What Does It Mean When Someone Says You're a 'Romeo'?

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In summary, your neighbor is trying to set you up with the landlady. She's been commenting on your personal life and it could be that she has a crush on you. She's also been hiding in your closet.
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Yesterday my neighbor came up to me and said she had been talking to the landlady of my apartments and the landlady had said that I'm quite the "romeo." Now I've never hit on the landlady and I've only had one girlfriend the entire time I've lived here so I'm not sure what she was getting at. I don't know if I should stop being too friendly to her, or if I should start being more friendly to her and get some free rent.
 
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I'd say you're more of a Casanova.
 
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isn't that a type of dance?
 
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I think that's Bossanova...at least that's a style of music...
 
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I wouldn't take it as a negative comment.

It's interesting that she pays such close attention to your personal business. Is it possible that your landlady could have a crush on you?
 
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Don't forget, Romeo only had one girlfriend, then he died.
 
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your landlord is trying to 'set you up' with that neighbor
 
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I assume your landlady sees you as a noble romantic about to kill yourself...
 
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Evo said:
Don't forget, Romeo only had one girlfriend, then he died.

Actually that's not true. At the beginning of the story he had a girlfriend, and then he met Juliet. Unless that's what your getting at...
 
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your neighbor has big mouth ... She cannot keep anything to herself :rolleyes:.
 
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Evo said:
Don't forget, Romeo only had one girlfriend, then he died.
And SHE died! Not a great track-record.
 
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hey, tribdog, are you Nordic?
 
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Evo said:
Don't forget, Romeo only had one girlfriend, then he died.

:rofl: I was thinking the same thing considering it's tribdog. :biggrin:

Must just be a natural flirt, even if you're not really doing it intentionally.
 
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Older women often make comments like that about me saying I must get all the ladies and such. I haven't had a girlfriend in years. Of course I've not met many "ladies" either.
 
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Being a flirt isn't bad, if you are in fact that. :biggrin:
 
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Evo said:
Don't forget, Romeo only had one girlfriend, then he died.

Killed himself actually. Maybe she wants trib to do that? :confused:
 
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Shhhh@!


act casual...

She's been hiding in your closet...
 
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tribdog said:
Yesterday my neighbor came up to me and said she had been talking to the landlady of my apartments and the landlady had said that I'm quite the "romeo." Now I've never hit on the landlady and I've only had one girlfriend the entire time I've lived here so I'm not sure what she was getting at. I don't know if I should stop being too friendly to her, or if I should start being more friendly to her and get some free rent.

It could be that you are a confident, speaker and know how to speak to women. Some women take this skill as a sign that a guy has had a lot of experience talking to women...

Maybe you never considered your landlady as being anything besides a landlord, therefore you felt at ease with her.

Either that or you play your porn too loudly at night.
 
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seycyrus said:
It could be that you are a confident, speaker and know how to speak to women. Some women take this skill as a sign that a guy has had a lot of experience talking to women...

Maybe you never considered your landlady as being anything besides a landlord, therefore you felt at ease with her.

Either that or you play your porn too loudly at night.

No, I mute my porn.
 
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I've had people get the wrong idea (that I was flirting) just because I was nice and friendly to them. Maybe it's the same with you, trib? There's this guy in my building who is a part-time actor and I said hello to him in the elevator a couple of times and asked him how his acting was going. He tells my co-worker later that I'm "hot for him" that he can "just tell" this. It's funny because he's not my type at all and now I just feel weird around him. I think some people are just stuck on themselves and want to believe you are flirting even though you're not.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I've had people get the wrong idea (that I was flirting) just because I was nice and friendly to them. Maybe it's the same with you, trib? There's this guy in my building who is a part-time actor and I said hello to him in the elevator a couple of times and asked him how his acting was going. He tells my co-worker later that I'm "hot for him" that he can "just tell" this. It's funny because he's not my type at all and now I just feel weird around him. I think some people are just stuck on themselves and want to believe you are flirting even though you're not.
You want me don't you.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I've had people get the wrong idea (that I was flirting) just because I was nice and friendly to them. Maybe it's the same with you, trib? There's this guy in my building who is a part-time actor and I said hello to him in the elevator a couple of times and asked him how his acting was going. He tells my co-worker later that I'm "hot for him" that he can "just tell" this. It's funny because he's not my type at all and now I just feel weird around him. I think some people are just stuck on themselves and want to believe you are flirting even though you're not.
I have a friend like that, he thinks that any woman that doesn't run away screaming if he enters a room has the hots for him and is ignoring him because she's playing games to get him interested. No dear, they are ignoring you because they are not interested. Oh well, let him have his fantasies I guess. :rolleyes:
 
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Sometimes I think the 'other' person has something going on in 'their' mind a lot of the time---

One local grocery store changed it layout, I didn't know where something was. I asked a lady that was looking at some item, 'where the bread was', and she turned toward me, got one of those little smiles on her face, and she said, "I'm married".
 
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rewebster said:
Sometimes I think the 'other' person has something going on in 'their' mind a lot of the time---

One local grocery store changed it layout, I didn't know where something was. I asked a lady that was looking at some item, 'where the bread was', and she turned toward me, got one of those little smiles on her face, and she said, "I'm married".

:rofl:
 
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Math Is Hard said:
He tells my co-worker later that I'm "hot for him" that he can "just tell" this. It's funny because he's not my type at all and now I just feel weird around him. I think some people are just stuck on themselves and want to believe you are flirting even though you're not.

Actually, this says less about how he thinks of himself and more about how he thinks of you. He is attracted to you.
 
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rewebster said:
Sometimes I think the 'other' person has something going on in 'their' mind a lot of the time---

One local grocery store changed it layout, I didn't know where something was. I asked a lady that was looking at some item, 'where the bread was', and she turned toward me, got one of those little smiles on her face, and she said, "I'm married".
I would have responded with "I'm so happy for you, now can you please tell me where the bread is?"
 
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Evo said:
I would have responded with "I'm so happy for you, now can you please tell me where the bread is?"

I just returned that 'little smile' that she gave me---then, she made a little bit bigger smile
 
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I'm clueless about this stuff. For some reason, I have had a lot of trouble interpreting women's cues unless they were pretty darned direct. I had a fairly long-term relationship with a woman two years older than me, in college. She was a leggy lifeguard with a baby-face, and when I walked to a local bar during a snowstorm for a drink or two, I shook off the snow and sat at a table alone. She came over and asked if she could sit with me - then she asked if she could buy me a drink. Quite a change from the routine that I would have expected from ladies my own age. I would never have approached her that evening - she looked "out of my league" to me. She later gave me hell (gently) for not noticing that she was smiling at me and for not picking up on the hint that she wanted my company.
 
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oh-boy---that 'drink'/'noticed' thing reminded me of something else----

I went to the bar, order a beer, turned around to watch the crowd----then some woman came up and threw a drink in my face. Never seen her before in my life. Her friends came up, and dragged her away. One stayed behind and apologized for her---and said something about 'not being noticed'----

----that one, I didn't deserve
 
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rewebster said:
oh-boy---that 'drink'/'noticed' thing reminded me of something else----

I went to the bar, order a beer, turned around to watch the crowd----then some woman came up and threw a drink in my face. Never seen her before in my life. Her friends came up, and dragged her away. One stayed behind and apologized for her---and said something about 'not being noticed'----

----that one, I didn't deserve

you must have been drunk. what she really said was "didn't you notice you were standing on her toe?"
 
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rewebster said:
Sometimes I think the 'other' person has something going on in 'their' mind a lot of the time---

One local grocery store changed it layout, I didn't know where something was. I asked a lady that was looking at some item, 'where the bread was', and she turned toward me, got one of those little smiles on her face, and she said, "I'm married".

:rofl: So that's what I've been doing wrong! I've heard that a good place to pick up people is in the grocery store, but never realized the "code" was to ask them where the bread is.

DaveC426913 said:
Actually, this says less about how he thinks of himself and more about how he thinks of you. He is attracted to you.

That's how I'd interpret it...more of wishful thinking than anything else.
 

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