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Hey, it's Mariel. I have this friend who's really good at asking people out. We met when we were both working at Marketplace.

One time he was sitting at a restaurant facing the street, and he saw a guy outside who he thought was

cute. He was speaking on the phone and just like, we caught eyes as he walked by. And he was kind of

slowly like meandering in the corner. So I was like, okay, maybe, maybe there is mutual interest here.

So my friend, Dylan Mietinen, opened up a Google Doc on his phone, turned the font size all the way up, typed out his number.

I held it to the window and then Mal's, like, text me pointing at the phone.

And he did.

I don't think, if I recall correctly, it didn't really go anywhere after that.

But it was a scrappy sort of idea.

And I do think that in certain contexts, like fortune favors the bold.

Another way Dylan has asked people out IRL is by handing them a business

card as he gets off the subway. He started doing this after someone did it to him and he was super

impressed. Right before he got off the subway, he handed me his business card and said, hey, I would

love to go out with you sometime. And I thought, wow, this is something that I need to adopt.

He says this move is likely to flatter the person.

Plus, it's low pressure and low stakes for you.

If they reject you, you don't face that rejection in person.

You just lost a business card, then that's okay.

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