I know it’s long, but it’s all important, so please read all of it…
I’m a Scorpio female in Grade 9 and I’ve liked one of my classmates since grade 1. Last year, there was this week long period that he began flirting with me. But then after the week, he more or less just ignored me for a while and I was broken hearted and so confused. After I talked to my friend about it, it seemed probable that he was just using me to make another girl jealous. And then around the very last week of school last year, he did the flirting thing again.. But then school ended and we didn’t speak all summer. I once again felt that he was using me. Now this year, we’re in Grade 9 and on the first day of school, 30th of August, he started flirting again. I was quick to assume that he was using me, but then I realized that even though it was the same kind of flirting as last year, it was different too. Like this year, he would kinda hang back in class or take longer to put his stuff away (cuz I take a long time to get all my stuff together) and then we would walk out of class together and he would walk slowly with me and ask me if i was going to his football game or if i thought a test was hard or something like that. Sometimes when we’re sitting in class, I’ll make a comment on something and he’ll say “*my name*, she fell in a hole” or something haha.. to try and make me laugh. I think that’s why, I’m not sure though. He would also always look up at me when I entered the classroom or the lunchroom and when he plays sports in the gym at lunch, if he makes a goal (floor hockey) he’ll look up at me on the bleachers and see if I was watching him and saw his goal. He didn’t do anything like that last year.. he just flirted with me but never tried to talk to me or be close to me or anything, but he does that now. And at the football game, he tackled three big guys and each time, he looked up at me on the bleachers. On Wednesday, I was having this bad mood swing and so I prety much ignored everyone except for my brother and my very best friend because I was just not in the mood. After lunch, he started flirting hardcore with this girl in our class who he knows that I absolutely CANNOT stand. He then asked her to be his partner for a Science project and I was so taken aback and shocked, and when I looked up at him, he was looking at me. I didn’t know why, at first, but I later wondered if maybe he was trying to make me jealous to see if I still liked him? And one more thing.. my mom is really close to my heart and she’s extremely important to me and this boy knows that because I told him last year. This boy is also pretty good friends with my brother who is a year older than us, so this might just be because of my brother, but whenever this boy sees my mom, he’s really nice to her. If she’s coming into the school, he’ll hold the door open for her (even if she’s not carrying anything), if he sees her on the street, he’ll either start a small conversation with her or just smile and wave, depending on how far away they are. And he went to a restaurant with a group of friends for lunch and he saw my mom and he waved at her and he was the only one who did and a couple of our friends (we have all the same friends.. small town) noticed he was waving and then they waved too. He stopped flirting with me on Friday and flirts with this other girl, but I noticed that when he talks to me now, he looks me in the eyes and doesn’t look away AT ALL, but last year when we talked, he would be constantly looking away or just not looking in my eyes at all. And every once in a while, I’ll see him looking at me during desk work in class or whatever. But aside from that, he now always talks to the girl that I hate.. but it’s not really talking.. it’s more like sexual comments. For instance, he kneed her in the butt and she was like ‘don’t jam your knee in my ass’ and he was like ‘that wasn’t my knee’ hah.. i even started laughing because it was funny, but also because i figured it basically means he doesn’t respect her because he talks to her like that a lot. but she’s a skank anyway, who cares..? so what I really want to know is this: is he using me, does he like me, or is he just trying to be friendly? and if he does like me, then why does he keep flirting with that other girl? Please answer honestly.. thank you ♥

I have this beautiful girl at my school. At the beggining of the school year we started to talk and have talked a few times. I believe that she likes me due to the fact that she smiles at me and acts really nice around me. She is stunningly beautiful and I get chills everytime I talk to her, its amazing. I really want to not blow it and come off ass a jackass or something.

I dont know how to start a conversation that would lead to me asking her on a date.

I need some ideas as well as places to take her, I was thinking the movies or a casual restaurant for lunch?? help please ?
im excited and cant stop thinking about her XD

I have this beautiful girl at my school. At the beggining of the school year we started to talk and have talked a few times. I believe that she likes me due to the fact that she smiles at me and acts really nice around me. She is stunningly beautiful and I get chills everytime I talk to her, its amazing. I really want to not blow it and come off *** a jackass or something.

I dont know how to start a conversation that would lead to me asking her on a date.

I need some ideas as well as places to take her, I was thinking the movies or a casual restaurant for lunch?? help please ?
im excited and cant stop thinking about her XD

I have this beautiful girl at my school. At the beggining of the school year we started to talk and have talked a few times. I believe that she likes me due to the fact that she smiles at me and acts really nice around me. She is stunningly beautiful and I get chills everytime I talk to her, its amazing. I really want to not blow it and come off *** a jackass or something.

I dont know how to start a conversation that would lead to me asking her on a date.

I need some ideas as well as places to take her, I was thinking the movies or a casual restaurant for lunch?? help please ?
im excited and cant stop thinking about her XD

Well me and my mom had gone shopping. After that we wnt to get something to eat in one of the restaurants in the mall. Halfway through eat ting the lunch my mother has to use the bathroom. As i am waiting for her i kind of dazed off a little at the people in front of me. I thought i was dreaming that i saw someone masturbating but, i can hear people beside me commenting.

Well me and my mom had gone shopping. After that we wnt to get something to eat in one of the restaurants in the mall. Halfway through eat ting the lunch my mother has to use the bathroom. As i am waiting for her i kind of dazed off a little at the people in front of me. I thought i was dreaming that i saw someone masturbating but, i can hear people beside me commenting.

I am 21 years old, and I have never dated in my life. Also I have to know the answer to these questions before the right time comes please. I am actually going to list them in numbering form and also please answer them detail and in the same numbering form, and only answer the ones you could, to really help me out because its going to be my first time. (Points for every one).

1) When I ask a girl out on a Dinner/Coffee, should I ask her where she would like to go? or I just pick the restaurant/coffee shop?
2) Do I give her the Address/Time to meet me in that particular location, or I will pick her up? Also what if she is religious, hiding it from her parents or any other issues (for a while), then picking her up would be still okay or what? Also I might not know if she wants to hide it, or something, so what to do how should we meet?
3) If I am picking her up, do I get out of the car and knock on the door, or do I honk, or call her to come out of her home or give her a fixed time to meet me outside like in front of her garage or what?
4) Once arrived at the Restaurant/Coffee Shop, do I need to pick the same item on the menu that she has chosen or its okay to eat/drink something different.
5) If we are going to a restaurant, does it have to be some place to have Waiters? OR it could be a restaurant where there is no waiters, like you order and then come sit and they will bring it to you, OR like you can go order and then go pick it yourself when its ready. (Think of McDonald’s).
6) Do you ask her what kind of food she likes/if she drinks coffee at all or not, like ask her before first date, I mean may be when you call her/in text message or something.
7) If you go to restaurant where they have beer or alcohol, I mean do they let you enter in the first place or they ask for idea? And if they let you enter for dinner or lunch, and then you decide to grab a drink from the bar and you are under 21, do they ask for ID on the bar or they just give it to you? In other words do they see ideas while entering in the restaurant (like a club) or they just ask for it if you order a drink or something. What if you drink with your girl, then what to do? Like how to come home because you have your own car and can not be able to take a cab?
9) Can you guys please list some Restaurants/Coffee Shops good for the first date, like normal popular Restaurants/Coffee shops people date around America. (I mean off course you don’t want to go the McDonald’s on a first date, but what about Star Bucks, just name some).
10) Also I live in Salt Lake City, Utah and please name some Restaurants/Coffees shops around here if you live here. (But if not answer for what I have asked in question# 9).

P.S. Sorry for a long list, but I really want to know all of this.

Normally I would take someone for coffee or a lunch for a first date. She says she’s a foodie, and has actually gone to a few of my favorite restaurants, so I was thinking maybe something different. There’s this place called the St. Lawrence Market in my city. Basically it’s a huge, huge indoor market. There are stalls that sell beads, random butchers next to chocolatiers and caviar merchants….very interesting place. And of course they have great food stalls everywhere. I was thinking maybe walking around, taking in some sights, and having small random food as we walk around.

I think it would be really good, but then again, it feels like a second date thing, and not really a first date…what do you think? BTW, she’s 22 and recent uni grad.

Okay, I’ll try to summarize this briefly, but this has been the past few months of my life. Started a new job in Jan 2010, noticed this attractive guy that worked there…attraction turned out to be mutual. He emailed me at work, we started talking, then texting, then went out a couple of times (he called it hanging out, it was just the two of us at a restaurant:eating, talking, strolling around afterward, kissing - so to me it was dating). We got a little physical - not all the way (I’m a virgin), but little by little he started pulling away, didn’t want to hang out, said he was too busy with work and school and his new job (we no longer work together)…then finally just stopped calling and texting and never gave me any closure. It REALLY hurt me. To complicate things, his cousin (male), who is also his roommate, still works there and we’ve had lunch once and went mountain biking. I can’t tell what his cousin thinks of me…I like him as a friend, but I still have feelings for his cousin, the one who hurt me. THEN I found out today that the last time I saw the first guy (the one I really liked), he actually had put one of his friends (who also works at the same place, although I don’t know him personally) up to calling while he was with me, pretending he had a flat tire and needed help…conveniently AFTER we (or should I say - I) finished making out. And that was when he left, saying his friend needed help and he had to go. So now I feel so stupid…so used…so hurt…and I feel like everyone at work knows how bad I got played. I REALLY liked the guy and really though I was falling in love. He seemed so great at first. Well, Friday I’m supposed to go mountain biking with the cousin again, but I’m not sure if I should or just forget everyone all together. I really wish I could ask the cousin about everything (since the guy I like won’t return my calls…???), but I’m not sure if he knows all the details and I don’t want to risk everyone at working finding out all my feelings and thoughts about it….then I’ll look more vulnerable. What should I do? I am very confused. Honestly, I wish I never met this guy to begin with. He broke my heart like I never thought possible.

I’m traveling from the USA to Europe for the first time this October. I’m flying from New York to Rome with a layover at London Heathrow.

I’m about to order foreign currency through Bank of America, and one concern just crossed my mind.

Could I use euros to purchase food during my layover at Heathrow? Would the restaurants/bars in Terminal 5 (where I’ll be landing and departing) accept euros instead of pounds?

It’s a 4-hour layover, so I might want to eat lunch before my connecting flight to Rome.

But I don’t want to carry euros AND pounds with me on my trip. That would cost me too much money, especially with current exchange rates.