Yes, I would. Why not?
That, children, is one of the ways that now-old folks used to meet people. You’d be out, someone would like how you looked or something, and they’d ask you to get a drink or cup of coffee. You’d chat, maybe have lunch for the next date, and so on.
Way back when I was living in NYC, and young and single (and much better looking than now), this sort of thing happened all the time. Of course with gaydar, much of it happened with body language rather than “asking out.” But it happened. I actually regret the times I didn’t follow through. But anyway . . . it’s more or less how I met my husband.
Nowadays, at my current age and appearance, I’d check the friendliness of the guy’s seeing-eye dog.
Maggie the Ocelot: You would have been a total failure as a gay urban man in the '70s.
Turn her down, even if I wasn’t married. My blood has cooled considerably since my promiscuous youth. It takes more than mere possession of a vagina to pique my interest these days.
I’m 63 years old. I’d ask her if she needed help finding her glasses.
I’d wake up and realize that the damn alarm had not gone off…
I’d be pretty leery about a total stranger approaching me in that fashion. He might seem okay, but con artists and psychos can be very charming.
Grin! Much the same boat. That said, sure, I’d go to a coffee-and-doughnuts date with her. Low risk, far’s I’m concerned. I can keep my opinions moderate enough to be safe. If she turns out to be a Cliven Bundy or Fred Phelps supporter, I can just shrug, say, “Well, it’s been nice,” and skedaddle.
Back when I was young I met quite a few women in Japan on the trains or whereever. Mostly it would be from the way they looked that you could tell their interest. As I got older those looks faded away.
I would find it really strange, because women don’t usually work like that, but I’d take up the offer and see what happens. It’s very low risk, if she turns out to be an Amway salesman or missionary or the like I can just bail.
I’m a straight woman, but in my visits to NYC back in the early 80s (when I was also young and single), I was approached by more strangers in a week than I normally would have been in months elsewhere. It would have been very easy to go on lots of dates there this way, I think, and I’m sure if I’d lived there, I would have done so.
People in public look at their phones these days, not each other.
I would start to shake, just a little at first and then with increasing vigor, my eyes would bulge and then my head would explode.
Ahhh I read the “coffee around the corner” bit as being an invite to do so right then and there.
Still probably a no, though.
So…you’re saying that if you were in the grocery store parking lot headed for your car, and a plain white van with no side windows cuts you off, and a guy with reeeeeeally long fingernails wearing a hoodie and wraparound mirrored sunglasses leans out, flashes his yellowed teeth at you and whispers, “Hey, Girlie-bob, climb in and I’ll take you somewhere nice. Hehe,” you wouldn’t go with him right then and there?
Party pooper.
ETA: In case it’s not clear, this is meant to be humorous.
I think my likelihood of saying yes would be about 70%. But it would be strange for a total stranger to ask me out like that.
Yeah, I know; and we all thought Skald’s hypotheticals were unlikely. But I’ll play along.
Potentially, sure. I mean, it would be especially weird if it was just totally out of the blue. Seems like there should be a little bit of conversation first. Either way, I hope I’d have the nerve to accept (and a clue what was happening).
“I’m old enough to be your mother. Get thee to Spec Savers.”
It depends entirely on context and how they asked.
Silently walk up to me, blink at me for a couple seconds, and then blurt out “Hey wanna go get coffee or something?” I’d give them the death glare before walking away. Double negative points for silently approaching me from behind (yes, this has actually happened and it never ends well).
If they acknowledge that they are intruding on my time and attention, ask permission to engage in conversation, and make some sort of intelligent attempt to engage with me intellectually and learn something about me as a person, and only then ask, I’d consider it if the conversational vibe was good.
But I’m not into being approached as a piece of meat / sex dispensing object. That’s what 98% of approaches are, and I’m quite jaded to them by now. If said person hasn’t educated themselves (come on, it’s 2016), I am so uninterested in trying to educate them. I ain’t got time for that shit.
It honestly surprises me that anyone would say no. I don’t understand how a low key affair in public is risky. I don’t understand how a low care affair is someone treating you like a peace of meat. I don’t understand why they are a stranger if they’ve been flirting with you for a while. And they’re obviously more than just a vagina if they are attractive.
In fact, I was going to ask Skald what the reason was we might say no. It seems like he set up everything perfectly. But, apparently other people don’t agree with me.
I give this OP the speculative “MMMaaayyybbbeee” simply because this is pretty close to how I met my first wife. Allayas “old people” yep it still works that way, sometimes.
I did the asking, she said yes.