Oh, here comes my husband, a man as jealous as he is a huge Silence of the Lambs fan. A woman in my family once got pregnant just by talking to a man. For the record, I have purchased my fair share of roses. I truly am a romantic by nature. Essentially, the bottom line is talking without seeming as if you re stalking is difficult enough, never mind the added immediate pressure of a potential rose purchase.
Some women regard the bar rose as tacky, others as a telephone number ploy.
On the flip side, some women may take you as a tight wad if you decline the sales push when in reality you ve mistakenly read them as the type who would, as I ve said, think the bar rose tacky. Many s the night I have seen bar roses littering the parking lots of area bars, symbols of mixed signals and overzealous suitors. From the dark corners of popular watering holes my friends and I have spied women give men roses mere moments after the very same rose was given to them by another man. I am well aware of the fact that there are some nights when the bar rose purchase is the perfect punctuation to an evening, even more so than obtaining a telephone number. Perhaps the solution is forcing these club cupids to take a course in body language, so as to be able to determine if the conversation they are interrupting is one that could benefit from their sales pitch.