Obvious signals from women/men that you completely missed.

[JohnT]

"and he was WELL PREPARED to **** me until my spine snapped."

Well, that's a pleasant image. Thanks, Starchild!

[MikeH]

To be honest... I think all the signals I've missed I missed and so I don't know what they were.

[Alex]

Well, there I was, driving home with a friend and a girl we knew from college. She apparently had been abandoned by her friends in the bar, and we were driving her home.

I think she really wanted to have sex that night. I left my buddy home and proceeded to take her to her home. She said: "You know, this night could end in a different way". I knew that she wanted to do it. "Come on, Alex! You can't miss on this opportunity!", I thought.

But then something incredibly sad hit me in the head; a sudden and desperate sense of affliction that I cannot explain. I realized that I didn't want to do it. I just smiled and drove her home. She was obviously disappointed. We never had a conversation again.

[MikeH]

That makes sense. You suddenly had that feeling of not wanting to have meaningless casual sex, possibly because you realised it was just her way of getting over her own sense of lonliness and abandonment and she was embarassed that you turned her down and probably feeling a little bit more sorry for herself.

[Jon Miller]

I often realised missed opportunities (or what appear to be) 15 minutes or so later

I want to turn back time, but it doesn't work

Jon Miller

[orange]

I sometimes miss the 'I want a kiss goodnight' signals on first or second 'dates'...but other than that...nothing nearly as bad as what you posted about. Shoulda banged her like a screen door in a hurricane

[Adagio]

Be happy, that you can actually talk to girls, you like... Whenever I meet a nice girl, I want to get to know better, I just stand speechless (And thereby I never get to know girls )

There was one time, I spent a vacation with my friend, who had some other people with... don't know if they were familiy or just friends of family (Btw, I was just 10, and my friend was 8)... One of the "other people", where a nice girl (about a year older than me) I wanted to get to know better, and several times, she made it obious that she wanted me to make the first move, to get to know her... but because I'm the way I am (= can't make the first move... just have no clue at all what to do, when to do it), I didn't make the first move... after the vacation, I never saw her again

[JohnT]

This missed opportunity absolutely drove me bonkers for a while. Within weeks I have pretty much convinced myself, that out of the 3+ billion women on the planet, Ms. Stagger Step was undoubtably the Best Ever in Bed, the sort of lay a man thinks about when he's 80 and trying to get it up for the wife "for old times sake."

Of course, I never saw her again. Not too sure I wanted to, as I also convinced myself that Ms. Best in Sack was laughing at me with all her friends.

[Sirotnikov]

A girl who is a good friend of mine has often made suggestive moves, ranging from : "my last bf said that you and i could be perfect. i never thought about it that way *smile*". And things like "if i thought i stood a chance with you, i'd try and be your gf".

But I wasn't interested, so I chose to ignore all those signs. And I'm happy I did, as I'm very happy with my current gf.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by JohnT
This missed opportunity absolutely drove me bonkers for a while. Within weeks I have pretty much convinced myself, that out of the 3+ billion women on the planet, Ms. Stagger Step was undoubtably the Best Ever in Bed, the sort of lay a man thinks about when he's 80 and trying to get it up for the wife "for old times sake."

Of course, I never saw her again. Not too sure I wanted to, as I also convinced myself that Ms. Best in Sack was laughing at me with all her friends.

She probably had a venereal disease.

[JohnT]

That's the spirit!

[Ben Kenobi]

I had already (unknownst to me) met my wife, but we were going through a 15-month breakup at the time, so no guilt here.

JohnT

Well then it all worked out. Why are you worrying about what might have been?

[chairmanmeow]

When I was in 11th grade, I was on a field trip in Gettysburg, and when I was at lunch with some friends, one of the girls in my history class kept emphasizing the point that she didn't have a date for the prom, and she was staring at me every time she said that. Clueless as I was (and still am), I didn't catch on, and, to make a long story short, I didn't go to the prom.

[Paul Hanson]

About six months ago, a girl from my English class at college invited me to her 18th birthday do. I went along, since I never turn down an invitation like that. When I arrived (I got there a bit late, so most of the guests had turned up), she greeted me, took the crappy card I'd bought her at the last minute, and then suggested that I sit next to her best mate.

First things first, although I got on quite well with the girl who's party it was, we were not huge mates. However, I was very good mates with her best friend; we both have the same sense of humour, which is always a good thing, and we did all the same subjects at college (we'd been in the same class for two subjects, so we saw each other quite a lot), and as a result we'd become quite close. She was single at the time, and quite attractive as well.

So, when her mate suggests I sit in the space next to her, what do I do? I refuse, and take the seat opposite her. First mistake.

Throughout the party, she's being very friendly with her cousin's best mate, who's visiting from Exeter. Despite this, she still talks to me quite a lot and she's very touchy-feely, which she never was at college. I, being a moron, don't respond to this.

The day after the party, she goes down to Exeter herself for three weeks to visit relatives. During this time, she meets some lad and starts going out with him. And all because I don't have the guts to respond to her signals.

When I finally get a bit of courage, I arrange to meet her. I admit to her that I like her, and she tells me about her boyfriend. I take this well on the outside, but inside I'm kicking myself.

And we've barely spoken since. I've spent the last 4 days trying to write an e-mail to her, and so far I've got myself a subject and that's it.

[Sava]

I turned down an impulsive threesome because I was in a relationship. And I was dumped 2 days later.