"Hey, do you want to hang out sometime?" gets lost in their inbox. Here are ways to ask that are actually memorable - and don't make you cringe thinking about them later.
"I need someone with good taste. There's this [restaurant/movie/place] I've been wanting to try. Want to come prove you have better taste than me?"
You're not "asking them out" - you're solving a problem.
Find a reason they helped you: "You told me about [thing]. That actually helped a lot. I owe you coffee at [specific place]. When are you free?"
Hard to say no because they're "owed" something.
"I have a prediction: if I ask you to get coffee this week, you say yes. Want to let me prove myself right or wrong?"
If they say Yes: "Told you so." If they say No: "Wrong? Okay I'll try again next week."
Either way, you made it light.
"There's this [event]. It's [specific day]. You should come so I have someone to hang with who's not boring."
Specific > vague. "This Friday" > "sometime this week"
Give two bad options + your option:
"We could do [boring thing], [expensive thing], or you could come with me to [cool thing] that actually just opened. Which do you pick?"
You're giving them control while steering toward what you wanted.
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