Does shopping for whiskey in a bar count? If so, yes.
no, never met someone in a mall and had sex with him.
But when I was in junior high I was in the mall with a friend of mine and this guy with a mohawk (not a common sight in Worcester, MA) whipped out a can of hairspray and asked if he could do my hair. He gave me 3 foot long spikes radiating from my head in all directions. Bless my dear mother - when she picked us up she didn’t say a thing about my hair. I’m sure she was trying to stifle the giggles all the way home.
I’ve met women in bars and had sex with them. But that doesn’t count i suppose. Even if i was shopping for beer and women huh?
One time when I was grocery shopping I met this fantastic babe in the produce section. The attraction was immediate, mutual and overpowering. I’ve never had sex like that before or after.
They still won’t let me back in the Piggly Wiggly!
(rimshot)
Hey, Aha, that’s an old trick. A cart has a few indicators. (Bear in mind they are probabliies, not absolutes) If she’s buying a lot of stuff that has 4 or 5 servings, she’s attached. Does she have meat? If you’re a dedicated vegan, and can’t STAND the idea of seeing someone eating meat, you can possibly eliminate her here. You a health food nut? A woman pushing a cart loaded with Twinkies may turn you off. She’s slim and has ice cream in the cart - not one of those retentive dieters - either she doesn’t diet, or knows the value of moderation.
What about on a red-eye flight at 30,000 feet?
The closes I’ve come to that was once calling a store (“Cost Plus Imports”) and chatting with a salesgirl that had been very helpful and friendly. When I asked her out on a date she accepted but then said “I should tell you that I’m only eighteen” so I tendered my apologies and bowed out (I was thirty at the time and I figured it would be like robbing the cradle.) 
Does squeezing cantaloupes to determine ripeness count? 
That would depend on who the cantaloupes belong to, Arnold.
Yeah, I have done it a couple of times. It was fun and basically one night stands. If you can spot the cruising signs then you can do it. No conversation necessary. I had a couple threeways with my ex and I guy that we met that way in a shopping mall.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Can’t you please just use a grown up term like vagina?
Yes I have, while shopping for hookers.
Picked up a girl working in a music store before. She liked my CD selections, we discussed them, I picked her up after she got off work, we did things, never heard from her again.
Then there is my studliest moment: going through a fast food drive thru, get to the window. Girl inside says I’m cute, asks me where I’m going, I say nowhere in particular. She asks to join me. I say sure. She QUITS right then & there and hops in my car. We go get stoned and test the mattress springs. It went nowhere after that, but for that one day I thought I was cool as shit.
Not even please or thank you? :eek:
KimKatt: good one! unfortunately they were the store’s cantaloupes.
Arnold, nope.
I also had a truck driver (I am partial to truck drivers) follow me home one day. I didn’t speak to him until I got out of the car. I was a bit nervous but then I knew my roomates were home so I went in fooled around and he went on his way. It was quite hot.
That story about the girl quitting on the spot was pretty out there too. It sounds like an adventure.
HUGS!
Sqrl
This reminds me of a story (what doesn’t?)
When a friend of mine, Kris, was working on his MSE he needed lubricant for the instruments he was using at the lab. Kris bought KY jelly a couple of tubes at a time at the drugstore near his lab. He saw the same checkout guy most of the times he was in there, and after a few weeks of this the guy struck up a conversation about not really having seen Kris around town, was he new, etc. Kris thought it was odd that the clerk would somehow think he could place a new face in town… This went on for some month with Kris just being friendly in return, although puzzled as to why this guy was going out of his way to be so kind. It wasn’t until some time later that Kris realized that his seemingly regular usage of lubricant led the the clerk to assume he might want an entree into the local gay community… here he was busting his butt to be nice, and Kris was just completely clueless. Heh.
Somewhere, on some board, that clerk is posting about the time he tried to pick someone up while shopping…
Reminds me of a joke from my youth…
Q. What goes ‘ding-dong’ and lays in the grass?
A. A wounded Avon Lady!
aha, it’s just an old trick. If shes real skinny but has lots of food probably anorexic. Then there are those with Tampons. Those are ones to avoid at that time 
Very good handy…I wouldn’t have thought of that.
And thanks for remembering to spell my nick with a small a. You board veterans rock.
Here he goes again, giving away ALL my secrets. Yes I admit, I am a supermarket/shopping center sleaze. And you too can learn the secrets …
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=31403