little_tippler

speaking of derailed...

I think if you want to initiate contact regardless of whether it was accidental or on purpose is say 'no problem. Can I help you at all?'

If a girl is interested she may respond...

'yes, this trolley is all wobbly, I can't seem to get it to go in a straight line!'

or

'well...actually, I was looking for x, do you know where that is?'

In either case, a conversation can follow and she thinks you're a gentleman.

To be honest I have never done this kind of thing on purpose. But maybe some girls do, who knows.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918