# signs that you like someone **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637 "2003-11-06T00:26:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/41 "2003-11-09T19:50:17Z")
I used to follow \*\* Giraffes method \*\*, and it has worked out well but now I’m following the method of letting guys pursue you type thing, which is not really working out well but in any case these are some that I’ve done from \*\*Urban Ranger’s \*\* list : - Lots of eye contacts, particularly in a crowded place, or just the complete opposite - She looks at you intensely, then quickly look away when you look back -She is either more shy than usual, or absolutely giddy Some of my own are: -I will be more sarcastic than usual or tongue-tied and have you on ignore since I don’t know how to say anything to you that doesn’t come out completely idiotic. Honestly my first method where I’d just say I like you lets go out was much easier. But that didn’t occur until I knew the feeling was mutual. ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/42 "2003-11-09T20:17:08Z")
I blush and hope they are going to take **Giraffe’s** approach. ---
**Author:** ![SJSB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SJSB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SJSB)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/43 "2003-11-09T21:28:09Z")
I think you’ve kind of hit the nail on the head there, \*\* Cherry \*\*. I do the sarcasm thing because I have this fear that if I attempt “normal” conversation, I’ll either just come out with something ridiculous or my voice will sound like it belongs to a 12 year old boy hitting puberty. ---
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/44 "2003-11-09T22:34:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duderdude2 \* > I think they find that **little touch of asshole** endearing. I think when you’re involved like that, you don’t have to wonder about why she’s playing with her hair so much. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/45 "2003-11-09T22:44:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Age Quod Agis \* > \*\*[moving closer] And what will you do to the other parts of my body that get too close? \*\* Terrible, terrible things. And you’ll like at least 90% of them, promise. Actually, at the moment I’m pretty bummed because I was supposed to swap backrubs with a guy at the party last night and it ended up not happening. Never tease Lady Kathryn with backrubs and then disapear. ---
**Author:** ![LadySybil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LadySybil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadySybil)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/46 "2003-11-09T23:20:18Z")
I’ll look into his eyes a LOT. Like just stare into them for no reason. I’ll also become a lot more giggly. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/47 "2003-11-10T03:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cherry \* > -I will be more sarcastic than usual or tongue-tied and have you on ignore since I don’t know how to say anything to you that doesn’t come out completely idiotic. ::lol:: That does work too. 😃 I forgot one sign that can’t go wrong: your pupils dilate. So when you see somebody whose pupils expand like heck when he (or she) sees you, you know that person digs you, a lot. In fact, we have built-in mechanisms to react positively to that particular signal. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/48 "2003-11-10T06:56:08Z")
I figure someone’s interested in me if they: - Talk to me -a lot-, ie make a point of coming up to me and starting a conversation when there are plenty of other people to talk to/things to do, multiple times (for example, they keep doing this at lunch on diff days/at diff dances/at diff parties, etc.) - Get giggly - Act interested in what I have to say, and my viewpoints and opinions and such - Ask me to smoke out with them or share some other [possibly] significant intense/intimate/social experiences with them - Are cool about it when I do stupid/embarrassing things around them - Change some little thing about their life or views when they find out I think about it differently than they do - Initiate contact in small doses here and there–feet, arms, legs, etc. - Are more talkative, easygoing, etc. around me than other people - Are more forgiving of me than other people for committing some pet peeve of theirs or whatnot Another big one for me is when I think they’re kind of annoying (for example, because they’re especially talkative or giggly or whatever around me) and I try to send signs that I don’t want to talk to/hang out with them, and this just makes them act more interested. (That’s usually the point where it stops being annoying to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/49 "2003-11-10T08:18:58Z")
What? Am I the only woman here who flirts openly with men she finds interesting? And to think I don’t even get giggly or play with my hair. Sheesh. I feel like such a whore now. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/50 "2003-11-10T08:41:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aasna \* > \*\*What? Am I the only woman here who flirts openly with men she finds interesting? And to think I don’t even get giggly or play with my hair. > \*\* I doubt it. My post above is what happens if I like someone and for whatever reason I don’t have the guts to flirt. However, I will flirt with a man I find interesting, if I’m not too intimidated. ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/51 "2003-11-10T09:02:13Z")
Oh good. Then I’m not the only ho around. 😛 (Ramzan mubarak!) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/52 "2003-11-10T09:06:56Z")
Thank you. And I think the BritDopers would probably have something to say about my flirting. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637/53 "2003-11-10T12:03:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Age Quod Agis \* > \*\*However, when the situation seems to call for it, I’m not above pulling her pigtails on the playground. \*\* Bobby is that you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-like-someone/211637.md?page=2)