Is it okay to ask out a shop assistant?

[byteme1011]

There's a guy who works in a shop I sometimes buy lunch from. He's stuck in my head. I don't know if i'm reading too much into his friendliness. He's mentioned he's single and today he was wearing a different shirt, I said he looked like a looky looky man (realise this might be offensive, it's the sort of chat we have) and he's asked well do you prefer me like this. I just looked at him (i'm very bad at flirting and there was another shop assistant listening).
I realise he's at his work place and he's being paid to be nice to me, but tell me i'm not so (sexually frustrated) that I'm reading signals that don't exist/how do I flirt?

God there are some miserable people on this forum!
It sounds like you both bounce off each other with good banter.
I've had regular delivery men add me on Facebook and message me and found it incredibly creepy, I wasn't attracted to them and they mistook my friendliness for something else. However when the one I did fancy added me I was delighted!
You've got nothing to lose, go for it.

I did it twice when I was much, much younger.

The first one worked in a health food store I frequented and he always stood chatting to me for 5/10 mins if a queue hadn’t formed behind. He seemed flirtatious so I decided to just ask him out one day, he agreed and we went on a date. Terrible date fwiw, I never saw him again and thankfully he stopped working at that store soon after!

Second one worked in my local Morrisons, I went in most days for a few bits because it was on my doorstep. I’d noticed him looking at me a fair few times and I thought he seemed interesting (he didn’t look like anyone else I’d ever really seen in our local area). Anyway, one day I finally decided to go to his till to speak to him and he asked me what my name was. The next night he added me on Facebook, we messaged for a week then met up. Went out with him for around ten months but he was an abusive mess, stalked me for months after we split and it was just a huge mistake! He lost his job when we were still together so luckily didn’t have to face him afterwards.

Sorry, I went off on one there but just wanted to offer my experiences. Go for it if you want but be prepared to find another store to buy lunch if it backfires!

did you go for it op?

He's let you know he's single. He's interested OP. Go for it!

Drop him your email or telephone number on a card and his colleagues won't overhear

@whattodowith i feel like online dating rules apply to meeting essentially strangers too. Im sorry about the morrisons guy, hope it hasn't had any lasting effect.

Sadly missed lunch break today (this is ne on train hone after 8am start..
) but I will do it.

@leolion81 hate the idea of random men adding me on fb haha. Guess it's harmless

Keep us updated if you do it!