Is it a requirement to be friends with someone before I ask them

you can ask someone out with knowing them first, but try thinking about it from their perspective.

choose from 2 situations which one you would go on a date with:
situation 1. stranger comes up to you and asks you out
situation 2. someone you know asks you out

I feel the same way op

>>17657380
if you're going through a dating site or w/e then nah i dont think you have to be friends first, however you can't just go up to a girl at a bar and say date me. like there has to be a little bit of entrancing first

>>17657380

no. there are no requirements. and you likely know people who werent 'friends' before going out, so why are you phrasing the question that way?


yoiu shouldnt walk up to a stranger and say
>wanna go out?

that IS weird. but you can have a simple conversation

>shopping at ralphs
>cute girl working at the cheese place
>ask her about the cheeses
>offers me free samples
>ask her about the pokemon pictures they have (this was before pokemon GO so a bit of an oddity
>her boss lets her draw them on the chalk signs, big pokefan
>i say I am too, give her my card, and say we should hang out sometime

thats all there is to it. give them a taste of you and say 'lets get to know each other'.

>>17657425
>>17657443

I know them already. But we're more like good acquaintances than friends. We'll chat almost every day, but I dont get invited to their parties or anything, and im not a close friend.

>>17657546

id ask them out. just remember that no's exist no matter what way you ask someone out. talk to them like you usually do but get a little flirty.