Lately there have been several folks posting on SDMB about dating advice or asking out people. It is great there is such a support network, for everyone to offer personal experience and words of wisdom (so that one guy may learn from another guy’s mistakes 
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Maybe I should have made this post before I decided to ask someone out. But it was a little spontaneous, so I didn’t have much time to over-think it. My mom and I both work at a music store teaching music. I teach beginner Piano, and she teaches Vocals. One of her Vocal students is close to my age, very pretty, and shares a lot of my interests :dubious: so this past couple of weeks I have been idly chatting with her in the 5-odd minutes neither one of us is having a lesson.
At first I wanted to ask her to see a play with me. Then I read on the SDMB, some people were telling someone else asking someone out to the movies isn’t a great idea. And I realized that it was true. If I asked her to see a play with me, it would kind of put her on the spot. Does she really want to see some play with the son of her music teacher, whom she sees 5 minutes per week? My friends and I were planning on seeing an animation festival this Friday, and I thought, well, it would be pretty benign if I invited her to join us as a group. We’d catch a bite, then see the show at midnight at an indie theater.
So I went to the music store a teensy bit early, so I’d have enough time to ask her before her lesson with my mom started. My mom was talking with her at the time, so that was kind of awkward. I talked to her for a bit, and kind of worked my way to the invitation. Unfortunately, she can’t make it 
I was a little bit disappointed.
Not becaues I got turned down or anything. I guess in a somewhat egotistical way, I wanted to know if she would even be willing to go with us. If she would, then I would take it as a good sign. If she wouldn’t, then I would take it as a sign I should stop bothering her between lessons . Also, I won’t get a chance to talk to her until after Christmas break. My mom does have her phone number, but I wouldn’t cross the line of getting the number from my mom just to talk to her, it sounds too creepy, and the last thing I want to do is to creep out potential acquantainces/friends.