Things someone has done that suddenly made you weirdly attracted to them

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I got to work this morning and I have a bit of equipment that I use that I always struggle setting up.

I turned up a bit early and put it on the table ready to set up. A guy I work with who honestly I have never really even liked as a person and am DEFINITELY not remotely
physically attracted to, picked it up off the table while we were all chatting before our shift, and wordlessly constructed it for me.

For a minute I thought he thought it was his and was very confused, but he handed it to me once done.

I cannot stress how much I am not attracted to this man but it was weirdly hot.

Please share your versions of this so I know I’m not a complete weirdo!

A man being able to share how he feels and feeling comfortable to share that with me - without actually knowing him all that well. Don't worry - it's not an affair - we live in different countries!!

Never gave boss in my last job a second thought until he appeared one afternoon having changed from his work suit into his mountain rescue clobber with a rope slung across his chest and shoulder. He had had a ' call out' and as a volunteer he was off to rescue! I nearly swooned and then developed a total crush!

Reverses into a tight space, yes.

I love how forearms are a strong feature here!

My DH is a violinist. He has beautiful long hands, I swear they're a work of art. 😂 First time he played violin for me, he also rolled up his sleeves. I'd only been seeing him a few weeks and I fell madly in love there and then. He plays for me every day now and I have the same reaction ten years on!

DH stopping traffic so a hedgehog could cross the road safely was definitely a swooning moment

A colleague who would always ask how I felt and be able to perfectly emphasise with me

A school dad stopped a bus I was running for and then helped me onto it with my pram.

I have been daydreaming about him ever since. It's very 'Baby Reindeer' 😂

Ah, that's floored me to be honest ❤️

A woman I worked with years ago. She handled a workplace incident that could have been life-threatening in such an calm manner that most people had no idea what was going on until it was over.

She was so competent and unfazed by anything that when people were talking about her one day, someone said, "You just know that if you were ever washed up on a desert island together, she'd handle the first aid, build a fire, locate the drinkable water, make some tea for everyone, erect a shelter, find some food, know what wouldn't kill you and work out a rescue plan and watch schedule while the rest of us were still trying to work out what had happened."

I don't know if anyone was weirdly attracted to her but everyone found her so steady and reassuring as a colleague.

Yes but not Michael McIntyre though. There’s really nothing he could do that would look sexy.

I was once walking with my DH all dressed up in fabulous heels on our way out somewhere and I stumbled a little. He immediately tightened his grip on my hand almost instinctively to stop me going arse over tit.
I’ve never forgotten the feeling of safety….

What a woman! @UnderstandablyDisappointed

My DP who, when I discovered a bird in the living room, just got a tea towel, wrapped it around the bird, carried it to the front door and opened the door and set it free.

Mine is always when men are good with babies.

a male friend holding both his twins with ease (nice arms) and being such a good dad

a male friend holding my baby and instantly shushing baby by swaying to and fro and jiggling - not a dad himself but just so in tune with babies (unlike my dh)

Seen a fellow colleague bend down and attend to a weak patient on the ward, with no prompt! Although this happened to others previously, I was particularly affected in this instance. No idea why.

He was a notorious grumpy man towards colleagues but has fantastic bedside manners. Sometimes my mind does wonder what would be like if I was in a relationship with him.

It’s weird though because my ex is very capable, he doesn’t do weaponised incompetence and yet he was still a bloody awful person. I often used to wish he was more bumbling.

Conversely lack of competence and general cack-handedness is not particularly attractive (looking at you, ex-fiance...).

I went to visit a friend a while ago and her husband came to collect me from the station. I always feel a twit while trying to find an unfamiliar car in a car park, but this chap got off his arse so he could stand up next to his car and wave. It didn't make me fancy him exactly, but it did make me want to meet someone similarly thoughtful. He was also strikingly involved with looking after their two children.

Dh had to detour off the motorway in his hgv and rang to tell me he was coming past the top of our street. I stood and waved as he drove past in his huge lorry. Total turn on.

I read this and thought, what has Rod Stewart got to do with politics? hahaha! Perhaps I was subliminally thinking of Rodders when I read this hot guy thread. He is cute for an aging rock star?!

There are plenty of other ways in which men can be awful if they are so inclined, so I don't find that weird at all. One of the most competent people I know is also one of the most toxic. In fact I'd go as far as to say that he uses his competence to maximise his toxicity.

Almost all good tradesmen. And I get to see a lot because DH is hopeless at anything practical and pays people to do pretty much everything.

My late husband's last job was in teaching.

Before we married, a teaching colleague needed help clearing an overgrown garden for building work. I was there, pulling up ivy.

The chap who eventually became my husband was there, felling trees. He used to be a woodcutter.

I assume it was you all dressed up in fabulous heels, not your DH? One is never sure quite these days...

Anyone seen the video of Henry Cavil building a PC…..? 😍🤪🫠

Same. Spiders too, if I see them being put gently outside rather than killed

I love it when men do that. (Fanciable ones, anyway.)

Unfortunately it's been rather a long time...