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Who's Looking oftenLooking for Love?
This week I'm delighted to welcome a new guest blogger to MaybeFriends.com
Karina Corbett is the publisher and editor of Solo-magazine
www.solo-magazine.com - the online magazine for Ireland's smartest singles. With over one million singletons living in Ireland, the philosophy at Solo is very simple: it is all about embracing being single. Enjoy it while you can because it may not last forever! On the other hand it might - so you may as well get used to it!
We've long been hearing about people who have a penchant for having sex in public places. But what of folk who look for love there? Yes indeed, they do exist, and according to a recent poll by a UK dating website, the supermarket seems to be the more common public place of all that one might find themselves attracted to a complete stranger.
Imagine? Giving someone the glad eye in the fruit and veg section in Tesco. Or the frozen food department in SuperValu. Or the checkout in Spar. Other apparently popular public places for this sort of thing are libraries, hospitals, petrol stations and taxi ranks. Mmm. OK, the last one we can believe 'cause it might be the end of the night when you're wearing beer goggles and everyone looks a little bit more beautiful. But hospitals? Surely not. Unless it was a hot doctor maybe. And as for libraries – the only 'encounter' I ever had in one was in Rathmines when a shabby looking soul in a trench coat felt my butt as I perused the non-fiction shelf. A most unpleasant experience.
I met a girl in New York about a decade ago, who had met her Wall Street stockbroker boyfriend on the subway, and it was a story that came back to me years later when I found myself fancying a guy on the Dart. Every day he would get on in Blackrock and I would spot him (subtly I hope). He had a brown cord jacket and his slightly curly hair was getting greyer by the day but there was just something about him. Then I saw him one night in a bar in town and every day since I've thanked God I wasn't drunk 'cause no doubt I'd have gone over to declare my love for him. And then I would have had to get the bus for the rest of my working life. But I've never forgotten him and thinking back on it now, should I have approached him that night in the bar?
So here is my question: has anyone ever chatted up/been chatted up by a random stranger up in a public place? And I don't mean a public house. No, I'm referring to making a move in Chartbusters or Superquinn or the local Statoil. And what is the general consensus – are people who use this method to find love resourceful and romantic or demented and desperate?
I look forward to reading your thoughts on this. Remember best comment wins a months free membership to MaybeFriends.com Great People. Great Friends. Great Dates.
And remember to check out www.solo-magazine.com for some great insights into being single in Ireland.
Karina Corbett is the publisher and editor of Solo-magazine
www.solo-magazine.com - the online magazine for Ireland's smartest singles. With over one million singletons living in Ireland, the philosophy at Solo is very simple: it is all about embracing being single. Enjoy it while you can because it may not last forever! On the other hand it might - so you may as well get used to it!
We've long been hearing about people who have a penchant for having sex in public places. But what of folk who look for love there? Yes indeed, they do exist, and according to a recent poll by a UK dating website, the supermarket seems to be the more common public place of all that one might find themselves attracted to a complete stranger.
Imagine? Giving someone the glad eye in the fruit and veg section in Tesco. Or the frozen food department in SuperValu. Or the checkout in Spar. Other apparently popular public places for this sort of thing are libraries, hospitals, petrol stations and taxi ranks. Mmm. OK, the last one we can believe 'cause it might be the end of the night when you're wearing beer goggles and everyone looks a little bit more beautiful. But hospitals? Surely not. Unless it was a hot doctor maybe. And as for libraries – the only 'encounter' I ever had in one was in Rathmines when a shabby looking soul in a trench coat felt my butt as I perused the non-fiction shelf. A most unpleasant experience.
I met a girl in New York about a decade ago, who had met her Wall Street stockbroker boyfriend on the subway, and it was a story that came back to me years later when I found myself fancying a guy on the Dart. Every day he would get on in Blackrock and I would spot him (subtly I hope). He had a brown cord jacket and his slightly curly hair was getting greyer by the day but there was just something about him. Then I saw him one night in a bar in town and every day since I've thanked God I wasn't drunk 'cause no doubt I'd have gone over to declare my love for him. And then I would have had to get the bus for the rest of my working life. But I've never forgotten him and thinking back on it now, should I have approached him that night in the bar?
So here is my question: has anyone ever chatted up/been chatted up by a random stranger up in a public place? And I don't mean a public house. No, I'm referring to making a move in Chartbusters or Superquinn or the local Statoil. And what is the general consensus – are people who use this method to find love resourceful and romantic or demented and desperate?
I look forward to reading your thoughts on this. Remember best comment wins a months free membership to MaybeFriends.com Great People. Great Friends. Great Dates.
And remember to check out www.solo-magazine.com for some great insights into being single in Ireland.
posted by MaybeFriends.com at
03:36
5 Comments:
Some of those east european women in lidl are lovely.....
(mrhazeleyes)
But mrhazeleyes, have you ever taken the plunge and spoken to any of them? Northsider
Yep Northsider
but i mostly have to keep it to a short chat as the rest of the queue get impatient. I was lucky enough to get to Poland,Estonia, Latvia, Lituania, last year on a trip, had no romamnce but lovely places like the people. Roads not the best yet tho, only to be expected given the history.
(mrhazeleyes)
We should go for it if you feel its right, sometimes its better to throw caution to the wind and go with your gut feeling........all that can happen????? ya get blown out.....
"Some of those east european women in lidl are lovely....."
True but most of them have hefty six-foot-five brothers called Boris or Igor who work as bouncers and would bate the crap outa ya if ya went near their sister!!!!!
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