What would need to happen to make it acceptable to approach strangers in public with the intent to make a friend or get a date?

[Weebster]

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[FallingGrace]

An improvement in your personal self confidence I guess
People approach strangers all of the time and form connections. Just because it isn't happening to you, doesn't mean it isn't happening at all. I'm sorry it isn't though. Perhaps there are some local activities you can get involved in that would expose you to more people? Charity work, choir, church, clubs, bars, social events etc

 

[Weebster]

An improvement in your personal self confidence I guess
People approach strangers all of the time and form connections. Just because it isn't happening to you, doesn't mean it isn't happening at all. I'm sorry it isn't though. Perhaps there are some local activities you can get involved in that would expose you to more people? Charity work, choir, church, clubs, bars, social events etc

I don't do that stuff. I want it to be a thing in stores. Malls are dead nowadays but meeting girls there as a teen was fun.

A woman approached me a few months ago in a store parking lot. I fucked that up because that's never happened before

 

[FallingGrace]

I don't do that stuff. I want it to be a thing in stores. Malls are dead nowadays but meeting girls there as a teen was fun.

A woman approached me a few months ago in a store parking lot. I fucked that up because that's never happened before

In… Stores? The reason why you would meet girls in stores as a kid was because you weren't old enough to go to bars and nightclubs, or didn't have the money to go to classes and events. So we all just hung around in malls (or shopping centres in the UK). But when you're an adult, that's creepy. You go to a store to buy shit. If I'm at a shop buying bread or browsing books at a newsagent, I can guarantee I'm not wearing makeup or fancy clothes and I am 100% not in the mood to be picked up by anybody. I want to buy my stuff, get out, and go to work/home

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

With the dating (really just sex) apps nowadays there could be an entire generation that have spent more meeting people the digital way.

Personally I like meeting people the old way .