How to impress a girl...

Sewinman
Sewinman Posts: 2,131
edited March 2009 in Commuting chat
:oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,090
    Ouch. Just think. For the rest of your life you'll think back to last night and your buttocks will involuntarily clench and you'll let out a little groan of remembered embarrassment. Enjoy! :lol:
  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Heavymental wrote:
    Ouch. Just think. For the rest of your life you'll think back to last night and your buttocks will involuntarily clench and you'll let out a little groan of remembered embarrassment. Enjoy! :lol:

    True - Its been added to a long list!
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Don't worry, I've nearly ridden into the back of several parked cars when my attention has been 'ahem' diverted :? I haven't managed to throw myself at anyone yet though
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,090
    Oh, and how many aeons did it take for those lights to change!? :lol:
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Um, Totalnewbie to thread?
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    How to impress a girl

    Pull your pockets inside out and the old chap and Shout "Where's the elephant Rarrr"

    guaranteed to work.. I promise
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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    edited December 2008
    As a young teenager I was cycling along and saw a girl I fancied so I turned around to wave to her not noticing that the car that had just overtaken me had pulled in just up ahead.

    I left a lovely dent in their boot lid with my chin and their bumper bent my forks back so the bike was unrideable for a quick embarrassed escape.

    Don't look back in lust :oops:

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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    biondino wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Um, Totalnewbie to thread?

    Eh!?
  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Clever Pun wrote:
    How to impress a girl

    Pull your pockets inside out and the old chap and Shout "Where's the elephant Rarrr"

    guaranteed to work.. I promise

    Awesome! :D
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Why didn't you there and then MTFU and do the following:

    1. Apologise.

    2. Introduce yourself - explaining that you have been riding that long (doesn't matter how long you've actually been riding time is relative and length of time is subjective to the individual - also saying you haven't been riding long will excuse you for nearly falling over earlier).

    3. Laugh about nearly falling over, cursing your crappy clips. Comment on the pedals she has - striking up a conversation. (Making her laugh is good and crucial to the next step)

    4. Ask her how long she has been riding for.

    5. Complement her bike.

    6. Take the conversation from there.

    7. Ask her back to yours for a coffee and a bowl of cornflakes in the morning....

    *Note* If you bottle on 7 then ask if she rides with any clubs or gorups rides, invite or ask if she wouldn't mind meeting you for a social (bike) ride sometime. Or ask her out on a date.

    8. Take her phone number

    9. When she's gone turn around and ride back the 10miles detour you took to chat her up.
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • Sea_Green_Incorruptible
    Sea_Green_Incorruptible Posts: 431
    edited December 2008
    1) Wear lycra team clothing two sizes too small for you. Ensure you include lurid overshoes. Lampre kit is ideal.

    2) Demonstrate your machismo by putting the hammer down and burning her off on the hill.

    3) Play hard to get by maintaining a dignified 'teminator' face at all times.

    4) If all else fails show of your skills: wheelies, skids, wobbly track stands etc.

    Chicks dig this kind of sh*t.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Clever Pun wrote:
    How to impress a girl

    Pull your pockets inside out and the old chap and Shout "Where's the elephant Rarrr"

    guaranteed to work.. I promise

    Not when it's as cold as it has been
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    I should really have sparked up a chat - she looked great in lyrca!
  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    Sewinman wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Um, Totalnewbie to thread?

    Eh!?

    Total Newbie was involved in an *extremely* similar incident last night. Coincidence...?
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,090
    Sewinman wrote:
    I should really have sparked up a chat - she looked great in lyrca!

    Just one of many things you should really have done! I'm sure you'll think of lots more during those buttock clenching moments in the future and find yourself muttering something like "Why didn't I just unclip!? sob sob"
  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Heavymental wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    I should really have sparked up a chat - she looked great in lyrca!

    Just one of many things you should really have done! I'm sure you'll think of lots more during those buttock clenching moments in the future and find yourself muttering something like "Why didn't I just unclip!? sob sob"

    Oi - you're enjoying this a bit too much!
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,090
    :lol: yeh sorry, I'll stop now. Its just funny because only the other day I was thinking how funny it is that you can do something embarrassing in the blink of an eye but the memory will live with you forever. Even though the event itself might have totally passed the other person/bystanders by. Little do they know that for years you'll think about it every so often! I often think it might be worth seeking out the person and explaining that to them just so they know how they feature in an episode thats forever etched on your memory.

    Anyway, looks like you might have the chance to do that if it turns out it was Total Newbie! Hopefully she won't twist the knife and give you a disgusted and pitying reply to further deepen the pain! :lol:
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Sewinman wrote:
    I should really have sparked up a chat - she looked great in lyrca!

    Yes you should have done. Regardless of the fall or not. In the situation you were in if you continued to have an embarrassing laugh she might have found your humility, relaxed sense of humour and ability to laugh at yourself attractive.
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    Chatting up fail!

    And yes most women look good in lycra... particularly my GF :)
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Why didn't you there and then MTFU and do the following:

    1. Apologise.

    2. Introduce yourself - explaining that you have been riding that long (doesn't matter how long you've actually been riding time is relative and length of time is subjective to the individual - also saying you haven't been riding long will excuse you for nearly falling over earlier).

    3. Laugh about nearly falling over, cursing your crappy clips. Comment on the pedals she has - striking up a conversation. (Making her laugh is good and crucial to the next step)

    4. Ask her how long she has been riding for.

    5. Complement her bike.

    6. Take the conversation from there.

    7. Ask her back to yours for a coffee and a bowl of cornflakes in the morning....

    *Note* If you bottle on 7 then ask if she rides with any clubs or gorups rides, invite or ask if she wouldn't mind meeting you for a social (bike) ride sometime. Or ask her out on a date.

    8. Take her phone number

    9. When she's gone turn around and ride back the 10miles detour you took to chat her up.

    You live in a fantasy world. Stop renting so many DVD's and spend more time doing stuff.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Cut to the chase man, when the lights changed you scalped her RIGHT? :twisted:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Why didn't you there and then MTFU and do the following:

    1. Apologise.

    2. Introduce yourself - explaining that you have been riding that long (doesn't matter how long you've actually been riding time is relative and length of time is subjective to the individual - also saying you haven't been riding long will excuse you for nearly falling over earlier).

    3. Laugh about nearly falling over, cursing your crappy clips. Comment on the pedals she has - striking up a conversation. (Making her laugh is good and crucial to the next step)

    4. Ask her how long she has been riding for.

    5. Complement her bike.

    6. Take the conversation from there.

    7. Ask her back to yours for a coffee and a bowl of cornflakes in the morning....

    *Note* If you bottle on 7 then ask if she rides with any clubs or gorups rides, invite or ask if she wouldn't mind meeting you for a social (bike) ride sometime. Or ask her out on a date.

    8. Take her phone number

    9. When she's gone turn around and ride back the 10miles detour you took to chat her up.

    You live in a fantasy world. Stop renting so many DVD's and spend more time doing stuff.

    Yeah, I'm with AT on this one. If I were the girl in that exchange you wouldn't have seen me for dust after step 2.
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Why didn't you there and then MTFU and do the following:

    1. Apologise.

    2. Introduce yourself - explaining that you have been riding that long (doesn't matter how long you've actually been riding time is relative and length of time is subjective to the individual - also saying you haven't been riding long will excuse you for nearly falling over earlier).

    3. Laugh about nearly falling over, cursing your crappy clips. Comment on the pedals she has - striking up a conversation. (Making her laugh is good and crucial to the next step)

    4. Ask her how long she has been riding for.

    5. Complement her bike.

    6. Take the conversation from there.

    7. Ask her back to yours for a coffee and a bowl of cornflakes in the morning....

    *Note* If you bottle on 7 then ask if she rides with any clubs or gorups rides, invite or ask if she wouldn't mind meeting you for a social (bike) ride sometime. Or ask her out on a date.

    8. Take her phone number

    9. When she's gone turn around and ride back the 10miles detour you took to chat her up.

    You live in a fantasy world. Stop renting so many DVD's and spend more time doing stuff.

    Yeah, I'm with AT on this one. If I were the girl in that exchange you wouldn't have seen me for dust after step 2.

    So, babe, what you up to tonight?
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Why didn't you there and then MTFU and do the following:

    1. Apologise.

    2. Introduce yourself - explaining that you have been riding that long (doesn't matter how long you've actually been riding time is relative and length of time is subjective to the individual - also saying you haven't been riding long will excuse you for nearly falling over earlier).

    3. Laugh about nearly falling over, cursing your crappy clips. Comment on the pedals she has - striking up a conversation. (Making her laugh is good and crucial to the next step)

    4. Ask her how long she has been riding for.

    5. Complement her bike.

    6. Take the conversation from there.

    7. Ask her back to yours for a coffee and a bowl of cornflakes in the morning....

    *Note* If you bottle on 7 then ask if she rides with any clubs or gorups rides, invite or ask if she wouldn't mind meeting you for a social (bike) ride sometime. Or ask her out on a date.

    8. Take her phone number

    9. When she's gone turn around and ride back the 10miles detour you took to chat her up.

    You live in a fantasy world. Stop renting so many DVD's and spend more time doing stuff.

    Yeah, I'm with AT on this one. If I were the girl in that exchange you wouldn't have seen me for dust after step 2.

    So, babe, what you up to tonight?

    Aaagh!

    *hobbles slowly off into the distance*
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Damn, I really thought that would work.
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,090
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 784366.stm

    Has the man been watching too many Rom Coms maybe?!
  • Parkey
    Parkey Posts: 303
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:
    Okay so not a brilliant introduction. Look at it this way though, if you had tried to strike up a conversation how could it have gotten any worse?

    Next time start talking.

    Hold that thought. Next time, unclip.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited December 2008
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    :oops: Saw this really hot girl last night on the Mall. So i pulled up next to her and went to check her out, only to find that i had forgotten to unclip and slowly began to topple toward her. I managed to break my fall by grabbing her handle bars and yanking my foot out of the clip, she nearly went over too. I started apologising like a maniac and she said 'don't worry about it' to which i turned away and waited in a fit of self loathing before the lights changed. :oops: :roll:

    Why didn't you there and then MTFU and do the following:

    1. Apologise.

    2. Introduce yourself - explaining that you have been riding that long (doesn't matter how long you've actually been riding time is relative and length of time is subjective to the individual - also saying you haven't been riding long will excuse you for nearly falling over earlier).

    3. Laugh about nearly falling over, cursing your crappy clips. Comment on the pedals she has - striking up a conversation. (Making her laugh is good and crucial to the next step)

    4. Ask her how long she has been riding for.

    5. Complement her bike.

    6. Take the conversation from there.

    7. Ask her back to yours for a coffee and a bowl of cornflakes in the morning....

    *Note* If you bottle on 7 then ask if she rides with any clubs or gorups rides, invite or ask if she wouldn't mind meeting you for a social (bike) ride sometime. Or ask her out on a date.

    8. Take her phone number

    9. When she's gone turn around and ride back the 10miles detour you took to chat her up.

    You live in a fantasy world. Stop renting so many DVD's and spend more time doing stuff.

    Yeah, I'm with AT on this one. If I were the girl in that exchange you wouldn't have seen me for dust after step 2.

    Click me for explanation of Dondaddyd's post

    But your posts do beg the question. Are you two both single?
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  • fnb1
    fnb1 Posts: 591
    I was about to type a witty reply but quickly realised that I do not think I have impressed a girl since 1987 :cry:

    Oh and I think I am FCN5 if that helps at all
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