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What's the most attractive thing a man has done unintentionally?

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worldshottestmom · 05/06/2026 20:35

Can be your DH/DP/random man. I'm single, so my instances will be of a random man.

When I was at work recently, a man who works there, who is really chatty with me, asked me how my birthday was and idk why but it was such a turn on. Literally no-one else remembered, and I don't expect them to as I don't make a fuss of it, so the fact he remembered it was just really attractive. The bar is in hell guys, pray for me.

Another time was a few months ago; we had a contractor come in to work to fix the lift. We let on and asked how each other is etc, I mentioned being annoyed as I hadn't been able to take a break yet after 6 hours work, so he said go for your break and if anyone says anything he will sort them out. Already a turn on. I go for my break, come back and he is arguing with my manager that I should have had a break by now because of working so long etc. I think I may keep breaking the lift in hopes that he comes back.

Making this thread as I've been on a lot of threads today that ended up being really negative and want a shred of positivity on my Friday night - so, what is the most unintentionally attractive thing that a man has done that you found attractive?

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worldshottestmom · 05/06/2026 22:47

LiterallyGlowing · 05/06/2026 22:04

We'll call him a random. I know him through work. He's married and I thought he kind of looked down on me a bit, found me a bit trivial and unintelligent. One day I asked him for a charitable donation and he gave me a super generous donation and told me he thinks I'm a hero because I'm always helping other people, and said, always ask me if you need a donation for anything, no explanation needed, if you support it, I know it's worth supporting.

I was blown away.

I can't believe this actually happens to people lol how amazing of him though. Goes to show you never really know who values you

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Nugg · 05/06/2026 22:47

Dya know what any grown man (I’m talking 50s like me) taking the time to wish you a good weekend and ask what you’re up to - talking work environment as that’s my social life 😂

SinuousTendrils · 05/06/2026 22:51

When I first met DH we were texting for a while and the message that made me want to see him again said 'please can i see you again, even if it was just cleaning the canal out together' Bit weird, environmentally conscious and obviously keen...

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Mumandcarer80 · 05/06/2026 22:54

I had been seeing ex a few months woke up one morning at his realised I had come on my period. So he went to the shop and got me some pads.

chatgptmeup · 05/06/2026 22:56

On a first date he pulled out a little notebook at the end and asked me when I was free next week to do it again. No weird waiting for messages, just straight up "I like you and I want this again". He made his intentions clear, and it was refreshingly nice. 10 years and 2 DC later, we're still happily married.

Mummypie21 · 05/06/2026 22:58

My car broke down in the middle of the road. I told the young man in the car behind me to either go around me or go back as I couldn't move. He came out of the car and said it wasn't safe for me here and he will help get my car parked to the side. I was scared as there were other cars coming but he was able to me off the road.

I still think how kind he was as he could have just driven round me. The last thing he said was 'you'll be ok now. You're in a safe position'.

AnAudacityofinlaws · 05/06/2026 23:00

practicalmagictime · 05/06/2026 22:42

Handled a tricky horse like it was a puppy with “where do you want this?” as it was half rearing/snorting/acting up before he flung some straw bales about as if they were tissue paper

Out riding my new horse with DH, got carted across the field at full gas. He caught up, leaned over to inspect my bit and said “hmm I’d better upgrade your brakes when we get back”. Boom! 💥

Biffsboys · 05/06/2026 23:08

Watching Dh hit a golf ball - the strength behind it and the sound as the club hits the ball does something for me . Strange I know 😊

Mere1 · 05/06/2026 23:08

VenusClapTrap · 05/06/2026 21:04

I married him.

Lovely.

Swissmeringue · 05/06/2026 23:09

I was walking my dog and she got a huge cut in her paw from a bit of barbed wire hidden in some long grass. She was a rottie (46kg) and there was no way I could carry her. Anyway a few minutes later a big guy came past jogging, stopped to see what was wrong, immediately picked her up and carried her the full mile back to my car like she was a chihuahua.

If I hadn't already been married I'd 100% have asked for his number.

Tahlbias · 05/06/2026 23:14

Wrote a song for me 😍 we've been together 19 years ❤️

Puffalicious · 05/06/2026 23:15

The very night I met DP - in a pub randomly- he asked if I'd like a drink back at his flat (v short walk). His flat was on the edge of a large park, & as we approached he wondered why there was lights & busyness in the park. He asked a young woman who was in hi-vis, who told us a large sporting event was on the next day & there was work through the night. She was security. He asked if she'd like a hot drink (it was late & cold), popped to the flat & made a flask of tea & added a few chocolate biscuits, telling her to just leave the flask against the wall when finished.

That did it. Together coming up 16 years- outstanding step-dad to my big boys & amazing dad to our teen. He's still the kindest man I know. (His forearms also do it for me 😀).

morden123 · 05/06/2026 23:15

I'd run out of my nicorette chewing gum and it was a saturday with 5 mins to go before Boots Chemist shut, it was also torrential rain. My husband ran full pelt all the way there rather than go round corner, get the car and find a parking space in town. He was absolutely drenched, puffed out, and Boots was closing their doors and wouldn't let him in but it was the most romantic thing he's ever done

PoppingZits · 05/06/2026 23:15

RuudGullitOnAShed · 05/06/2026 21:05

Stopped his car and put on the hazards to usher a hedgehog across the road (quiet road, so didn't cause danger to anyone else)

Aww, I saw something similar a few days ago. Car stuck in middle of road with door wide open and hazards on. A man was walking and clapping his hands behind two adult geese and their babies to steer them to safety. So cute (the geese and goslings!)

SallyDraperGetInHere · 05/06/2026 23:19

I love these.

I put my name forward for election to a professional body I’m in. The colleague I eas sitting beside nipped out and returned with two coffees, and said ‘thought you might like this’ as the count was going on. He chatted nicely to distract me from my nerves, and it was the kindest thing (even though it was a latté and I don’t like milk). He’s not my type but it was so considerate I knew I’d a friend in my corner. (I got elected, and he’s a super supportive colleague. Being considerate is a trait that elevates anyone in my eyes)

SparklyBrickViper · 05/06/2026 23:20

Have a lot going on in recent years, life feels a bit heavy.

Walked into the office one day and a colleague said “you look tired”, I shrugged and muttered something along the lines of “and I can assure you I feel a hundred times worse than I look”.

Few days later dragged myself back into the office, and whilst I was trying to log on the same colleague comes over to my desk, with an espresso, served in a cup and saucer.

”I remembered you talking about you trip to Rome, and the espresso bar you visited. Thought this might cheer you up”.

First time I’d noticed he had blue eyes, and if I wasn’t married I’d have been over him like a rash.

RetiredFromExplaining · 05/06/2026 23:20

My DH will remember that I casually said I need to buy a thing or I must water the garden and he will do it and wait for me to notice. So he won’t say, “I watered the garden for you, aren’t I amazing!” I’ll notice and ask, “did you do that?” And he’ll say “might have”. He loves doing things like that for me.

He came back from doing the big shop this morning at 8am (yes he does the shopping, cooking and laundry too) and saw one of the electric blinds in my study hadn’t opened up, so he charged it for me before I was even in there.

Endofyear · 05/06/2026 23:21

When my 2 best friends came to stay, DH hoovered the rooms and changed the beds before they arrived (without being asked!)

When my friend came to stay with a toddler and new baby, her toddler woke up in the night and was being sick. She was trying to cope with this and a screaming baby - DH woke up (I slept through it all!) and he jumped in quick, took the baby and swaddled and rocked her while my friend stripped the vomity clothes from her toddler. He got her some clean pj's, stripped and changed the bed and put the whole lot in the wash. Then he made her a cuppa while she fed the baby and cuddled her toddler. She was quite starry eyed about him the next day!

He's a keeper ❤️

Redheadedstepchild · 05/06/2026 23:21

Not exactly sexy but thoughtful. I had the plumber/electrician/joiner - man who does everything because he's Polish and has that kind of, "Can do" mentality - come round to do something or other in the neverendingly malfunctioning flat and he asked where the vacuum cleaner was so he could clean up afterwards.

I left him in the house by himself to get on with things because from experience, I knew that he would try to recruit me as some kind of apprentice, "Ah Tak! Now you learn how to do it yourself! Too much money to always call for me, simple thing really!"

My dog had been, "Put to sleep" a week or so before and her hair was still in the hoover whatsit. I came back in to see him cleaning out the whole entire mechanism.

"You don't need to be reminded. She was a very good dog. Do you still have her collar and bowls and toys and things?"

It might not have been about me though. My dog was a local celebrity chihuahua. She was a chihuahua before it was fashionable to be a chihuahua. She just had, "It."

You can't buy charisma. She was born with it. From the tips of her big bat like ears to her little tippy tap toes. I was just the thing on the wrong end of the lead for a decade in this village.

What a lovely man. Gone back to Poland now, I believe.

SockQueen · 05/06/2026 23:22

KatMansfield6 · 05/06/2026 21:49

When someone tries to hum a tune to identify it and DH says "like this?" and goes and plays it beautifully on the piano with some improvisational flourishes. He's really not a show off and it's casual and when I said a while ago it was attractive he was so pleased. Oh and if we're at a wedding, or church or singing happy birthday etc he'll harmonize just really joyfully and effortlessly.

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Oh I am very envious of you! I am a total sucker for musical men (classical mainly, not guitar guys), I don't know what it is but being able to hear things and play them makes me go all mushy. Blush

My own one is very niche and work-related. I'm a hospital doctor, in one of the specialities that is part of all the resuscitation/trauma teams. When I was still in my training programme, I'd just started at a new hospital when I had to go to a trauma call. My previous experience of these had been noisy, confusing, overwhelming. But the A&E registrar that day happened to be a military trainee, and he just took the lead so calmly and assertively, everyone knew what was going on, there was no stress, stuff just got done. Not only did he change my approach to trauma calls, but he unknowingly became my work crush for the next year or two, until we both moved away on our respective training rotations!

Yoonimum · 05/06/2026 23:23

He was a bit more than an acquaintance, not quite a close friend that I invited out. It had gone well and we kissed at the end of the date and he said he'd be in touch soon. He rang me back on day 10. I'd mentally set day 9 as my acceptable limit and wasn't prepared to be messed about. However, he immediately apologised for taking so long and said it was because he'd been feeling nervous about our friendship moving on. I said that was very honest of him and he replied, "Well, if we're going to have a relationship we need to be honest". I fell for him big time on the spot and 25 years later we are still together.

ClairDeLaLune · 05/06/2026 23:24

I’d driven 3 hours to see my mum in hospital and had spent the day trying to sort out care for her and deal with a load of shit that my brother had caused, then in the evening was trying to charge my car for the drive home and the chargers wouldn’t work and I was so stressed and I burst into tears and couldn’t think straight.

Mr knight in shining armour at the next charger helped me download the app, set it all up, and get it working. He was so lovely and sweet to me. I hope he’s reading this!

Thank you for the thread OP, great idea to spread some positivity 😊

JuliettaCaeser · 05/06/2026 23:24

Went on safari and got set upon by a monkey on the way to the dining hall. With a my then boyfriend and another couple. We all instinctively fell behind boyfriend (including the man in the couple) boyfriend then fought the monkey off. Boyfriend became dh a few months later.

ComedyGuns · 05/06/2026 23:24

ThatMintMember · 05/06/2026 21:13

My husband has always been like this but he always goes the extra mile to help people even if he doesn't know them.

He's jump started peoples cars before when they've broken down and even spent an hour with an old lady who was waiting for the breakdown van to arrive. He gives tech support to my mam and grandparents all the time. He even did a 4 hour round trip in the car to make sure my whole family managed to get christmas presents to eachother on time.

Wow. He should be knighted!!

PoppingZits · 05/06/2026 23:29

ThatMintMember · 05/06/2026 21:13

My husband has always been like this but he always goes the extra mile to help people even if he doesn't know them.

He's jump started peoples cars before when they've broken down and even spent an hour with an old lady who was waiting for the breakdown van to arrive. He gives tech support to my mam and grandparents all the time. He even did a 4 hour round trip in the car to make sure my whole family managed to get christmas presents to eachother on time.

Sounds like the lovely young man who stopped to help me when my car tyre suffered a puncture thanks to a bloody pothole. He was able to describe location to RAC as I was in what felt like the middle of nowhere. He went to local garage to see if they could help. He then changed my wheel to the spare one in the boot of the car. He was an absolute godsend that day and honestly it’s people like him who restore your faith in human beings. I will never forget him and was so grateful. He said people have helped him before and he was only too glad to help others. A truly, lovely human being. 😊

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