Where do you prefer to meet people?
 

...and where are some places that you DON'T prefer to meet people?

This may sound strange, but when I was "single", the nicest guys I met were at the Blood Bank. You know they're clean, ultruistic, and somewhat generous.

When I was single and working at a restaurant, I met some of the nicest people you could ever imagine. Yes, I did also meet my share of jerks, but people who regularly came in to see you made up for the meanies! Hell, the restaurant is where I met my current boyfriend of 3 years! Of course we worked together, so I guess that makes my answer work. Sometimes it is hard to work with you significant other, but it sometimes works well for others like me!


(We don't work together anymore since we've both graduated college and began our "real world" lives!) :p

I've dated (and been in serious relationships) with guys that I was friends with first. I decided I'm not going to do that anymore. It's too hard when he gets the friends after the break-up. It's also hard when things return to normal somewhat, but you're never the same as before you started dating.

That said I'm going grocery shopping after work and I'm going to keep my eye out for some mens (although we have no Publix up here, so I don't know if I'll have the same success as the other ladies;) )

Through friends or through mutual hobbies. Since I scuba dive in mostly cold water, with mainly men, it hasn't been that hard.......;)

PUBLIX, yeah baby!

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OK this just in...I saw 3 good looking guys at the grocery store (they all kinda looked similar) and one was SUPER HOT but I didn't talk to any of them. I'm a wuss. But I did take like an extra half hour putzing around in the hopes I'd keep running into one of them, but alas I only ran into each of them about 2 or 3 times. I won't give up hope though!

Re: Where do you prefer to meet people?
 

Guys I've gone out with have mostly been guys from school or guys I've met at parties. I absolutely hate being picked up at bars. It seems so slimey for some reason.

I don't have a rule against or for anyplace, but it makes me trust the guy a lil less or more, depending on where we met.

For example- the guys that get my ## in a club, I never expect to hear from again. And if they do call, I assume they just want ass, until they prove me otherwise. To me, that's what the majority of people go to a bar to do- meet someone to hook up with.

Now, if a guy pulls up to me at a stoplight, or asks for my # while I'm working...I trust that more. He's sober, he's taking time out of his day.....clearly it guarantees nothing, I still don't expect anything, but for some reason subconsiously I give it more of a chance.

Wow you actually did????? I'm a regular donor and I never ever met any guys at the blood bank.

For me I don't have a preference on where I meet people. I once met this guy behind the counter at a gas station a little more than a year ago. To this day I still couldn't believe I actually gave him my number. I've met people in other public places like Starbucks, restaurants (there was this one waiter and I got the guts to ask him for his number...unfortunately he had a girlfriend and she was waitressing at the same place!), clubs, through friends, at church, and even through the internet.

I really dont have a pref for where i like to meet chicks. I like to meet them everywhere. Its seems like everywhere I go I meet new chicks. Whether its school, the grocery store, a club, a party, a bar, the beach, at mass, the gym, the tanning salon or just chillin at the pool at my apt....somehow me and my friends attract chicks everywhere, we're always meeting new ones.

If a guy tries to pick me up at a club, I give him the big rejection phone number. Everybody at the clubs are in it for the meat market value, so I pass.

Sad to say, but I've been attracted to some of my customers at the bar I work at. A lot of them are really hot, come from good backgrounds and have great jobs, and they're not the types to get piss drunk and out of hand. I've gotten some phone numbers that I did call, but nothing serious has ever come about.

But...my favorite place to pick up guys/get picked up, by far as to be HALE NOA, my beloved kava bar. So far I'm 3 for 3! :)

CHURCH!

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-Rudey

Dude you took your funny pills this week- you are cracking me up :D

Well I used to work at a Subway resturant and the majority of guys I have ever given my real number to were guys I met when I was working. Nothing really serious came from any of them but it was fun. Most of the people who worked there were girls so the guys would tell their friends to come to our Subway to see us. That was some good times!! Now usually guys try to pick me up at functions and I am like no way hun!! My newest place to meet guys is wrestling meets though. I have become one of the super fans for our team. Last week two friends and I were at a tournament that had like 20 teams. We were in heaven with all the eye candy!!! Good times!!

Coffee Shop.

I hate dating guys I meet in bars. I've done it and it's never gone well.

The most successful relationships, I guess, have been the ones where I've been set up by friends.....probably because they understand me and my personality the best.

I recently dated a guy I work with, and it didn't work out and I still have a crush on him.....so that's no good :rolleyes:

I met the guy that I just broke up with when my sorority had a party with his fraternity last May and it worked out pretty well for quite some time, even though we met while we were both intoxicated. :D

The only other guy I've been seriously involved with since being in college I met while hanging around his fraternity house when we were paired with them for greek week. I know after college that will no longer be an option as a place to meet people, but for now it's great! Though I really do NOT like the girls in my house and other houses that date a guy from whoever their current partner is for homecoming or greek week. It's SURPRISINGLY common here, wouldn't you agree Jules?! It's kind of creepy actually.

I have met guys in the library which is awesome, and also while I'm at work (I'm a waitress) and that's a little sketchy.

I agree about not liking to date someone I'm friends with and we have a lot of friends in common. I just did that actually and now that we're broken up I got all the girl friends and he gets all the guys. It sucks.

I wish I went grocery shopping b/c that seems like a great place to pick up men apparently haha. Oh well I guess I'll settle for meeting guys in the university bookstore for now. ;)

Whoa whoa whoa hold the phone....
Ok A) You guys broke up??? Nooooooooooooo!
b) yes the dating of gw/homecoming partners is naaaaasty ass. It's like, Hey these guys are gonna be like your brothers for the next couple weeks...might as well commit incest!!! Just make sure you don't talk to them once the competition's over!!! GHEYNESS.
c) MMMMM boys at Ellis.I always see cute guys there.

My best friend thinks (and I think I may agree with her..) that the best place to meet men is at temple/services!!

i meet people by getting drunk and acting like i know them...actually i meet most people through friends

I found my best at parties. See, at Rio the most people that come to a "major" party is around 30-40 people, and rio is like one giant high school. Soooo....you meeting up w/someone is actually pretty good :)

Yep! When I was single, I must have dated at least three different guys that I met there. Nice guys, too - just not my nice guys!

I did fix one up with a sister, though! :)

So it looks like I'm the only one...I met Mr. valkyrie at a bar, a sports bar, even -- so I can't say that I have any problem with meeting someone at a bar. Besides, cool people go to bars all the time.

Naaah. . . I have met people at bars and other places. Its all the same they are all just people.

You girls are odd, why is a bar all that different? The same person that goes to a grocery store goes to bars (people all eat you know). The only real difference is that you have a greater probability of actually having sexual contact straight from a bar.

I really have met some awesome people in bars . .

So far I have had good luck even when I dated a girl named after the Anti-Christ who's parents had imprisoned her in a Christian Retreat.

The best places to meet people are on trips and in airports . . everyone is friendlier and more open . .. and you don't have to see them again :D.