Clichés exist for a reason. They summarize the largest, collective group of individuals, simmering them down to an easy to understand quirk. Sometimes, they're flattering, others, they can be hurtful and offensive. However, in these specific situations, the women telling their stories can all firmly agree on these clichés: Men are oblivious when it comes to the ways of love.
Reddit user, u/AndrewS6969, wanted to hear when they just didn't get it when they asked:
Girls of reddit what are the most obvious hints you've ever given a guy, and he didn't get it?
How Much More Obvious Can You Get?
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I sat on a male friend's lap and told him "you should kiss me" and he thought I was joking. I thought at first I'd been reading him wrong (we'd been pretty touchy with one another for a while, but I'm also pretty touchy with my friends in general, so I figured he might have just been following my lead) and he was just being gentle in turning me down so I backed off after that, but no, he did like me, he was just that oblivious.
Dropped Stone Dead
Me, on rainy day: "I think dancing in the rain is romantic. Want to dance in the rain with me?" Him: "Nah, it's too wet."
He seemed surprised when I dropped all interest in him shortly after.
Neptune, I've Played Your Game Before
On a boat with a dude I had a major crush on. Sea gets choppy and I have to throw my arms around him to stay upright (Neptune answered my prayers!). I grin and say: "I'll try not to grope you ... unless you'd like me to." Nothing. (I assumed he was oblivious, but of course there's always the possibility he just found me repulsive).
It's Not Always About The Money
We made a bet over something silly for $7. He lost. He started checking his pockets for cash, and I said, "|I'll give you a choice: you can give me $7, or you can take me out for a burger." His response: "Well, a burger is more like $18."
Happy Ending.
He was flirting with me and he suggested he come over (wink wink). I said "hmmm yeah you'll have to see my bedroom!"
He backtracked pretty quickly lol.
This is the same guy who asked if I had any smiley pics so I sent him one with me smiling in lingerie.
He didn't get the hint till three years later. We now have a house and are planning a wedding 😁
That's Definitely Not The Appropriate Response
I was sending sexy pics, and he was sending back memes. I had to point it out and by the time we started anything, I wasnt in the mood anymore.
What Did You Think They Were?
We went on four dates before he realised that they were dates and not just two friends going out for the evening.
Not Just Friend Snuggling
I went to a friend's house to hang out, but I live about an hour away. I was planning on staying over (pull out sofa, etc etc). Well, I wound up sleeping in the same bed as the host. This happened three times over three weekends. He finally got the hint the third time (apparently after his roommate cleared things up).
Anyway, we're engaged now.
It's Like The Most Obvious Signal
First date with my first boyfriend my first year of college, he was walking me to my car from his dorm room. I was hoping to get his arm around me (yes, we were that innocent) so I told him I was a little cold. So he offered to run back to the dorm to get me his coat. After I took his arm and put it around me, he figured it out.
I still tease him after 15 years of marriage. :-)
This Is The Most Serious Thing You Can In Second Grade
Trying to hold his hand in second grade. He was just intensely confused. Why, Billy, why?!?! You gave me a holographic dinosaur valentine and m&ms on Valentine's day! I really thought we had something!!!! :-{
Well, Video Games Are Important Too
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Me to my husband before we started dating: Man, I can't believe you're single! Any girl would be lucky to have you! heart emoji
My husband: Nah, they can do better lol. Anyway, wanna play Left4Dead?
divyashaktiYou May Not Understand His Past
There was this one guy I liked and I try to play a little hard to get and have him chase a little and he completely ghosted me.
Come to find out later, he had been threatened with getting kicked out of school and possible jail time for stalking in the past by another woman. Didn't get all the details, but I think she blew it way out of proportion.
So now if a woman even hinted at not being into him, he just gave up right then.
What Did You Think We Were Going To Do?
"Why don't you come over to my hotel room and spend the night" like, I don't know how more obvious you need than that. He didn't catch on until the following morning.
Textspeak In Real Life Is Always Iffy
"I have a crush on you" I said
"lol" he said
he said "lol" directly to me. we were sitting next to each other, not texting. 2 days later I gave him a serious confession and he accepted my feelings, then explained that he forgot what 'crush' meant at the time and later brushed it off as a joke.
Foxxi01How Much More OBVIOUS Can You Be?
Maybe this isn't as obvious as I thought it was but I spent pretty much an entire school year flirting with my crush as hardcore as my little high school, anxiety ridden self could- I.e sitting on his lap or laying across him in some way, inviting him over to my house constantly, playing with his hair, literally kissing him several times- we were basically in a relationship without actually being in a relationship. Had a conversation with him once while I was practically laying down on top of him where he was talking about how sad it was that no one liked him romantically and my dumb ass just sat there like,,,,,,
no I'm pretty sure someone likes you. Like very incredibly sure( I suppose it's mainly my fault for not just saying something then and there) Found out after I left the state that he'd had a massive crush on me too but was afraid I wasn't into him- thought all my flirting attempts were just me being super friendly. It's been a couple years and he's still on my mind all the time lol
All Those Endorphins
I once had a crush on a guy in a running group I was part of. He was talking about a marathon prep guide that he'd found and I asked him to send it to me in the hopes that he would ask for my number. He told me to google it.
Later, we were all hanging out at a bar late at night and he and I talked and flirted (or at least I did) for the whole night but still nothing.
We ended up dating for about a year and laughed about all the signs he'd missed.
Now For A Man's Point Of View
I got one that makes me bang my head against the wall whenever i think about it. Was 17 then.
So one of my female friends was hosting a massive party in her garden (also massive, fit 20 tents and still had space) and very kindly invited me to it and said i could have a +2. So of course i take 2 of my best mates, buy alcohol to last us the next 16 hours and we walk down the canal for 50 minutes to get to her house.
It started off normal, you know welcoming everyone , small talk. This swiftly escalated to shotguns and endless chugs. A couple of hours in , everyone is drunk as hell and a gally (one of the hotties to my surprise) comes to sit on my lap. We flirt, laugh and whatnot - the usual. At one point she says that she desperately needs the toilet and she needed help. I was dumbfounded as to why she needs help at the toilet, so i politely decline and insist she goes solo.
She wouldn't even make eye contact with me a year after that. At least my buddies and I still laugh about it to this day but hell...sometimes it does make me wonder...what if i wasn't such a tool?
At Least It Worked Out In The End
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Had a mega crush on a guy I worked with, let's call him James. He was the spitting image of Eddie Redmayne who I fancy the pants off.
A group of us at work were discussing Les Misérables, and I said how hot Eddie was. Someone said 'don't you think James looks like Eddie?' And I said 'yeah for sure, I fancy James too.'
He just laughed a little.
I was crushed!
(We're married now so he worked it out in the end!)
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I have a constant fear of death. I wanna perfect the ending of "Death Becomes Her" so I can live forever.
Before
morbid death GIFGiphy"I'm not scared of death because of working in health care I was around it so much. I AM scared of what leads to death, however."
Full-Mulberry5020
Why now?
"Why should I be scared now of something that's only going to happen at the end of my life?"
User Deleted
"I did this cult thing called the landmark forum and I actually did like their “meaning of life”: the meaning of life is that there is no meaning. Life is empty and meaningless. There is no answer."
"Life is what you make of it and every persons answer is equally valid because there is no meaning to life. Life exists as, basically, an accident, we are all here by complete accident, there’s no great mystery, it’s all biology and you are 100% free to make life about whatever it is you want."
Conservative_HalfWit
Death and I are good friends...
"I was very sick as a child. Spent ages 7-20 in and out of hospital due to kidney issues. Lost a kidney at 28. Almost died during the surgery to removed the dead kidney due to blood loss. Had 5 surgeries back to back during the next 2 years. Twice they had difficulties bringing me out of anesthesia."
"Found my favorite aunt dead in her bed when I was 22. Watched my best friend die from a brain tumor at 30. Death has been a constant force in my life. Sometimes just on the edges waiting, sometimes unexpected staring me in the face. I'm not afraid because it's always been there. I now work in healthcare. Death and I are good friends."
Tiny_Teach_5466
No Worries
"Because it's coming for us all, sooner or later. So there's no point in worrying about it. I am much more concerned about day to day minutiae. The Lars von Trier film Melancholia starring Kirstin Dunst portrayed this perfectly. If there was an asteroid hurtling towards the earth, I'd probably be more preoccupied with worrying about whether I left the back light on or not."
Giallo_submarine
It's Over
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MarshallApplewhiteDo
I never thought about the before much. I hope the before is quick.
The Effects
Pray I Hope GIFGiphy"I hope that when my times comes it will be merciful. My uncle had a stroke, he is paralyzed. My grandmother is 91, but is losing all her memories of her life. Death does not scare me, what could be left of me before I die is what terrifies me."
M1ssy_M3
No Terror
"It’s like when the writer Nabokov said that he saw a picture one time, a picture of before he was born. It was a picture of his mother, his brother and sister that were older than him, but he had not been born yet. He said that when he saw that picture there was no terror in him, even though he was looking at a picture where he didn’t exist."
im_on-the_can
state of nonexistence...
"I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of dying. Death is just the state of nonexistence I experienced before I was born. I don't remember it because I didn't exist yet. Death will be the same way. I just don't want the transition to be marked by pain and sorrow at things left unfinished. I want it to be quick, painless, and with me surrounded by love."
Wazula42
I'm Gone...
"Because once I die, I won't know it. I won't miss people or regret things or feel pain or sadness about anything. I might fear being sick and slowly dying, just having to live with the knowledge that it's all going to end and this is the last time I'll ever see the people I love or taste good food or hear good music. That sounds almost unbearable. But death isn't even a thing, it's just having done something (died)."
"It's like virginity, it's a made-up state of being that just says whether or not you've experienced a specific occurrence. Once I die, I'm gone. My corpse will be the empty wrapper I used to be in, just garbage to be disposed of in whatever way makes my survivors feel better. I'll be switched off. If I don't worry about what the light feels after the bulb burns out, why would I be afraid of being dead?"
SallyHeap
At Peace
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Some very interesting perspectives. May it all calm peacefully and with great mercy for us all.
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I once had a guy ask me if I was willing to follow him into the woods, depending on the price of the meal.
Yeah. No steak is worth that.
Plans After...
Wait What Wtf GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphy"Thanks for the ride but I have a date with someone else, I figured you wouldn't drive me if you knew I was going on a date with someone else and I really needed a ride."
"Online dating, talked to her for a while, finally got the courage to ask her out and then she said that as we got there."
iareyours
Mirror Image
“'You look just like my wife!'”
catalinachild
"I did have a guy tell me I reminded him of his son. I don’t believe English has a word to adequately describe my feelings at that time."
UnicornMagicRainbow
"That would definitely do it."
chaotica78
Third Wheel
"'Hope you don't mind if my mother joins us.'"
ofsquire
"Actually had a girl do this on a first date because she had anxiety issues. Honestly wasn’t bad except that 90% of the time she was silent and her mom talked over her."
"I didn’t mind that much and wouldn’t have minded trying again when she was more comfortable except that she was let go at the company we worked at and she deleted her social media profiles and she never responded on her number. Ah well."
Seightx
Liar
Lying Simon Rex GIF by Simon Rex / Dirt NastyGiphy"'Hey bro aren't you gay? I made out with you last night.'"
"Random dude I've never seen before in front of my (f) date."
JHXC16
Was he lying though?
Filter Issues
"'You looked better on Tinder.'"
waqasnaseem07
"Isn’t it basic knowledge that everybody looks slightly worse than the worst picture you can find?"
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The Past
"'My ex used to do that too.'"
xxIvyOF
"Yep. I’ve definitely had two otherwise-decent-guy date-situations sour because the ex-comparisons just would not stop flowing. No woman wants to be seen as interchangeable—I’m not here to perfectly fill that ex-sized hole in your life. Focusing on the present moment and a future we could build together is a courtesy we need to grant each other in earliest dates of dating."
LarkScarlett
Powerless
"'I'm an alpha, you cant handle my top energy.'"
Midnightgay28
"I actually left a dude in the middle of dinner, in part, for saying this. I ordered an Uber under the table while pretending to listen to him. Went to the bathroom, and never came back. That was when I was young. Now I’d just say, 'How about we enjoy this meal in silence, before we head our separate ways.'”
UnicornMagicRainbow
Mommy...
"'Mother says I should be back by 9.'"
"Saying 'mother says' just feels weird."
bunnyrut
"That gives me Norman Bates vibes."
Werewolf_lover20
"'Mother says alligators are aggressive because they have an overabundance of teeth, but lack a toothbrush.'"
sodaextraiceplease
Obvs...
just kidding jk GIFGiphy"'If you were going to be murdered, what method would you prefer. Purely hypothetical. Obvs.'"
Specific_Tap7296
If it looks anything like a Dateline NBC episode... RUN!
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Or so you would think.
Do people still knit to pass the time? Are people actively collecting stamps?
It depends on who's asking.
Curious to hear about hobby trends, Redditor gizehgizeh asked:
"What are once popular hobbies that are slowly dying these days?"
Before we've become conditioned to living on our phones, these activities used to keep people occupied.
Before Texting, There Was This
"Letter writing."
– littlekingMT
Literal And Tangible Joy
"Well the internet killed pen pals for sure. I do remember I had a Japanese girl for a penpal maybe back in 2007 or so. I honestly don't remember how it started, pretty sure some website, but that was a fun experience. But now I can just straight up talk to foreign people real time, lol. But yea getting a physical letter that someone took the time to write and mail still is hard to beat feelings wise."
– skyburnsred
Model Trains
"When I was growing up, every town had a model train store in it. Now I have one in region and everything else has to be bought online."
– Hairy_Effective1172
Pretty Rocks
"Don’t see anyone playing marbles anymore, I had an awesome collection in school."
– sheeple85
"I had some marbles as a kid in the 90s. My grandma got them for me and I had no idea what I was supposed to do with them. I always imagined them as a thing kids in the 40s played with."
– Ryoukugan
People Were Moving Canvases
"Paintball has been dying a slow death since 2006. Sad, really."
– hobo_recycler
Before the general population began hating clutter, collecting was once a "thing."
Precious Coins
"Coin collecting... I'm a silver/gold nut and I'm always hunting for precious metal coins. whenever I go into a shop they get all excited because 'no one under 70 collects coins anymore.'"
– ThatFishySmell99
Post It
"Stamp collecting."
– spooky_scully_mulder
"Collecting in general, really. Of course there are still prominent collectors but it's slipped more into enthusiast and niche territory than being a popular hobby that you might expect anyone to have."
– iuytrefdgh436yujhe2
What A Gem
"Rockhounding was immensely popular back in the 1950's and 1960's. Personally, I think it's a fascinating and fulfilling hobby, but when I go to a meeting at a rock and gem club, I'm usually the youngest one in the room by several decades."
– filthy_lucre
People once enjoyed making things.
Admiring The View
"Stained glass. I learned how to make it from my old man, and my junior high art class teacher also taught it. Very few artisans are still around."
– brobeanzhitler
Metal Vocation
"Black smithing."
– kenworth117
"I bought a forge to try. It’s insanely hard work, and crazy expensive. I still haven’t finished a piece."
– DSentvalue
Scrapbooking
"Yeah. I'm watching the arts and crafts stores around me completely uninstalling their racks for specialty paper. Now the only thing they have is mega packs of repeating colors/images. To boot all the inclusions like papercraft/die-cut things, washi tape, scissors, stickers, etc have gotten so expensive I would rather go buy $5 bags at value village to get an assortment of things versus buying anything new. I really, really miss yard sales for the same reasons."
– Phantasmai
I envy people who have jobs that are basically their hobbies.
Not everyone gets paid doing what they actually enjoy and have a profound level of passion for.
If they do, kudos to them.
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