As tired as we are of that old chestnut, ‘Do you come here often?’ we’re not too sure this latest version of a chat-up line is the one that will win the way to our hearts either.
According to relationship and flirting guru Jean Smith, who has written an entire book on the subject, the line that will likely work the best on your love interest is actually, “Have you ever tried that kind of apple before?”
Yes, you did read that right. Apples.
The logic behind it, according to Jean, is that the open nature of the question will help you to build a “rapport with strangers, with a frisson in the undertone to distinguish it from normal conversation.”
Jean also maintains that another reason for this is that people “love to be talked to”.
“My clients can be worried about bothering people. I teach you to break these unwritten rules about being polite which make it so hard to meet people,” she explained to the Mail Online.
Now if HE was doing the asking…
Apparently, the apple chat-up line will win over the apple of your eye (see what we did there?!).
“Would you be offended if you were at the supermarket and someone asked you; ‘Have you ever tried that apple before?’” she continued.
“It’s only by trying it in a fun way that you’ll realise people respond really well.”
In a supermarket, maybe.
In Coppers of a Friday night? Hmm, not so much.
