In addition to fear of rejection, my main fear about asking a girl out is that I will be thought of as a sick twisted pervert. Then the girl will tell everyone she knows what happened, and everyone I know will find out, and they'll all think I'm a sick twisted pervert.
I just always think it would be inappropriate. I always think of girls saying to eachother, "can you believe that guy? He just asked me out!", "are you serious? what a loser!"
Believe it or not, Sharp, us girls get scared of rejection and all the same things you do!! In fact, since I can never get a guy to respond to an email I write on the dating sites with more than 2 sentences, at most, I have all but given up trying to initiate contact!
And that's just online!! (Though I have done my share of asking guys out before... and was often turned down flat.)
I am not sure if they thought I am a pervert for asking them out... although... I guess that could explain why they screamed and ran?
(Funny thing though... there are some guys that like that... guess I managed to target the squeamish ones!)
I mean, how would that line go, exactly? "Hi, I'm a Christian and a bit of a pervert... how about going out for dinner and a movie sometime?"
Knowing my luck, the guy would REALLY run. Probably a marathon, and in record time!
Just kidding, people!!