How many positive reactions would you get?

[HoneyBadgerDontCare]

Note also that paying a stranger a compliment is a nice thing to do, and Lord knows we live in a world where doing nice things without without expectation of return is a rare thing.

 

OP clearly stated that his goal is to get out of his comfort zone and to get rid of his social anxiety with, presumably, the end goal of getting more dates. I'm merely giving him a way to do that.

 

If you want to go around and compliment women constantly and not trying to go further than that, then, by all means, go for it.

[New User]

I am not a troll. These days if I were single I wouldn't even look at women in public out of fear of being maced or arrested.

 

 

It's a sad thing to live in fear. Especially when your fear is unwarranted. Maybe you could clue me in to exactly where this epidemic of women macing men who dare to say hello is.

[Star Gazer]

I probably would have said, "Thanks!" with a big smile, but kept walking. That particular type of cold approach doesn't work on me.

[Babolat]

I wish you well with that. I'd suggest maybe starting with just simple a "hello" or if you notice something about the person that piques your interest, ask them about it (cool shoes, weird shirt, extraneous third arm- whatever). But whatever you bring up should not be something negative or that they may consider a defect (which, going back to the previous examples would probably mean not commenting on the extraneous third arm- if they've got four that's ok because it's symmetrical). Basically, what I mean is that the best thing to complement a stranger on is something benign, non-personal, and not crass. Anyway, good luck.

 

Be careful..

 

I was out with a buddy recently, we are both tall, 6 '3". This tall beautiful woman walked up to us, big smile, and I started talking to her. He pipes in "You sure are tall!". I thought "Really, you don't think she has heard that or knows she is tall?" Needless to say I continued to talk to her and he did not.

[ScreamingTrees]

This is different. Most men will get maced just for smiling at a woman.

 

This is late, but I've complimented girls on their clothes or whatever and they've always just smiled. Never thought anything of it. Maybe if a guy can do it naturally without coming off as forced/idiotic..

[New User]

This is late, but I've complimented girls on their clothes or whatever and they've always just smiled. Never thought anything of it. Maybe if a guy can do it naturally without coming off as forced/idiotic..

 

 

Yep. Though even if you come across like you're as wooden as Kaw-Liga you're still not going to get maced or arrested. I don't really get how anyone can live with such an irrational fear. Woggle, if you're getting maced it ain't because you just said hi. If you're not, I have to ask if you're living in a bubble that enables you to completely avoid all unknown women or if you just make a concerted effort not to ever make eye- contact.

 

Or maybe to you "maced" is slang for "she won't be so grateful for a little bit of attention that your smile causes her to mount your throbbing manhood on the spot." If that's the case, yeah, you'll most likely get "maced."

[New User]

Yeah, Woggle has some...issues with women. I honestly can't tell if he's being serious, frankly I hope he isn't because it's an absurd way of thinking. All it does is allow someone to pretend as if the reason they don't talk to women is because of this fear of being 'maced' or arrested when in reality it's only about rejection.

 

 

 

 

:lmao:

 

 

I can't tell if he's serious either. My gut says no- and I hope he isn't. Unfortunately there are some guys out there with really irrational fears so it wouldn't surprise me terribly if he were serious. But the last sentence is money. I can understand fear of rejection. Trying to dress it up so the consequences are more serious than going back to the house alone.... I don't really get that. That's all you're really risking. Which is exactly what would happen if you didn't take a chance anyway.