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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?

OP posts:
Zippidydoodah · 05/06/2026 23:30

worldshottestmom · 05/06/2026 21:26

Honestly better than someone remembering my birthday I don't even have standards anymore. Just a penis will do.

😆😆😆

Sweetstreams · 05/06/2026 23:35

First date and he picked up the jacket on the floor behind him and handed it to the owner. I thought he was a keeper because I would have done the same. He once sent me a video of him doing some diy I nearly fell over it was hot!

Toomuchadmins · 05/06/2026 23:36

Unexpectedly done some housework like cleaning the kitchen! That’s very attractive to me these days .

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ShesGotAway · 05/06/2026 23:39

Chop onions 🤣

We were just casually chatting when he whipped out his roll of knives and started prepping tea.

The man cuts with TV chef like precision.

I text my mum from the loo about it.

We bought our house together three weeks ago

Redheadedstepchild · 05/06/2026 23:46

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.

Sorry, too late to edit myself but my dad always used to say, "Can you not see your way clear to at least entertain our Pavel the Marvel, the Polish Powerhouse and let an old man die in peace knowing that his daughter has a reliably flushing lavatory? Too stubborn, that's what you are. You certainly entertained that useless French...."

He was right of course.

Zippidydoodah · 05/06/2026 23:47

CornishPorsche · 05/06/2026 21:56

I once eyed up a tight spot near my city centre flat and decided it was worth a go after driving round for ages. I had a clapped out Suzuki Ignis which was tiny but the spot was very small.

I managed it in one go which surprised even me (was an advanced police driver at the time). I got out the car chuffed with myself when a random man walking past - very tall, broad, in his 30s, piped up in a broad Southern US drawl "ma'am, that was some damn fine driving".

I'm afraid I got all flustered, said a very British thank you and legged it rather than get his number!

Edited

When I do a particularly impressive parallel park (it does happen, every now and then! 😆) I always look around to see if anyone is going to compliment me on it! 🤣🤣

CarbonArtist · 05/06/2026 23:48

DH had promised to set up the tables for a primary school fair but got busy with work so asked me to go in his place. One of the Dads saw me lifting tables and was like ‘sorry, I can’t allow this’, took over and carried all the tables in double-quick time while I watched on, heart a-flutter.

Floppyearedlab · 05/06/2026 23:50

I remember when my mum’s dog was really poorly and I rang for a vet appointment for him and they gave us one in 2 hour’s time.
DP sat next to him until it was time to take him.

The bond those two have 🤣🤣🐾

JuliettaCaeser · 05/06/2026 23:50

People have been extremely kind to dh on the rare occasions he’s got into difficulty with his bike. Twice strangers have gone off and come back with a van to rescue him. Most people are nice.

Blueeyedmale · 05/06/2026 23:59

VenusClapTrap · 05/06/2026 20:58

He stopped to say hello to a cat in the street.

I'm glad I'm not the only one, but I even stop to talk to the squirrels and foxes the neighbours must think I'm absolutely bonkers

Changingforthisone66 · 06/06/2026 00:06

Oh my goodness. Feel bad writing this but was out with DH last weekend and I just got chatting to a man at the bar. He wasn't the most handsome, he wasn't the most tall, he was bald, about 55ish (I'm not judging, just trying to create the picture) but omg he was so happy, smiley and friendly. I don't know if he was married but left thinking what a lucky lady his partner was!

Happyjoe · 06/06/2026 00:16

The common theme in these answers is kindness. Women seem to love kindness.

I wonder how different the answers would be if men were asked the same..

RafaFan · 06/06/2026 00:37

Be kind and patient with his elderly dad with dementia. He's a client I know in a different capacity and he can be kind of annoying sometimes, but one day he had to bring his dad into our office to help him do something. He was really patient and kind with his dad who was confused. We deal with this a lot in our office, but often the adult kids are impatient and abrupt with the parent. I always looked more kindly on him after that!

Scottishcatfiend · 06/06/2026 00:38

Visiting a Scottish island which meant a lot to his family. We went a drive to see the sunset and he played the Waterboys song "A Man is in Love" in the most beautiful setting I've ever seen

Scottishcatfiend · 06/06/2026 00:40

Visiting an island which meant a lot to his family. We went a drive to see the sunset and he played the Waterboys song "A Man is in Love" in the most beautiful setting you can imagine 🤩

D3vonmaid · 06/06/2026 00:41

One day, whilst cycling to work, and during a particular low point in my long term relationship, there was a scaffolding lorry parked in a side road, blocking my way, when I needed to cross a main road in central London. Just as I was dispairing, some gigantic Adonis appeared from behind the lorry in some sort of climbing harness and ushered me out from behind the lorry, stood on the wrong side of the road, stopping the traffic to allow me to pass safely. Literally my knight in weird canvas strapping armour. I have thought of him often. So hot.

Loloblue · 06/06/2026 00:49

My partner cooks for me almost every day from scratch. It's so lovely

Member968405 · 06/06/2026 00:51

Expertly revved the car to do a perfectly-timed, confident, powerful overtake.

What can I say. Ovaries want what they want 🤷‍♀️

WoodforTrees · 06/06/2026 00:52

Years ago, I was seeing someone who was - on the surface - quite alpha. Sarf London accent, sexy AF, lots of banter but definitely tuned in and thoughtful. Anyway after a few weeks, he took me away for the weekend to a lovely hotel in the countryside.

We got to our room and were unpacking our little weekend bags when he pulled out a brand new copy of Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks because he remembered me saying I keep meaning to read it. I thought that was lovely, but then he PULLED OUT ANOTHER COPY so he could read it too and we could talk about it. Honestly nearly orgasmed right there.

When i think back to that weekend, it was all about lying in the sun reading our books until we couldn't wait to have sex again. But the reading was sooooo hot.

ThisIsMyFirstNameChange · 06/06/2026 01:19

I was on the treadmill this morning and the man on the next machine and I fell into exactly the same rhythm. We didn’t acknowledge the in - sync- ness until I got off and was spraying down the machine then we locked eyes and grinned at eachother. Or rather I grinned then caught him grinning at me in the mirror as he’d gone past .
I’m happily married and didn’t fancy him per se but it was a spark of ‘that was fun!’

NameChangeMay2026 · 06/06/2026 02:06

WoodforTrees · 06/06/2026 00:52

Years ago, I was seeing someone who was - on the surface - quite alpha. Sarf London accent, sexy AF, lots of banter but definitely tuned in and thoughtful. Anyway after a few weeks, he took me away for the weekend to a lovely hotel in the countryside.

We got to our room and were unpacking our little weekend bags when he pulled out a brand new copy of Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks because he remembered me saying I keep meaning to read it. I thought that was lovely, but then he PULLED OUT ANOTHER COPY so he could read it too and we could talk about it. Honestly nearly orgasmed right there.

When i think back to that weekend, it was all about lying in the sun reading our books until we couldn't wait to have sex again. But the reading was sooooo hot.

Edited

Oh, that's just lovely!

My exH and I were/are total bookworms, but he would never ever form a book club of two with me. I'd have absolutely loved to read the same thing and then discuss it. No chance. He was an abusive covert narc, and little things like that just showed how he thought I wasn't worth having real conversations with.

pandagirl93 · 06/06/2026 03:58

When my husband rides his motorbike and he’s fully kitted out in his leathers and helmet - absolute perfection

NameChangeMay2026 · 06/06/2026 04:23

Edit: Argh, meant to quote the poster whose man went out and got them period products when she came on unexpectedly.

Same situation for me, opposite result! I had been seeing uni ex for a year or two, and I was staying with him on his parents' farm. They lived quite a few miles from anywhere. I came on my period and had no products. He refused to drive me the three miles to the nearest shop to get some, because he was expecting someone to come to the farmhouse about something, sometime that day. His parents mustn't have been around, I can't remember. All I remember is being stuck what felt like a million miles from the nearest shop, coming on, and him refusing to take me to get any pads. And it's not like he tried to see if his mum or sister had any, either. I had to make do with loo paper, and it's just lucky I wasn't on too heavily or I guess I would have just had to go ahead and bleed everywhere.

It was the Nineties so there were no mobile phones or maps that you could see on your device. These days I would probably just walk there, but back then, I and no idea where I was going and no way of calling anyone if I came across a weirdo in the middle of nowhere.

It would have taken 5-10 minutes to drive there, I could have hopped out, got something, and we could have been back in 15-30 minutes. He could have left a note asking the person to wait, if they had turned up in that short window. But he just refused, and I went most of the day having a period and no sanitary pads.

MelanzaneParmigiana · 06/06/2026 05:11

VenusClapTrap · 05/06/2026 21:04

I married him.

😂

Lucyccfc68 · 06/06/2026 05:46

Am I seriously the only woman who has spent the last 20 minutes reading all these and not just rolling my eyes, but sticking my fingers down my throat???

Is our bar set that low that we think a bloke is sexy because he washes a few pots, reads a book, moves a few tables or compliments a women on being able to reverse park!!! All fucking normal things that I would expect a bloke or a woman to do.

It’s no wonder they want a bloody medal for the smallest of things.