Do you think people flirt at you without you noticing?

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I've bee told people flirt with me, but unless someone's being insanely obvious and/or creepy I dont really notice. I don't really flirt either though. I'm too direct for that.

Please listen to me young men. Do not go around kissing women's hands. It's creepy.

^ It is not creepy in France.
(More hover-kissing than real kissing)

If you offer a hand to a woman, and she pulls back, you know she doesn't want her hand kissed.

Most women, especially those over a certain age, are charmed by a man offering to kiss her hand.

And don't call me "creepy!" LOL

Because I'm not "creepy." People tend to trust me in real life.

And in rural Turkey and Philippines, young people kiss elders' hands of either gender out of respect.
In Levant it is often done to clerics (devout Shiites kiss the "ring") in some sects.

I have definitely made a career out of missing people flirt with me. It has to be really obvious, no, actually even then it's not clear. Part of this is missing cues, part is not feeling like someone would be interested in me, part is having low drive, and part is believing (despite better evidence) that female-ish people don't want intimacy, at least with me.

But, over time the missed opportunities make great "what-if" scenarios when you get older.

Nowadays I don't care if people are flirting with me because I'm partnered up and don't want any trouble. At this point it's a trait of myself that I really appreciate, because I'm risk averse.

Yea I'm pretty sure someone has flirted with me without me noticing. Don't remember who though. i wish I could

This is an off-topic cultural educational post since hand-kissing was brought up


In Turkey:






In Arabia (often to kings/princes and clerics):




In Philippines, they call this gesture Mano:








In Indonesia - very common:









Even in schools.



Malaysia:






Note sure where, looks like a Central Asian/Turkic culture, maybe Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan:




Lebanon and Levant (Reflecting our politics...):





I think this is in Brunei



Morocco:

Wow Boo, so many pics. Have you just gathered them up or you already had them salved in your PC for some reason?

^^ Come to me, let's share saliva.

TBH, if you are anywhere on the spectrum I think it's very likely you were unaware that someone was flirting with you unless it was glaringly, concretely obvious--and perhaps not even then.

Case in point:

Many years ago I ran into an unfamiliar grocery store with my best friend (NT) to purchase cookie-making ingredients. After several minutes of wandering around, a clerk asked me if I needed help. I quickly said, "Yes, please! Where's the brown sugar?"

Smiling, the man pointed to himself and replied, "Right here!" (with a wink)

I stood there, staring at him with my mouth open, because I was sure there was a misunderstanding and I couldn't think of any other way to specify brown sugar, not brown human, without looking like an idiot. My best friend walked up to us and told him not to mind me, that I was clueless, then he laughed too and directed us to the baking aisle.

And that is how I learned that some African American men refer to themselves as brown sugar. I looked the term up in Urban Dictionary, which sites the phrase as female-specific, but evidently males in some circles use the term too. My best friend also informed me that his body language was very flirtatious, but I missed that as well.