Ladies? A good-looking cable guy offers you repairs for free, while he flirts with you.
Do you say no, thank you? asks BeckySharper at the fabulously-named The Pursuit of Harpyness? Or do you take the freebie as a nice nod to your feminity?
Try this: Have you ever used your feminine (or masculine) wiles to get something you wanted?
And what, precisely, is a masculine wile?
Dating Jesus 
Does crying to avoid a ticket count? And I mean I made myself cry. I was young and hadn’t fully developed my feminist self yet. Would I do it again, probably not. I’d put on my big-girl pants and take like a woman.
Dang, I wish I could do that. I think it counts, but let’s put it up for a vote…
I prefer to think of it as using my good nature to inspire a good natured return. I don’t think of it as using my feminine wiles. If that’s flirting, then I love to flirt (as long as my personal space is respected, that is).
The woman behind the counter at a local coffee shop doesn’t charge me for coffee. She simply stopped doing so one day, just waves me on by.
Sure, we had become friendly, in that I-see-you-every-day-for-30-seconds kind of way.
Does that count?
That is kind of cool. I mean, she’s just decided you don’t have to pay? Did you show her your legs or something? I kid.
I think it had something to do with her asking what I did for work, and she liked that I was a writer.
I believe I was wearing shorts, as well.
Yes! You DID show leg!
I think I need to shut up now and maybe blush a little, for propriety’s sake.
Or would that be considered flirtatious?
I think blushing is more physiological and you can’t he’p it. I can’t, anyway, and I hate that I’m this old and I still can blush.
So you did show some leg… ;-)
Everyone gets an ego boost AND you get something free? Win-win in my book.
I’m probably just jealous that no one gives me free stuff and no police officer ever just gives me a warning.
It shows up better on us fair-skinned folk. And I’m pretty darned white, as you know.