It's an uncommon thing when I meet someone and immediately think oh! she's nice.
Such a thing occurred in the local shop yesterday. I had just popped out for some milk.
I had been gardening hard and unblocking a gutter, so I had on an old green pair of strides, and an even older shirt, both totally besmeared with a mixture of semi dried mud, gutter sludge and slug slime, sweaty and probably smelling like a drain too. And also there was something crawling around in my hair.

Do you think first impressions last?

They don't do they?

Women kind of have a 'creep' meter.
Once triggered, the fat lady sings.

You recon the dial probably went into the red then. lol

Ohhhhhhhhhh, above all you wrote about your appearance of that very moment .... above all there was magic in the air. It needs only one second for a man to know what he needs. Trust your feelings. Life is too short to follow the wrong "but". Please always choose the positive "but"! The positive "but" gives you a winning appearance. Much more than a good dress. God's Word says, you shall have life to the fullest, Amen. Go and take what is yours. God bless you!

Lol, I would have at least taken the thing crawling around in your hair out.

I do feel first impressions last but working in retail at a local gas station, lots of men come in during their lunch hour, not always looking their best. I believe some will take that into consideration.

Maybe next time you go into the store, shower and dress nice... perhaps it will help turn things around?

thank you for your wise words Mom.
Heartening words to a victim of dress disaster.

I didn't know the thing was crawling in my hair until it started tickling my ear.
The shop is only about 50 meters away, and i needed coffee NOW.

I thought I could get away with it, just this once :)
Oh well lesson learned :)

Maybe she's the type of woman who appreciates a hard working man... from what you described, you most likely looked like that. :)

The only way to know if the first impression did any harm is to go back into the store and find out. :)

This goes both ways,I took me months to approach the perfect lady of my dreams,I got really well dressed,after shave ect,I made my move with some small talk,she had a bit of lipstick on her teeth,I could not get the image out of my head,
I did see her shopping again but it never got further than small talk even though I tried.

Haha ha ha,

While I was bent double doing the garden, the woman next door came out with her friend, complaining that he underwear had gone right up the **** of her ****.
I popped my head up and said thanks for that.

The image will fade in time...

Maybe she's the type of woman who appreciates a hard working man... from what you described, you most likely looked like that. :)

Yes yes, exactly!


The only way to know if the first impression did any harm is to go back into the store and find out. :)


Everything happens for our best. If she likes you in that special look, she will always likes you, because: "What you see is what you get." If you have humor and charm, you can use it for a little joke. Making her laugh gets you on the winning side!

Are you kidding?
A man dirty from hard work?
She probably followed you home..

It was bad Sophie.
I was trying to ignore the thing ticling my ear, with a descernable miasma of gutter rising about me, hair lank with sweat, forming greasy looking tendrils, and probably ground living insects pinging in every direction,

well I didn't say anything anyway, I wasn't brimming over with confidence.
And besides I would probably have got the brush off. Possibly literally..

Well, the good news is, you probably will not go to the store
in that condition again..in hopes of re-meeting the lady ;-)

I do think they last but for me they don't really concern outfit. It DOES up to a point, for instance when the outfit shows someone is homeless. But in case someone is building, renovating, gardening, and quickly pops to the supermarket, nope, not then.
I do that myself too at times. I am not going to bother change clothes when I'm tired, busy, etc. with painting/gardening/and so on, nor shower if I'm not done yet. I don't smell, not BO I mean. BO is gross, regardless of what you're doing.

In a way it could even help --> I like a man who's handy and can do things in & around the house.
As for the rest, I check face, facial features. Tells me more than a dirty outfit from doing chores.

My what a picture you paint, steve B. I have to laugh as I've been guilty of the same sort of thing.

Hey if you're at the bottom of barrel, there's only one direction left hey?

lol She talked to you, didn't she? So it must not be that bad, steve.
... or she was just being polite. Anyway, did you at least get her number?

Talked? no, grinned a couple of times.

I just felt like a grub lol

Totally hopeless

I do hope she's local:)

oh when you wrote "when I meet someone" I gathered you had at least exchanged pleasantries... not just grins.

well you certainly would not look out of place where I live ...


see the object is don't care ... and so what what others think...


I swore I would never wear my Jams out of my house to the store ...
or know make up...


but if I am doing what ever ...I will jump in my car and get something...
I might want at the store ... why change if I am coming back ...


but I live in the country ... now if I am going to a larger town ...
I get dressed ... but nothing I am not comfortable in ... don't where a lot of makeup either ... I think it is how you act ...more then what your wearing ...