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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Realistic_Method9896 on 2025-06-19 15:38:26+00:00.

I (25M) am currently working on my masters thesis in a company ~1hour away from my home. I always travel by train. Today I was sitting there and a very pretty and fasionable girl took a seat in front of me, facing me. She seemed a little stressed to take her seat and almost let her phone slip and fall to the ground while nestling on her bag - I caught it, then smiled and did not think much. While I am very comfortable around woman, I never happened to be in a situation where I would ever start talking with one in a train out of nowhere, or any starting Point for small talk. Over the course of the train ride, we made eye contact several times and always had to smile (in a more than just polite way). As I said: I CAN talk to women - or more, people in general - very well, but only if I have got aaaannnyyy objective reason to do so; to find a start. Something like “You like XYZ?” because they wear a shirt with something printed on it for example. But this girl was just pretty and looked very cute in her not particularly branded clothes. My head was just empty and I felt nervous. Doesn’t happen so often that a girl I know for 5 minutes starts flirting with eye contact with me… She even took out her Airpods and sat there doing nothing particularly, as if she was waiting for me to talk to her. Then I started to think if I was misinterpreting things… Then I felt dumb. I was think forth and back the whole train ride, while sometimes our eyes met again - followed by a smile.

Then she started talking to me suddenly. I was visibly wearing my company keykard on my belt. Where I was working, what I was doing, etc, she asked. Instantly, any form of insecurity vanished and I was able to talk. Even though I doubt that I was talking things of high value. But we talked!

Too bad the next train station was mine and staying in the train for her would have taken >1hrs more to get home. Sooo… I said I was sorry and had to go. I was thinking for a split second I could just ask her for her Number, but I was too much of a pussy. I could only tell her that I ride this train almost daily at this time - packed in a way that expressed I wanted to see her again without direcly saying it. Yeah… I don’t know if she reciprocates that. BUT she answered me that she rides this train at this time, too. Hmmm.

I feel dumb, and annoyed by myself. Also I feel like a coward because I made her talk to me, instead of making a move. Not because she is a woman, but because I do not want to be like that in general.

TL;DR: I met a lovely girl in my train, we had chemistry but I was not confident enough to talk to her. Then she had the balls to start talking to me, I think that was working well. And merely 3 minutes later my destination was there and I had to leave.