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Joan Murt wrote: The worst it can happen is what happened so, from now on you have no excuses...
The song 'give me three steps' just popped into my head 
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Ah don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket
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Sander Rossel wrote: Really very cute girl.
As crass/male chauvinist as this sounds, the more you practice, the easier it gets. So practice. Not every girl needs to be a potential girlfriend or "really very cute", it's fun just to hang out with people of the opposite sex. The less hormones charge to asking someone out for a lunch date, concert, movie, whatever, the easier it gets for well, those "charged" moments. 
Marc
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I guess I'll try a few more times. Maybe. Someday 
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Well done; "wie niet waagt, blijft maagd" 
Sander Rossel wrote: I've been planning it for weeks, even trying to ask her out a few times, but failed due to completely freaking out and only being able to say the mandatory
Because you're afraid of asking a big question, and the possible outcome - start with smalltalk. Makes it a lot easier 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Why do you think I never made smalltalk? 
There's really just one kind of smalltalk[^] I see myself becoming proficient in
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Sander Rossel wrote: Why do you think I never made smalltalk?
"Receipt please. Bye." 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's the bare minimum.
One of the girls there sometimes makes smalltalk.
"It's really busy today." That's just a statement and I have no idea how I should answer that
I think the whole conversation last week went something like this:
She: "It's really busy today."
Me: "It happens."
She: "Yeah, more busy than usual."
Me: "Strange, with such good weather you'd think people do other things than groceries." (yes, the weather! ultimate (and horrible) smalltalk topic)
She: "The weather isn't that good. Too much wind."
Me: "Alright, then I don't know why it's so busy."
She: "Usually we'd be with three cashiers, but there's only two today."
Me: "Vacation?"
She: "No the third is sick at home."
Me: "Well, good luck with that. Bye."
She: "Bye."
Horrible, just shut up already
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Sander Rossel wrote: I have no idea how I should answer that
Open questions are preferred. See it as gathering specs
Sander Rossel wrote: Horrible, just shut up already
That doesn't matter, some girls would think that is cute.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The worst they can do is say "yes".
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At least you'll get a second chance to fail 
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It's a numbers game - keep going, after a while it won't bother you if you get a no.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: after a while it won't bother you if you get a no.
Because you're dead inside?
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No, because you get laid a lot and no longer care if one says no. The next one will say yes. 
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Well, I did finally get some ass last night! I grabbed through the toilet paper... 
Wasn't there a post about the dangers of toilet paper here not long ago?
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From the view of a lot of years down the track, you are too focused on the big question, asking her out. As others have suggested, try small talk, anything will do, ask her about something, as long as it is not offensive the subject does not matter. Just like you coding it takes PRACTICE.
The dead inside comment shows you are way too sensitive and have no experience with even talking to the lovely creatures. Instead of having a goal of asking them out, don't have a goal at all, just put yourself in a position where you can talk to them, probably not a check out isle where she is focused on work.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: have no experience with even talking to the lovely creatures
Some of my good friends are really very hot chicks Who, unfortunately, aren't into me for anything more than just friendship
I just don't talk well to strangers, be they girls or guys. Small talk is just the worst. Unless they talk to me first, in that case I'm quite alright (well, sometimes).
Mycroft Holmes wrote: probably not a check out isle where she is focused on work
Yeah, it's just that that's her work and I never see her outside work 
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Don't tell no one, but I'm 44, married + 4, but never ever asked a girl out...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Don't tell no one
My lips are sealed
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Sander Rossel wrote: So I asked out a cashier at the local store.
In the US we also refer to cashiers as checkers and the line we call a checkout line. Early in my marriage I would come home and tell my wife that I was at the store and the girl was "checking me out." She didn't see the humor in the word play. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Sounds like your wife is trying to keep you in check, mate
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Had to look this one up.
Interesting.
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Yeah, but was the balloon on drugs?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dunno. Is propane banned by the WADA?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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