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SO: How to ask someone out?
As a spinoff of Keb's "how did you meet your friends" poll, I have a question. How would you "ask out" a new friend? I think the key to making a new friend would be making plans to do something, so do you call them up or hope you run into them and go from there?
Do you invite them to a movie? Out to dinner? Do you include your husbands/SOs?
Re: SO: How to ask someone out?
This is so much harder than I thought it would be, not even kidding. My college friends scattered after graduation and, as I've mentioned, DH has exactly one friend in this city (though he has a lot of nice coworkers who come to our parties and such).
Would you believe I was popular in college? It was so much easier back then!
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I usually ask them out for a drink. To me, it is the perfect setting- social, music, alcohol (to ease the ackwardness), but quiet enough to chat. If I'm hitting it off with a friend-of-a-friend-of a-friend, I'll laugh and say jokingly "we should be drinking buddies" and see how they respond. And for the first date, I always leave the mister at home.
I've picked up a fair amount of gals this way...
I survived the RoLex wedding and all I got was this lousy husband.
One&Only Palmilla - Los Cabos, Mexico
Have you tried your local Nest board? I came away with some great friends from my local, though sadly they don't actually live very close! One totally took off to Charleston.
Anyway... I think you should just organize the Snugg Life gang. Friendzz4Lyfe.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
That is good advice! My prime candidate is pregnant, but I may expand my target and that would work with some others.
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I wish we lived in the same town cause we could be friends. I live in upstate NY and while it's not a small area, it's an old area. There aren't many people my age and we have no friends in our town. We go out once in awhile with some of Dh's co-workers who live a few towns over but for the most part, we are lacking close friends and rely WAAAAY too much on each other.
I want new friends!
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I usually ask them to get together for drinks or lunch since so many of my friends are also co-workers.
The most memorable way I've been asked out was a co-worker who was new to the company/state after we talked a few times and simply said "You're fun. Want to go to lunch sometime next week?" We now sit by each other 40+ hrs/week, go out to lunch 2x a week and have gotten together evenings and weekends as well.
But DH stays at home until I know them a little better. This gives me a chance to find out how well their SO and DH will get along.
i'm in the same boat as all of you. kinda lost touch with most of my friends from HS / College. We hang out with a few people now, all friends of DH or people we met together while at a bar, but theyre still all guys, and def more his friends than mine. I kinda wish that we had some separate friends too or at least couples friends.
Now I want cheese. Mmmm.
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This always works:
Me: We need to hang out sometime
Friend: I'd like that
Me: Great! Then let's make plans, right now. When are you free?
and that's it! Easy, Breezy.