Have you ever asked out/been asked out by someone working in a shop or cafe?

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No-one in mind, just curious as the odd thread sometimes pops up where someone’s developed a crush on a barista that served them or someone working in their local supermarket. Has anyone actually ever taken the plunge and asked their crush out? Or even been asked out themselves? Anyone who met their DP this way?

When I was about 20 I ordered an LP from a music store (shows my age) and when I got home went to play LP and out fell a note from salesman asking me out.

That's funny @caringcarer as I was going to say something similar.

I was 15 and used to basically just stand in our local record shop until the shop assistant noticed me. It went on for weeks! Eventually he asked me out. We walked up and down the main road about four times (that was the date) and then he said he wanted to go and see his friend. I was invited. His friend was 12 years old and friends with my little brother. I was mortified and went straight home.

When I was 22 and pregnant with dc1 I was waitressing and got asked out by a a lad of maybe 15, 16, in his school uniform who obv had no idea why not 😂

Yes, a guy working at a cafe slipped me a note and asked me out. We had a nice thing for a while - it didn't last that long but we stayed friends. It's put a smile on my face remembering it.

I attended a wedding last year. The bride went in for lunch where the groom worked. When she left the money on the table, she also left her phone number on the bill.

When I worked in a pub, one of the locals asked me out for his son. While his son just stood there. I declined.

Another guy slipped mr his number while paying. We dated briefly.

It’s how I met my husband. I was 19 working in a high street clothes shop, and he came in and asked me out. 15 years and 2 dc later, and saying yes is still the best decision I’ve ever made.

Did you go?

I’ve slept with many barmen this way!

i think it’s the power they have, such an aphrodisiac

Yep, went in there (cafe) several times a week, we flirted a lot and after a month I asked him out. It lasted 5 years.

I was working in a pub during university Christmas holidays and jokingly got asked out by a part time barman. It got physical very quickly and the long distance made our meet-ups even more exciting. But it ran out of steam after about 6 months. I was 20. I tried to remember his surname the other day… Nope.

And an embarrassing one for me.
I was working in McDonalds Grafton Street (Dublin) serving on a Saturday night. When the pubs closed the place was heaving.
A cool young guy (long black overcoat, floppy fringe, fashionably emaciated, a real 80s dreamboat) comes to my till.
I blurt out “Has anybody ever told you you look just like Jeremy Irons? Gorgeous!”
(Facepalm-I don’t know what I was trying to achieve)
The guy turns and legs it out of the crowd!

Quite a few asked, I dated three and married one of them.
I asked out a lovely Australian barman, it was brief as he was going back home but it was fun while it lasted.

No but I'm tempted by a really handsome barista at the coffee shop at a tube station local to me. He's so handsome and is always smiling. I often swoon over my macchiato

when I was a solo Mum in my mid-20's I got a sweet letter written to me inviting me out, from a guy who worked in a chainsaw repair shop in town. I cant remember ever going in there but he liked the look of me obv from me walking past with my DS in his stroller. He was quite old fashioned but only a few years older than me, so we met a few times for coffee & I recall him doing-up Jaguar cars as we went for a few drives in that - with a sticky fingered non-stop chatting toddler in the back 😂. But not much in common though & that was where that stopped.