A woman called me out on my run today, flirting or just joking?

Who wants to bet she calls the police and files a stalking report on the OP when she sees him out today?

Lmfao

Bop wrote:

She is saying that you didnt check her out as you went by. I dont think she was flirting she was commenting on that most guys would check her out as they ran by

This. She was probably being sarcastic

She was actually talking to someone on her phone. You just thought she was talking to you.

You should have said "I'm an ass man!"

She wasn't flirting. She was just out for a run and is tired of guys checking her out when she's just wants to run like you and me. she heard you say something and assumed you were trying to get her attention. She said that, because she expected you look back and continue checking her out like many guys do. You're probably a decent guy, because you weren't gawking at her, but she doesn't know that. You're just a stranger running on the road and she doesn't know you at all, and thus she was not flirting with you.

It was a dehydration-induced mirage

MEL Rnr wrote:

She wasn't flirting. She was just out for a run and is tired of guys checking her out when she's just wants to run like you and me. she heard you say something and assumed you were trying to get her attention. She said that, because she expected you look back and continue checking her out like many guys do. You're probably a decent guy, because you weren't gawking at her, but she doesn't know that. You're just a stranger running on the road and she doesn't know you at all, and thus she was not flirting with you.

No woman gets tired of being checked out. They just complain to draw attention to the fact that they are being checked out. A variation of the humblebrag if you will.

MEL Rnr wrote:

She wasn't flirting. She was just out for a run and is tired of guys checking her out when she's just wants to run like you and me. she heard you say something and assumed you were trying to get her attention. She said that, because she expected you look back and continue checking her out like many guys do. You're probably a decent guy, because you weren't gawking at her, but she doesn't know that. You're just a stranger running on the road and she doesn't know you at all, and thus she was not flirting with you.

That's a terribly contrived reply from a jealous virgin.

Road Trip wrote:

You should have said "I'm an ass man!"

OK, now THAT would have been the best response! Well done, sir!!

Don't worry OP, I'm sure it won't be the last time she runs that route!

oblivious wrote:

A few seconds after making the pass, she shouts up to me in a friendly voice, "you didn't make the look back!" I twisted around and said back, "I said hello as I passed!"

The appropriate response was to stop and apologize profusely, while engaging her in conversation and getting to know her.

Are you on Strava?

She's probably DTF.

It means she knows yre gay. She's used to testing leered at.

I hate when people refer to any easy run as a "shake out" run.

Are you sure she didn't say "you didn't have to make me look bad" or something similar?

You missed your cue wrote:

oblivious wrote:

A few seconds after making the pass, she shouts up to me in a friendly voice, "you didn't make the look back!" I twisted around and said back, "I said hello as I passed!"

The appropriate response was to stop and apologize profusely, while engaging her in conversation and getting to know her.

That would be the most beta thing to do, ensuring OP is enshrined in some kind of loser hall of fame ladder in this woman's mind.

"I'm an ass man" is/was the exact right thing to say and then just keep running.

makhloufi n cheese wrote:

"you didn't have to make me look bad"

Sounds a lot more likely than what OP thinks she said.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

You missed your cue wrote:

The appropriate response was to stop and apologize profusely, while engaging her in conversation and getting to know her.

That would be the most beta thing to do, ensuring OP is enshrined in some kind of loser hall of fame ladder in this woman's mind.

"I'm an ass man" is/was the exact right thing to say and then just keep running.

If you stop relying on the Internet for dating advice, maybe you one day will get some.

Tell her to have her people call your people

Joking is flirting. And yes she was flirting. And you goofed it. Next time be funny, be relaxed. Think of some funny self-depricating things to say in advance. How you're oblivious when you run and how all your friends say you're dense. Make it your goal to make her smile.