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Where do you usually meet for the initial coffee?
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By (user no longer on site) OP 37 weeks ago
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My preference is a coffee shop. Nothing fancy, just somewhere warm and comfortable!
Is it a lads thing, or do many of you prefer to meet at a petrol/service station?
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By *enitMan 37 weeks ago
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"My preference is a coffee shop. Nothing fancy, just somewhere warm and comfortable!
Is it a lads thing, or do many of you prefer to meet at a petrol/service station?
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Coffee shop, probably also best if it has a camera! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 37 weeks ago
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Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂 |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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Last coffee meet i had was in April.
She picked the place.
Applegreen petrol station.
Nice warm Saturday morning so we sat at the picnic tables and drank coffee.
Well she had tea  |
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By *eordie.Woman 37 weeks ago
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂 "
Big red flag for me. It's so they can pin you in their car alright |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂
Big red flag for me. It's so they can pin you in their car alright"
Not all guys are like that!! |
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By *s LollyWoman 37 weeks ago
The pub then supermacs ... |
"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂 "
Im kinda like that ive no problem sitting in my car having a chat in a public place, least ye can chat without being overhead, coffee and a chat absolutely no problem 😁 |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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I like to get a coffee to go and walk and talk.
Removes the chances of others eavesdropping, no awkward silences, or direct eye contact.
Plus I get some exercise done as well. |
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂
Big red flag for me. It's so they can pin you in their car alright
Not all guys are like that!!"
...yes you are !!! |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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"I like to get a coffee to go and walk and talk.
Removes the chances of others eavesdropping, no awkward silences, or direct eye contact.
Plus I get some exercise done as well."
This 
Always good to get a few steps in. I think they call it.....multitasking |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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Well just be careful whose listening I was on coffee social back during the lockdown day at a certain service station. Drove home then when I logged in to Fab got a message from a guy saying hope you enjoyed your coffee he was sitting behind the partition and was listening in. |
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"Well just be careful whose listening I was on coffee social back during the lockdown day at a certain service station. Drove home then when I logged in to Fab got a message from a guy saying hope you enjoyed your coffee he was sitting behind the partition and was listening in. "
Omg stop???? |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂
Big red flag for me. It's so they can pin you in their car alright
Not all guys are like that!!...yes you are !!!"
Nope!! |
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"I like to get a coffee to go and walk and talk.
Removes the chances of others eavesdropping, no awkward silences, or direct eye contact.
Plus I get some exercise done as well."
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Maybe you should join a fab walking group....🚶♂️🚶♀️☕🍰 |
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"To be fair a lot of the service stations nowadays have decent seating areas. And the Applegreen coffee is good too!"
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Costa Coffee is always a good spot.....but the first person to arrive there should buy the coffee. ☕ |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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"My preference is a coffee shop. Nothing fancy, just somewhere warm and comfortable!
Is it a lads thing, or do many of you prefer to meet at a petrol/service station?
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Who on earth is meeting at petrol stations ??
I don’t really like coffee shops sometimes I find that you can’t speak openly about what you both want and are interested in. I prefer open public places on neutral ground with lots of people about. Plazas, popular parks, shopping centres. You can talk freely, its safe and if either of you aren’t feeling it you can just walk in any direction to get away! |
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"I like to get a coffee to go and walk and talk.
Removes the chances of others eavesdropping, no awkward silences, or direct eye contact.
Plus I get some exercise done as well."
What Badger said above best of both worlds |
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Coffee shop for me too. Somewhere easily accessible for both that has plenty of parking.
Often the ones who want to sit in the car are, shall we say, "shy" about being seen in public with a strange woman for whatever reason... |
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂 "
Yeah car meets are a thing 🤣
Wonder why? Can be pretty steamy, maybe not as a first meet though 😇 |
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By *og-ManMan 37 weeks ago
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"Coffee shop for me too. Somewhere easily accessible for both that has plenty of parking.
Often the ones who want to sit in the car are, shall we say, "shy" about being seen in public with a strange woman for whatever reason..."
You're not that strange |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂 "
I had a close to bad encounter get with a Garda in my car before for a social meet. We were to meet up in Carrickmines and get a tea in Costa, but he jumped in my car and wasn’t for getting out of my car. I wasn’t feeling the vibe at all with him but he wasn’t for getting out of the car, so I had to get out of my own car until he removed himself. He was pure agro with me. Anyhow, alls well that ends well but lesson learnt, and I will never get myself into that position again. |
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂
I had a close to bad encounter get with a Garda in my car before for a social meet. We were to meet up in Carrickmines and get a tea in Costa, but he jumped in my car and wasn’t for getting out of my car. I wasn’t feeling the vibe at all with him but he wasn’t for getting out of the car, so I had to get out of my own car until he removed himself. He was pure agro with me. Anyhow, alls well that ends well but lesson learnt, and I will never get myself into that position again. "
...Garda motto...it they can't eat it,or ride it,they'll break it...from the horse's mouth |
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Coffee shop preferably.
Have had a coffee car social. I usually sit in my own car and park alongside theirs.
Oh I've had the oh can we sit in the car, I'm well known in the area, people will.talk if I'm seen having coffee with a stranger.
Would u ever jog the feck on |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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"Yep, just somewhere handy.
I've noticed lately lads suggesting a service station. One wanted to just sit in his car! Eh, no thanks! On both counts.
Honest to God, I'm laughing at the good of it! 😂
I had a close to bad encounter get with a Garda in my car before for a social meet. We were to meet up in Carrickmines and get a tea in Costa, but he jumped in my car and wasn’t for getting out of my car. I wasn’t feeling the vibe at all with him but he wasn’t for getting out of the car, so I had to get out of my own car until he removed himself. He was pure agro with me. Anyhow, alls well that ends well but lesson learnt, and I will never get myself into that position again. ...Garda motto...it they can't eat it,or ride it,they'll break it...from the horse's mouth "
Ah look I know they arent all the same, but I never want to be in that position again. I pulled my car up near his too, so it could have been crossed wires, but when he was getting in I said no get out and we will get tea- but sure it’s grand now. So yes, coffee meets in a cafe not in the carpark! |
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Costa for us...not for the coffee quality but because it's big and anonymous. A wee independent cafe has too many listening ears. Although Costa has that problem too at times. If it's warm enough at least you can sit outside.
I also feel safer parking in a big retail park and then my date doesn't necessarily know which car is mine. |
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Location for me has always been ladies choice, not everyone like a "coffee " but as long as you can get a decent chat in and feel safe and comfortable.
" I remember meeting someone once in their car in the carpark of a coffee shop and was uncomfortably dying for a p , felt odd when I had to go into the coffee shop buy a muffin ( to get the code ) so I could use the toilet, the lady taught I was soo cute for buying her a muffin, "😇😇😇😇😇 |
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"Much prefer coffee shops. I love coffee. Try to avoid car meets but it has happened... "
Coffee shops are good too if the weather doesn't allow a walk. A proper Coffee shop though not a petrol station place. |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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I generally prefer hotels to coffee shops cos they are more spacious so more conducive to private conversations..in Dublin my go to is castleknock hotel cos its convenient workwise or glasnevin cemetery has lovely coffee shop with ample outdoor seating and suits me location wise when I'm not working
I'd have no issue with a service station meet like Applegreen en route from galway but in the actual Costa shop not a hope I'm getting in a strangers car |
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My last coffee meet was in a local hotel. It was a busy evening, even in the lobby seating area. After I went to the toilet, I returned and sat in the chair closer to him as I felt we were talking loud to be heard across the table! He took that as a good sign that I liked him... a year later we are still together  |
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"My preference is a coffee shop. Nothing fancy, just somewhere warm and comfortable!
Is it a lads thing, or do many of you prefer to meet at a petrol/service station?
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Exactly this.
Doesn’t have to be anywhere ‘fancy’, it’s just an initial social meet.
The follow up meet can be a lot more special/private 😜 |
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