this little basket...
( Dervel OTBC, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 13:51, closed)