How do girls feel about being approached in the street?

I don't understand how you'd find someone who approaches you to ask for your a number a creep. if someone is attracted to you, why should you call him a creep? I'd understand if he was a weirdo, but if she's just simply asking you because he asks you, I just don't get it...

Being the thread starter, I really wanted to approach the girl but there just wasn't a time for it. i.e she was with her friend, and i didn't want to interrupt her convo, neither did I want to catch her when she was by herself in case she thought i was weird lol

...what makes you think that a mental problem is the cause of this fear? I once had a guy staring at me at the bus stop for 10 minutes before he approached me, and when I turned him down he just walked off. He was never really waiting for a bus. The fact that he stood there wasting 10 minutes of his life just to watch me is what causes fear in females.
Know that the majority of females would feel the exact same way because approaching women in this way isn't normal.

Use your brain. Firstly it takes someone by surprise which is often inappropriate and rude, secondly it is very presumptuous and thirdly, and sadly, girls are sometimes at threat from strange males.

In a restaurant it is easy.

'When they have finished their drinks can you send another two over there please? Thanks' - to the waiter.

Easy. The waiter if he has a brain and is a wingman and not a cockblock will tell them you sent them over. Easy as that really. You have now gained their attention without looking needy and you have also made it easier to go speak to them. In a lot of situations women often come and talk to you if you do this to say thanks.

How is it that hard to imagine why it might be scary for them? A lot of guys are notoriously unpredictable when a girl rejects them. You only have to observe on a night out the amount of guys who will start calling a girl a slut or a prude for not finding them attractive. Here we have a situation where a girl is by herself, she has no intention of wanting to give her phone number out, so she has to say no and then she has to wonder what are the consequences of saying no are; she doesn't know how the guy is going to react. He could take the utmost offensive and start being violent or more likely but equally embarrassing for the girl he could start shouting about what a bitch she is. The girl does not know how the guy will react and so it is only natural for them to be afraid.

Do you have mental health problems? Maybe you're autistic if you find it so hard to imagine what it must be like from other peoples perspective, they don't know what your intentions are.

That's kind of weird tbh.

You are talking about girls like they are higher greater beings. They are equally as bad as men in their own way.

If I'm having an argument or disagreement with a girl and in the past one hit me in the face unprovoked, should I then be scared the next time it happens? I mean by your terms I don't know what might happen so I suppose when I have a disagreement with a girl I should be scared?

But you're using one example and categorising men approaching strangers. It's like me saying I saw a black man with a knife and now I'm scared of black men. You need to rationalise it. Just because you are a female and physically weaker than males it shouldn't mean you should be scared of being approached in public. That's ridiculous. I think this is very much a British thing also. Girls abroad are more receptive to being social and open to people outside their network of friends in my experience. Although yes approaching on the street is not something I'd recommend.

Why would you just approach a random stranger you've never even met before with the intention of dating though?

Except when a girl hits you its a lot less painful than when a guy does it....

Your argument only proves that you shouldn't be scared of a girl hitting you next time. It does nothing to revoke the premise of my argument and my argument does not extend exclusively to women. Many men will be intimidated by a stranger approaching them if the situation is similar to when many girls are approached, especially if the stranger approaching is notably much bigger than you are and you have to refuse them something they want. And since most men are bigger than most women, then this scenario is a lot more common for when an unknown male approaches a female.

...you're saying that I'm "physically weaker" than all men just because I'm a female? And apparently this is the reason why I fear being approached by strange men on the street? Well if all men are like yourself in thinking that they are above women and can approach them as they please because they're all apparently "physically stronger" than females then yes I am terrified of being approached by a stranger who thinks he can bully me into a conversation because apparently I'm too "physically weak" to reject anyone.

Again lik the guy above, if you read what you are saying you are not confusing me but yourself. You have problems.

This is probably the most stupidest thing I've read on this thread. Are you telling me when you see a random attractive girl you've never met before at a house party that you'd not approach her by virtue of the fact you're physically attracted to her and want to get to know her more? I can tell from your post, your dating game is weak #foreverinthefriendszone