Mikau Posted July 2, 2016 Posted July 2, 2016 As a bit of backstory (sorry if this is long): I work part time (full time during school holidays) as a cook at a restaurant, and have since April last year. Up until October of last year, I was in a relationship. A colleague of mine worked full time as a waitress last summer, but quit due to school up until a few weeks ago. This is the first time (excluding a few weeks when I just started) we're both single while working. We didn't have much rapport last summer (apart from the usual colleague'y hi's and bye's and dinner talk). Currently though, it's different. She's a generally happy and upbeat person, so it's hard to tell, but she's been acting different towards me. It feels like she goes out of her way to talk to me (more "hi I'm here" than actual conversation), she teases me a little bit, is giving me nicknames (just silly things rhyming with my name), and today she touched me (I realise this sounds incredibly socially awkward, but I'm quite reserved so I don't get touchy with colleagues, apart from handshakes). All of this is new. I think she's attractive and enjoy her company, and if she wasn't a colleague I would've asked her out by now. But she is a colleague, and I know how things go in restaurants. If I ask her out and get rejected there'll be talk, especially considering she's 6 years younger and I asked out and got rejected by a colleague earlier this year. I don't want to be 'that guy', I want to just do my job and have fun doing it in relative peace, not be the guy who falls for all his colleagues. Now, I'm not great with women, and my usual move of 'ask her out and get a definitive yes/no' isn't going to work for me for the above reasons, how do I proceed? How do I gauge her interest level and/or move things to where something might happen organically without too much overt rejection? Thanks LoveShack
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