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Looking out for a girl

Picture this: you're a guy, walking a girl (a new friend) home along a fairly featureless main road. Its a dark winter night. She keeps going off ahead of you because shes in her own world (and doesnt hear you because she has her mp3 player on with headphones). Is it patronising if I'm demonstrating my concern at her walking off?

She said afterwards "I can look after myself".

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Reply 1
Are you sure she wants you with her? If she keeps walking off and is wearing headphones, it kind of looks like she's deliberately ignoring you and you're just following her...
Reply 2
hmmm well did you insist on walking her home or did she ask you to? sounds like she didn't want you to be there at all, and in that case it is a little patronising if you forced the issue.
Reply 3
She may not have found you patronising... maybe she said it half seriously?
Reply 4
Poica
Are you sure she wants you with her? If she keeps walking off and is wearing headphones, it kind of looks like she's deliberately ignoring you and you're just following her...


Dont think that was the case, given that I'd spent most of the day with hanging out with her and a few others. She did admit she does kind of drift off when she has her headphones on.
Reply 5
she doesn't want u walking her home pal
Reply 6
Patronizing? No.

Stalkerish? Yes.
Reply 7
Poica
Are you sure she wants you with her? If she keeps walking off and is wearing headphones, it kind of looks like she's deliberately ignoring you and you're just following her...


Dont think that was the case, given that I'd spent most of the day with hanging out with her and a few others (the group then split up). She did admit she does kind of drift off when she has her headphones on.
Reply 8
Let me be blunt. If she wanted to talk to you personally and hang out with you she would not listen to her mp3 player and walk away from you. Usually people who desire another's company walk towards the latter, not away.
Reply 9
well "I can look after myself" kind of suggests that she doesn't want you looking out for her.
Reply 10
why didn't you talk, thats what usually happens when you walk girls home, its like the ulimate girlfriend finding strategy, the fact that she was walking off ain't half as odd as the fact that she's got headphones on.
Reply 11
Why are you posting as anonymous.
Reply 12
KidA
why didn't you talk, thats what usually happens when you walk girls home, its like the ulimate girlfriend finding strategy, the fact that she was walking off ain't half as odd as the fact that she's got headphones on.


She didnt seem to realise she was doing it...

Me: "hey, why you walking off on your own?"

Her: stops, takes her headphones off and says "oh, sorry...."
Reply 13
Tim Kabel
Why are you posting as anonymous.


Shame.
Reply 14
KidA
why didn't you talk, thats what usually happens when you walk girls home, its like the ulimate girlfriend finding strategy, the fact that she was walking off ain't half as odd as the fact that she's got headphones on.


She didnt seem to realise she was doing it....

Me: "hey, why you walking off on your own?"

Her: stops, takes her headphones off and says "oh, sorry...."
Reply 15
Tim Kabel
Why are you posting as anonymous.


Probably the same reason as the starter of the tampon thread.
Anonymous
...given that I'd spent most of the day with hanging out with her...


I think that's the root of it.
Reply 17
jeff2233
I think that's the root of it.


hahahaha
Reply 18
SlyPie
hahahaha


Funny...She asked more than once about how I was getting home :confused:
Reply 19
Well, people do that to make conversation, but let's delve a wee bit further:

Did she automatically put on her headphones after the others left? Or did she wait and converse with you a bit?