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The Audacity of Shamelessly Asking (beanoriginal.net)
12 points by wallflower on Dec 26, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



So the lesson is not to be audacious in private - do it in front of a large audience where rejection won't be tolerated the same way.


The same principle applies in romance (proposals, confessions, etc.), where, if you win over the crowd, she'd be vilified for rejecting.


Or he.




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