the kiss

"she remembered something a woman in paris had told her once. a woman in her forties, much married, elegant, a little world-weary. ‘there is nothing easier in this world,’ this woman had claimed, ‘than getting a man to kiss you.’ ‘oh really?’ eva had said, ‘so how do you do that?’ ‘just stand close to a man,’ the woman had said, ‘very close, as close as you can without touching - he will kiss you in one minute or two. it’s inevitable. for them it’s like an instinct - they can’t resist. infallible."
– william boyd

actually this trick works on women too. it's just rather unfortunate that it seems a whole lot more creepy for a guy to start standing so close to a woman than for a woman to do it on a man.

however if creepiness is not a constraint to you, i would urge you to try it, as long as you don't have breath that smells like death. and also don't stand close to a stranger on the train and expect her to kiss you.