A woman approached me. It's actually a funny story...

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Two days ago, I was at school and a girl approached me during recess. The conversation was as follows:

She: "Excuse me. What's your name?"
Me: "Lucas." (Yeah, I know: I shouldn't give single word answers. Whatever. )
She: "Do you have a girlfriend?" For some reason, I suspected she were going to introduce me a friend. And I wasn't wrong, as you'll see...
Me: "No."
She: "Can I ask you an indecent question?"
At this point, I became worried. But I was more curious than worried, so I replied: "Sure."
She: "Do you only date women?"
I actually understood what she meant the moment she asked the question. My reply was the first with more than one word since the "conversation" began: "Yes, only girls."

I learned two important lessons from that conversation:

1- I really need to learn to use more words when talking to strangers;
2- I'm doing something right. I should discover what it is and reverse engineer it to make it work on women.


You can laugh now. Even I think it's funny.

Not gonna laugh. Just gonna take a shot at making up fictional hypothetical strange answers a person might give to these sort of questions, just as an exercise.

- "Excuse me. What's your name?"
- I forgive you. (This is a response to "excuse me", taking a different meaning from it. This is a joke, but may fly over some heads and lead to having to answer a follow-up question such as "what?", which could be responded to with something along the lines of "You apologized for asking, so I forgave you. My name is so-and-so. And yours?".)
- "Do you have a girlfriend?"
- No, do you? (This is a joking subversion of the heteronormative nature of the question, while at the same time shifting the focus to the other person, which shows interest in communication and also gives the other person a cue to inform you about their preference and relationship status, whether such information is of interest to you or not - you're just making conversation.)
- "Can I ask you an indecent question?"
- There is no such thing. Questions are how we learn, how we grow. It's the most valuable thing we have as a species, don't you think? (This is a statement against shame and for curiosity. A positive message. It's true, it's simple, and it's important. Worth mentioning to anyone who seems to think there's any kind of shame in asking questions.)
- "Do you only date women?"
- In theory, yes. (I honestly have no idea what this response would be taken as if said with a confident smirk of self-parody, but I find it kind of amusing in theory.)

This is all hypothetical, of course. I've never had this conversation, nor have I ever wanted to. I'm coming at this from the perspective of a writer.

This is an interesting encounter. Did you get the impression that she was interested in going out with you or was she trying to get the most accurate information for gossiping with her friends? How did the conversation end? Did she walk away after the last sentence in your quote? Was there a pause? Did you pick up any facial reactions?

Actually, she was gathering info on me for her gay friend. Strangely, most of my NT colleagues took longer to realize it than me. Am I the only one who got the punchline?

Anyway, Rocky's reply made me realize another thing for me to improve: I barely looked at her face. So, I need to talk more, look more and attract women, instead of men.

It was kind of a blunt ,impolite conversation in my opinion .

She thought that you may be gay or bi.