# Stop flirting **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 9, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669 "2010-08-09T03:02:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/21 "2010-08-09T07:21:34Z")
Somebody needs a hug! ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/22 "2010-08-09T07:32:26Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > > > I call sneak bragging on the OP. > > Maybe a little. > > But, I really am annoyed with the substandard service provided. Oh, well then cut the shit and rant away. ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/23 "2010-08-09T09:47:43Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I call [del]sneak[/del] **stealth** bragging on the OP. There, fixed that for you. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/24 "2010-08-09T11:51:55Z")
I can get on board with this, a little bit. Just in that I find perky females irritating too. It feels fake to me, maybe because I’m a grumpy bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/25 "2010-08-09T12:08:09Z")
I’m thinking there is a tip jar involved somewhere, and **Todderbob** isn’t coming across. Or he is, and she wants to keep it flowing. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/26 "2010-08-09T12:25:43Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > > > I call sneak bragging on the OP. > > Maybe a little. > > But, I really am annoyed with the substandard service provided. I second that. I avoid the local Taco Bell on the lunch-5 shift because the drive-through lady would flirt with me and expect me to randomly chit chat with her, thereby making me nervous for wasting people’s time in back of me, plus making me try to come up with an informative, cheery blurb about how I am doing in less than 30 seconds. Now for those who say she may just be friendly. When a cashier looks you in the eye all the time, she may be flirting. When she asks you how you are _and actually wants to know_, she may be flirting. When she cusps your hands for a tad longer than normal when giving change, she may be flirting. When she smiles sweetly at you, she may be flirting. When she does **all** of these, she _is_ flirting. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/27 "2010-08-09T13:17:48Z")
> [@DragonAsh](#): > > > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > > > I call [del]sneak[/del] **stealth** bragging on the OP. > > There, fixed that for you. Ooooo, **Zing** is gonna give you such a beating for that… ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/28 "2010-08-09T13:45:30Z")
On behalf of those waiting in line behind you, thank you for not flirting back. The chick at the Starbucks drive thru by my office pisses me right off wasting precious minutes flirting with people in line. Seriously, you work in a drive thru. An espresso drive-thru. You see that line of cars waiting? They’re likely going to be irritated at having to wait while you lean on your arms out the window, chit-chat and joke around with every guy under 30 in your line. This isn’t a bar, it’s an f’n drive-thru line. Knock it off. Amazingly, being a 32 year old female, I’m at the window no longer than 30 seconds every time I go through that line, _once I finally get up to the window_, as opposed to every male in line ahead of me. Curious, that. ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/29 "2010-08-09T13:58:01Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > > [@DragonAsh](#): > > > > There, fixed that for you. > > Ooooo, **Zing** is gonna give you such a beating for that… Well, I sure won’t be telling her… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/30 "2010-08-09T14:17:20Z")
She won me over at nice ass. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/31 "2010-08-09T14:20:52Z")
SO, where is this shop, with the cheeful, flirty girl with the nce derriere? I want to know. For… uh… scientific reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/32 "2010-08-09T14:27:26Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > Or, stop being so damn happy all the time and maybe I’d find you attractive. Either way, you’re too damn bubbly for me to want to spend more than the required amount of time around. Have you asked her straight out if she Knows The Abyss? Maybe the bubbliness is a cover for the dark savage depression that pervades her being and you two are actually simpatico. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/33 "2010-08-09T14:36:44Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > Before someone says “avoid the shop,” I can’t. I need to go there, specifically, no where else has what I need, and what I need isn’t being flirted with by a creepy, too happy teenage girl without common sense. Since you are a self-described misanthrope and acerbic jackass, why not just tell her straight what you told us? You don’t care about her feelings, right? I guarantee the flirting would stop. ---
**Author:** ![ChadVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ChadVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChadVader)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/34 "2010-08-09T14:45:08Z")
Wait, so this _isn’t_ a parody thread??? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/35 "2010-08-09T14:57:20Z")
> [@ChadVader](#): > > Wait, so this _isn’t_ a parody thread??? > 😕 I thought the same thing, but apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/36 "2010-08-09T15:12:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah, you with the cute derriere. Cite? She digs you, man. She’d totally let you collect data. Get on it. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/37 "2010-08-09T15:16:36Z")
While the OP seems to be written in English, I can’t make head or tails of it. I’m completely baffled. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/38 "2010-08-09T15:17:08Z")
Just casually mention your collection of leather and/or rubber apparel and nipple clamps. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/39 "2010-08-09T16:19:37Z")
The dude doesn’t want to get flirted with while he tries to do his business at this shop - I can get behind this rant. I don’t get flirted with much (and if I do, I’m not aware of it), but if someone I wasn’t interested in kept flirting with me and wasting my time, I wouldn’t like it, either. How many of you would be thinking it was creepy if the genders were changed? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669/40 "2010-08-09T16:22:07Z")
I didn’t know the OP was gay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-flirting/549669.md?page=3)