I’ve been casually looking at this subreddit but it seems like I might need a deeper dive because yesterday I was in a perfectly stereotypical coffee shop scenario.

Facing each other at different tables, a really pretty girl was doing her own work and I was doing mine. We never exactly made eye contact, but if a small child was running by or some commission would be happening I’d often look up and towards the action, and she would sort of follow that. Probably not to follow me, but that was the closest we made to any sort of contact.

So time to make fun of me for failing here! When sitting across, how can I make my move? I feel getting up and walking over may take too long and be intimidating. I don’t want to stare to make eye contact. How would you proceed next time around?