This wasn't a date dude!

Stone · 10-20-2004, 03:39 PM

OMG I just had a Lunch meeting with a potential client and talked strictly business and after it was over he said " Next time well have to go somewhere more intimate"

Hello this isn't a date he said he thought it as...

why would he think this? I walked my butt in his office last week handed him my business card and told him what I did.. he seemed intrested so I sent up a lunch meeting. Why in the world would he think I asked him out? Plus he's married.

Duke · 10-20-2004, 06:26 PM

Because he's looking for a new squeeze.

Seriously though, if your selling egg crates to a muffler shop and he wants a "business" meeting then obviously it's not business related.

Personally, I never set up meetings over lunch or any other meal. As far as I'm concerned, work remains at work and the meeting should have taken place in his office. Any extra curricular activities with the opposite sex can be taken the wrong way IMO.

Stone · 10-20-2004, 07:46 PM

He is a doctor and old enought to be my dad! I don't know I guess I'll only take chicks to lunch now.

Duke · 10-20-2004, 08:11 PM

I don't recommend taking anyone out to lunch unless their already a client. These days, you can't even be 100% sure that the same sex won't see it as a date.

Merika · 10-20-2004, 08:13 PM

This isn't true of ALL guys.....but a whole bunch of them take any such interaction as a 'hint' that you are interested in them. This can even happen between someone you work with and think of as a friend.

I used to go out for beer and such with guys I considered friends and I SWEAR by the end of the night they would think we are 'dating'. I think it's the most annoying thing in the world.

If he's a horny old coot....make it work for you. Flirt till he signs on the bottom line. LOL!

Duke · 10-20-2004, 08:17 PM

It may not be true of all guys, but it is true of most guys.

Merika · 10-20-2004, 08:35 PM

You know what Duke....I've worked with guys who thought I was coming on to them because I touched their arm. What's with that?

Duke · 10-20-2004, 08:39 PM

Many guys are very insecure about themselves and may respond to the slightest in female attention. The ones who talk the loudest are the ones you really should worry about. They do it in order to try and convince themselves that their well put together but inside many of them are pretty badly off mentally.

Also, there's really nothing that compares to a womans touch.

Merika · 10-22-2004, 02:21 PM

I think that men often lose perspective on what and what not falls within their category as being able to obtain. I've posted this before.....I've been asked out by guys that I was embarassed even thought I'd acutally be seen in public with them. This isn't just based on how a guy looks or whatever....I'm talking TOTAL Goober Smackers!

Such as in Stoneheather's case. Why would some old fart think she was interested in him?

Men don't seem to use a lot of wisdom in this area......or well....maybe they don't have any to use. HAHA!

Duke · 10-22-2004, 07:03 PM

Many men will ask any woman out who has given him the slightest of attention. It's a sad fact but it is a fact.

Merika · 10-22-2004, 07:12 PM

Men are such strange fragile creatures!

Duke · 10-22-2004, 07:15 PM

Ya well so are women just in different ways.

A woman can be crying, upset, angry, quiet, bitchy, argumentative, over something she thought a man meant. In reality, we stand there with our fingers in our bums and try and figure out what the hell set you off like that. :spineyes:

Merika · 10-22-2004, 08:27 PM

I heard that Comedian Jeff Foxworthy say that all women worry about what men are thinking when it was as simple as 'I want a beer...I want to see you naked'. LOL!

sn00py · 10-22-2004, 10:32 PM

like you said earlier Merika SOME men take a hint and blow it out of proportion. but also back to the buisness lunch forget lunch. if u said to a man i like your buisness he takes those words in a different way than a women.