[JamfulDodger]

(Original post by 7M33R)
No there isn't. That would be seen as a pervert site, and would be blasted off the web. It's quite a double standard if you ask me.

How true! Such hypocrites!

[Anonymous]

Yes this happened to me the other week, after having such an awful day and then this beautiful stranger came and sat opposite me! It took me a while to work up the courage to speak to him but when i did we chatted away, never done that before as i'm usually really shy!

I got his number ....we havent text since the day though :/.....hmmmm

[SillyMilly]

Met my ex boyfriend on the train coming back from up north I sorta told him he was being selfish hogging a seat with his gym bag and we got chatting exchanged number and it resulted in 2 years of friendship 10 months of dating ................. until he broke my heart and I realised picking up strangers on public transport wasnt the best idea actually we ended up breaking up on a train from up North home..... creepy

[accountant-future]

'Girl on the platform smile'

[jblackmoustache]

You can't 'fall in love' instantly. Love is something that a relationship turns into over time.

Public transport is just awkward. The silences are awkward and what is even more awkward is the thought of everyone you don't know listening to you chatting someone up. Music would be nice to just get rid of that silence and create a talking point. I mean an accident like a bus breaking down, or a fight on the bus has to happen for people to talk to each other

[Unknown?]

Kids these days...

[EmptyBlackStare]

(Original post by jblackmoustache)
You can't 'fall in love' instantly. Love is something that a relationship turns into over time.

Public transport is just awkward. The silences are awkward and what is even more awkward is the thought of everyone you don't know listening to you chatting someone up. Music would be nice to just get rid of that silence and create a talking point. I mean an accident like a bus breaking down, or a fight on the bus has to happen for people to talk to each other

Agreed. And there's all that uncomfortable eye contact when people catch each others eye and quickly look away.

[such_a_lady]

So many times


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[Classical Liberal]

The train I used to go on there was this stunning petite girl who had this really focused, almost angry look, about her (I thought it was really attractive), but I never managed to talk to her or anything.

Then I got a car and never saw her again

Infact I remember her sitting down next to me on the platform a couple of times and I kinda bottled chatting to her. I should have dropped my phone or something deliberately so that she could pick it up and then we could have got chatting about phones. Gahhhhh.

On the same train I remember a random girl just sitting down next to me and just chatting. Whenever we were on the train together we would chat about stuff.

[Dorito]

All the time, I often think of being the mysterious stranger and casually dropping a piece of paper on her lap with my number on as I get off the train, so that she can text me and we can fall in love and get married and have lots of children. Of course, I never do and I get off the train and we both give each other a disappointed smile due to us both being completely inept at talking to someone we like.

Reminds me of this.

[Marsha2112]

That's not love, that's physical attraction...you'll forget about him in 2 days time.

[Kage]

People really still don't get it, do they?

Of course its not LOVE in that sense of the word, but its not lust either.

I've had these moments, and it feels like a sudden connection with the other person. I've had it on a train, and I've had it on the platform to a train.
I've had it where a bus has been moving past, and I've connected with a girl on the bottom deck, and smiled at her.

I do feel connections like that exist, and they do partly come from finding them attractive to look at, but I think there is more to it than that when it occurs so quickly.

It's not like the times where you are walking down the street and you see someone you find attractive, and lust off it. It's not like that at all.
Unlike those moments, which you easily forget, moments like this actually stick with you believe it or not.

[Lucia.]

(Original post by gypsyclimber)
My main point is that feeling of incredible attraction in a split second - whether you call that lust, love, fancy, whatever, which a lot of people feel in these situations

Yes I've felt that powerful attraction stuff but only a couple of times ever.

Mentioned this before but my parents met on a train platform, wrote each other letters, fell in love, and got married like 6 months later.

[Straight up G]

I've definitely felt it. I talked to her over a 5 hour plane journey, but I guess it wasn't to be. Still, I know where she lives

[Marsha2112]

(Original post by Kage)
People really still don't get it, do they?

Of course its not LOVE in that sense of the word, but its not lust either.

I've had these moments, and it feels like a sudden connection with the other person. I've had it on a train, and I've had it on the platform to a train.
I've had it where a bus has been moving past, and I've connected with a girl on the bottom deck, and smiled at her.

I do feel connections like that exist, and they do partly come from finding them attractive to look at, but I think there is more to it than that when it occurs so quickly.

It's not like the times where you are walking down the street and you see someone you find attractive, and lust off it. It's not like that at all.
Unlike those moments, which you easily forget, moments like this actually stick with you believe it or not.

But while to you it may have been a "connection", the girl might not even have noticed you, or might have smiled back out of politeness or not to be awkward. You don't really know what's going through someone else's mind - you might think there's some massive moment and they might literally have glanced at you for 1 second and taken no notice of it.

I have heard stories (and witnessed) where people met on a plane, talk for the whole journey, find out they get on really well, arrange to meet up later and BAM. That's got a bit more substance to it though.

[chocolate buttons]

About 3 weeks ago I saw a Shia LaBeouf lookalike on the bus home from work. Haven't seen him since

[Zyyz]

Hahahahahaha you obviously have never been in love before if you think you fell in love with someone who you looked at.

**** me surely you have got to be joking

[Kage]

(Original post by Marsha2112)
But while to you it may have been a "connection", the girl might not even have noticed you, or might have smiled back out of politeness or not to be awkward. You don't really know what's going through someone else's mind - you might think there's some massive moment and they might literally have glanced at you for 1 second and taken no notice of it.

I have heard stories (and witnessed) where people met on a plane, talk for the whole journey, find out they get on really well, arrange to meet up later and BAM. That's got a bit more substance to it though.

That is the entire point of the connection. Its mutual, and you can tell it is.

[Marsha2112]

(Original post by Kage)
That is the entire point of the connection. Its mutual, and you can tell it is.

Maybe I just haven't experienced this "connection" you speak of, but in the past I thought I had (and we did more than look at each other), and in reality there was naff all there.

This is what I'm saying, you have NO idea what someone else is thinking, and if you catch some stunning girl's eye on the train and she gives you a strange look, you WANT to believe it means some huge thing and she's thinking the same about you. So you see in it what you want to see. When in reality she's probably just stressed, or her face just looks like that, or most likely she's thinking "why is this guy still staring at me". It just makes a complete mockery of real love when people are like "omgaaaah I caught someone's eye on the bus and we had such a connection", surely if it was such a big deal one of you would have made an effort to start a conversation. You know nothing about this person, she could have opened her mouth and been a fan of genocide or sounded like Vicky Pollard.

[Ryan_94]

I heard this story of a guy who experienced it in his Uni and couldn't find the girl again no matter how hard he tried. He never forgot her face and it plagued him for years after until a Psychologist explained...

She wasn't as unbelievably attractive as he thought she was - he just saw her at the right time. What ever was happening physically, hormonally and mentally at the time he saw her mixed up his feelings and he created some false impression/image of her. He probably saw her 100s of times again but didn't even register...

Interesting to consider!

This type of thing has happened occasionally to me though. One that I remember was this girl... I still can't believe it, she was sooo fit... but that's a completely different topic. :')