Odd thing in Metro newspaper this morning

[theplayingmantis]

something caught my eye in the metro paper of the bloke sitting next to me (i dont read it myself as its horsest and lite news in its worst format and typically out of date), but anyway...it was like a lonely hearts/looking to meet letters of desperate creepy sounding blokes on fleeting meeting on the tube network.

ie you were the brunette at oxford circus who stepped on my toes, i wish id asked for your number, etc.

wtf is this sh*t! is it real?! do people like this actually exist? what do they hope to acheive? do they think that fleeting accidental contact means someone is up for it? jeez...

i suppose its like that lidl(?) bin stalker chap on here...unless that was made up.

[Shakermaker]

Its been in there for years

[Europa1]

OP, given how small the "Rush Hour Crush" column is in Metro, were you sat on the other passenger's lap? "Don't read it", eh?

[Mazinbrum]

MI5 coded message or they are filming a new series of Hunted ?

[Japveesix]

Thanks for starting this thread OP.

And to the girl I bumped into in B&M wearing her pyjamas at 2pm, if you see this get in touch. I was wearing sweat pants and a bench hoody and buying pot noodles. x

[Triumph Man]

I always thought "rush hour crush" was quite sweet.

[can't remember]

Less creepy way of meeting someone than cosying up to a stranger and pretending to be interested in their newspaper.

[Cold]

To the beautiful, smartly dressed lady with blonde hair and the light brown clutch bag heading towards Westminster on the Circle Line this morning, that really was a canoe in my pocket. Sorry about that.

[ColinM50]

Didn't James Blunt make a fortune out of a song about this?

[RC1807]

can't remember said:

Less creepy way of meeting someone than cosying up to a stranger and pretending to be interested in their newspaper.

[theplayingmantis]

can't remember said:

Less creepy way of meeting someone than cosying up to a stranger and pretending to be interested in their newspaper.

[Exige77]

theplayingmantis said:

can't remember said:

Less creepy way of meeting someone than cosying up to a stranger and pretending to be interested in their newspaper.

That made me chuckle

[glenrobbo]

The best way to effect a romantic introduction to somebody on the Tube that you find attractive is to lick their face.

HTH.

[alorotom]

It's no worse to tapping someone up in a bar ... When single and regularly using the Tyne and Wear metro for work there was a few encounters that led from train "chats"

Only downside being that sometimes when it all go awry and just looking for a NSA interlude you may have to change carriage or time of the train lol

[p4cks]

alorotom said:

It's no worse to tapping someone up in a bar ... When single and regularly using the Tyne and Wear metro for work there was a few encounters that led from train "chats"

By 'chats' do you mean the ones I've experienced where one is on the train and the other on the platform frothing at the mouth shouting and pointing with one hand and holding a can of Fosters in the other?

Usually found at Pelaw/Gateshead Stadium etc

[glenrobbo]

WTF???
Why did this just get moved to NP&E?

/ Perplexed of Wapping

[fido]

Triumph Man said:

I always thought "rush hour crush" was quite sweet.

Yeah not sure why there are so many bitter cock-blockers on here. When I was a smartly-dressed student (or in cycling lycras) I would occasionally get touched up by young, but mostly not so young women. The most fabulous experience I can recall was when a lady in a light blue jumper rubbed her bosom against my arm whilst I was leaning on the glass/metal post by the doors. Being a shy young man, I just froze solid whilst my erm, member down below, was also rather solid. I would have posted on this column for sure in search of my soft-bosomed tube pal.

[JustALooseScrew]

theplayingmantis said:

i suppose its like that lidl(?) bin stalker chap on here...unless that was made up.

Oi - I resemble that remark, it wasn't any where near as seedy as some would like to make out, it wasn't made up but it was embellished a little for PH fun and drama.

Still see her regularly at the store and we chat just the way that friendly human beings should and do. It's all pleasant enough and relaxed - I doubt we'd be chatting on first name terms about our kids if she felt uncomfortable.

Oh and it was 'Aldigate' not 'Lidlgate'

[alorotom]

p4cks said:

alorotom said:

It's no worse to tapping someone up in a bar ... When single and regularly using the Tyne and Wear metro for work there was a few encounters that led from train "chats"

By 'chats' do you mean the ones I've experienced where one is on the train and the other on the platform frothing at the mouth shouting and pointing with one hand and holding a can of Fosters in the other?

Usually found at Pelaw/Gateshead Stadium etc

Only on a Friday ... Other week days used to be more civilised lol

[CharlieH89]

JustALooseScrew said:

theplayingmantis said:

i suppose its like that lidl(?) bin stalker chap on here...unless that was made up.

Oi - I resemble that remark, it wasn't any where near as seedy as some would like to make out, it wasn't made up but it was embellished a little for PH fun and drama.

That is not at all how that thread was viewed by 99% of readers