'WE ARE CLUELESS PLS HLP': Wholesome men confess the most obvious flirtations that they completely missed

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 23, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

Women think that being subtle is the way to get a man's attention. Girl, if there's one thing that decades of dating have taught women is that men are incredibly dense. If you locked eyes with him from across the room and now you're twiddling your hair with doe-eyes, there's not a chance that he knows what you're trying to do. He probably simply thinks that you got a bug in your eye and you're staring at the appetizer table behind him. No, honey, men need the brightest, boldest, most obvious 'hints' to even understand that you're attracted to them. They need sirens and landing strip operators guiding them into your DM's.

 Rarely, a woman will pluck up the courage to throw themselves at a man. However, it is rather adorable when men are respecting enough to completely miss the mark when women are extremely forward. Recently, a group of wholesome men online shared their cluelessness and cringe, confessing the most obvious flirtations that they completely missed. These men definitely did not get laid that night, but perhaps laid the foundation for a wholesome, mind-over-body relationship.

Keep scrolling for the semi-embarassing tales of men who really missed the mark when confident women took the wheel, trying to take their relationship to the next level.

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    Font - Posted by u/Cantaloupe Powerful21 12 hours ago What's the biggest hint you've ever missed from a woman?
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    Font - In college, I get a message from a girl in my class. She invites me over to eat cake (literally). But I got an assignment due and feeling stressed so I'm not really trying to eat dessert right now. She's persistent. I ask if she has a power outlet, because I guess I can do homework in her dorm while charging my laptop. She says yeah. I head over.
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    Font - When I get there, she's wearing contacts and a cocktail dress and hands me a slice of cake. She informs me that her roommate will be gone for several hours.
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    Font - I nod okay. Kinda weird that she told me about her roommate, because I'm only here for free food. But I find the nearest outlet and plug in my laptop. Start eating the cake, finish it pretty fast.
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    Font - She spends the next twenty minutes trying to talk to me, which I find kind of annoying because I want to focus. Eventually, she sighed, went into her room, and came back out wearing glasses, yoga pants, and a t-shirt. I left shortly after.
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    Font - Teba 00 BeachFishing 11 hr. ago We were chatting at a bar and it was getting late. I ask her if I can get her something and she says "nothing now but you can buy me breakfast in the morning". I asked her if she wanted to meet somewhere for breakfast... I'm embarrassed just thinking about it.
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    Font - McFlyParadox. 5 hr. ago Literally Autistic Oh, I got a similar one. Last woman I dated I didn't realize we were even dating until one month in. We had been first met through a mutual friend a couple years prior, but had lost contact until one day she messages me on Facebook, asking me if I wanted to come over that weekend to play N64. We
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    Font - spend the next month or so with her inviting me over to "play smash" and me inviting her on hikes. Finally, as we were making plans to go to a party at her friend's, she asked if I could "teach her how to make breakfast" the following morning, because I know how to cook and she didn't. I say "sure", but let her
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    Font - know that my roommate is unconformable with guests sleeping in common areas, so we would need to share my bed. She agreed and I think nothing of. It wouldn't be the first time I shared a bed/cuddled with a completely platonic female friend. After the party, we get
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    Font - back to my apartment, and she asks where my roommate is. As soon as I finished saying "away for the weekend", as I'm facing away from her to put a couple of things away, she physically turns me around and pretty much mauls my face and shoves me into bed.
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    Font - I still offered to teach her how to cook in the morning, and she chose to sleep in instead. So I'm about 80% sure it was never about learning to cook.
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    Font - MTFUandPedal 4 hr. ago It wouldn't be the first time I shared a bed/cuddled with a completely platonic female friend We're waiting for your lightbulb to go on...
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    Font - ChronicCondor - 5 hr. ago Not going to lie, my first thought would have been "Oh, cool, waffle date. I looove waffles". Not "Sexy time, woooo!". The idea that she wanted to head back to the romper room and have some fun wouldn't have hit me and occurred to me until at least several moments later. Lol
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    Font - bobface222 10 hr. ago When I was in college, I went to the same comic book store every week for about two years straight and would always spend time talking to the girl behind the counter. She was always very talkative and interested, really passionate about comics.
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    Font - Eventually she moved and stopped working there. That's when her former co-workers informed me that she'd been waiting for over a year for me to ask her out. She wasn't that talkative with anyone else. I thought she just really liked her job.
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    Font - ABlindCookie 4 hr. ago Male She was at work. I'd rather be "clueless" than a creep
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    Rectangle - archblade7777 12 hr. ago 2 My wife and I met when we were in high school. I had a serious crush on her, but I never thought someone as pretty and unique as her would ever feel the same way.
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    Font - held this belief even after she would spend time to hang out with me. Alone. At her request. With great effort. I just thought she was lonely for friends and that all the things we had in common made me fun to hang out with.
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    Font - Then when that wasn't enough, she started to really flirt in all the classic ways: Saying I was cute, engaging physical contact, etc. And I still thought she was just being nice. Finally, she came up with this game where she would take small objects of mine, shove them down her shirt and dare me to go after them... and being the dense nerd I was, I thought "Well, guess I'm not getting that back then."
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    Font - Finally after exhausting every other option, she finally sat down and confessed her feelings. I was shocked beyond belief.
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    Font - BU TODA CERIT SitubuSit_GoodDog. 11 hr. ago The sheer desperation in her inventing a game designed to give you a free pass to grope her! She really liked you and wasn't going to give up without shooting her shot from every angle possible.
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    Font - Hollow Voices 11 hr. ago Yea, us guys can be incredibly dense at times. LADIES! Be upfront with us! WE ARE CLUELESS PLS HLP
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